Well, since I’ve caught your attention, the only half arguable point you might have is that St Paul, not Jesus, being the foundation of the Catholic Church, the Catholics in misplaced admiration for his single-minded attempt to drop everything in favour of mission work, have instituted celibacy for priests, which to my mind contradicts their excellent formal Thomist doctrine of the balance of the natural inclinations. Their inability to switch that false doctrine off is a terrible thing. They should seriously just cancel that tomorrow, a bit like you just see the stupidity of what you’re doing and cancel the Second Amendment tomorrow and throw away your gun.
If you’re going to just rail at people and call them shit thinkers and worse, try keeping shit insults out of your texts and attempt to construct your own actual doctrine which will deconstruct Christianity and reveal your true guidelines for human action. And once you’ve done that maybe they’ll build three buildings in every town in which to celebrate you. And then sit back and see if you’re ever tempted, like the pastors of the Prosperity Gospel, to say, I deserve to be rewarded for showing people the true faith, bring me my private jet, and we’ll go and buy out the poor people on that ranchland I’d like to buy with all the cheques my followers sent me. But you’re talking about Jesus now, not Jim Jones. You need to up your game, Jesus didn’t fall into the traps of the Pharisees and you’ve yet to set one for him. “Without a parable he spake not into them.” Jesus only gives analogies in parables as to what the Kingdom of Heaven is, the parable of the mustard seed, for example, because the concept of God transcends itself from the very beginning. God is “like” a father, but no, a being that transmits its will through the luminiferous aether and sustains the universe from moment to moment does not have “kids”, people are putting labels on everything. In the US a man who wanted money and power stuck a Maga label on his hat and came within an hour or two of making the system of government into a formal dictatorship. All kinds of people followed him and still do. You seem to be content to accept that anything done in the name of something is that thing itself. Have you not heard the term false gods? Why do you think that the first commandment is to have no other gods but the one true God? It all seems a bit naive on your part. You’ll never know who Jesus was and is and be able to write anything credible about Christianity if you can’t consider what something, Jesus, is in itself, rather than thinking you’ve found another radical way to annoy people to the level that you’re annoyed, and a suitably unarmed target at which to vent your inner rage. You still have not answered my first question, who do you say that he is, because it appears that you can’t answer as to who or what you think Jesus was. Knowing Jesus is never a bad thing, it gives you an idea of who you yourself really might be once you burn away all the misconceptions and propaganda of the society you’re living in. Let’s have your manifesto, then. What’s your life’s work, beyond the destruction of Christianity which by your slagging off and trying to humiliate people will doubtless keel over immediately in awe at the magnitude of your understanding of its absurdity, and disappear in a puff of logic?
Well, since I’ve caught your attention, the only half arguable point you might have is that St Paul, not Jesus, being the foundation of the Catholic Church, the Catholics in misplaced admiration for his single-minded attempt to drop everything in favour of mission work, have instituted celibacy for priests, which to my mind contradicts their excellent formal Thomist doctrine of the balance of the natural inclinations. Their inability to switch that false doctrine off is a terrible thing. They should seriously just cancel that tomorrow, a bit like you just see the stupidity of what you’re doing and cancel the Second Amendment tomorrow and throw away your gun.
If you’re going to just rail at people and call them shit thinkers and worse, try keeping shit insults out of your texts and attempt to construct your own actual doctrine which will deconstruct Christianity and reveal your true guidelines for human action. And once you’ve done that maybe they’ll build three buildings in every town in which to celebrate you. And then sit back and see if you’re ever tempted, like the pastors of the Prosperity Gospel, to say, I deserve to be rewarded for showing people the true faith, bring me my private jet, and we’ll go and buy out the poor people on that ranchland I’d like to buy with all the cheques my followers sent me. But you’re talking about Jesus now, not Jim Jones. You need to up your game, Jesus didn’t fall into the traps of the Pharisees and you’ve yet to set one for him. “Without a parable he spake not into them.” Jesus only gives analogies in parables as to what the Kingdom of Heaven is, the parable of the mustard seed, for example, because the concept of God transcends itself from the very beginning. God is “like” a father, but no, a being that transmits its will through the luminiferous aether and sustains the universe from moment to moment does not have “kids”, people are putting labels on everything. In the US a man who wanted money and power stuck a Maga label on his hat and came within an hour or two of making the system of government into a formal dictatorship. All kinds of people followed him and still do. You seem to be content to accept that anything done in the name of something is that thing itself. Have you not heard the term false gods? Why do you think that the first commandment is to have no other gods but the one true God? It all seems a bit naive on your part. You’ll never know who Jesus was and is and be able to write anything credible about Christianity if you can’t consider what something, Jesus, is in itself, rather than thinking you’ve found another radical way to annoy people to the level that you’re annoyed, and a suitably unarmed target at which to vent your inner rage. You still have not answered my first question, who do you say that he is, because it appears that you can’t answer as to who or what you think Jesus was. Knowing Jesus is never a bad thing, it gives you an idea of who you yourself really might be once you burn away all the misconceptions and propaganda of the society you’re living in. Let’s have your manifesto, then. What’s your life’s work, beyond the destruction of Christianity which by your slagging off and trying to humiliate people will doubtless keel over immediately in awe at the magnitude of your understanding of its absurdity, and disappear in a puff of logic?