The greatest lie ever told in America is that the slaves were freed. Juneteenth my ass. Slavery never ended, it was simply rebranded as jobs. Slave/master became employer/employee, lender/debtor, landlord/renter, oligarch/sheeple. But in a system in which the foundational myth, cosmology, and religion are all based on a dominator god and his dominated creatures, what can we expect?
You could check out Gnosticism, or certain flavors thereof. You don't get a better #1 god, but because you assume he's more or less evil or at least a fuckup, you're not disappointed by the cruelty and indifference of world, And revolt against #1 doesn't require struggling with angels and devils; just by doing small kindnesses and being polite to poor people you call all the machinery of the gods into question as the crock it is.
I’ve always resisted labels, even after reading Elaine Pagels’ “Gnostic Gospels” back in ’81. Since then I've tried to suppress my inner heretic. But, given the current state of the world, that's now impossible.
The greatest lie ever told in America is that the slaves were freed. Juneteenth my ass. Slavery never ended, it was simply rebranded as jobs. Slave/master became employer/employee, lender/debtor, landlord/renter, oligarch/sheeple. But in a system in which the foundational myth, cosmology, and religion are all based on a dominator god and his dominated creatures, what can we expect?
You could check out Gnosticism, or certain flavors thereof. You don't get a better #1 god, but because you assume he's more or less evil or at least a fuckup, you're not disappointed by the cruelty and indifference of world, And revolt against #1 doesn't require struggling with angels and devils; just by doing small kindnesses and being polite to poor people you call all the machinery of the gods into question as the crock it is.
I’ve always resisted labels, even after reading Elaine Pagels’ “Gnostic Gospels” back in ’81. Since then I've tried to suppress my inner heretic. But, given the current state of the world, that's now impossible.
Gnostic? I’ve heard it takes one to know one.