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Jesus, society, and the black pill 2017-07-06 03:21:20 Post No. 132563615
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I want to suggest Tim Keller as an alternative to Jordan Peterson for people who are grappling with Christianity.
start at 4:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GJTklg4cZs&t=4m12s
Jordan Peterson says "To be happy, you must become successful and ascend the dominance heirarchy" Well only a few people can do that,
indicating that a lot of people will die unhappy towards the bottom of the heirarchy, and this can just black pill people even further.
Christianity is sometimes presented as a set of moral chores or a matter of picking the right sect.
Which is still a Peterson-esque "self help" version of Christianity and that offers no real help to the black pilled.
Tim Keller presents a good model of your life, and the nasty depression you get when you think about your life and your (lack of) options.
He talks about how an individualistic society greatly burdens you with forging your own IDENTITY, as something you must do before you are approved by others.
Communal societies GIVE you an identity if you sacrifice for the group, but you are trapped in it. Both are unbearable.
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Regardless of society, you are completely approved by God himself because Jesus died for you. In Jesus, you have an identity greater than any from society.
In some way, only the black pilled can fully appreciate this, because if you keep waiting for success and a girlfriend and a good job and a nice house to get acceptance and contentment, Jesus wil remain for you an unessential, vaporous abstraction.
Not that persuing those things (within reason) is bad, they are simply not guarenteed. Nor can they give you the ultimate approval you are really seeking to find in them.
But to live in our society is to constantly feel helpless without them because of its constant pressure.
So Christianity involves constantly being reminded of your approval by God and your Identity in Jesus, NOT your approval by morality and your identity in success.
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>grappling with christianity
>grappling with
Grappling with is a current cliche that stands for the process of adopting a dogma. To grapple with something is to signal at the outset that you do not intend to demand rigorous proofs of the underlying propositions.
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jesus is a kike
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