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Originally Posted by orthodoxymoron
It does seem that people who are 'open to all viewpoints and faiths' have a difficult time with someone who enthusiastically follows Jesus.
...but is his [Maxwell's] conclusion really that there is no hope of escaping a tyrannical and corrupt future? Correct me if I'm wrong...but he didn't seem to be too upset by his hopeless verdict. I'm trying to figure that out. What is his escape route?
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I appreciate you haven’t studied comparative religion, and therefore you probably don’t know that in some ways Christianity seems to have been worse – but they’re all bad, at least in how they handle the masses. (Unlike you, I see Maxwell as very much a fundamentalist.) Since this is a Jordan Maxwell thread, I believe it would be appropriate to point out how similar fundamentalist and to some extent other conservative Christianity is to Catholicism. For instance, they’re both based on getting people introverted and looking at their “sins” all the time. This is like getting people to spend their day looking at their feet. That way they can’t see where they’re actually going, or who is manipulating them, and how. The truth is, freedom is achieved by facing our weaknesses and our pain. But, only if we do so from a position of feeling OK about ourselves (despite our faults) and empowered. Religions generally seek to ensure that we remain conscious of our weaknesses from a disempowered position. That way we can never heal ourselves of anything whatsoever.
Some Christians, such as 14 Chakras and some others on this thread, manage to re-interpret much of their faith in a more self-empowering way. But they’re a minority.
Another point is that all the rottenness of some of the activities of the Vatican and co. is no doubt in certain ways ideologically based on the Catholic religion. Given the similarities between the Catholic religion and Christian fundamentalism that I claim to have given a rough sketch of, surely Christian fundamentalism could lead to equally negative actions, based on “my way is the only right way.” Maybe it already has, given Dubya’s fundamentalist beliefs.