Jesus said that salvation was “free and without price.” If he had said that in Spain five hundred years later he would have been ripped off of his nice comfy cross and stopped in to fire.
I was listening to a homily from a priest who was describing Jesus’ talk to the rich young man. He said, “The reason the young man was Lost was …” This was a new one to me. Lost? He asked Jesus what he must do to be saved. Jesus asked if he followed the Commandments, and he said he did. Jesus then said, “IF YOU WOULD BY PERFECT, sell all you have and give it to the poor and follow me.”
Christians would be in deep trouble if one had to be PERFECT to avoid being Lost, Damned. But this is understandable if you understandable if you understand institutions. Institutions talk a lot about money and power, because they ARE money and power. No matter what book an institution is based on, they think in money and power terms.
All institutions want sacrifice to be uppermost in their adherents’’ minds. The homily was just another example of how a person who has devoted his life to an institution is going to find the money side the most important.
ALL institutions. A Japanese Buddhist priest charges a fee for his service to be dedicated to a particular person, just as a Catholic Church does for a Mass. Both do it free in some cases, but they regard it as charity.
It would be a little hard to track the behavior of a Buddhist priest in Osaka to that of a Catholic priest in Dublin by their common roots. But both are institutional people. This is called parallel evolution. Saber toothed tigers evolved separately all over the world. They had the same survival challenge and developed the same way. Institutions in different places are so much alike we don’t even notice it.
The young Stalin was a bank robber. But he gave what he robbed to the Communist Party. Some young Communists would marry heiresses specifically to obtain money to support the Party. Like monks, they swore they were against wealth but they spent much or most of their time getting it for the Party, just as monasteries kept starting poor and getting rich from wealthy people’s wills.
One writer referred to Communists as “secular Calvinists.” Calvinist churches became rich by telling their members that salvation was purely a matter of being Chosen before birth. But their members had to show they were part of the Elect of God, and a person who was Elect gave money to his church.
Communists and Calvinist doctrines are alike in that both say that the Triumph of their Truth is inevitable. Oddly enough, Calvinists discovered that this brought in the cash. Communist or Calvinists, being On the Side of a Truth that is Inevitable has the opposite effect one would logically think it would.
You would think that if one were a Communist he would take it easy. Truth will out anyway, so why bother? But that is exactly what people said about Calvinists. But Calvinists churches sprang up like mushrooms, and they got money that often put the Roman Church to shame.
If something owns Inevitability it is the Only True Faith. And people will support the physical institution, the wealth and power, of an institution that promises no reward except Being On the Winning Side, and it does not matter if your side wins long after you are dead.
#1 by Dave on 12/14/2009 - 11:13 am
My first encounter with Evangelism was in a gymnasium. Everyone was shouting and chanting, “He’s alive!”
I remember thinking to myself, “If they had real conviction regarding the truth of the Resurrection, what is the reason for the pep rally and all the shouting and chanting?” There is no reason to shout and chant that the sky is blue on a sunny day or that grass is green in early summer. All these “Evangelists” were doing, it seemed to me, was demonstrating their lack of conviction.
It is amazing how doublethink gets spawned. Try this one: “All power to the people!” That is the slogan that is most intimately connected with getting your savings robbed by the government taxman.
Lately, I have been jumping into the debate on global warming by proclaiming, “It’s getting colder because it is getting warmer”. Don’t ask about how often the receivers of this wisdom seem to think I am possessed of some profound scientific insight. No kidding.
Get a load of the hordes of Mommy Professor windup-talking dolls roaming the streets in Copenhagen. I’m sure even Kim Jong-il, the Lord of doublethink nation, must be impressed.
The lesson for us here at BUGS is simple; the world belongs to singlethinkers. Singlethink and power go hand in hand.
#2 by Simmons on 12/14/2009 - 12:37 pm
Or that “Tiger Woods is the future”, all the while his creators and enablers immersed themselves into a freakish culture of blonde porno actresses and models.
We are probably ready for the coaching lesson on how institutions die.
I might be presumptious but I think the Woods’ fiasco is much more important than some freak’s psychosexual meltdown. I see so many opportunities to apply Horus and Mantra style practical politics to the institution of white self hate and genocide that I see the wall being torn down and the genociders in the dock.
I don’t want us to end up being like the professional Sovietologists circa 1989 proclaiming all is lost in our fight against world communism.
#3 by shari on 12/14/2009 - 12:43 pm
I really do think we are on the cusp of a NWO. That’s why the old institutional “nwo” is puffing itself up as sooo inevitable. I’ve seen many things like the evangelism in the gymnasium. I always felt like an outsider, watching. I thought, some how, that was my fault,but I never felt differently. I suppose many others felt themselves outsiders as well, but I didn’t know who they were. Anyway,I now think that all of that is part of the old “nwo.” The Church will be something LIVING,not a hardened institution, I’m thinking.
#4 by backbaygrouch4 on 12/14/2009 - 5:51 pm
“If he had said that in Spain five hundred years later he would have been ripped off of his nice comfy cross and stopped in to fire.”
Assume you are referring to the Spanish Inquisition and meant fifteen hundred years. These things tend to be multifaceted. In Spain the main problem being addressed was less doctrinal than racial. After the Reconquista there was a residual population of Jews and Muslims who were considered to be a threat to the state. They were mostly of a different ethnicity than the local population. Given the history of the previous seven hundred years and the political realities of the age, this was not unreasonable.
Drawing a parallel with the United States and Europe of today with the situation in Iberia of the 15th through 17th centuries does not give an exact match, but there is much food for thought. Would the United States today be a better safer nation without untrustworthy Jewish and Muslim minorities? One might do well to ponder that question before being overly harsh on the Spanish. They faced real perils from hidden Jews and Muslims. In Spain the enforcers of a state religion were addressing a racial problem that was more important than the doctrinal questions that sustained the Catholic and Protestant prosecutions in Northern Europe.
#5 by Dave on 12/16/2009 - 11:50 am
Backbaygrouch,
On the matter of “food for thought”, it is critical to understand that WWII was the crucible for the emergence of a new Established Religion unable to discern the question of just race relations from the question of the preservation of the heritages and posterities of white people.
This is “the pox” we are suffering under. It was an outcome of the murderous catastrophe of WWII and until this “pox” is brought to conclusion and banished from the world, WWII is still fully underway.
The fires of WWII burn in Palestine, burn in Korea, and burn in the terrible dominion of the Religion of Political Correctness in all white countries.
“Untrustworthy” populations of Jews and Muslims are the least of our issues. We are fighting an Established Religion given the full imprimatur of state power, erected by white people born of RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS acquired in the catastrophe of world war.
That is what really happened to us.
We are victims of war.
#6 by shari on 12/16/2009 - 4:46 pm
And so faith still matters! Exposing political correctness as GENOCIDE will certainly bring it down, but seeing that actually take place,is still hard.