tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9487055.post7620892748380579472..comments2024-03-26T05:56:59.938+11:00Comments on THE PSYCHOLOGIST : JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9487055.post-11584206285605433592014-12-24T17:31:11.844+11:002014-12-24T17:31:11.844+11:00Some Chinese thoughts on the life of the the Jesus...Some Chinese thoughts on the life of the the Jesus who was always and only a Jew, and was never ever in any sense a Christian. Nor did he invent one smidgen of an iota of the religion about him, aka Christian-ism (yes it is an ideology, and therefore about power-and-control) all of which was invented by others long after his brutal murder, and mostly very long after too. None of whom ever met Jesus up close and personal while he was alive in a living-breathing human form.<br /><br />The people whom Jesus was addressing presumed that suffering was the natural and not merely political state of human beings. Human beings, in that view, are all humble, mortal, suffering, often ill, and deprived, regardless of their worldly status, whether high or low in the human social and political hierarchy. Jesus was not a social revolutionary, or a social activist. Jesus was, simply, by nature, sympathetic and compassionate.<br />Jesus felt a profound disposition of compassion for people in their ordinary, natural, human condition. He stepped out of the spheres of both the State and the power of the official state religion of his time and place - just as he would now if he happened to reappear. Basically he taught everyone else to do the same. Jesus extended his Blessing-Regard to all, as is shown through the reported incidents of his healing work.<br />In contrast to all of the worldly power of "official" institutional religion both then, and especially now, Jesus was a rather humble and simply human figure who was socially and politically powerless. He was thus highly critical of both worldly political and "religious" power and constantly Blessed all and everyone regardless of their circumstance. He taught and demonstrated a way of authentic human freedom free of any tradition-bound restraints or political requirements. As such he was not talking about making an institution that would become an "official religion" of the entire world (as most right-wing "catholics" pretend or claim). Nor was he talking about a cultic "God" that should become the "official' Deity of the entire world (as most right-wing power-and-control-seeking "catholics" pretend or claim)<br /><br />Speaking of right-wing power and control seeking "catholics", both Rick Santorum and the hanging Governor of Texas Rick Perry fit very tightly within this spectrum. By the way they are both either members of or closely associated with that charming deeply misogynist outfit Opus Dei. <br />Are you a fan of Opus Dei?<br />Their applied politics is described in the book titled The Power & The Glory: The Dark Heart of JPII's Vatican by David Yallop<br />Meanwhile re the hanging Governor of Texas Rick Perry - I wonder how many people Jesus would execute if he were alive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9487055.post-54250315274589880082014-12-21T15:36:17.866+11:002014-12-21T15:36:17.866+11:00As far as I know you used to be an atheist.
So why...As far as I know you used to be an atheist.<br />So why do you occasionally feature items in which you bemoan various attempts to deconstruct forms of Christian piety.<br />And if Jesus was God incarnate (which he was not) why arent you a Christian. Especially as there are now well over 30,000 different and differing forms of Christianity to choose from, in the whats-in-it-for-me market place of consumerist religiosity.<br />By the way, as far as I know in the USA one is more likely to suffer in-your-face discrimination for being an atheist than for being a Christian. In some States it is illegal for an atheist to hold a government office. This is probably the case in many counties, cities and towns too. Of course it would be impossible for an atheist to be nominated as a candidate for the Presidency by both the GOP and the Democrats. Meanwhile a majority of the Supreme Court judges are right-wing "catholics", some of which are affiliated with the deeply misogynist outfit opus dei (which by the way has a long list of banned books not to be read by students in their schools and "universities")<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com