( I quote the church all the time, but I translate the work of the scholastics into secular prose)
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-16 13:44:00 UTC
( I quote the church all the time, but I translate the work of the scholastics into secular prose)
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-16 13:44:00 UTC
one determines a christian by comparing him to observers of other religions. If we produce christian actions (exhaustive extension of kinship love to non-kin)then we are de-facto christians. It’s not adherence to dogma (falsehoods) to pay the price of admission. It’s how we live.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-15 00:12:03 UTC
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Asking whether or not #JordanPeterson is a Christian might be a bad question. We don’t dismiss someone and what they have to say based on whether or not they are a believer. Better question(s). Is he speaking the truth? Is he challenging faulty philosophical presuppositions?
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Why explain a metaphorical god? That’s ridiculous. There must be … thousands of authors who’ve discussed it in depth. Peterson is a psychologist by profession, and specializes in teaching by narrative analogy – especially using archetypes. ???
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-15 00:08:50 UTC
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https://www.quora.com/Why-is-organized-Christianity-losing-its-appeal-among-young-white-Americans/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=94c0f489&srid=u4QvUpdated Mar 12, 2018, 6:43 PM
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-12 18:43:00 UTC
9 – Groups merely seek to create a new JUSTIFYING MYTHOS that does not change their group evolutionary strategy, nor their mythos, nor their common categories, relations and values – particularly status signaling. Each follows the same process during its counter-enlightenment.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-12 12:08:35 UTC
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My analysis of Kevin MacDonald’s pseudoscience: https://t.co/eRfp6B8g0e
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Westerners were naturalists and empiricists back into prehistory for the simple reason that western civilization’s first organizing principle is the militia and the sovereignty that a militia grants and requires of each individual in it.
The militia was necessary on the vast european plain for the simple reason that no flood river valleys with centralized organization of irrigation existed as did in the south east, india, and far east, wherein a small force could seek rents upon agrarian production, centralize capital, and create parasitic central governments and empires – first by priests, secondly by warriors, and third by their merger.
Instead, westerners had horses, cattle, pigs, crops, and good arable land, and production remained distributed – and because of that distribution, lower populations, but higher eugenic evolution (suppression of underclass reproduction.)
So, possessed of small numbers, but horse, metalsmithing, and the wheel, they compensated for inferior numbers with technology, risk-taking, and maneuver – adaptation to changes.
And since metal, wheel, and horse were expensive, they were supplied by families (knights were armored by families right up thru and after the crusades – only gunpowder changed the financing. It became cheap to field soldiers.)
Such a voluntary militia requires sovereignty. The only way differences in sovereignty can be resolved is by reciprocity, and the only possible test of reciprocity is tort.
In other words, the western common law began and remains empirical. Not authoritarian, and not ideal, and not supernatural. But purely empirical and reciprocal. And it was this first organizing principle that caused the evolution of reason, mathematics, engineering, stoicism, greek and roman law, empiricism, and finally science. Because debate was forever necessary. The growth of commerce only exacerbated and reinforced this behavior.
The Abrahamic Dark Age of Christianity/Judaism/Islam is over, and western people have returned to their original traditions. The traditions by which they dragged themselves out of the ignorance, superstition, poverty, hard labor, starvation, disease, infant mortality and early death.
There is nothing good in christianity that was not there before it. And there is nothing bad in christianity that was not put there to undermine the western aristocracy so that the eastern empire could rule a land of the ignorant as had the despots done time immemorial in the fertile crescent.
In other words: were were always empirical, and we have returned to type.
The lies of priests no longer fall on illiterate ears.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-organized-Christianity-losing-its-appeal-among-young-white-Americans
Westerners were naturalists and empiricists back into prehistory for the simple reason that western civilization’s first organizing principle is the militia and the sovereignty that a militia grants and requires of each individual in it.
The militia was necessary on the vast european plain for the simple reason that no flood river valleys with centralized organization of irrigation existed as did in the south east, india, and far east, wherein a small force could seek rents upon agrarian production, centralize capital, and create parasitic central governments and empires – first by priests, secondly by warriors, and third by their merger.
Instead, westerners had horses, cattle, pigs, crops, and good arable land, and production remained distributed – and because of that distribution, lower populations, but higher eugenic evolution (suppression of underclass reproduction.)
So, possessed of small numbers, but horse, metalsmithing, and the wheel, they compensated for inferior numbers with technology, risk-taking, and maneuver – adaptation to changes.
And since metal, wheel, and horse were expensive, they were supplied by families (knights were armored by families right up thru and after the crusades – only gunpowder changed the financing. It became cheap to field soldiers.)
Such a voluntary militia requires sovereignty. The only way differences in sovereignty can be resolved is by reciprocity, and the only possible test of reciprocity is tort.
In other words, the western common law began and remains empirical. Not authoritarian, and not ideal, and not supernatural. But purely empirical and reciprocal. And it was this first organizing principle that caused the evolution of reason, mathematics, engineering, stoicism, greek and roman law, empiricism, and finally science. Because debate was forever necessary. The growth of commerce only exacerbated and reinforced this behavior.
The Abrahamic Dark Age of Christianity/Judaism/Islam is over, and western people have returned to their original traditions. The traditions by which they dragged themselves out of the ignorance, superstition, poverty, hard labor, starvation, disease, infant mortality and early death.
There is nothing good in christianity that was not there before it. And there is nothing bad in christianity that was not put there to undermine the western aristocracy so that the eastern empire could rule a land of the ignorant as had the despots done time immemorial in the fertile crescent.
In other words: were were always empirical, and we have returned to type.
The lies of priests no longer fall on illiterate ears.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-organized-Christianity-losing-its-appeal-among-young-white-Americans
WHY I AM A CHRISTIAN
It is pretty hard to be better than a good christian for the simple reason that the path to goodness – now from catholics as well as protestants – is ‘personal (direct) works of charity’ toward those in your proximity.
(and I argue that all else is just virtue signaling – a kind of fraud and the opposite of the christian mandate).
The principle virtue of such a mandate is that it’s entirely empirical. It’s deeds(actions) not beliefs(self congratulations) or rituals (self insulations).
There is no better theology than action in the service of others.
If you can do so my charity (caretaking).
If you can do so by production (trade)
If you can do so by war (violence)
Germanicized Christianity (as of vatican II, we are all protestants now) creates the civil society.
Everything else is just virtue signaling so someone else does the work, pays the costs, or takes the risk, and you can feel good about escaping from it.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-11 12:18:00 UTC