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Religious Christians don’t trouble me – even in arguments. Largely because I agree with their sentiments if not their reasoning. The way I handle debates with them is merely that people in prior times understood the universe far less that we do, and spoke in very primitive terms. So I tend to agree with the wisdom of the ages, I just recognize that the people who captured those words of wisdom had only those words to capture ideas with. Translated into modern speech, most of it still stands scrutiny – at least as far as ‘love thy neighbor’, ‘turn the other cheek’, ‘do unto others as you would have done unto you’, and ‘do not unto others as you would not have done unto you”, “obtain virtue through charity”, and that the ten commandments are the first substantive attempt to capture property rights in primitive language. All of that is pretty good stuff.

The church gave us the feminine half of the spectrum, and aristocracy gave us the masculine: Every man a warrior, father, sheriff, judge, and legislator. That we should submit to anyone or any god is not in our canon. Sorry. Never.Gonna.Happen. Aristocracy is the cult of non-submission. Women submit out of their nature. As a man I submit to no man and no god, and not even the will of the universe. Western civilization is competitive. The Temples and the Aristocracy(government). The church and the Aristocracy. And the end of our civilization was due to the failure to add a democratic house of the church for women and the underclasses when the church fell.

Competition allows calculation by trial and error. The individual, the family,the jury and truthful testimony, and the science of constructing truthful testimony, create a market for innovation in every field of human action. We can repair the collapse of the church but adding its secular equivalent to the government, and limiting membership in every house to those who practice such membership: commons, insurance and care, business and industry, justice and war.