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Look carefully at the mechanics of a deterministic universe, the beauty and remarkable precision of life. Look to our own human wonder and reason... can you not see how truly remarkable this is? Can you not see a hand for order and organization that can be described as God. That this hand, that this order is in everything you see from the alpha to the omega. Within this everything you see don't you notice your soul looks for love, kindness and beauty. Now look carefully at the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and how now for 2000 years people throughout the world have been so moved by this word. Can you not see the perfection of his teachings as a guide for us, as a guide for love and existence in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. The error is in us, our own unwillingness to accept this teaching for what it is. Pastors don't tell their flocks to give away all their money and live a life of poverty in order to be Christian, yet this is exactly what Jesus Christ had demanded of us. We see Priests who adorn their temples while at their door steps lay the needy, the poor and down trodden. They condemn sinners rather than love and invite them into their temples for leadership, communion and direction.
We have failed the true concept of the church and in its stead built anti-churches who sell the promise of eternal life while fomenting a materialistic and idolatrous life. Why wonder why there is so much suffering? The church that the apostles lived was a community that worked and lived together every day. I was a world wide community dedicated to the poor. Teaching morals and spiritual guidance for not only a better after life but building an economy for the life we live today.
"the contrast which the new testament represents when compared to the old according to the ecclesiastical view of the matter is just that existing between it and my ethical system and the moral philosophy of Europe. The old testament represents man under the dominion of law in which however there is no redemption. The new testament declares law to have failed frees man from its dominion and in its stead preaches the kingdom of grace to be won by faith, love of neighbor and entire sacrifice of self. This is the path or redemption from the evil of the world the sprit of the new testament is undoubtedly asceticism... however your protestant and rationalists may twist it to suit their purpose. Asceticism is the denial of the will to live and the transition from the old testament to the new. From the dominion of law, to that of faith and justification by works to redemption through the mediator in the domain of sin and death to eternal life. Life in Christ means, when taken in its real sense the transition from the merely moral virtues to the denial of the will to live.
My philosophy shows that metaphysical foundation of justice, the love of mankind and points to the goal to which these virtues necessarily lead if they are practiced to perfection."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) see video below
"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement."
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), Italian
political theorist.