Being blocked

I have now been blocked by three Christians on this site.

The reason given by the third is that I have been "abusive", this 26 times! I suppose our perception of exactly what constitutes abuse is very subjective.

I have simply suggested, in reasonably polite language, that said Christian does not in fact represent the only "true" knowledge of Christ, does not in fact walk the "only" way. That in fact there is a Universal Christ beyond anyone's personal experience and understanding.

This appears too hot to handle which I find regrettable.

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canusernamebemyusername · M

That sounds like one person in particular. Don't worry if it is the same person I'm thinking of she will unblock you again to try and save your soul. Until god gets his feelings hurt again and she blocks you to protect him. When it's actually all just her getting her feelings hurt but she projects it onto her "god" and says it's him.

Tbh I think she may be a sociopath. She seems to have some empathy but it's not the same amount as other people. Like her conscience is blunted somehow. Cause she has literally said she would be okay with God killing her children because everything God does is good and they would die and get to be with him who murdered them. When she said that I knew I wasn't dealing with a normal person. The fact that evil can be good as long as that evil is done by God is really telling about how broken her moral compass is. Like you said her theology has corrupted her.

But she at the very least has scrupulosity. Which is feelings of extreme guilt and fear over religious matters. It is a kind of OCD subtype. Like she either has done something really bad, thinks she has done something really bad or been abused and brainwashed into believing she has (probably this one since many preachers will try to break their congregation mentally in order to rebuild them into the cult mindset). So she fears that the devil is always around every corner but that God will hurt her as well to the point that there is no difference between their behaviors. She is literally mentally trapped.

I actually feel bad about it because while I don't believe in the supernatural this is what I would call possession. Brainwashed. A broken soul. I don't know if she was born with this or if she was abused or what. And she at least has the drive to want to be a good person but her morality is literally outsource beyond her control. She allows this "God" to tell her what is right and wrong. And that is dangerous as any con-man can and apparently has come along and led her astray.

Tariki

@canusernamebemyusername Hi, long ago I came to the conclusion that often we are "saved" [i]in spite[/i] of our beliefs rather than because of them. I knew a "born again" guy who was genuinely likeable, a genuine smile. You could see it in his eyes. This until the subject of religion came up, then the shutters came down. It is tragic that what is intended to "set us free" so often encloses our minds in a cave.

Nietzsche called our priests and philosophers "sick cobweb weavers" and William Blake touched the very same chord in his Song of Experience, "The Garden of Love":-

[i]I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.[/i]

Back to Nietzsche, who has often been labelled the Anti-christ by religionists because of his "God is dead" cry. But to my mind I would relate this to the words of the great Christian mystic Meister Eckhart who prayed to God "to rid me of God."

(Another quote concerning Nietzsche I have always liked is from Ernst Krieck, a prominent Nazi ideologue, who sarcastically remarked that "apart from the fact that Nietzsche was not a socialist, not a nationalist and opposed to racial thinking, he could have been a leading National Socialist thinker")