RE: Is religion the best proven business model for success?
December 7, 2017 at 11:24 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2017 at 11:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The western world already -had- unifying and preservative influences. These were destroyed by the church as competitors..................not that this influence ever stopped any of them from warring against each other in the first place.
The amount of brass balled religious affrontery that;s weaseled it;s way into our appraisal of history is tremendous. "What would you have done without us" - Difficult to say, assholes,since you fucking killed everyone else in the run-up to fleecing us. Roman Catholic Christianity effectively -destroyed- the very first empire to assume it. It consumed the rest as willing participants in favor of it's own aggrandizement until the reformation - when we'd finally had enough of their bullshit.
The RCC didn't preserve or promote culture, holding it all for us until the post reformation enlightenment..muslims did. Christians were chiefly engaged in destroying it. Christian monks (and the enitre christian apparatus), all throughout the height of RCC's power... were precisely the sorts of parasites you paint buddhists as. We laud the examples of productive monasticism precisely because they are and were exceptional, not representative. The picture of christian piety had always been the picture of parasitism. A begger in rags eschewing this mortal world and taking no care for the morrow. The story of jesus, after all..is not the story of a hardworking carpenter.
It's only in weakness that christianity has had to repair it's image by doing something of redeeming value.
The amount of brass balled religious affrontery that;s weaseled it;s way into our appraisal of history is tremendous. "What would you have done without us" - Difficult to say, assholes,since you fucking killed everyone else in the run-up to fleecing us. Roman Catholic Christianity effectively -destroyed- the very first empire to assume it. It consumed the rest as willing participants in favor of it's own aggrandizement until the reformation - when we'd finally had enough of their bullshit.
The RCC didn't preserve or promote culture, holding it all for us until the post reformation enlightenment..muslims did. Christians were chiefly engaged in destroying it. Christian monks (and the enitre christian apparatus), all throughout the height of RCC's power... were precisely the sorts of parasites you paint buddhists as. We laud the examples of productive monasticism precisely because they are and were exceptional, not representative. The picture of christian piety had always been the picture of parasitism. A begger in rags eschewing this mortal world and taking no care for the morrow. The story of jesus, after all..is not the story of a hardworking carpenter.
It's only in weakness that christianity has had to repair it's image by doing something of redeeming value.
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