Yes Jakob, I’d wager that Sauwelios can play a mean game of D&D. Probably make a damn good dungeon master too.
Please tell me at least you understand what I mean here, Jakob. These extensive elaborations of Christianity and, worse, the interpretations of anti-christians as they set out to do so, amounts to making up something so to have material to rant about. Much of eighteenth century enlightenment was spent doing just that…analyzing ubiquitous pseudo-philosophy (and no…philosophy is not the mother of science…it is a bastardization of science) and metaphysics.
I think both you and Saully are stuck in a meme or an intellectual virus. You lack the capacity to see yourself doing this “philosophy” that you do. You lack some necessary propositional logic, and like Saully, you write diachronically.
If there is anything to be said about Christianty and Hegelean dialectics worth its weight in salt, it would be in the existential polemics of Kierkegaard and the epistemology of Spinoza. In combination, not only is metaphysics and dualism completely abolished but a return to the existential, the real material conditions of existence bearing historical significance, completely free of teleology. The existential is the only actual philosophy…it is what you can consider a hermeneutic scientism…a “marxism” essentially. The lineage you are involved in and your theorizing spawns from a subjective position “in the mix,” so to speak, of a progressive historical dynamic. You are in a reactionary state to the loss of God, as Nietzsche was, and in this panic you attack at shadows; christianity, for one, and the non-aesthetic, the apollo nature, the science which is corse and rigid and without a place for metaphysics. A poet state.
The Nietzschean characterization is the highest expression of anxiety in the face of the absurd. It is a despair which is universal to the condition resentment against the fact that there is no order or purpose. Following the initial reaction, the development of the Nietzschean spirit can often be a cloaking of a shame before oneself which does not permit the individual to admit to the absurdity and purposelessness of existence.
Holding on to faith in power and fate as if that changes purposelessness. This is the inner decree of the Nietzchean. Inventing abysses. There are none, for even they are absurd.
Sauwelios once mentioned the battle for rank between the comedian and the tragedian. The tragic comic is the highest type, while the serious tragic is the inferior. This stage is synonomous with pure nihilism. The comic has transcended the urgency and anxiety from despair and becomes light on his feet and childlike in the face of absurdity.
There is a beauty and innocence in this form of submission to the absurd fate of existence, as indeed it is absurd. Be weary of those who regain the spirit of seriousness and have yet to step out of nihilism and a resentment toward the fact that God does not exist.
To summarize, christianity can be traced back to platonic philsophy and is therefore bullshit. Modern metaphysics and nomenclature, etymology, can be traced back to bourgeois origins-- theorists who neglected the scientifc method in establishing a doctrine of anything. We are stuck in a language meme that is completely contingent. Much of the atheistic movement is grounded in illusory motives, all resulting from existential and hermeneutical conditions which Kierkegaard addresses thoroughly.