MAYBE BUT I CAN’T SEE ROLLING BACK THE CLOCK OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE. —“White

MAYBE BUT I CAN’T SEE ROLLING BACK THE CLOCK OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.

—“White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, in particular, might turn to the Bible in somewhat the manner of their Angelcynn ancestors in the time of Alfred the Great.”— Kevin Macdonald.

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I would love to have this discussion with you because I’m torn between the demonstrated value of the group strategy in Christianity, and the method of delivery (semitic parable) and the method of persuasion (False Promise, Baiting into Moral Hazard, Pilpul and Critique.)

Same with Duchesne. He also puts value in Christianity that I don’t see. And it might be because of the radius of corruption that extends out from the Church – especially Italy. Studying Economics and Law produces a very different history from Theo, Phil, and and Literature.

All peoples need a binding narrative that contains a group strategy, a means of decidability(morality), a means of ‘mindfulness’ for personal, interpersonal, and social, a means of status equalization (festivals), for what’s reducible to maintaining a neural economy. Why Xianity?

And can Christianity be reformed so that we preserve the historical commonality of strategy, but have supernatural, moral-normative, and ratio-scientific means of education (indoctrination, training) that doesn’t make us vulnerable to semitism (submission, sophism) and “lying”?

Religion has been the hardest problem in social science, and it’s precisely the invulnerability to rational argument that provides intergenerational transmission with minimum modification of the underlying strategy.

(Thanks for letting me think out loud. 😉 )