Theme: Religion

OPEN LETTER TO THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION

A beautiful movement. I have not seen it done better. I wish I could ‘fit into’ it. Because I am a committed monarchist.

But the church has abandoned europe in favor of the revenues of the simple people of warmer regions it evolved to govern. And our people have abandoned the church in favor of its secular expression and democratic government.

I see no evidence of possibility for a restoration of the church, if for no other reason than the church is unwilling to reform. But more importantly, western man has evolved to the point where he can control every aspect of nature that the church claimed god held providence over.

So just as the cult of jesus was a heresy against the roman empire’s religion, and against the bible of the european ancient world: The Iliad: the tragedy of Achilles, and just as one of your authors has correctly stated, the American Revolution and its cult of individualism was a heresy driven only by the Colonist’s attempt to circumvent payment to the crown for the cost of the indian wars. The crown’s folly was in not adding the colonies to the houses of commons, or creating a separate house of the colonies. The colonists did not want to separate. (other than the foolishly overcommitted puritans from whom I am ashamedly descended).

There exists a growing movement that has not yet self identified itself, that seeks to restore the myths and traditions of the church by combining christian mythos, stoic virtues and discipline, using what we have discovered from cognitive science and in particular personality traits, in combination with literary analysis and myth, including the Monomyth, the Archetypes, the Plots(Trials), and the Virtues. And instead submission to deity few believe in as other than a set of general rules of the universe, and submissive prayer an anthropomorphic character, these groups are reviving a combination the methods of the most scientific religion of the ancient world (stoicism), and the teachings of christianity, to produce an empowering rather than submissive ‘religion’.

This technique would allow the presentation of christianity as science rather than superstition. And my estimation is that it is the most likely if not only method of providing the reformation of the catholic church that failed under Vatican II, and was never attempted by the protestant churches other than the development of american evangelical protestantism. The catholic church doubled down on ‘living as did christ’. Evangelical protestantism doubled down on fundamentalism. But while these churches are surviving in the third world among the poor and ignorant, for europeans these churches are both dead – and worse, they are poisoned for the many crimes of the church over the centuries.

So I do not expect to achieve anything other than making you aware of what I see as a successful option that has begun to take on momentum. And for you to consider it an option to investigate. The man working on the process is Dr. Jordan Peterson. But no one is working on reforming christianity to make it transform from a superstiiton to a science. And if any group can do this it will restore the value of the church.