Christianity Blinds It's Followers

Post date: Feb 01, 2021 5:39:45 PM

Can one be aware of the conditioning in which one lives??? Can you be aware of your conditioning as a Christian, a Capitalist, a Socialist, a Conformist, that you believe in this and you don't believe in that??? - all that is part of the conditioning... Can a human being be aware of that conditioning??? Can you be aware of your consciousness??? - not as an observer, but that you are that consciousness... And if you are aware, who is it that is aware??? Is it thought that is aware that it is conditioned??? Then it is still in the field of reality, which is conditioned...

Christianity, that presumably give grace to all people who accept their tenets and thereby allow all humans to accept themselves unconditionally??? As far as I know, there are no theistic creeds that actually do this... The best of them--like Science of Mind- state that so-called god (or so-called Jesus) is all-loving and that s/he therefore always gives everyone grace or unconditional, acceptance... But these theistic religions still require their adherents to believe (1) that a god (or son of god) must exist; (2) that s/he personally gives you unconditional acceptance or grace; and (3) that consequently you must believe in this religion and in its god to receive the "unconditional" grace... Unless you accept these three conditions of grace, you will presumably never be fully self-accepting... And these conditions, of course, make your accepting of yourself conditional rather than unconditional... Nonreligious philosophies, such as-RET (Rational Emotive Therapy, both rational and irrational thinking), teach that you can always choose to accept yourself just because you decide to do so, and require no conditions or redundant beliefs in god or religion to help you do this choosing...

Christianity had "humanising effects" on the Roman Empire??? Clearly the negative effects (torture, slavery, genocide, forgeries, censorship, large-scale annexation, psychological blackmail) far outweigh the weak and sparse and apologetic positives...