Open Letter to Christians

I hate to think that Christianity’s days are numbered. But many Christians I encounter seem to be unable or unwilling to let go of the myopia they have seemingly inherited from the corrupt and erroneous catholic church centuries ago. To me, this myopia is embodied in the definition of Faith as being a mental construct of facts that precludes any other tradition providing a way to God. The result of this is that Christians have ignored all scholarship and even the powerful source texts that have been discovered in the past century.

All dogmas are tools of the Adversary. If you know a thing by its fruit, you can know that dogma brings ignorance, division, and weak intellect. Christianity and Islam are the two religions I know of where the mystical inner current of the tradition has been severed, leaving only ideology. It is worldly powers that insist on totalitarian thought policing, not heavenly powers. Time and again, in the new testament, Jesus asks that we consider why rules are, and insists the law is to help us, rather us to serve it. Jesus repeatedly invokes reason and seeing with fresh eyes. But this is precisely what Christians refuse to do, and those who do, tend to conceal it from their fellows. If Christians don’t learn to recognize and relate to their own mystical traditions and those of other paths, Christianity is at risk of extinction.

A new “religion” is sweeping the world, even though its adherent hate the very word religion. You might call this creed ‘neoliberalism’, an atheist, quasi-marxist, hyper-consumerist ideology of group think that replaces “salvation” with a social acceptance, the criteria of which is defined by corporations, think-tanks, and mass media. This new dogma threatens all religions, because its aim to to produce an ideal consumer, by demolishing local and traditional cultures, reformatting every brain to run on the same corporate approved software. It is a religion where “awaking” means getting into lockstep with every spidery global megacorp, and chanting slogans along with Nike and Facebook. It endorses the breakdown of the family. It teaches each generation to forsake the one before. It teaches the poor to divide and misunderstand each other. Its virtues are pride, gluttony, profligacy, envy, anger, ignorance, conformity and resentment.

If your religion can’t learn to let go of its own dogmas, blind-spots and other stains inherited from the imperialistic, anti-soul Catholic Church, then it is no better than the Neoliberalism that is choking it to death on the world stage.

If you can say no to pedofilia and money-worhship, you can  say no to the rest of the bad  ideas the Catholic Church bundled with Christianity… these bad ideas include heresy-hunting, biblical literalism, materialistism, anti-scientism, sectarianism and war-mongering. And to other bad ideas squeezed into it by the political religious right.

Christianity is at a crossroads, it can either wake up and embrace love and reject dogmatic arrogance, or it can continue to be all the things that are justifying the neo-marxist atheist attacks on it, and continue the “slow bleed” of its flock to other paths. 

Heresies are a good thing. When will Christians realize that? Christianity started as a heresy! Every revitalization of Christian tradition also started as a heresy! Truth will always be heretical, because the world, with its greed, will find a way to  pervert any teaching that frees us from fetters. The truth will always be labeled a heresy by those who rule by the power of the lie.

It goes like this: unless you think like me, you can and should be damned. If you want to know what this looks like, just look across the aisle at all the atheist revisionist neo-marxist dogmas coming through popular culture. That is precisely how your arrogant and inflexible dogmas look to me, and to people who aspire to God in slightly different ways.

Christianity must let go of its mean-spirited and anti-intellectual dogmas or it will die. That is the crossroads. 

You don’t have to shit on other religions to have your own. When St Paul said faith is the substance of things hope for, do you really think he meant you must discard reason and questioning? What does test all things hold fast to that which is good mean to you? Why  can’t you look at the  other early christian writings at face value? Why can’t you see that God interacts with other peoples through different symbols and stories? Paul said that when he says Jew, he doesn’t mean literal Jew or literal Gentile, but the spiritual, metaphorical, symbolic understanding of those terms. By that measure, why can’t we see the whole thing as symbolic, as pointing to something less literal.

You could simply say, I cant judge your faith, I can’t speak for god. But that is precisely what youre doing. You’re speaking for God. It was the Devil who invented the conceit that one must be ‘correct’ in ones beliefs in order to be in relationship with the Lord. It was Jesus himself who introduced the concept that to know God you must ‘become as a child’, you must unknow all you know. The Lord doesn’t follow the rules of Priests. He doesn’t care if you do either. Rather, He wants for you to “gain ears to hear and eyes to see”. He came to earth to set you free, to increase your freedom in every real degree, and to increase your perception in every degree, not to chain you

Dear Christians, if Christianity does not change, and become finally Christ-like, most of your children will become atheists. They will be shackled with a dualistic concept of religion vs science that presents a false choice: either an irrationally literalist xenophobic dogmatism, or a materialist atheism that leads them to making harmful value choices and ignoring most of what they are… a soul.

Imagine if you were a potted plant but you let the plant die because… you don’t think plants are real. One day you realize you aren’t the painted pot, but that withered remnant growing out of its crown. This is the modern human, we are 80% soul and spirit, yet only the meat body gets any food at all. Dogma does not feed the soul. Ideology does not elevate the spirit, rather ideology affixes the soul into prisons of arrogance and fear.