[quote=“Orismen, post:10, topic:1864”]“Christians Might Be Deceived…”
Kinda preaching to the choir here.
So what should we do about it? Killing a person is one thing but killing an idea (such as a church) is a whole new ball game.[/quote]
It throws an interesting light on our own dealings with demons - very few of them would have the cheek to offer the same shitty deal the Jews’ god did, whereby pretty much anything from masturbation to menstrual blood can mess you up, and then the even shittier deal Jesus offered where you have to follow him or go to hell (maybe the historical man didn’t offer it, maybe the messages got garbled, either way it’s an atrocious deal to put forward).
I think the force (godform, demon, any kind of entity) that gets enough people putting aside their own natural attainment of the divine becomes a KIND OF universal god because enough people look up to it for instructions and place their entire lives and moralities in its hands, dashing the heads of babies against rocks for example in its name (an act most normal people wouldn’t choose to do) and living in fear of it, so, as with money, or drugs, or anything else, that which we GIVE power to becomes our god, and each of us who assumes his and her own godhood, however we understand it and however we do it, whatever our aims, we are turning our backs on that nutty bacon-dodging desert thing and therefore the very act of wanting to become a living god wounds it, in the only way that matters (which is why it threw such a strop about “having other Gods before me” and so on).
I see the period of human history beginning with Akhnaten (the first recorded monotheist) as an attempt by a rather spiteful desert entity to gain control of mankind by marketing itself as the “only” god, and inspiring its slaves to go and mutilate, kill, burn and discredit anyone who says otherwise.
I’m not really a gnostic, those are just my conclusions based on observation etc.
I have an intense dislike of these weird desert cults that are getting all the press and do my best to ignore them and their followers.
[quote=“the1gza, post:36, topic:1864”]Folks have found reasons to be violent, reckless beasts since they could think of a reason to fight, and human ignorance as narrowness has existed way before anybody could organize it into a religion. …
I personally don;t think any of it is wrong; some people like what’s going on and some people don’t. The person who wins the day, is the person who put forth their will to get their desires realized, and those who don’t… they get used. It’s easy enough to gain control over your situation, so I really don’t see the point in highlighting deceptions or “world issues” when you have the ability to change this stuff.[/quote]
Exactly, in the UK we have this problem with football violence, anything where people can polarise into “us and them” (a useful thing in terms of community building) can become toxic if there’s enough support and a justification for violence, it just so happens that the middle-eastern cults are based on teachings that really give that permission loud and clear, “thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” and all this genital cutting and hatred of gays, female sexuality, etc.
But all widespread religions are responsible for mass acts of violence, oppression, and outright idiocy. I will always say this, but the so-called enlightened Eastern traditions had religious ideals that were so oppressive, that simply looking at a nobleman got you killed instantly (i.e. the Hindu caste)? So what's the point? We're magicians, and while these are social issues, we got enough power and insight to change the situation. So is it really worth our time to beat this extremely dead, worn-out, and 95% decomposed horse anymore.
Agreed 100%. Especially about the eastern stuff, which here in the Uk has this kind of halo as the “good” religion, like they’re all kind and wise and stuff, thankfully that’s been challenged by widespread reporting here of the recent atrocities against women in India… I could go on, but won’t.
All religions when practiced as a follower, not interacting with gods as a qualitative (if not quantitive) equal are just an invitation to slavery and to become a mindless drudge who accepts as law whatever the slightly-senior mindless drudge says, no matter what actual practices they generously permit their followers to do.