The truth of Christianity...
schuyler
Here's the latest kernal of wisdom I've come across from the great
writer/thinker Reymon Hhan:
"The unfettered truth regarding Christianity
Christ, if he really existed, must have been the ultimate champion of
self indulgence, an advocate of "mind feedback" to the point of highly
distorted thinking, an agent involved in the spread of delusional
thought pathogens or Memes. In actuality though, the man who adopted
the role of "Messiah" was probably ignorant of the profound,
psychologically disruptive and materially counter productive role his
amplified mythos would have in the millennia following his death.
Christianity set the stage for the institutionalization of denial, fear,
and a tradition of manipulation on behalf of fascist thinking people.
Christ was the unwitting progenitor of tradition of psychological
entrapment and the exploitation of those with the misfortune of having a
genetically inherent propensity for literalism; that is, the inability
to think metaphorically and an unwillingness to integrate working,
representational models of the physical world into their own internal
models of reality. Such individuals are in effect, emotionally
maladapted, though the specific underlying mechanism of such a
deficiency, the structures of the brain which may be involved, as well
as the meta-structures of thought which play a role, have yet to be
quantified. It is also apparent that the minds of those who are
susceptible to such virulent mind pathogens are apparently endowed with
a low threshold for the eventuality of the discontinuation of the self,
the inability to accept the insignificance of one's self within the
broader context of all things, as well as an unwillingness or fear with
regard to exploring the underlying truth of what the human “self” really
is. In this respect, fundamentalism is actually a sublimated and highly
distorted form of Humanism, though it lacks the moral and ethical
stability of the Humanistic mind set. More important, however, is that
it should be recognized that for the sake of future generations, to
minimize the potential for human suffering, and to ensure the health of
our planet, with all of it's symbiotic or intimately co-existing life
forms, we should regard Christianity as a mental illness or disability,
with a multitude of curative measures made available so as to aid those
who suffer from it's harmful effects.
Peace on earth in the here and now, and compassion for those who don't
know how... Have pity on the victims of fundamentalism, but beware
their deleterious influence.
Reymon Hhan"
Besq
believe God should serve, and obey, them.
Pierre Cyr
figure of history. Its reminiscent of 80's pop psychology.
Christ preached his message as the way to salvation not historical belief in
him and that is what most christians believe to day but as with any group
(not only religious) there are members who warp and distort to acheive their
temporal goals. The faschists you and 90% of people are worried about. Had
Christ not been there with his message of love we wouldve inherited the
religions of warfaring gods of the many pantheons of the various cultures
and those faschist individuals wouldve used these easier and other means of
mass appeal to further their oppression.
It was very difficult to oppress when the scriptures became more
widespread... There are no other scriptures that emphasize love that couldve
become available to Europe as early as the Judaic ones. Buddhism would have
possible entered only very recently but I doubt it would have been as
popular as the eastern form of it is extremely superstitious... Much more so
than Catholicism in its heyday.
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schuyler
"God", as depicted in the mythos of Christianity.
schuyler
of "radical" discourse. It is my perception that the relative degree of an idea
as being radical or not is not essential to this discourse, since being socially
deviant and truthful are mutually exclusive things. It is quite conceivable,
perhaps even common place, that relatively accurate descriptions of the physical
world, or even metaphysical worlds, may seem radical within the context of
popular mythologies.
The Christ mythos of love is a very compelling and wonderful thing, no?
Altruism is great when it's mutual, but it only takes a few violators for it to
degenerate into mutual mistrust, or even widespread sociopathy. Often, economic
and social structures are conceived with the same ends as altruism in mind, but
where the human propensity for immorality and selfishness are considered as
constants and the superimposed system is intended to compensate for immoral
transgressions. In contrast, I tend to champion the notion that we should be
striving to improve the human thinking and behavior, a kind of idealism in which
the goal is to strive for higher moral achievement, and perhaps even take steps
to accelerate the evolution of humanity toward these ideals. Biological
evolution is decidedly slower than cultural evolution, though I fear it will
take some manner of biological adjustment before a more cooperative and less
afflicted world might emerge; this, instead of resigning ourselves to being held
back our underlying primitive impetus, our biologically rooted heritage as
hunter - gatherers, as simple warring, tribal apes.
Schuyler
Besq
> What is "God" to you? Clearly Reymon was talking about Jesus as a human, not
> "God", as depicted in the mythos of Christianity.
God is the author, the creator of all this. My comment was to the people who
blame God for disasters, sickness, death, bankruptcy, all the things we don't
like, and say, "If God was real, He wouldn't let these things happen to us". I
believe disobedience is punished, individually and nationally. Some give thanks
in prayer for the good things they receive; some only think of God when misfortune
comes and blame God for it instead of their own disobedience.