[C]hristianity: the gradual expiration of impulsive hatred and its replacement with rational justice. Q&A: “What if the New Testament was our Old Testament and the ‘New’ the Western ethical cannon?” THE REFORMATION [C]hristianity: the gradual expiration of impulsive hatred and its replacement with rational justice. Jesus=Love. MAN – God (Truth). – Gods (perfection in individual virtues). – Those humans who were godlike (demonstrated perfection in life). – Those humans who worked to be godlike. (but whose names we do not always remember) – Those humans who refrained from being ungodly. – Those humans who were ungodly. – And those humans who were evil. GODS – Center: God (perfection), Man, Woman, Family, Earth. (Family + earth) – North: Justice: Truth, Law, Justice, War. (Masculine) – East: Commons: Contract, Production, Distribution, Trade – West: Art: Invention, Knowledge, Craft, Art – South: Love: Caretaking, Nurture, Charity (Feminine), Teaching NOT ONE BUT MANY – Monotheism is the folly of conformity to tyranny: that we must be identical slaves, rather than specialists who participate in a division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor and advocacy and inform one another through voluntary cooperation. – Pick your saint and seek to live as your saint. – The religion of specialists for an economy of specialists in a heterogeneous polity. LOVE, JUSTICE(TRUTH), COMMONS, ARTS – Christianity is reducible to the extension of kinship love to non-kin, for the purpose of producing commons and prohibiting conflicts. – Justice is reducible to the prohibition of, and restitution for, parasitism. – Commons are reducible to that what we agree not to privatize. – The first commons is the voluntary organization of production is made possible by justice. – Prosperity is made possible by the voluntary organization of production. – Production is made possible by specialization in the multitude of arts.
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