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The Wolves Have the Pulpit. The Lambs Need to Speak: Why Progressives Cannot Cede the Religious Field. A Note on Strategy in the Face of Fraudulent Religiosity

I wrote this with an attempt at reaching Christians who are disgusted with current state of religiosity in the US, but are not used used speaking up against religious fraudulence, white supremacy, and nationalistic tendencies in the Church, because religion on the left can be a sore subject especially for victims of conservative religious abuse.

https://open.substack.com/pub/fratersia/p/the-wolves-have-the-pulpit-the-lambs?r=5ebp25&utm\_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=title

Excerpt:
For two decades, progressives have made a strategic decision about religion: to leave it alone. The reasons were understandable. Religious language has been weaponized against vulnerable communities for so long that suspicion of it is rational. Many progressives are not religious. The separation of religion and state is a principle worth defending. So the secular left mostly stopped talking about God, and the religious left learned to whisper. The result is a public square in which one side speaks about Christianity constantly and confidently, and the other side does not speak about it at all.
This has been a catastrophe.

u/fratersia — 14 days ago

▲ 17 r/RadicalChristianity

I wrote this and am very passionate about communicating its message. I was hoping you would like it but I was hoping to get some feedback either way.
Excerpt:
“The book is theological at its foundation and political in its application. I argue that these two registers are not separable: the political crisis we face is, at root, a spiritual crisis. The crisis is that millions of people who claim the name of Christ have embraced, with enthusiasm, a movement organized around the systematic inversion of everything Christ taught. Understanding this requires understanding what evil actually is — not as an abstract metaphysical category, but as a concrete pathology with a definable structure.
That pathology has a name. The Church Fathers called it superbia. Contemporary psychology calls it narcissism. Both are pointing at the same thing: the elevation of the self as ultimate good, the refusal to accept creatureliness, the demand for absolute autonomy, contempt for those perceived as inferior, and the active work to corrupt or destroy anything that threatens the narcissist’s self-image. This is what Satan chose. This is what the Pharisees defended. This is what slaveholders justified with scripture. This is what segregationist clergy preached. And this is what is now organized as a national political movement claiming divine sanction.
To see this clearly is the first task. To name it accurately is the second. To resist it is the third. This book attempts the first two and gestures toward the third.”

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u/fratersia — 14 days ago

▲ 9 r/GoldenDawnMagicians

While this is not specifically traditional Golden Dawn material, my work attempts to extend Dr. Israel Regardie’s work aligning the Tree of Life and Qabalah with modern psychology by incorporating the newest advances in neuroscience. He leveraged correspondences from the original materials, but science has evolved tremendously since in the field of neuroscience and cognitive psychology. I am attempting to bring the Hermetic Qabalah into the 21st century with modern neuroscience and I think you may find it fascinating. I think it fits in well within the Golden Dawn corpus of knowledge as well.

The basic premise is that the Tree of Life manifests not only physiologically on the body but also in the brain and digits of the limbs. I’d appreciate feedback.

https://open.substack.com/pub/fratersia/p/the-neurological-qabalah-brain-body?r=5ebp25&utm\_medium=ios

u/fratersia — 16 days ago