1. I’m amazed & disturbed how many people, after reading one article of mine that they agree with, write to me as if I know all the answers to life—if they saw the shambolic details of my life they would not do this. It’s easy to see how the unscrupulous could take advantage.https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1045307656804560896 …
I’m disputing it. I’m a disputing man. I think religion is discipline, once a religion stops accepting authority it has become decadent. Ultimately, religion rests on the Tao or the unity of opposites found in Heraclitus. Both are analogous to a path or river—straying is death.
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I'm going to disappoint you with my conciliatory nature;-) Nevertheless, my (very) religious upbringing (nonconformist low-church Protestantism) left me with a sense that what authority there was in the church did not lie with people, but with texts. An anomaly, perhaps.
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1. Protestantism is decadent Christianity. It was founded on the principle of a revolt against authority, namely the Vatican. Paradoxically, its decadence springs from a desire to perfect Christianity, which was why it emerged in the most perfectly Christian lands: Germany.
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2. This was Nietzsche’s argument, re: Germany. Protestantism today is dying everywhere, and few Protestant “Christians” believe in a metaphysical God or the biblical teachings. Protestantism is leftist in the sense that it is organisational entropy for Christianity.
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3. You can see a similar pattern in Marxism, which, in a sense, wants to perfect capitalism. The Marxists want to unlock the utter transformative power of capitalism in a “rational” way. In this, they are like the Protestants who sought a Christianity uncorrupted by the Vatican.
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4. Marxism is organisational entropy for capitalism. In both cases, Marxism & Protestantism, the revolt against authority is a deviation from the path—the Tao—& these revolts, suitably Satanic, always claim to be the complete and perfect fulfilment of the authority they subvert.
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