Thoughts on Christianity
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I grew up in a US that was a great deal more Christian than it is now. I was born in 1973. Everyone in my then-aspiring upper middle class neighborhood went to church on Sundays with the exception of one Jewish family in the neighborhood. Believing in the Christian God was the Old Normal. When I began looking to the occult for answers as I desperately fought night terrors at age fifteen, it was still considered an edgy thing to do. Nowadays, a Christian student would probably face more trouble in the local high school if he or she discriminated against a Wiccan. It's almost a guarantee the Christian would be punished or potentially expelled if he or she discriminated against a Muslim or a Hindu. In Naperville, the Muslim mosque gets its own police presence every Friday during services. That's not something that would have happened in 1987.
Christianity's Coda?
I don't see Christianity going extinct, but it does seem well on its way to becoming a minority religion, much like what Greco-Roman polytheism is today. Coronavirus may be one of the least pandemics in history if you don't take into account iatrogenic injuries, suicides caused by economic mayhem, and mysterious car accidents, but when it came to the Christian faith, Corona turned out to be extremely lethal. Nine gestational months after the debut of the plague maiden Coronachan on the scene in March 2020, many Christians reneged on their own savior's birthday. Two full years passed before half of Christians dared enter their churches mask free, and some to this day have no idea what the mask stands for. Hint: it does not stand for allegiance with God.
I was not surprised to see the Catholic Pope lining up in compliance with vaccine mandates. Catholic Christianity, despite having the power and beauty of ancient tradition behind it, has become terminally corrupt. I tend not to subscribe to New World Order lizard people Illuminati conspiracies, but if anyone embodies them, it is the slithering creatures that occupy the Vatican. I was more upset to see Protestant Christians have lining up their children like lambs for the slaughter, robotically cladding them in masks and subjecting them to dangerous "vaccines" while claiming to believe in the power of God to protect them. What were they trying to protect themselves from? From a disease that has no more ability to kill than the common cold? Or are they being protected from falling out of favor with the upper middle class that seemingly holds the keys to the prosperity they enjoy? Are they afraid of being poor, outcast, and deplorable? I wonder who else is poor, outcast, and deplorable? Who is it they are afraid to resemble?
Televangelism Becomes McMansion Christianity
If I had to name the number one force that took down Christianity in a single word, it would be televangelism.
There are few things more at odds with the ways of Jesus than television. TV, like the internet, is an advertising medium. This makes it prone to cacomagic. That said, it's not like TV is inherently evil and that good cannot be done via the TV. The problem is that televangelism has never been about doing good in the world. From its inception, televangelism was synonymous with monetary grift. You don't defeat materialist evil by running a grift game. If there's anyone destined to spend a long sojourn in hell, it is Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, and Kenny Copeland. Jesus would not fly around in a private jet. He would not own a mansion, let alone several million dollar ones like the aforementioned televangelists.
The televangelist lifestyle became the pinnacle of Christianity in the 1980s. Unfortunately it did not die along with Headbanger's Ball and VHS tapes (or Headbanger's Ball recorded on VHS tapes). It morphed into McMansion Christianity. McMansion Christianity is the type of Protestantism that doesn't outright say it glorifies materialism, however if "by their fruits we shall know them" is a wholly materialist way of life. McMansion Christianity is inherently salary class and suburban. Unfortunately, it often takes two salary class incomes, though ideally the responsibility lies with the patriarch. McMansion Christians are typically the nicest of people: sweet and kind, at least to your face. I know a rare few who have been at the forefront of fighting vaccine mandates with the same kind of lionhearted fearlessness Christians used to be known for. Sadly this is not most of them.
McMansion Christianity or Joel Osteen lite is inherently in conflict with itself. Jesus was a homeless hippie. Just as there is no platform for a rich Buddhist to peer down her nose at those who cannot afford luxury vacations and rooms full of orchids, there is no way for an ostensible follower of Jesus to lead the way to spiritual truth while living in six bedroom house with an in-ground pool and a Tesla and a Range Rover in the three car garage. You're either like Buddha or you're not. You're either like Jesus or you're not.
Can Christians Embrace Seasonality?
To reject seasonality is to reject the processes and laws of Nature itself. Christianity is at war with seasonality primarily via its rejection of reincarnation. If there is only a single incarnation as a human being for each human soul, it follows that one lifetime is both of ultimate importance to the single soul living it and of near complete insignificance to the world the soul dwells upon for a tiny fraction of time. No wonder so many Christians choose to wallow in materialism! If the price is eternity either way, the idea of heaven and hell become abstract and inconceivable. Living another human life after this one with a chunk of heaven and hell in-between is boring in comparison, but I would argue it makes a lot more sense. Christian occultists tend to believe in the Christian God and reincarnation at the same time. As much as the two beliefs may be at odds if you're a Biblical dogmatist, the fierce Christianity of Dion Fortune could very well be the reason we're not speaking German right now. Plus it is estimated that a quarter of Christians believe in reincarnation. Though many Christians will find the idea repugnant that a quarter of their population suspects humans reincarnate, I think that's reason to hope.
How to Work Against a Revival
Ironically the worst way to effect a Christian revival is to try hard to effect a Christian revival. The goal of Christians is to spread the word of one god across the globe. This was novel at some point in the 1600s when Spaniards were looking for the Man of Gold in the Americas perhaps but nowadays the bloom is off the rose. If Christianity is interested in its own survival, it must end the practice of sending missionaries out to preach the gospel. The televised pleas of Sally Struthers to help feed the starving children became the iconic South Park episode Starvin' Marvin. John Allen Chau found out the hard way what happens when a young intrepid attempts to preach Evangelism to an unwilling island of hermits at age 26. His unfortunate end has not stopped other Christian missionaries from "helping" where they are not wanted or worse, trading favors for conversion.
Show Not Tell
Christians who do the Tell part of Show and Tell without Showing are not like Jesus. Jesus would not preach without practice.
The desperation of preaching Christians is off-putting. When I was in junior high, I wanted intensely to be liked and admired. My desperation to be liked is what made me repulsive. The second I stopped caring what others thought of me and got comfortable with myself, I began to earn friends and allies. Christians could focus upon what made their religion great in the first place: selflessness, forgiveness, serenity based in God's love. There cannot be any other agenda, because nobody is fooled by a false face. If Christianity is powerful and great, there will never be a need to dangle carrots or to resort to bribery to get someone to listen to the supposed word of God.
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them
Just as I don't consult allopathic doctors who don't possess a decent level of physical health for my health needs, I don't feel I should go to a spiritual novice when I need help in a spiritual matter. Most Christians, including the clergy, are ignorant in matters of spiritual health. If I had a dollar for every Christian who either had no idea what the astral plane is or who dismiss all forms of esoteric knowledge as demonolatry, I would be a very rich woman. They know zilcho zero about matters of demonic possession or obsession, and a person afflicted with a routine poltergeist haunting would do much better at their local paranormal society than any given church, including the Catholic church which ostensibly has access to the Rites of Exorcism. When the average Christian begins to have a cleaner astral state than I do because the power of Jesus is flowing through them, make no mistake, I will happily be near them and at least stop by their church once every few months. I have a feeling that such Christians would not be living in a suburban luxury house with an in-ground pool or anything in the ballpark.
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Date: 2022-05-17 05:21 am (UTC)I may not be Christian, but there is a lot of wisdom in the scriptures when one looks past the denominational dogmas. There are those who try to walk the talk and did not fold when some un-elected quack told them not to congregate. Too few. Times like this need people who will act their conciencence.
Speaking of Headbangers Ball, this one fits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QInAsizcu08
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Date: 2022-05-17 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-05-19 08:11 pm (UTC)Reincarnation
Date: 2022-05-18 01:33 am (UTC)Carl du Prel's view on Christianity vs the occult sciences was that the church's emphasis on blind faith and dogma would, in an error dominated by science, result in a constant loss of believers, whereas the occult sciences were more about experimentation and asking adults to examine the facts of experience and judge the occult sciences on that basis. The problem with materialism in his view was that it shut its eyes to the facts of experience it did not want to know about.
Re: Reincarnation
Date: 2022-05-18 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-19 07:03 pm (UTC)Rather than take refuge in faith and plague doctors like was done in those days, when faced with what they were led to believe was a similar catastrophe they decided that if faith didn't solve the black plague it wasn't going to solve Corona Chan.
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Date: 2022-05-19 08:19 pm (UTC)How pathetic that Christianity would shut it all down (except for notable lions in the Greek Orthodoxy and Father Artur Pawlowski) over a made in China Boomer-remover nothingburger mystery virus that rarely if ever kills. At least the Black Plague was formidable!
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Date: 2022-05-19 10:09 pm (UTC)Like many things, I think that ultimately, Christianity fails at scale. At the scale of a local parish church, where everyone knows each other, Christianity works well, no different to a forest grove meeting of druids (who I think Jesus would have got along with pretty well, and if you take some of the holy grail legends to heart literally, he may well have done). Even at the scale of a city cathedral, things are starting to fall apart, what with greedy bishops, power-mad local lords, grifting tax collectors and the like. And at the scale of a 10 000 person megachurch made out of steel and concrete? Forget about it.
Have you ever seen Hillsong? Super popular, but like most inexplicably popular things such as TikTok snd McDonalds, I get a super creepy vibe from it.
Someone posted in a previous entry about how the Cathlolic god appears to be telling his devout worshippers to abandon ship and join other churches - JMG has never come right out and said it, but he's dropped hints that some time in the 20th century, there was a takeover of demonic forces in the Catholic church, and based on things I've read, that does sound about right (look up the pope's pectoral cross and a description of what it means for a quick example - there's no way that figure is Jesus, and I could barely stand to look at the thing).
I may also post another time about my thoughts on Nazi black magic and occult science and technology and what it may have let through, and its subsequent absorption into the US military-industrial complex, but it's late and a little off-topic...
I think Christianity has a future, but on a small, individual or underground group scale - just like it originally was.
And re the masks - ugh, absolutely. Simon Sheridan posted about it during one of his series on the 'coronapocalypse', but humans have a deep seated archetypal fear of a covered human mouth. Look at any media portrayal of a villian character from the last 20 years or so, and they will probably have some kind of face or mouth covering (yet interestingly, heroes may have covered eyes), and it's often the 'hired goon' or 'assassin' character - the mind controlled Winter Soldier in the Marvel films is a classic example.
After all, what is the devil supposed to be the father of...? And what is the classic sign of a liar? They cover their mouth whilst talking.
Oh, and a final aside - nothingburger flu it may be (in most people at least, though it does seem to 'hunt' some subgroups more than others), but I don't know if you read Jessica Rose's substack - she had a very, very interesting post about test kits being shipped worldwide in 2017 and 2018. If true, there was nothing accidental about any of this - it was all planned.
Mr. Crow
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Date: 2022-05-19 11:38 pm (UTC)Christianity's "one God must rule the world as King of Kings" may be its downfall. In the original version of this essay, I came down like a ton of bricks on Christians for proselytizing. I lightened up this version somewhat. Their obsession with always getting bigger and dumping in a lot of empty hype is downright Plutonian.
Speaking of empty hype, yes, I have heard of Hillsong. Frank Houston, father of the current person running Hillsong Church, Brian Houston, was charged in New Zealand as a pedophile. Brian (the son) was charged for helping his father cover up ritual child sexual abuse and mind control. Victims have come forward saying they create child pornography and snuff films. They're friendly with the Australian Prime Minister as well as several alphabet agencies in the US. Gross.
Hillsong's worship music is awful. After listening to it, I feel like I have to listen to some Bruce Hornsby and the Range tunes from the 80s as that is what Hillsong sort of tries to be but fails because it is all corporation and no heart. I also think of Faith + 1, another South Park spoof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFpTyem-xOY
I had not seen the pectoral cross. Ugh. Hideous. It certainly lends credence to the hypothesis the Christian church or at least the Catholic one has been hijacked by demons. That and the Pope sitting in a golden throne surrounded by pedophiles, probably because like attracts like.
A Christian tried to post a depiction of Jesus wearing a mask in my Speakeasy Illinois group, with the caption "Jesus would not wear a mask!" I may not be Christian, but even I can grok that kind of Christian sacrilege, so why can't an actual Christian figure it out? Plus yeah, the mask is the sign of the evil villain, the convenience store robber, the Halloween monster, the thug. There are kids still wearing the mask even though all of the adults around them no longer do it. I call ages 5-20 Generation Cuck. They're so psychologically doomed, it isn't funny.
I do follow Jessica Rose, but only recently. I'll look that up. It's not surprising.
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Date: 2022-05-20 08:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-20 04:48 pm (UTC)I only saw the sheep after, which led me to see a flock blindly following a mockery of Jesus
The holy spirit from above nearly disappears into the design to my eyes. I didn't even see it until closer inspection
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Date: 2022-05-20 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-20 09:41 pm (UTC)https://nonvenipacem.com/2021/02/19/visibility-god-is-not-a-jerk-the-signs-are-literally-everywhere-wake-up/
I find it quite hard to explain away a lot of the details - they are some very odd stylistic choices otherwise.
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Date: 2022-05-22 12:21 am (UTC)This even points out why I felt like even the dove looked wrong somehow but I just couldn't explain it
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Date: 2022-05-21 03:58 am (UTC)