IF CHRISTIANITY IS DEAD, WE STILL HAVE A PROBLEM
Christianity as we know it is dead. The philosophy is exceptional as it seems to create commercial prosperity everywhere it goes. The narratives and the rituals
So assuming the word ‘philosophy’ means ‘method of decision making’, then of the spectrum of Religion, Political philosophy, Ethical Philosophy, Personal Philosophy, Law, and Science, I would state that transcendence, sovereignty, natural law, male stoicism/female epicureanism, the common empirical law, and Testimonialism are probably the optimum combination for those who wish to LEAD humanity, rather than be led by some other strategy.
But natural law is skeptical, and incomplete without christian optimism. In other words, christian optimism tells us that if enough of us invest in trust, and tolerate minor losses, we will produce it, and produce outsized gains.
The problem we face, is we need a binding narrative, and we must distill it from our many authors into our own ‘bible’. Because we learn from loose general principle, to more specific general rule, to more precise rules of science. And without the binding narrative it appears to be very difficult to bind general rules and precise rules of science into a portfolio of decisions across the entire possible spectrum in which we must make decisions.
I have been struggling with this problem for two years now and while I have my ups and downs, the problem remains the same: without an effort equal to the council of nicea, or the first american constitutional convention, or a frankfurt school, it will be difficult to produce a ‘bible’ of western civilization – a ‘book’ that is necessary if only as a means of defense against the semitic technologies of deception that arose from the innovation of abrahamic deceit. And a ritual that is costly so that men defend the law in that book against all attacks.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-28 17:27:00 UTC
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