May 5, 2020, 1:13 PM
We know religions exist and we know why: mindfulness necessary to reduce the stress of the neural economy. We know gods exist – at the very least as information. We also know monotheism is a lie by the evidence – gods change, are invented, and discarded all the time in response to human needs. We know submission is bad by the evidence – it has made us vulnerable to defeat. We know abrahamic theology is bad by the evidence because it teaches the abrahamic method of lying. We know the abrahamic method of lying is bad by the evidence. It’s worse than anything other than the plagues. We are trying to discover how to produce a non-false science of religion that is consistent and coherent across all disciplines. From that science we may reconstruct or construct a foundation for future religion.
If you are habituated to your abrahamic monotheism that’s understandable. But it’s just a habituation not a good nor a truth. Man may require mindfulness like he requires rest (he does). But man does not need what you claim he does, which is why we have produced so many different means of obtaining mindfulness. You have been trained to feel you need what you do. But this was done to you and invented so it could be done to you for a reason: to organize the underclasses against the aristocracy (which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing until the underclass and priesthood set out to rule by deceit rather than the truth of physical, natural, and evolutionary laws.)
Christian behavior (mindfulness insulated from status signaling and status competition) is a good. How do we produce Christian behavior (not belief) without the falsehoods and negative externalities? How do we do it without christian sophistry, pacifism, tolerance, and cowardice?
This is not a question of eliminating your faith. It is a question of providing the ‘goods’ of civic religion for those unable to believe the falsehoods you are willing to believe in exchange for your mindfulness.
In other words, you don’t matter. You have mindfulness already. You can believe in these things you do. We can’t. We aren’t able to believe falsehoods for ANY reason.
We want to prohibit false promises in the new generation that is undermining our civlization like christianity and islam undermined our ancient civlization..
And you only hurt our efforts to stop what has destroyed your religion with your attempts to perpetuation of the falsehoods – you only assist the enemy – and that’s why it is demonstrably winning.
The false promise of marxism, feminism, postmodernism in this world is more advantageous a ‘sales strategy’ than the false promise of eternal something or other after death.
I will probably spend another decade on this problem. It’s a very hard problem. But I currently see the foundations of that religion, because I see the non-false consistency across physics, biology, evolution, cooperation, sociology, and psychology – to the politics and religion that must result.
And is is more like our natural germanic religions : a market and truths – than it is our unnatural semitic religion: a monopoly and lies.
In that religion Jesus is a philosopher or prophet of the feminine replacing the female gods of fertility, love, and beauty. And as such that is probably a bad thing. And instead, he should be considered a philosopher or prophet of discipline, by which the underclasses could achieve status by behavior rather than wealth or power. The aristocracy did not have this discipline and did abuse the peasantry, slaves, and women. Jesus gave them a route to respect, and in respect, social equality if not economic and military. He made it possible to demonstrate middle class ethics without middle class resources. And in doing so provided a resistance to the (hedonistic) aristocracy who then, like today, used various forms of excess to demonstrate their social status.
And that was his genius.
And that is his legacy.
And that is the truth not the lie.