tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post5040260604565656902..comments2024-03-28T17:44:11.289+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Christianity is easy, but... Three reasons why there are so few ChristiansBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-39630281705113185152022-08-26T15:33:20.233+01:002022-08-26T15:33:20.233+01:00My point is that it's always an offer, no matt...My point is that it's always an offer, no matter how pushy. Of course the offer is everywhere. <br /><br />"Evil is always chosen."<br /><br />Yes. I was getting at the chosen nature of the evil infection; it doesn't really work like a pathogen that a person unwittingly receives and retains. The idea would be that a historical illusion is created where it appears to go:<br /><br />"culture" descends from the sky, having no relation to the population it's imposed on -> people become more evil by osmosis -> they spread this evil osmotically intergenerationally, evil merely accumulates<br /><br />In fact, I think the evil is ultimately coming from the inborn nature of the population and the demons that make offers to them. The great increase in evil has to do with the nature of the people incarnating, not a tragic snowball effect. Even now there's a chunk of people who are quietly rejecting much modern evil. I think they tend to choose against because it's just not to their taste, as opposed to the mass of people who have terrible taste by historical standards and tend to choose accordingly. It's not all a matter of the conformist vs endogenous personality situation.bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-82004878236385588782022-08-26T08:57:46.316+01:002022-08-26T08:57:46.316+01:00@ben "It makes sense to think of the mass med...@ben "It makes sense to think of the mass media, and modernity generally, as more an offering of evil options than an imposition of values, ideas, orientation. "<br /><br />Actually, I think that is wrong - especially since 2020; when the media became ever-more controlled and uniform. In a sense, yes, it offers a range of evil options - i.e. so far as it is able - which is not yet completely, the media offers only evil options. But that is just a more effective means to the end of an indoctrination in evil. <br /><br />However, as I have often said, there is a war among the evil - as well as of evil against Good. So there are, for instance, evil options on offer of a totalitarian control type; and others that are chaos-destruction inducing. <br /><br />But of course you are right to say that people cannot be imposed upon, because of the boundless power of repentance. Evil is always chosen. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-82157454934670080242022-08-25T14:47:34.853+01:002022-08-25T14:47:34.853+01:00It makes sense to think of the mass media, and mod...It makes sense to think of the mass media, and modernity generally, as more an offering of evil options than an imposition of values, ideas, orientation. My understanding is that evilly inclined individuals (of a particular sort of self-harming/transcendental Value-attacking evil) are being born into a coven that is a coven exactly because other evilly inclined individuals have been born before them and made it such; these new (even more evilly inclined) individuals then tend to develop themselves along witch lines, enhanced in this by learning from the environment that's been set up by the preceding witches.<br /><br />This would make sense in light of an understanding of the nature of God being such that he surely wouldn't create a world in which people are being developed against their will into rejecting Heaven. One of the main purposes of this world would be to enable people to truly *choose* Heaven, or whatever else, when they're in the position of choosing after death. It would be a process of uncovering or free choosing rather than a process of unchosen moulding.<br /><br />The implication is that these modern people are truly responsible for themselves, they're not just being imposed upon.bennoreply@blogger.com