Mar 10, 2020, 12:39 PM
—“What’s your definition of Christianity”—
What’s my definition of christianity?
It means you are an ethnic and cultural european whose metaphysics, myths, and rituals, are NOT those of Germanic heathenism, European paganism, Baha’i, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism, or the other 15-17% of the world that practices some form of animism.
A thing is defined by what it is not. This is why there are hundreds of christian sects and factions each claiming they are christian but in disagreement over what that entails.
Scientifically it means the 0) gold (do unto others) and silver (do not unto others) rules – expressed in the law of truth(testimony), oath(contract), property(sovereignty), and tort before jury, 1) the eradication of hatred from the human heart. 2) the extension of kinship love to non-kin (where it should only be kith). 3) the demand for personal acts of charity and personal cost, 4) the extension of exhaustive forgiveness before punishment, enserfment, enslavement, death, or war. 5) in exchange for the abdication of self responsibility for all else, thus relief from persistent status pressure each of us is born with varying sensitivity to, with the empathic feminine mind more subject to it than the analytic male mind, thus the dominance of and persistence of the christian population by women and empathic men on one side and males of low ability that can find intellectual mindfulness in adherence to mythology.
Narratively, it means 6) the mythology of and imitation of jesus for some protestants, the mythology and theology of the jews and their god for other protestants, the ritual and myths of orthodoxy for others, the dogma of centuries of theology for catholics.
For others, it means 7) it’s superstitious primitive nonsense, for whom the golden and silver rules encapsulate all that is necessary, the common law, and truth before face, all that is necessary, and personal responsibility for the mind, self, family, kin, kith, and commons all that is necessary, and that the gods are in the minds of men, and that the universe is written in the laws of nature, the natural law, and the law of evolution, and our necessity to evolve in to the omniscient and omnipotent gods we imagined, given the finality of time available to us in the universe. And that any religion that disagrees with these laws is evil, and a crime against mankind, and it’s followers better burned on pyres as witches than tolerated for one moment more.
Thankfully, other than suicidal universalism, suicidal tolerance, suicidal pacifism, denial of evolution, denial of human individual and group differences, denial of the necessity of our evolution into omniscience and omnipotence, and it’s incompatibility with laws of nature, christianity is not only compatible with natural law, but an improvement upon it’s epistemology. So while politically and militarily it’s terrible, socially and familially it’s wonderful.
Which is enough to stay out of the way of transcendence. It’s just not enough to save itself and its people from jewish and islamic conquest.