It is it’s only promise which is why the various Christian cults are so anti Socialist. I would day communist but “communism” really refers in our adolescent minds to the coercion necessary to make it work. I don’t need coercion so I am a mere Socialist.
The emasculation is fascinating, first he is the daddy god who knows and controls all, the savior wasn’t even allowed a human sire. Most of what you do is what you are commanded to, though the big three seem inordinately fond of killing so no idea what that thou shalt not is all about. I suspect the monotheists imagine the Pagan version of us is egotistical, that bowing, praying surrendering is a kind of healthy humility, but this is not evidence on the facts. Quite the opposite. The faraway god seems easily duped. Didn’t he see Swaggart sinning? Was he sunbathing those many interludes of Jimmy with how many?
There might be some Buddhist exercise that wakes a man or woman ti the news they are damned and filthy if they don’t obey. That he wants the women smothered from head to toe, I don’t care if it’s in the book, neither is fgm but the excuse it is “tribal” tradition, just… doesn’t. So was stoning prostitutes to death. Somebody said no, everybody went wo. Until they found “those who have not sinned” to do the killing. That was a heaving queue and still is. The “Supreme Court” stood in to down thumbs.
The peculiar pagan human sacrificings are valid badnesses especially had they been banned by the big three. But they weren’t. What are world wars or suicide bombers but sacrifices? The three hundred Spartans got a job done that I hope was registered in Elysium. This does not happen for drone victims. The Aztecs sacrificed prisoners of war, modern warfare allows they needn’t be prisoners. Sacrifices nonetheless to the insatiable deity. Gaza needn’t be mentioned it is so blatant.
But peacetime? Daily submissions. Sneaking around under god’s gaze. Crossing self lest he be looking.
So, what is a man? Or woman? Those accumulators of cash, by any means available, and how does the God smile upon these minnows? Apparently with amnesia. Or the needle eye is fat as a Trump these days. Another sacrifice ritual since the beginning: there will be poor always. Why? Because I said so. They didn’t used to exist. You meant there will be rich always therefore. You could tell us the truth. O no you couldn’t of course not. That’d be like: where’s my reward? Like the brother of the prodigal, the archetypal Capitalist. The where’s mine whiner. From the parable of the Godather, I can do things too!
Apologies for the ghastly spellings. Substack allows no edit. I shall do better next time!