Christianity.Exe has sparked something inside of me.
I truly appreciate the creativity of the “program” metaphor and the critique you’re raising. But several of the claims you present reflect a particular Western, post‑Augustinian, imperial stream, and not the breadth of historic or global Christianity.
For example, Christianity is not built on hierarchy, body‑suspicion, or a debt‑based salvation model. Those are later philosophical and political overlays. The biblical story is profoundly embodied, justice‑oriented, and communal. Much of the early church and most of the non‑Western church today, doesn’t operate from the “broken by default,” “soul over body,” or “God as top of the hierarchy”.
So while your critique lands on real distortions within Western Christianity, it doesn’t describe Christianity itself. I’d be interested in how you’re distinguishing between the faith’s core narrative and the cultural systems that have co‑opted it.
Hi Tony! Thank you for the feedback. I will update the artifact to include the other “programs”. But I do think your main critique highlights what I was trying to ultimately communicate.
This is exactly the information I need for my worldview studies!
Thank you!
It'll take me some time to work through all of this, but I'm very excited to dig into this!
I’m excited for your feedback.
Christianity.Exe has sparked something inside of me.
I truly appreciate the creativity of the “program” metaphor and the critique you’re raising. But several of the claims you present reflect a particular Western, post‑Augustinian, imperial stream, and not the breadth of historic or global Christianity.
For example, Christianity is not built on hierarchy, body‑suspicion, or a debt‑based salvation model. Those are later philosophical and political overlays. The biblical story is profoundly embodied, justice‑oriented, and communal. Much of the early church and most of the non‑Western church today, doesn’t operate from the “broken by default,” “soul over body,” or “God as top of the hierarchy”.
So while your critique lands on real distortions within Western Christianity, it doesn’t describe Christianity itself. I’d be interested in how you’re distinguishing between the faith’s core narrative and the cultural systems that have co‑opted it.
Hi Tony! Thank you for the feedback. I will update the artifact to include the other “programs”. But I do think your main critique highlights what I was trying to ultimately communicate.
Here you go! https://ylhtools-web.github.io/ylh-tools/christianity-forks.html