RE: Who does religion care?
September 26, 2010 at 11:37 am
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2010 at 1:07 am by Anomalocaris.)
Not all religions exhibit an overwhelming tendency to get involved in every aspect of people's lives. But Christianity, from the moment the sectarian, megalomaniacally narcissistic, and sadomasochistically unhinged "prince of peace" first inserted the ghastly concept of everlasting torture of the dead into the then sputtering religion of the needy, capricious, favorite playing beduin despot in the sky, has been particularly well equipped to make openings where none existed before, and particularly without scruples in penetrating every opening it finds in the afflicted.
1. Christianity, by overwhelmed the gullible's innate but finite powers of observation and deduction with threats of infinite punishment and temptation of infinite reward, makes every aspect of lives of the afflicted vulnerable to its unholy penetration, as it were
2. Abrahamic faiths, being already of such a nature as to be without any impulse to offer the least evidentiary collateral with even the most extravagant claims of being the alpha and omega of everything from creation to now, has added to this, in the form of Christianity, a new lack of restraint in threatening infinite punishment from now to the end of time. A class of religion that has gotten so far by virtue of corralling the gullible through the absence of intellectual moderation could hardly be expected to suddenly find in itself a seemly aversion to wanton overreach and volunteer any restraint when confronted with vulnerabilities to penetration in the lives of afflicted.
When not restrained with a very strong and vigorous external secular clearheadedness, Christianity would never refrain from claiming the supreme and final authority on anything to anyone who could be cajoled or coerced into listening. Maximally invasive overreach without inhibition is the alpha and omega of Christianity.
1. Christianity, by overwhelmed the gullible's innate but finite powers of observation and deduction with threats of infinite punishment and temptation of infinite reward, makes every aspect of lives of the afflicted vulnerable to its unholy penetration, as it were
2. Abrahamic faiths, being already of such a nature as to be without any impulse to offer the least evidentiary collateral with even the most extravagant claims of being the alpha and omega of everything from creation to now, has added to this, in the form of Christianity, a new lack of restraint in threatening infinite punishment from now to the end of time. A class of religion that has gotten so far by virtue of corralling the gullible through the absence of intellectual moderation could hardly be expected to suddenly find in itself a seemly aversion to wanton overreach and volunteer any restraint when confronted with vulnerabilities to penetration in the lives of afflicted.
When not restrained with a very strong and vigorous external secular clearheadedness, Christianity would never refrain from claiming the supreme and final authority on anything to anyone who could be cajoled or coerced into listening. Maximally invasive overreach without inhibition is the alpha and omega of Christianity.
