It is no accident that theologians, including Communist theologians, talk almost exclusively about how the people need to make sacrifices.
Jesus preached one single commandment when it came to the question of how you should treat all human beings, including yourself:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
So early Christianity responded by tens of thousands of people going out into the desert and whipping themselves and starving themselves and imprisoning themselves and humiliating themselves.
What exactly does all this self-immolation have to do with the golden rule?
How about the other of the two commandments? If you torture yourself, does it show you love God?
You are showing you love by taking one of his children and torturing him.
If that makes sense to you, you need a long rest.
So why do all religions, including Marxism, love sacrifice and suffering so much?
The reason is obvious. Any retard knows how to torture somebody. Torturing yourself is even less of an intellectual feat.
It’s easy to hurt yourself.
On the hand hand, the golden rule is far more challenging. It takes talent to put a smile on someone else’s face.
Like the Communist “intellectual” the theologian has absolutely nothing to offer anybody. So he prescribes suffering. He tells you you should suffer gladly.
Neither the theologian nor the “intellectual” has anything to sell.
So they sell you pain and sacrifice, the easiest and cheapest commodities there are.
#1 by Elizabeth on 09/21/2005 - 3:27 pm
The Benedictine Rule is all about the Golden Rule. Share with your fellows,
treat them respectfully (the same way you’d want to be treated), live
without excess, listen to what the boss says, and remember why you walked
in and made those vows. And read a spiritual book during Lent.
Benedict was a member of a family in the lower rungs of the nobility of
500s Italy. Once he finished school, he left the big, bad city and retired
to a mountain to live as a hermit. Like a lot of other hermits, he
attracted followers, and eventually wrote the rule that bears his name in
order to manage the results.
#2 by Bob on 09/21/2005 - 4:24 pm
But Elizabeth, what could all those wonderful genes have done for humanity of St. Benedict had not destroyed them?