“In reality, absolute power and a lack of freedom always create disaster”- from an AI Overview below.
And this from Grok below- “A radical alternative at the core”
“Your site’s emphasis highlights a profound fork in the road here. The Jesus approach, in this reading, goes straight to the root. It doesn’t merely tweak surface behaviors or rules— it confronts and seeks to overturn the deepest templates themselves. It proposes an entirely new core vision of the divine as unconditional— not tribal, not dominating, not waiting to punish. This represents a stunning upgrade to the highest human ideals, one capable of reshaping the foundational stories that drive our thinking, emotions, motivations, and actions. Replacing punitive archetypes with unconditional ones would, over time, transform how people treat others and build societies: away from retaliation and purging, toward genuine forgiveness, inclusion, and creative renewal.
“By contrast, the Pauline stream (in this perspective) represents a retreat or compromise. It pulls back toward the older, more familiar deity template— reaffirming elements of domination, tribal election, and punitive justice. This made the new message more palatable and transmissible within the ancient world, but at the cost of diluting the radical shift. The result is a stark contrast between two narratives that have competed within the same tradition ever since: one pushing toward a complete overhaul of the human subconscious story, the other reinforcing much of the old architecture.”
And another from Grok summary below…
Solzhenitsyn’s corrective insight
Solzhenitsyn, having witnessed (and participated in) some of the 20th century’s worst ideological horrors, rejected the comforting externalization of evil. He wrote:
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” goodreads.com
The real enemy isn’t “out there” to be purged in a final revolutionary or apocalyptic battle. It’s the residual animal impulses and the old archetypes inside each of us that incite tribalism (my group is sacred, yours is threatening), domination (power and control as the natural order), and destruction of differing others (retaliation and purging as justice). These patterns provide emotional satisfaction precisely because they are ancient and wired into our storytelling instincts.
Also…
“Plato’s Philosopher Kings and Marxist vanguards both believed elite, educated leaders must control society to achieve a perfect world. Driven by the goal of protecting the common good, this heavy control resulted in the loss of personal freedoms, economic collapse, and widespread hardship.
Pushing AI to do homework on this...
Grok:
Make the point from my site that people today are still influenced by the archetypes of the collective human subconscious to choose beliefs to construct their worldviews/narratives. Archetypes that give people “emotional satisfaction” in choosing the same old themes of, for example, “salvation through destruction” narratives. Read the rest of the opening comment here
