THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHRISTIANITY. —“How hard is it necessary to counter-sign

THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHRISTIANITY.

—“How hard is it necessary to counter-signal Christianity? I hate Christianity as such. But it doesn’t seem terribly productive because most of them are never going to change – at least in this generation.”— A Friend

I don’t know myself. I’m running the experiment. That’s what I do. I attack ideas to see if they survive or not. Most long time followers know that’s how I work.

So far I can’t find a reason to hold onto Christianity other than to take over the institutions and to demote the various fables to just ‘another one of the legends’.

I would prefer to abandon all of the new testament and the majority of the old, other than some of the babylonian myths (the flood etc.). And I would like to cast each of the ‘gods’ of the zoroastrians and the abrahamists as different gods. And to restore sky-father as our ‘pater familia’.

For the preachers, I can see using all legends to teach (a) transcendence, (b) the monomyth, (c) the various plots within the monomyth, (d) the archetypes that serve those plots, and (e) the virtues each archetype teaches us. Then to apply those lessons to the problems of the day or era. And to apply them to the cycles of life and the ways in which the different classes can handle them.

For spirtuality, then to teach mindfulness and the virtues via stoicism, the discourse with the gods as reformed prayer, and the use, if necessary of meditation where prayer, and virtues fail.

As for the ritual, to replace the apostle’s creed with an oath more suitable to our people (truth, duty, etc), and the sacrifice and feast ritual to something more suitable to our people.

As for funding the church I prefer to merge the spiritual and material disciplines into one institution, by combining church and education, thereby providing a means of funding, and a constant flow of generations. A section of the constitution for the church/school as well as one for the state.

To defend the church/school and the people, to attach an armory and militia and funding for the militia to any church that can raise one.

If done so, then the church (family) is restored to its position as a competitor to the state (houses).

This is the theory I”m working with since it eliminates falsehood, restores the competition between family and state, and provides a method of funding and opposing the state (government).

This is but one small part of what I’m doing. I’m just working through the theory to see if it survives.