–“Q: Curt: What are your objections to Jesus (and Christianity)?”–
Great Question
1. I’m a jeffersonian christian, of the jeffersonian bible, who treats jesus as philosopher of the lower classes or ‘the common people’. That means just the new testament, and just what jesus said, not what others said about him, so no miracles etc. It means I’m a deist (the universe is god) and the natural laws (laws of nature) are gods laws. And the natural law (sovereignty and reciprocity) is gods law of man.
2. Christianity is a trivially simple strategy for overcoming the hard problem of trust at scale – the solution to the prisoner’s dilimma. This treats everyone as a customer so to speak and prepares people for majority middle class civilzation and the subsequent wealth and prosperity that results. “The extension of kinship love (forgivness, care) to all.”
3. European civ is aristocratic and even rule of law of natural law with democratic (markets) for the production of commons. Christianity made virtue possible for common people, solving the problem of making aristocratic civilization less divisive, and hierarchy tolerable, by loyalty via christianty between the classes.
4. While christianity was destructive and ignorance-producing compared to greek and roman literacy and philosophy, it was captured by the aristocracy, and the martial aristocracy preserved our traditions and most importantly our law of soverignty and empiricism in the law, so it could never achieve islamic degrees of cultural destruction. Why? The first principle of european civilization is reciprocal insurance of the soveriegnty of those who demonstrate responsibility for the commons. In other words a prohibition on authoritarianism and the preservation of our 5000 year old law of soverigns from which all western civ evolved.
5. I generally complain about the following:
(a) the semitization of christianity that undermined how jesus explained how to tolerate the ‘modernity’ brought about by the greeks, romans, and persians, and the immorality of jews (middle easterners in general) compared to their indo european rulers. This converted jesus as a method of tolerating indo european modernization into a vehicle for resisting that modernization.
(b) churchianity instead of christianity – the corruption of the church through history: the attempt at rule of the people through superstition and deceit rather than by rule of law, with religion (christianity) making life tolerable for the hard work of agrarian peoples. (we aren’t agrarian any longer).
(c) the church’s destruction of the ancent world and the subsequent dark ages of superstition.
(d) the negative consequences of providing mindfulness (what religion does) by superstition instead of more costly discipline (stoicism) and education (truth).
(e) the evil of fundamentalism: that the abrahamic method of justifying the faith teaches christians how to lie. And they do so endlessly and it’s exasperating and destructive. The marxist-to-woke series of pseudoscientific religions is just a reformation of abrahamic religions, using the same like the same false promises, but in the living world rather than after death: “Salvation after white people” (indo europeans) is the promies of both old and new abrahamic religon.
Thanks for asking
Cheers
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