IT WAS ADOPTED BECAUSE IT WAS EASIER TO COMMUNICATE

WHICH FIT WITH A GROWING CIVILIZATION

Look at it in context of what ran through the Greeks before Christianity. Orphism there rejected the polis of gods and humans as well as the celebration of the good life. This brought changes in basic religious ceremony where before you saw wooden dicks being a core artifact that represented the fertility and delight of the gods and men. Afterwards you saw intellectuals feel discomfort by uttering excuses of abstract progenitive power to justify that tradition with which they were already uncomfortable. So whatever made it from the Greeks to Christianity was already of the sensibility I was talking about. Paganism was basically dead.

A WRITTEN, CLEAR RELIGION IS A BETTER TECHNOLOGY THAN AN UNWRITTEN ONE THAT REQUIRES GENIUSES TO INTERPRET

@༺པརབྱར།བསངཇ༻ IN DECAY, EVERYTHING IS INVERTED

if you wanna frame it that way then the salvation perspective is decay

I dunno if that's the best frame

The religion that existed in the Mediterranean was also decayed

Even if I'm inclined to agree with that judgement

for other reasons

THE SOCIETIES THAT EXISTED IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WERE DECAYED

AND SO WITH THAT, EVERYTHING ELSE WENT

THIS IS THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED TO CHRISTIANITY IN THE WEST

ᴅᴇᴠɪ - Today at 5:28 PM
To say that it was adopted to simply keep order or whatever is a lie

That wasn't the only reason, but Brett stressed that point

LOOK AT A CHURCH TODAY: RAINBOW FLAGS AND DIVERSITY

Look at pagans today

Virtue signalling cucks

if they're not mere larpers

NEW AGERS

ESSENTIALLY

HEATHENS AGAINST HATE

LOLOLOL

THIS IS WHY I SAY WE SHOULD TAKE OUR TRADITIONS AS THEY ARE AND BUILD ON THEM

CLARIFY FOR EXAMPLE THAT JESUS WAS NOT A PACIFIST

TO USE OUR OLD SLOGAN, PUT THE "FIST" BACK IN "PACIFIST"

RECTALLY

I feel nothing for the underlying views of our traditions but ymmv

SALVATION IS OVERSTATED, I THINK

RECITE MAGIC WORDS TO ENTER HEAVEN -- NO.

THE POINT IS THAT THOSE WHO LIVE IN ACCORD WITH NATURAL ORDER EXPERIENCE THE DIVINE

TRANSCENDENCE, IN OTHER WORDS

Submit to enter heaven - yes

PAGANISM MAKES THE SAME POINT

If you're not good enough, you will not enter Valhall and the gods have no use for you in the final battle.

PEOPLE MUST HUMBLE THEIR INDIVIDUALISM TO THE ORDER OF THIS WORLD

VERY SIMILAR

BUT EVEN MORE, THERE WAS A NEED FOR UNDERSTANDING

Have you read Lynn Whites tracking salvation through industrialization and how it probably led to treating the earth as a commodity?

Essay*

fuck I hate typing long shit on phones

THOSE WHO SAW THEIR PLACE AND MAXIMIZED IT ACCORDING TO THE DIVINE ORDER WERE GOOD