My thoughts upon Christianity circa July 13, 2026
For me personally Christianity will not be taking it's place in my head as something I believe wholeheartedly in, i'd be mad to do so without taking it with utmost seriousness.
But you need to be serious with it to some extent to get anything out of it.
And I do get somethings out of it, without making it a real thing for me.
I take a thing like The Bible, and all those great theologians, this is my positive vibes for Reformed theology, i'm very impressed with how they use their Bibles, making sense out of it in that way, not the charismatic, or Christian Nationalist way, but the Reformed way, if there's facticity in this absurd religion, with all the sanity I can muster, I say that that's where elaborations of it's teachings can be found, not in the Joyce Meyers and Joel Osteens of the world who ought to be jailed for stealing money from poor gullible senior citizens worldwide.
What secular thinkers have grappled with, matters like existentialism and all that stuff, to see what they're addressing are just the same ole subset of matters that religion handles in it's own way.
To be in this whole thing, you need to belong to a church, that's one of the main reasons why i'm at best a backslider, but more likely an idiot lol
Another tell tale sign I cannot be a Christian is I cannot pray, prayer is spoken of as something that's a gift, I was not given that gift.
To have a clear enough picture in my head is to not be weighed down by a single shred of guilt this religion seeks to convey so earnestly.
Deep down I am of the laughter infused kind, shades of the Dionysian method of living that Nietzsche waxes eloquent on in some cases.
Nietzsche didn't take theologians seriously, he made a couple passing remarks on them, with the attitude of "who has time for that??!!" And then I come along, and say, "I do, Herr Nietzsche!!"
Time is all that's left, it's a straight road ahead, till the road ends, and I walk off that, to fall endlessly, forever and forever falling, I remember Osho describing some kind of spiritual experience as continuous falling, so I am using that idea as my idea of death, when one dies, one has walked off the cliff and begins falling for an eternity in the bottomless abyss of death.
But you need to be serious with it to some extent to get anything out of it.
And I do get somethings out of it, without making it a real thing for me.
I take a thing like The Bible, and all those great theologians, this is my positive vibes for Reformed theology, i'm very impressed with how they use their Bibles, making sense out of it in that way, not the charismatic, or Christian Nationalist way, but the Reformed way, if there's facticity in this absurd religion, with all the sanity I can muster, I say that that's where elaborations of it's teachings can be found, not in the Joyce Meyers and Joel Osteens of the world who ought to be jailed for stealing money from poor gullible senior citizens worldwide.
What secular thinkers have grappled with, matters like existentialism and all that stuff, to see what they're addressing are just the same ole subset of matters that religion handles in it's own way.
To be in this whole thing, you need to belong to a church, that's one of the main reasons why i'm at best a backslider, but more likely an idiot lol
Another tell tale sign I cannot be a Christian is I cannot pray, prayer is spoken of as something that's a gift, I was not given that gift.
To have a clear enough picture in my head is to not be weighed down by a single shred of guilt this religion seeks to convey so earnestly.
Deep down I am of the laughter infused kind, shades of the Dionysian method of living that Nietzsche waxes eloquent on in some cases.
Nietzsche didn't take theologians seriously, he made a couple passing remarks on them, with the attitude of "who has time for that??!!" And then I come along, and say, "I do, Herr Nietzsche!!"
Time is all that's left, it's a straight road ahead, till the road ends, and I walk off that, to fall endlessly, forever and forever falling, I remember Osho describing some kind of spiritual experience as continuous falling, so I am using that idea as my idea of death, when one dies, one has walked off the cliff and begins falling for an eternity in the bottomless abyss of death.
46-50, MNew