Michael Jones

So like we say, the future is before us.

The ancients said the opposite.

They said the past is before us.

They would say that kind of stuff because to them, you could actually see the past.

You can't see the future.

But when Christianity comes on the scene, it gives us a culture of progress.

Jesus is gonna come back.

We're marching towards that.

Let's build a better world until he gets here kind of thing.

And so really the way, it's hard to think about, but take a look at a book by like Satya Stern called Time and Process in Ancient Judaism.

I did a video on it a while back.

But, yeah, the way they thought about time was so different than the way we think about time.

We're all excited about the future.

We're marching forward.

The ancients were like, we're moving further away from the ideal past.

And our great kings, it's just going to get worse.

So, I mean, like, the way we think even about time comes from our Christian background.

Yeah.

It's absolutely strong.

Here's the way I sort of present it.