American's Will Not Be Free Until The Last Preacher Has Been Strangled To Death
san_jose_guy
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Monday, September 24, 2018 4:19 PM
Preachers everwhere, using sermons to manipulate emotions and keep people hooked, and keep the money coming in.
The sermon is the only unscripted part of the service. Lectionary readings, liturgy, and even music are completely scripted and can be pre-read. And it is all in a familiar Bible sourced language. So it never hits people cold, people reflect on it and find their own ways to related to it and understand it.
But that sermon, that is deliberately all new, completely vernacular, and as penetrating as possible. They make people believe that they need it, and that they would be lessened without it, and that they need to tell everyone that they meet about it. The sermon is what keeps people hooked, and what keeps the money coming in.
And so perfectly ordinary people are transformed into bleating sheep. And our democracy is poisoned.
And then with the Libertarians, just how similar it actually is. Smart observers have long insisted that capitalism never would have been accepted were it not possible to create some sort of sense of cosmic indebtedness.
Capitalism always has originated by a commercial class getting control of the government. People were starve off of land and driven off at gun point, so that they would have to work in factories at starvation wages. And common lands were fenced off. Capital, land, labor, resources, all made available by getting control of the government.
And people believing that they have to go along with it, because they owe a cosmic debt.
All the church fathers promoted a version of this, but it came to its apex with Augustine of Hippo. the first autobiography, his ":Confessions", the introspection and inferiority, leaving no one untouched.
To Be Continued
American's Will Not Be Free Until The Last Preacher Has Been Strangled To Death By The Entrails Of the Last Libertarian.
SJG
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