“The Spiritual Shape of Political Ideas” Highly insightful meta-political analysis of contemporary meaningness-making http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/spiritual-shape-political-ideas_819707.html?nopager=1 …
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“Our social and political life is awash in unconsciously held [Protestant] Christian ideas broken from the theology that gave them meaning…
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… hungry for the identification of sinners—to prove the virtue of the accusers and to demonstrate the sociopolitical power of the accusers.”
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Every Western attempt to reinvent meaningness, even when anti-Christian—Communism, Thelema, social justice—recapitulates Protestantism.
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Notably, modern
#Buddhism is transparently a liberal Protestant Christian sect, with negligible changes of mythology. http://meaningness.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/protestant-buddhism/ …1 reply 2 retweets 0 likes -
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My hope is that
#Buddhist#tantra has tools for resistance against Protestant memetic hegemony. http://meaningness.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/modern-buddhist-tantra/ …1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
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#Tantra’s systematic inversion of mainstream#Buddhism might be a model for systematic rejection of Protestantism. http://meaningness.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/sutra-vs-tantra/ …1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Hmm. Let's not forget that Protestantism was an advance in European religious thinking and in Buddhist thinking for that matter1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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