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Choose your God carefully. (Because “It’s always the theology, stupid”- my paraphrase of James Carville and Bill Clinton on the economy), Wendell Krossa Whatever we idealize most, or worship, is what we become like. And if our fellow citizens widely … Continue reading →

Section topic: Detecting and affirming unconditional love at the core of reality, the true nature of the creating/sustaining Reality. This is something that philosophical materialism cannot or will not see and hence it ends in speculations on the meaningless random … Continue reading →

Section topic: Our mind/consciousness is not in our brains. We are inseparable from the greater Oneness of a creating/sustaining Consciousness that is transcendent and stunningly inexpressible “no conditions love” that permeates and sustains this material reality. We are not our … Continue reading →

As the title points out- “Christ-ianity” presents Paul’s theology of a wrathful, retaliatory God that Carl Jung correctly stated was “a false image of God”. As Jung told a Catholic priest- “Your religion has got God completely wrong”. Christianity presented … Continue reading →

See this new material below: “The long-standing dualism between revenge and unconditional love has not remained confined to religion— it has shaped the psychological foundations of modern political systems.” Qualifiers on material below: I have a quibble with Carl Jung … Continue reading →

Grok has done a great job below explaining how bad ideas in our major religious traditions have promoted “conquest, crusades, and demonization of others as enemies”. Grok details why people continue to embrace these bad ideas (i.e. locating identity too … Continue reading →

Note below the link to a new article by Michael Shellenberger on the leftist bias in AI models. Also, his apparent call, as he has done often before, for a revival of an undifferentiated Christianity in response to the abandonment … Continue reading →

Many complain of meaninglessness today, fueled by depression, anxiety, despair, etc., and vented in hedonism, all in a modern era of unprecedented abundance, the “best time ever to be alive on earth”. Where I can get too wordy (see my … Continue reading →

Note below my reminder “Insert” on the culpability of all three western religious traditions for holding the core “bad idea” themes that validate and motivate the fringe extremists in their traditions. Just taking another poke at tribalism and its tendency … Continue reading →

Quote from below: “Universal archetypal templates… have wired human storytelling and belief systems from the dawn of culture onward. These aren’t “quoted” or formally credited across generations; they just keep resurfacing because they’re baked into the collective human psyche, as … Continue reading →

Do you really want to properly and thoroughly resolve the ongoing problem of theocracy-driven wars? Do you really want to defeat the “idea” that General Nagata said had to be defeated if we are to properly end the repeated ISIS-like … Continue reading →

How liberal democracy defangs/defuses the impulses to violence and war by countering apocalyptic narratives with their Zoroastrian dualism of a war of good true believers against evil enemies. All three AI make the good point that there is no ultimate … Continue reading →