The Gayness of Christianity II
(Continued from The Gayness of Christianity.)
Forms of Jesusianism have reminded the world that God is all powerful/knowing, and thus must have made Satan knowing what would happen, i.e. God made that stuff happen. Every bad thing Satan ever did must have been, therefore, the doing of Jahweh—of Jesus—and to imply otherwise is to malign God as not all powerful/knowing. Yet because of the moral difficulties of accepting that Jesus made happen everything bad Satan ever did, people have mostly ignored this, just as they have ignored whether God can make a rock so big He can’t move it.
One of the very significant hurts, perhaps most harmful things that Christianity did (though it’s hard to narrow it down; there are so many) was eliminate notions of humans needing other humans in favor of individualism. Like monotheism and its purported superiority over polytheism, like progressiveness, and so forth, individualism was incorrect. There is no invisible rabbi living in the sky, and humans never live alone. Even if some really tough bloke long ago was great at hunting, farming, picking out the best berries, and so forth, he was at one point a baby, and would have died without being cared for by some woman who nursed him, presumably his mother. In about 124 years, his genes will be gone forever unless he and a female make a baby.
Humans are social animals. They live only in groups.
The implementation of a very stupid thing as an improvement was done by deceit. The way that monotheism is characterized as a progressive advancement as to hypothetical polytheism can be likened to the way that certain political beliefs today are considered progressive,* an advancement as to hypothetical isms of various types. The distaste a person may feel at witnessing the marvelment, the subjection, the pollyannaish worship, of useful idiots who believe themselves quite progressive advancing over the way that the world was seen, should permit that same person to consider how monotheism was believed progressive. There was no polytheism; there was no theism at all, however, most people now have been deceived into thinking that theism is part of their ancestors’ past. Various ruses of politics nowadays can be seen as disgusting, but far fewer people can see that Christianity was just such an “advancement”; a “progression.”
(*It is noted that the false improvement of Jesusian Christianity's monotheism over polytheism made by incorrect insults levied at the beaten is an earlier version of the false improvement of what is now called progressive politics. When it was understood that men had to spend most of their adult lives working to provide a safe place where females could hang out and rest, that has been characterized as an evil denial. It was said to be wrong to deny the woman's right to travel to work, through traveled areas where robbers/rapists can get her and to prevent her from the wonderful goodness of being subject to a boss. Etc. The way that a social expectation of men providing women with houses, food, retirement income, and so forth was characterized as an evil denial of the woman's right to work herself to get those things is how Jesusianism worked.)
(Rebels With a Cause They Don’t Understand and others like them who say they are “pagan” generally believe in invisible sky people about as much as pre-Christian Europeans did. I.e. when some guy says he’s a pagan now, that doesn’t mean he believes that an invisible man up in the sky throws lightning bolts and that’s why lightning strikes [Zeus, Thor, etc.]. Nor does that person believe that an invisible man has a buck-head [Ukko, etc.]. Pre-Christian Europeans told stories about various aspects of culture, personified concepts to make them more understandable, directed their art in certain ways, etc. That stuff did not actually indicate what they believed. Those stories were not things that those people believed had actually happened (or said they believed had actually happened), nor did those stories include characters in which people were expected to say they believed existed in reality. Claims that they did are as believable as assumptions about how burning fire makes steel collapse.)
(Continued in The Gayness of Christianity III.)
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