The ethnical innovation of Jesus is quite simple: It’s a revolt against the para

The ethnical innovation of Jesus is quite simple:

It’s a revolt against the parasitic elites locally, and against greco-roman reason geographically, and an attempt to create a system of status by doing no wrong, instead of by strength, wealth, family-clan, position, or power.

The First Principles of Christian Ethics:
“The elimination of hatred from the human heart”
“The extension of kinship love to non kin”
“The exhaustion of forgiveness prior to retaliation”
“The demand for personal acts of responsibilty by personal acts of charity.”
“The mindfulness (spirituality) of doing so”
“The polity (trust) that results.”

The result is the answer to the hard problem of scale: the prisoner’s dilemma. This is why, ifyou play the moral high ground in almost any game, over time, you will win. This is why christianty was so useful in fomenting the high trust society and preparing the high trust society for the modern commercial civilization – without which it could not exist.

I am careful not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

If, as jefferson tried to demonstrate, we convert jesus from a supernatural figure to a philosopher (assuming he was in fact the son of a roman soldier and a jewish prostitute helps in this argument), speaking in the language of the locals (mythicism), attempting to find a solution to the problem of the middle east, slavers, and women given the prosperity created by the greco roman indo europeans, we find he was in fact the end point of religious innovation in the age of transformation. And that between the greek(roman) way (stoics, epicureans, aristotelians, and platonists), that the underclasses could now find a method of self worth, respect, and status in the aristocratic civilization that had conquered and ruled them.

Disambiguation preserves the good, elimnates the bad, and informs us how we might innovate upon the good in the absence of the bad. This is less certain and efficient than the masculine mind prefers. But it is the only way to discover novel solutions to problems rather than swapping some set of problems under one philosophical model for another set under another philosophical model.

Cheers

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