Originally posted by Pook
Why is there no concern of the State trying to become a Church in itself?
Trying? I would say it has succeeded splendidly. The Church would gladly kill for the level of influence and power currently enjoyed by the State.
Originally posted by Pook
The President is their Pope. The Senators are their Bishops. The Congressmen are their Priests. The Constitution and Supreme Court Rulings are their Holy Scripture. Citizenship is their Baptism. Sex is their Eucharist. Feeling guilt is their Confirmation. They place Eternal Faith in the ‘checks and balances’ of the three person branch of the government, the Three That Act As One, their Holy Trinity, of Executive (father), of Legislative (son), and the Judiciary (Holy Spirit).
Very apt analogy! Hehe..I can easily see these political fanatics getting steamed at the very idea that they are just as blindly zealous as the illogical religions they shun.
Originally posted by Pook
One of the things that is so interesting about Catholicism is that it defeated Paganism by ingeniously absorbing it. The Christian cult adopts the paganistic Roman Hierarchy and so turns the cult into a world religion.
What I find interesting about the New Global Cult is the fact that it has done exactly what the Catholic Church did with the Roman Empire. They are absorbing all the religions in their path under the guise of “freedom” to worship however you want.
There is a good reason why the US has become so powerful. It was the first government to break through the barriers of religion with the idea of inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
People like to believe our Founding Fathers invented this idea, but they merely stole a page from Vattel´s
Law of Nations Here is a passage..
The general law of that society is, that each individual should do for the others everything which their necessities require, and which he can perform without neglecting the duty that he owes to himself: a law which all men must observe in order to live in a manner consonant to their nature, and conformable to the views of their common Creator,— a law which our own safety, our happiness, our dearest interests, ought to render sacred to every one of us.
Sound familiar?
Of course the supreme irony of it all is that Vattel goes to great lengths in this book to condemn the very idea of world government that the US seems to advocate these days (you are either with or against us). Vattel is most assuredly rolling in his grave.
As a sidenote, you speak of how the Church absorbed paganism, but fail to mention how they demonized sexuality using the imagery of Dionisys to manifest Satan. What are your thoughts on this?
Originally posted by Pook
It is the rise of a new religion, one not concerned with transcendence but rather politics.
I will take it a step further and say that the catalyst of this new religion is Consumerism.
Think about it...
How many Jews, Christians and Muslims enjoy shopping? Indeed, when our nation was under attack and people were still eyeing airplanes suspiciously in the weeks that followed, what were we instructed to do? Pray? Ha! They told us to SHOP!
Originally posted by Pook
I am PRO-SEXUALITY. I was to see sexuality shine again. It is my contention that sexuality is much more than bedroom maneuvers, but is the wondrous beauty that defines male and female, man and woman along with the fruits of such unions.
Existence is a product of seduction which dates back to the instant that the universe seduced something from nothing. Call it a gravitational singularity, God or the Big Bang, but the essence of life thrives on the duality we see around us. Light/dark, male/female, yin/yang, etc.
To me sexuality is the dance that occurs between the two extremes. We think we can isolate it into the act of penetration, but we are just fooling ourselves. There is a huge difference between having intercourse and being sexual!
I think one of the things that has helped me in regards to women is learning to tap into this essence and sex them with my words, my gaze and touch. Even if you do not realize it, from the moment you set your sights on a girl, the foreplay has begun!
Originally posted by Pook
Have you noticed with your own development, of embracing your sexuality that your problems seem to slowly dissolve,
I think that when you embrace your sexuality you accept your birthright as a creative being. I know that there are times that I finish creating a song or piece of art and afterwards I have the same afterglow feeling that is associated with sex.
Among my discjockey friends it is bit of a running joke. Whenever someone plays a really good set we tell him, “Damn you sure busted one hell of a nut there!” The look on his face only makes this statement truer..and funnier!
Originally posted by Pook
...but you look about you and see people in a state of… static? It is like they are sleep walking, their ‘philosophies’ putting natural elements of themselves asleep.
Part of the problem resides in our system of education, which does not foster a creative approach to learning. Instead we are taught to accept philosophies and ideas as FACTS that we must hammer into our memories.
This is only exacerbated by the publics addiction to entertainment. Nothing screams monotony more than millions of people THINKING THE SAME THOUGHTS at the same time! No wonder everyone seems to be asleep! So many people I encounter are just bags of flesh without their own identity. They believe themselves to be autonomous when they are actually running a foreign installation in their minds.
Originally posted by Pook
This issue is solved with Catholicism’s high regard for Mary. Catholicism holds that Mary reverses Eve’s role.
Yes. But think about
HOW Mary reverses Eves role! She embodies the asexual female with the Immaculate Conception and maintains her purity by NOT being sexual! The Church has sought to demonize sexuality since the start, so of course they would deify Mary´s chastity. Young girls are encouraged to be as chaste as the Holy Virgin.
Going back to the infamous Fall of Man. Did you know what the Tree of Knowledge is really the Tree of Sex? In biblical times when you had sex with a woman, they would say that you “knew” her. And so Adam came to “know” his wife in the sexual sense and what I find interesting is that this was not the Original Sin. Was it disobedience then? I dont think so. God only expelled them from the Garden when he saw them dressed in fig leaves, cowering in Shame. The original sin of mankind, IMHO.
Originally posted by Pook
God is called LORD because of an aristocratic sense. You would call your king or ruler ‘lord’ long ago. Since God is considered to be ruler of them all, is it not good to have kings and emperors on their knees to refer to a ‘lord’ above them?
Depends on how you define “good”. I prefer not to kneel to anyone, nor have them kneel to me. God is presented in the Bible as a heavenly father so the question that I ask is this, would you kneel before your dad? It just seems like an unnatrual act of submission propagated by the human hierarchy charged on steroids!
But I will run with your analogy for arguments sake. Lets say that Gods maleness was presented to encourage universal submission. How then does this account for the fact that there are no women priests? Why is it that the Holy Trinity is a boys club? Why does Genesis reverse the creative role of the sexes with Adam giving birth to Eve?
To me these are all clear signals of a concentrated effort to strip women of their power and mankind of its sexuality.
Originally posted by Pook
The Son of God gave special attention to the prostitute and so changed the law. Mary Magdalene is a critical part of the Christianity story as she was the first one to reach Jesus’s tomb.
There are scores of Gospels that never made it into the final edition of the New Testament. It is documented in numerous accounts from other disciples that Mary Magdelene was not a common prostitute, but a priestess of Isis with very powerful family ties. Of course the most controversial accounts are those that claim she was (gasp) his lover!
Originally posted by Pook
In Corinthians, we find a definition of marriage. Marriage is not based on ‘love’, as modern people and gay activists would like to believe. Marriage is based entirely on sexuality. “It is no sin” Paul says and he advises that if you are aflame with passion, you better marry. Marriage and sex were not seen as separate.
It is this distinction the Church made that I find most disturbing. Coupled with the fact that society is at odds with the natural cycle of reproduction, we are looking at two of the biggest factors of sexual distortion right here!
Your post resonates strongly with what I had in mind. The “Neo-Religion” the politics, the fanatics all play their part in what I feel is a grander scheme, the very essence of what I think has spawned this distortion from the very beginning!
Think about it. Why do the Feminist push their agendas? Why do religions all insist that they are right and everyone else is wrong? What is the one human trait the has ballooned into disturbing proportions thoroughout the ages?
Basically I feel that all of these distortions can be traced back to one serious flaw in the way mankind perceives itself. It is a most unnatural and destructive state of ...