So at first glance this probably seems like something that most men could really care less about. What does some religion destroying itself have to do with you living a more fulfilled, free, and masculine life? Well turns out a lot more than you’d expect. Turns out the “destruction” of this religion actually has a lot to say about men, masculinity, living a right life, and the world around us both. So let’s dig in.
Now you should know by now that I’m not a “religious” man. While I think most religions have some sort of inherent value in them, if not just from a social cohesion aspect, I don’t necessarily subscribe to any one. Though I do absolutely believe in God and laws but they’re probably a bit different than most. I think the relation between God and man is the most crucial one there is, but that’s a topic for another time.
One thing I was wondering was how I could feel certain ways about myth and God and a great many other things, yet throughout my life got little to nothing from church. It wasn’t until recently when weirdly my studies of fiction writing and attending church a few times to check things out started to help me put some things together.
Evangelism & The Destruction Of The Church
When one reads most ancient books like the Bible one usually finds a great amount of value in them, regardless if one believes the tenets of certain religions. The Bible at least for me is no exception. When one reads the Bible as a whole and in multiple interpretations (especially those that contain notes on the meaning of words) one gets a very different “message” from it then when one simply attends a church and takes what that version of the religion says as a whole.
Which brings me to Christianity and Evangelism. There are a great many ideas in the Bible and in Christianity as a whole. Some have been twisted and misinterpreted but there is a lot of good there. Again if not just from a balancing of society standpoint. The ten commandments, the golden rule, the many myths and legends it contains, and so on and so forth. But here is where mainstream Christianity has gone wrong and lost so much of the “soul” it once had.
Christianity or at least it’s Evangelical forms has essentially turned the religion and its tenets into the world’s biggest MLM. The focus has turned from creating men and women of quality adhering to certain tenets and instead been exchanged with accepting and consuming mass numbers of people. Everything is focused on bringing one more person to church, on getting to “accept the sale” and follow Christ (which means getting even more people to “accept the sale”). This is the great focus and why the myths contained within have lost so much power (well one of many reasons).
Quantity Over Quality
When it comes to friends, books, women, and essentially everything else in life a man would be wise to focus on quality over quantity. Aside from reciting a prayer and then getting more to recite that prayer there is little focus on the development of the people within “the fold” so to speak. It’s all about massing great numbers. Turning it into a numbers game where the actual myths, legends, and tenets of the Bible and religion itself lose more and more meaning and power.
Political parties, businesses, nations, and individuals make this mistake as well. In their quest for amassing numbers they must always water and dumb things down to make them palpable to mass numbers. You’ll remember me saying that most people are weak, dumb, and shallow and if you want mass numbers for your product, show, religion, life, or anything else than you must also make it weak, dumb, and shallow.
So for instance with Evangelical Christianity instead of it preparing its member to become better and become more. Instead it simply focuses on how they can bring more numbers into the MLM. Eventually this turns off quality and you are left with quantity only. Which is not a victory. While you can strike a balance between the two and need to at some point. It’s always better to lean in favor of quality over quantity. A lesson that the Christian church has forgotten and is and will suffer for.
Aspiring Higher, Not Lower
The same can be said of your life. You want to aspire to greater and higher things, not lower yourself to become more palpable to the base. Better to have one true friend than one hundred fake ones. Better to have one good woman by your side then a rotation of twenty fake ones in your bed. Better to have one job that fulfills you and provides enough to get by then one where you must sell your soul for more 0’s in your bank account.
And so on and so forth. Quality over quantity. What once had power, truth, and grit to it now is watered down cheesy nonsense. No different than most other ideologies out there. Faster and faster it appeals to the lowest common denominator and we all know where that leads., nowhere good. So while you may not give a damn about this particular religion it’s decline and eventual demise will be instructive to your life.
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-Charles Sledge
