The Unconditional Human Spirit

See below, “Nonprofits Cruelly Normalize Poverty for Climate Virtue”, by Vijay Jayaraj. Vijay illustrates the destructive outcomes from history’s latest “salvation through destruction” crusade, the “climate crisis” crusade. Driven by the same basic themes that drove Marxist revolutions and Nazi horrors. The historians/scholars have done the good homework exposing these “profoundly religious” crusades.

President Trump made the “cute” comment recently on Air Force One that he did not think he would get into heaven, despite the good things that he has done for many others.

“‘I’m being a little cute.’ Trump considers if Gaza ceasefire will get him into heaven”, Kinsey Crowly, Oct. 13, 2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/13/donald-trump-heaven/86668964007/

Unbelievable to hear in 2025 this kind of talk from someone who self-identifies as exceptionally bright/intelligent, and on varied things, yes. He is notably bright on business/economic policies (reduce taxation, regulation), immigration (control and ensure immigrants assimilate to liberal democracy values and practices), foreign policy (fair trade, ending wars), etc. But even jokingly, this reveals a mind that holds to some of the most primitive mythology to have ever darkened and enslaved human minds- i.e. the felt need to do good works in order to gain salvation, divine favor, find inclusion among the “saved righteous ones”.

I guess this is all to be expected from a person who holds to a retaliatory, punitive “eye for eye” view of justice (apparently his dominant “guiding ethic”), and also, obviously, to a similarly retaliatory, punitive God who validates that conditional salvation mythology.

It’s always interesting how we can hold such contrary and mutually exclusive elements in our heads- i.e. great advanced insights in some areas and then total blind “stupidity” (a common Trump term) in other areas. “Cognitive dissonance” helps us to understand this a bit. Read the rest of the opening comment here

Preface notes… “Its the theology, stupid”, Historical Jesus. Huh? OK, my paraphrase of his central message.

We are all feeling the intensity of the love and joy of relatives as they greet the just released Israeli hostages. It is so intensely moving. That is what love is all about, rejoicing in life with family and friends. And such a contrast to the hatred that sparked the insane eruption of violence two years ago, a hatred so deeply instilled and intense that mothers rejoice that they can offer their children to a death-cult to be sacrificed as suicide-bombers, wishing they had more children to sacrifice in such manner (see Dave Rubin interview of Moran Stella Yanai below).

And this pushes me repeatedly to try to grapple with what fuels such hatred that would commit such barbaric inhumanity against fellow humans. This site explores and presents some of the critical contributing factors to the varied eruptions of madness, the repeated crusades of “salvation through destruction” that we are all exposed to repeatedly… i.e. the madness of last century’s violent Marxist revolutions (now revived as neo-collectivism in far-left Woke Progressivism with DEI and the related reviving of another more straightforward socialism crusade as in New York), the ongoing madness (over three decades now) of hysterical climate alarmism with its “salvation” scheme of Net Zero decarbonization ruining our societies, and of course the Islamic terrorism still seeking “salvation through the destruction of enemies” in varied places. Among other varieties of similar “madness of crowds”.

And we know more now what drives such eruptions of madness- i.e. the core themes that incite, guide, and validate “man’s inhumanity to man”. Themes that are close to home for all of us, embedded deeply in our meta-narratives and the archetypes of our shared subconscious, whether we identify as religious or secular materialist, or whatever. I wrestle with my own family tradition of Christianity, with its dominant role over the past two millennia in shaping Western consciousness and narratives both religious and secular, with its core themes of “salvation through destruction” as epitomized in Paul’s Christology and “apocalyptic millennial” mythology illustrated graphically in the New Testament book of Revelation.

So much to explore, understand, and then get busy cleaning up the mess that we have inherited. Doing what Thomas Jefferson and Leo Tolstoy wisely advocated- i.e. to pull the “diamonds out of the dung” as in fulfilling our basic responsibility to separate the good from the bad in all areas of life. A wisdom sage has shown us exactly how we do this. “It’s the theology, stupid”, he argued. See a reposting of the central precepts and wisdom sayings of Historical Jesus below, his brilliant coupling of “behavior based on similar theology” that presented his “stunning new theology… his greatest contribution to the history of human ideas”. It’s the “unconditional” theme of this site. Read the rest of the opening comment here

Regarding the earlier “oopsie” that must have singed the eyes of you British visitors… “Sousing out” was a local term where I was from, for trying to figure something out. Or maybe it was just my Dad’s slang for that. Hmmm. Localisms, eh.

New material below from Michael Shellenberger on the advocacy for violence as mainly coming from the left today. Also, examples of “suicidal empathy” in Canadian “catch and release” approaches that release repeat violent offenders to further harm innocent civilians in Canadian cities (abandoning common-sense). And more…

See also “Hamas influenced/shaped by religious beliefs” with a related article. Hamas illustrates the larger problem of bad ideas/archetypes continuing to shape crusades of “salvation through destruction”, an infection that has plagued all the major religious traditions across history, and continues to infect “secular/ideological” versions of our modern era.

The climate science behind climate change. Point? There is no “climate crisis”. We are living through climate change that can be best understood in terms of “natural variation” caused by prominent natural factors. This evidence counters the irrational hysteria incited by the prophets of the climate apocalypse narrative. And that narrative can be understood better in terms of the continuing influence of apocalyptic millennial mythology on many people today.

The evidence below, along with much similar evidence, reveals/exposes the climate crisis movement to be a “profoundly religious crusade”. Its certainly not science. This site probes the mythology behind such crusades and their endeavors to undermine/overturn our liberal democracies through crusades promising “salvation through destruction”, typical of all the similar crusades before, whether religious or “secular/ideological” (as in “secularized” versions of the same basic mythological themes).

Note the same old “salvation through destruction” in Marxist versions, in Nazism, and now prominently in environmental alarmism. The “destruction” element is in the “de-growth, de-development” policies of “Net Zero decarbonization”. Policies now hindering, overturning, and eventually full-frontal ruining/destroying our heritage of industrial civilization based on (what are in reality) plentiful and (hence, what should be) inexpensive fossil fuels.

Add here also the good research of atmospheric physicists like Richard Lindzen and William Happer on the physics of CO2 (see their reports at “CO2coalition.org”) and the fact that the warming influence of CO2 is now “saturated”, a physics term referring to the fact that the area on the infrared spectrum where CO2 functions to warm climate (around 15 mm) is now full. And even a doubling of CO2 levels to 800 ppm will not result in much more warming, if any. Read the rest of the opening comment here

Comedian and podcaster Jimmy Dore, “We are the most propagandized and lied to people and we don’t know it”.

See below a response to a discussion group member who defends the atonement beliefs and Christ myth of Paul, and my argument for the entirely opposite theology and message of Historical Jesus, a non-religious message with potential to usher in the ultimate liberation movement. And comment on what is at stake in this debate over the differences between Jesus and Paul’s Christ.

Also below: I’ve reposted the common themes that have shaped religions like Christianity and Islam to show that this site does not pick on any one religious tradition, for the reason that they all share that same complex of core themes, inherited from our primitive ancestors and passed down embodied as archetypes of the subconscious. Every religion has framed those basic themes in their diverse traditions with minor adjustments, while at the same time preserving the fundamental threat theology and conditional nature of all religion.

Also more Rogan below. Quibbling with his incorrect application of “socialism”.

“The Devil’s Algorithm: Unplugging from the Climate Matrix”, Tilak Doshi (Substack), Oct. 4, 2025

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/04/the-devils-algorithm-unplugging-from-the-climate-matrix/

Doshi begins: Read the rest of the opening comment here

New below– “‘Deep State’ a conspiracy?” (what evidence points to), and discussion group posts on “God is not Christian” (arguing whether Historical Jesus affirmed atonement/sacrifice beliefs).

See also at bottom of this opening section some counter points to Sam Harris’s absurd claim that there is no “human free will” (“free will is a powerful, necessary illusion”). Some helpful insights from the NDE movement affirming Joseph Campbell’s speculations on the dualism of good versus evil in this realm and ultimate Oneness. Free choice is a necessary reality to the existence of authentic moral good, or human purpose and responsibility is meaningless. But such is the outcome of “ultimate meaninglessness” in philosophical materialism.

See Bob Brinsmead’s latest Substack on how Paul formed Christianity from Hellenism along with other strains of ancient mythology. And my comfort with unconditional as “non-religious”. Also, an affirmation of Pete Hegseth’s comment that pacifism is “dangerous”. Totalitarian threat must be met with and defeated by credible military force.

Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger- “Wikipedia has become a propaganda site”

https://www.thefp.com/p/i-founded-wikipedia-heres-how-to-fix-it

Intro from Free Press: “I Founded Wikipedia. Here’s How to Fix It, Larry Sanger”

These intro comments by Oliver Wiseman: Read the rest of the opening comment here

See material below on free speech as illustrated by comedian Leonarda Jonie, and the comments of Gad Saad, Ira Glasser, and others on this critical element in freedom and liberal democracy.

Also, a recap of the historical descent of Islam from Ebionite Jewish Christianity (Islam shares the same basic themes of its mother religion). My point is in response to Bill Maher’s arguments that Christianity is superior to Islam in terms of moderating impulses to intolerance and violence.

Yes, that is true in the modern era (notably last few centuries), but was not true across the past two millennia when Paul’s “Christ-ianity” (as distinguished from Jesus’ “Q Wisdom Sayings” message) was significantly responsible for inciting and validating repeated eruptions of mass-death (i.e. the Crusades, Inquisitions and persecution of heretics and witches, etc.). And where was the moderation of intolerance and violence in the past century when the “apocalyptic millennial” themes of Paul’s Christ myth drove Marxist and Nazi mass-death outbreaks, and continue to drive the climate apocalypse crusade and its Net Zero decarbonization madness.

This site has repeatedly posted the good historical research on these things (i.e. Richard Landes’ “Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience”, Arthur Herman’s “The Idea of Decline in Western History”, Arthur Mendel’s “Vision and Violence”, David Redles’ “Hitler’s Millennial Reich”, etc.).

See also below the vindication and celebration of violence today as the means to a better future (the Mangione and Kirk incidents)- i.e. “Suffering through contemporary ‘madness of crowds’ eruptions”. And other stuff.

Themes to unite Sapiens around (the best of a “force” propelling us toward a humane future), Wendell Krossa

Yuval Harari in “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” notes that from 70,000 to 30,000 years ago our species Homo sapiens went through the Cognitive Revolution where we discovered new ways of thinking and communicating. We created language that enabled us to communicate meaning. The humans of that period learned to communicate more than just information about the physical world around them. They also learned to imagine and communicate fictitious things that do not exist at all and to do so “collectively”. Read the rest of the opening comment here

Below- Another good article from Bob Brinsmead on the triumph of Hellenism in Paul’s Christ myth. The Kirk memorial offered examples of how the critical distinction between Jesus and Christ continues to be confused. Brinsmead shows more of the differing outcomes from these two opposite realities. This is about understanding the real nature of the version of Christianity that we inherited in our Western civilization. Paul’s “Christ-ianity” is not the religion of Jesus.

Now just below- “Notable contradictions between Jesus and Paul’s Christ“. The importance of understanding this? The historical outcomes of influential ideas/beliefs matter as the historians of “apocalyptic millennialism” have outlined in their good research on how such ideas shaped the mass-death crusades of Marxism and Nazism, and are now influencing environmental alarmism.

Also further below- Links to good commentary from Gad Saad and Michael Malice, and Greg Gutfeld’s latest. And a bit of my “conspiracy theory” on the “Carney barker” for the climate cult (why Trump “likes Mark Carney”).

In the midst of stirred fires keep the light in our minds clear… Wendell Krossa

I heard a ‘Turning Point’ official say that Charlie Kirk pushed three basic things to unite the country- i.e. (1) limited government (less taxation which is the elite/state appropriation of citizen’s property to make choices for them over their assets, and less regulation to keep elites and bureaucrats from interfering in the personal choices and lives of citizens), (2) free speech (especially offensive, upsetting, enraging speech), and (3) free markets (protected private property, private contracts). These are Classic Liberal, liberal democracy fundamentals that function to maintain the rights and freedoms of all individuals, equally, through systems of common law and representative institutions that serve citizens and do not function as tools of the state elites/bureaucrats to meddle in and control the lives of citizens. These basics can unite all humanity. Read the rest of the opening comment here

“Defusing hatred, retaliation, and violence” is just below… Note also below, Grok’s response to a query if the advocacy for political violence was more of a problem on the “left/liberal” side of the US. He provides results of varied surveys. Also, “Bury the ‘Words are Violence’ cliché. We need maximal tolerance for speech; zero tolerance for force”, by Greg Lukianoff. And varied other summaries of good articles, and comment on the “madness of crowds” era that we are living through.

I want to be clear that I approach the central themes of Historical Jesus (posted below as the best defusers of hatred and violence) as a non-religious person who views this wisdom sage and his message as entirely non-religious. Yes, it has been preserved within Christianity for some two millennia now, but research over the past 3 centuries has enabled us to understand what Thomas Jefferson and Leo Tolstoy were arguing when they stated that the “diamonds” of Jesus had been buried (trigger warning) in the “dung” of Paul’s Christ myth that dominates the New Testament.

“Buried” in that the main themes of Historical Jesus- i.e. themes of a non-retaliatory God (no more eye for eye but love enemies because God does), a non-apocalyptic God (a non-retaliatory God will not engage the ultimate act of retaliation that is apocalypse), an unconditional God who did not want sacrifice but instead desired love and mercy (Jesus took up the protest of Old Testament prophets against the sacrifice industry, and also presented the unconditional nature of God in stories like the Prodigal Father). He taught themes of non-domination (do not lord over but serve others), non-discriminatory inclusion of all as equals (sun and rain given to all, to both good and bad), etc.

Paul rejected the early “Q Wisdom Sayings” Jesus movement two decades later (50 CE) and re-affirmed the very opposite theology of Jesus in presenting again a retaliatory God (he quoted, “’Vengeance is mine, I will repay’, says the Lord”), an apocalyptic God and Christ (“Lord Jesus will return in flaming fire to destroy all”). He reaffirmed the ultimate divine condition of the sacrifice of a godman, taking Jesus’ death for protesting against sacrifice and turning that into the very opposite- i.e. his death as ultimate cosmic sacrifice. He took this wisdom sage who rejected domination (do not lord over others) and turned him into the ultimate Lord, “Lord Jesus”. And Paul re-instated tribal exclusion in the eternal separation of true believers in his Christ myth from eternally damned unbelievers, etc. Read the rest of the opening comment here

Richard Landes (“Heaven On Earth”) has traced the trajectory of apocalyptic millennial movements. Apocalyptic millennialism promotes the narrative that is fundamental to the ideologies of Marxists/leftists. Landes noted that when an apocalyptic millennial movement begins to fail then disillusioned followers of the movement become desperate and double down, much like Tim Walz stated a while back at a rally, “We Democrats have to double down on Woke”. Some even make the shift to the “exterminate or be exterminated” phase. They move to desperate measures. Anything now goes to save the crusade, to keep it going. We are also seeing this “doubling down” in desperation with the climate alarmism crusade.

Note the article below reporting on surveys showing political violence may be a “bothsideism” issue, with perhaps a shift to the left recently.

This latest from Michael Shellenberger:

“Left’s Dehumanization Of MAGA Behind Rising Support For Violence: Decrying Charlie Kirk’s assassination isn’t enough”, Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag, Sep 11, 2025

https://www.public.news/p/lefts-dehumanization-of-maga-behind

Shellenberger and Gutentag, along with others, argue that the dehumanization/demonization of conservatives over past decades as “far-right, Nazis, fascists” has produced the current climate that legitimizes and validates violence against such people. Read the rest of the opening comment here

In the interview below of Douglas Murray (link provided) please note Murray’s good advice to those, especially young people, inspired by Charlie Kirk, to not give way to the temptation to respond with vengeance or similar violence, but to emulate what Kirk did and respond with common decency and courtesy to opponents/disagreeing others, even those screaming abuse. Murray’s point- don’t succumb to the temptation to sink down and meet opponents on their terms with similar hatred and violence. He notes that right up till he was shot, Kirk was arguing that we need to explore ideas, to talk, discuss, and debate civilly, without violence.

Here is the Murray interview: “Douglas Murray and Rita Panahi respond to Charlie Kirk assassination”, Sky News Australia, Sept. 10, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxcrcv1MVvQ

Rubin it in (as in “rubbing in”), Wendell Krossa

Good comment in this report (The Rubin Report- the podcast of a Classic Liberal) on how “the left” has politicized crime to fit their narrative that “racializes everything”. This appears driven by the motivation to smear opponents nonstop with the “racist” pejorative, to affirm the leftist narrative of the intolerable “evil” of all who disagree. That has resulted in the current mainstream media commentary that any concern for crime is racism, especially where skin differences are involved (i.e. the Charlotte stabbing of a Ukrainian immigrant).

Rubin notes that the left projects onto their opponents on the right that they are “politicizing crime”. We have seen this endless projection from Democrats over past years. (And to “leftie” friends and readers, this is not picking on one side only. If similar threat was emanating from the right in a significant manner, I, as fiercely independent and Classic Liberal, would jump on that also. It’s just that many on the left side- Democrats, those formerly identifying as “liberal”- are now mainly exhibiting this madness.) Read the rest of the opening comment here

See new material below- “More on the freedom file”, comment on the two fundamental approaches to organizing human societies across history- collectivism versus free individuals. And some good points from Joe Rogan’s recent interview of Tim Dillon.

Don’t miss the National Post report on the threat the Muslim Brotherhood now poses to Canada as part of its grand worldwide program to “eliminate and destroy western civilization from within and ‘sabotage’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers (Muslims) so that it is eliminated and God’s religion (Islam) is made victorious over all other religions.”

As a British Muslim leader stated re Muslim migration to Western liberal democracies, “We are not here to take part but to take over”. He grinned as he stated that. This concerns current immigration issues and failed policies of multi-culturalism that do not ensure that migrants embrace liberal democracy values and practises.

Being aware of the ongoing assaults on our liberal democracies:

Some interesting polls on the majority of young voters leaning left/socialist now.

“Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 53% of Young Voters Want a Socialist to Win the 2028 Presidential Election, 76% Want Government to Nationalize Major U.S. Industries”, Justin Haskins, Christopher Talgo, Sept. 4, 2025

https://heartland.org/opinion/heartland-rasmussen-poll-53-of-young-voters-want-a-socialist-to-win-the-2028-presidential-election-76-want-government-to-nationalize-major-u-s-industries/?utm_

Notes from article: Read the rest of the opening comment here

See below the profound “shared dying” experience of hospice nurse Julia. That is why she does not fear death.

More helpful stuff from Arthur Mendel’s “Vision and Violence”:

“The apocalypse is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It promotes the suffering it predicts… Hellenistic Jewry included many… who shared the apocalyptic fervor and, as zealots, were convinced that if they began the uneven struggle against the Roman forces, God would complete it for them, destroy the idol worshippers and establish the kingdom of God, (p.47).”

This was also the belief of ISIS zealots when they incited apocalyptic violence in Syria (2014). They believed that if they incited the destruction of their enemies then God (or the Mahdi) would descend and finish the destruction of their enemies and install the Caliphate that would spread across the world.

These apocalyptic ideas still “enflame” the minds of millions of true believers affiliated with our great world religions. Until we confront and purge these ideas from our meta-narratives, both religious and secular, they will continue to incite eruptions of similar violence.

“Rabbis taught the community ‘not to press the end’. Be wary, they warned, of the mystical fantasies that often blossomed from fervent piety… The Torah was given in the first place, according to one of the sages, not to enflame passions, but to calm them”, p.53.

As with the Torah, all law should be summed under one principle- Love others as you love yourself. Read the rest of the opening comment here