Donnadogsoth Posted December 21, 2016 Posted December 21, 2016 NOTE: I put this in General Messages because it relates to the political project, not merely to personal faith. Christianity is necessary to the success of the modern project of breaking the grip of the anti-Western globalist oligarchy, and here's why. Stop for a moment and consider sustaining a broken bone. Not a pleasant thought, but that's part of the point of the thought exercise: broken bones get your attention in an unfortunate way. Now, imagine through an act of will “rising above” the level of the pain and shock of the injury, to reach a “higher consciousness” that allows you to accept what has happened and work around it--instead of pretending it didn't happen and resenting it and panicking—and, so, act in some way so as to reach medical help. The same goes for your life in general. There will be highs, and lows, but over a long enough time anyone with sufficient learning ability will achieve a bit of wisdom that lets them look down on the wave pattern of ups and downs and so come to exist in a kind of low-key sagely bliss to one degree of durability or another. Of course this applies to politics, too, where the enlightened leaders will exchange rage for laughter. So, where does Christianity fit it? The characteristic Christian act: forgiveness, is the most pressing demand in all of human history to see things from a different and higher perspective. It demands we realise that all men are depraved, all men are wicked at the cores of their brains and will do all evil if the chains of God's grace were removed. Realise this and you realise you cannot any longer hate your enemies as if they were a different and inferior species from yourself. If you don't wish to be a hypocrite, you must extend forgiveness to your enemies. You must view the matter from a higher consciousness, the notion that all men, no matter how strange, are brothers and worthy of love. That this commandment, to love one's neighbour, and its corollaries, needs intellectual working out in order to apply is not in question. Christianity does not absolve its adherents of the obligation to think. Indeed, the Christian-influenced West is the most thoughtful civilisation in history. So, we realise there are bad actors in the world that innocent people need protection from. Wars are sometimes necessary. Walls are sometimes necessary. But overall we should be viewing these situations with the agape or divine love or higher wisdom, so that as it unfolds the world order inclines towards justice and mercy. The West cannot withstand the removal of this wisdom, underlying this commandment to forgive. It would gut-shoot us. Lacking the understanding of the sinfulness of man, the so-called golden rule of “give as one would get,” has transmogrified into the horrifying, Soviet-themed multicultural egalitarianism that is, uniquely, dissolving our borders, our culture, and our race. With the understanding that man is wicked, but with a divine spark that makes his salvation worthwhile, we have the cynicism needed to protect ourselves and the idealism needed to keep our eyes on the road of principle towards a just and merciful society. Without it, we are stuck in a brain-state where we are controlled by our lower thoughts. Without Christianity we focus futilely on the broken bone—the vagaries of politics--the fruits of diversity—the uncultured impulse--and miss the higher consciousness of the educated emotions. The Christian is the natural defender of the West, in the specific sense that Christianity is built into the structure of what we are trying to defend. Trying to establish a secular purity is like tearing out the electronic wires of your car. The question arises, “Should I be a Christian?” And the answer is, when one approaches Christianity one should eschew the warring factions as such. One can play an Atheist game, a shell game really, of pointing out the thousands of sects of Christianity and throw one's mental hands up in an air of futility. But that's not what we have to look at. What's important is that there is a general understanding of what the religion is about, as an apostolic succession and priesthood reaching back to St. Peter, and as a kind of initiation into a higher life. So, imagine a baptism in a house in Syria in 200 AD. There is an arch above the baptismal pool decorated with simple designs of grapes and wheat. There are no crucifixes or crosses, just some brethren holding candles and anointing oil, and an initiate and a priest in the pool. Imagine what this means: the person is being brought onto a plane of love of Creator, and love of Man. A very quiet thing, not dramatic, he is just being lifted up an inch or two, so he can see further. The initiate isn't a flake, or a fool, or retarded for standing in this little marble pool with a priest's hand on his head, he is seeking to be human, and has had the luck of finding the religion that best accords with humanity. The essence of Christianity is in the mystery of the Crucifixion, the ultimate symbol of the love of the Creator for His Creation. Deepen it through the commandment to love one's neighbour: who is one's neighbour? If one could, should not one seek to help all mankind, for all men—even those dead and those yet to be born—are one's neighbours. One should get and grapple with a sense of the sweep of human history, both tragic and joyful, as part of the evolutionary process of lifting humanity higher towards a more orderly existence--one that through participating in we are helping all of humanity, past, present, and future, by helping build what would fulfill the hope they held in their hearts. The divine spark—being made in the image of the Creator—is the basis for our hope, and our understanding of the historical need for Christ. Forgiveness, love of man, higher-order thinking in terms of what we need to survive as a Civilisation, all flow from our understanding of the value of man juxtaposed with his wickedness, and all concentrate on the Cross.
meetjoeblack Posted December 29, 2016 Posted December 29, 2016 The figure of Jesus Christ on a cross and the symbolism for the majority of a population throughout human history resonates being of individual's experience with suffering. A good portion have also been inspired and were self-aware. There is definitely exploration of consciousness and Christianity.
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