(September 19, 2016 at 4:58 pm)SenpaiNoticeMeYouBlindShmuck Wrote: Power.
"I'm chosen by God"
"I'm a better person than you"
"You're a douche, I'm going to enjoy watching you suffer in the next world"
"The poor will inherit the earth"
Christianity is rather unique in the way it turns weakness or deficiencies into virtues. The downtrodden, the resentful, the sickly and the weak; they're going to have the last laugh at the very end at everyone who stood over them in life. Zoroaster may well have had a similar idea, but there's not so much evidence to suggest he was as focused upon laying out the specifics on how to behave (he had plenty to say about ritual); hence why the Zoroastrian's as far as I know haven't got a reason to hate women who've had abortions or gays.
Perhaps I'm taking too overtly a Nietzschean/Freudian view upon this. I think a longing for power lies at the core alongside fear.
Power is a motive once you're in, when you can then use fear as a tool.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
