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    1. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Sep 27

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      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 …

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      It's amazing how readily some people will submit to an altar call in the form of a command. I think in their hearts, everyone longs for an altar, and a powerful god. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1017034563283894278 …
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    2. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Sep 27

      2. Christopher Hitchens once wrote that his father told him. “The only time I knew what I was doing was during the Second World War.” A lot of people seem to be like that, just desperate for someone to tell them what to do or for someone to assert authority—of any kind.

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    3. Ian Jennings‏ @IDJennings Oct 5
      Replying to @tomxhart

      That's a legitimate reading of CH's father's comment, but I'm more inclined to think it means the war gave *purpose* to his life. Submitting to authority can grant purpose, true, but purpose is a deeper, independent need.

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    4. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 5
      Replying to @IDJennings

      1. The exact quote: “The only time when I really felt I knew what I was doing”. To me, people know what they are doing when they are being told or when their back is to the wall: wars and extreme survival situations. A small elite can set their own course, but most cannot.

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    5. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 5
      Replying to @tomxhart @IDJennings

      2. I think this is obvious in religion. Islam means submission to the will of Allah, and Roman Catholics submit to the Church. “Religion” derives, in part, from the Latin “to bind fast”. It places a person under authority; it is this absence that destroys many under modernity.

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    6. Ian Jennings‏ @IDJennings Oct 5
      Replying to @tomxhart

      Again, I wouldn't want to dispute this point. I'd merely say that it's not the whole story. Religions can be quite fissiparous - authority is not always welcome amongst the religious. And the sense of mission can also be what's keeping them in the cult.

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    7. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 5
      Replying to @IDJennings

      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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    8. Ian Jennings‏ @IDJennings Oct 5
      Replying to @tomxhart

      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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    9. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 6
      Replying to @IDJennings

      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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      Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 6
      Replying to @tomxhart @IDJennings

      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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        2. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 6
          Replying to @tomxhart @IDJennings

          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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        3. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 6
          Replying to @tomxhart @IDJennings

          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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        2. Ian Jennings‏ @IDJennings Oct 6
          Replying to @tomxhart

          I assume you don't regard Pentecostalism as Protestant, then? And possibly Evangelicalism also doesn't count as Protestant for you either? Both are growing fast and, as far as I can see, share plenty of characteristics with Protestantism.

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        3. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 6
          Replying to @IDJennings

          1. I am instinctively suspicious of statistics that talk of “fast growing” or “fastest growing” religions. Over the years, I have seen Mormonism, Islam, Scientology, Evangelical Christianity, and 7thd-day Adventism fill the slot of “fastest growing” religion.

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        4. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 6
          Replying to @tomxhart @IDJennings

          2. I suspect that this is actually very hard to measure, and that statistics regarding the growth of religions are manipulated for all sorts of political and organisational reasons (and not just by faiths trying to be “the most popular”, more subtle politics is at play).

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        5. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 6
          Replying to @tomxhart @IDJennings

          3. Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism represent conservative or reactionary movements within the general entropic drift of Protestantism. Leftism (and entropy) is situationally relative. They are, generally, less corrupted than, say, the Church of England (no longer Christian).

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        6. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 6
          Replying to @tomxhart @IDJennings

          4. Ultimately, Evangelicalism is being subverted by what I call technocratic liberalism & others call “the Cathedral”. It’s a sort of Christianity without Christ that favours egalitarianism. The CofE spouts its talking points, & some Evangelical orgs have also been subverted.

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        7. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 6
          Replying to @tomxhart @IDJennings

          5. Technocratic liberalism is, as Nietzsche observed of socialism and the left in general, merely another stage in the degeneration of Christianity (Protestantism more specifically). So it seeks to undermine the least entropic parts of Protestantism.

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        8. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Oct 6
          Replying to @tomxhart @IDJennings

          6. This is why the BBC/PBS/universities and the chattering classes hate Evangelical Protestantism so much and make so many programs ridiculing it. It’s like a fight between Trotskyites and Stalinists. The competition is fierce, because these are two similar sects.

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        9. Ian Jennings‏ @IDJennings Oct 6
          Replying to @tomxhart

          That the two are closely related is undoubtedly true. Whether we are seeing degeneration or progress or something else I cannot say. But I suspect the ridicule from the intelligentsia will become harder to maintain as Christianity becomes less identified with whiteness.

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