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I think VGR is (correctly) thinking of American popular Christianity, which is basically Capitalist packaging for some modern-era philosophical ideas with no roots in the tradition, and which in fact violate it. Together they function like a (sociological) cult.
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I actually think he's got a good point, Christianity is rejection of the finality of death-Christ was resurrected, everyone will go to heaven/hell, loved ones are looking down on us, etc. Not everyone worships for those reasons, but it's a critical belief of Christianity
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You're right that that's a mainstream Christian belief, but the funny thing is that it, like a lot of other things I find uncontroversially wrong about Christianity, stem from neoplatonism, which wormed its way into the tradition through fraud (c.f. the Pseudo-Dionysius).
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Probably, but a more folk version of that. Remember I’m talking about median practitioner at an individual level, not scholarly institutional doctrine. As in, what is a given believer who occasionally goes to church, prays and thinks of themselves as religious, escaping from?
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