“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

— Jesus Christ

The Golden Rule works both ways. A monk who starves and whips himself is doing to himself what he would never do unto others. A man who makes himself a nonviolent human sacrifice would never do that to another human being.

To paraphrase HS, you are not in charge, God is. If you owned yourself, you could do anything to yourself that you wanted to.

But you don’t own yourself. God does. And Christ told us how we must treat ourselves and others.

Purposely causing pain to yourself or others is not an option.

Making yourself and others as happy as possible is your duty.

Another quote:

“The greatest evil is physical pain.”

— Saint Augustine

And a final quote from a somewhat lesser source:

“If suffering is good, you would benefit enormously by going to Hell.”

— Bob Whitaker

HS, you talk about my not using citations, but you don’t, either.

There is one citation I badly need. You say,

“As far as members of other races not thinking these things, they did and do.”

Remember I am not talking about some Chinese philosopher mentioning whether life is worth living. Some Chinese philosopher sat and talked about everything while children died and had worms in their guts around him.

I am not talking about theorizing.

If you read the Norsemen’s sayings, you will see that they were discouraging others from actually killing themselves, not because of some evil deed or some tragedy, but because they just didn’t want to live any more.

Suicide was very common in Japan, but it was only committed when one had been disgraced or done something inexcusable and suicide was the ultimate apology for it.

Philosophizing in some obscure text about whether life is worth living or committing suicide at a crisis has nothing to do with the point I made.

I have never heard that suicide was at all common in China as it was in Japan.

But, since I gave up all hope of being elected to the Papacy, my dreams of infallibility have been dashed, so I am open to contradiction on a FACTUAL basis.

I see no evidence that the non-violent human sacrifices made in monasteries and convents came from any non-Aryan tradition. Except for Christians, the Buddhists alone have chaste monks, and Buddhism comes from white India.

Again, I am open to FACTUAL contradiction.

If you will read the Christian stories of the fifth century, you will see that the ultimate heroine is a beautiful, good, intelligent woman who marries an equally fine man and then persuades him to live with her in chastity for the rest of their lives.

Chaste people did not produce many offspring. That stork story is not true.

Paul was one of the most important and forgotten peoples in history, a Hellenic Jew, a Roman citizen. Millions of Hellenic Jews existed at the time of Christ. The historian Josephus was one of them. They disappeared entirely as Christianity advanced, and I do not think it was because the Romans killed six million Jews.

Hellenic Jews wrote their scriptures in Greek. I think if you looked at them, you would be amazed how blond they were. There are depictions of Peter and Paul from the first century, and they are both depicted as very light-skinned and one of them is blond.

A Methodist preacher wrote me that all those Hellenized Jews at the time of Christ were not Jews, they were Gnostics. That is one hell of an anachronism.

He also informed me that Christ and all His disciples were COLORED MEN, without any citation. He told me that the first white Christian was Luke. Again, no evidence.

Apparently that is what they teach at mainline seminaries now and their real religion, Political Correctness, requires them to accept it.

Peter says that Paul never hinted that people should not procreate; he only advocated sex inside marriage.

Paul wrote the Book of Corinthians. Let me quote from it:

1 Cor 7:1,2,4,8,9
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. I say therefore to the UNMARRIED (My capitalization) and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I. BUT IF THEY CANNOT CONTAIN, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Paul and the Christian moral stories said that the ideal is that one should NEVER have sex in one’s entire life.

Either the Roman Empire had artificial insemination — and I would LOVE to see a citation on THAT one — or Paul is recommending childlessness as the Christian ideal.