Is the modern rise in religion a cope for learned helplessness?
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@gugenmungus
I guarantee I have spent more time on this than you. I was raised Catholic, I’ve been practicing the sacraments since birth and I am telling you this is a waste of your time. ReconsiderStudies in the last 6 months:
Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s ‘Credo’
Joshua Charles ‘Persecuted From Within’
St. Augustine’s ‘Confessions’
Parts of Summa Theologiae
The entirety of the N.T, in KJV, Douay-Rheims, Knox and the Spaniard translation based on Vulgate
Codice Ratzinger;Cionci’s thesis
About 10 lectures of Northrop Frye’s course on The Bible and English LiteratureI have spent hours listening to debates between Orthodox, Trad-Cath, Sedevacantist, SSPX and benepapists perspectives.
I have argued countless times with Orthodox adherents about Palamas and his writings.
The more I read, the more I studied, the more pathetic all of it seemed, I went to Orthodox mass, Christian churches, spoke at length in debates with old WASP parents from a friend of mine. I went to Catholic and Traditional Catholic mass.
I reached a big ‘eye-opening’ event recently and I am taking a step back and changing what I am studying, going into Neo-fascinating and pagan school of thought right now.
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@Sugar It might be the other end of the spectrum of learned helplessness— I’m of the belief that modern clinical depression is learned helplessness which is the generally accepted lefty consensus. But it would make perfect sense that on the right you reject a hypothesis and come up with your own, one of surrendering to God as a form learned helplessness.
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@The-New-Sun Except all of the great conquerors and explorers like Colombus and Cortes were driven by their catholic faith, the architecture was driven by the Catholic faith, the education was driven by monasteries. The backbone of society all involved these forces.
Now look at what you have after you take Catholicism out of Europe: nihilism, piss ferility rates, lazy architecture and music. There you have your experiment in the past 60+ years of what is happening to Europe. Meanwhile the Pope is one of the only leaders in Europe who is sounding the alarm bells about the horrible fertility crisis. Why arent the Europeans doing what hes doing to bring awareness to this if you simply credit Europe?
Ill add though that Europe is an amazing motherland and accepted the Fertilization of the gospel. It was and in many ways still is its backbone of the church. This isnt to denegrade Europe, rather to put it in its rightful place.
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@dan-saintdominic
Religiosity is a naturally organic feeling which arises from interacting with other humans and nature. This has existed for thousands of years. Christianity is dying and no amount of attempts by Catholics, Protestants or any of the Abrahamic sects is going to save it. The world has access to too much information and is incredibly more educated than even 100 years ago.Using the argument of moral decline in the west without addressing the obvious orchestration of it by kikes showcases your ignorance.
Why did Oliver Cromwell re-settle the Jews in 1650 after they were expelled from England by Charles I in 1290? It was to bolster his economic and political efforts for Britain, to promote religious tolerance in line with his aim to bring into England a great age of learning. You believe that we are better off when a few European geniuses built masterful cathedrals and painted magnificent pictures while the majority of the population at the time was positively illiterate and of lower cognitive function than the individuals we have today.
All of the moral problems in Western Europe today would be culled by the mass expulsion of its non native invasive subspecies of hominids that roam its streets screaming with sexual and criminal intent.
The path forward is that of the secular intellectual, you Christians will always attempt to bring the true intelligent down to your pathetic and subservient moral framework. This is why Christianity is dying in Europe, the educated and intelligent, full-blooded Europeans refuse to participate.
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@RapeEnjoyer what a name, god damn
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@Sugar You are way off base. There is no modern rise in religion. In fact, the opposite.
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@Sugar Religion has existed for way longer than the current conditions which are causing learned helplessness. We've been doing rituals for as long as we've been people. Girard talks about this.
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@The-New-Sun Spell this one out for me. You give all the credit for the massive advancements in life quality from 500-1950 in Europe after the proliferation of Catholicism to a vague concept of racialism. While at the same time you’re trying to convince that Catholicism is a destructive force. It’s beyond illlgical to think that at the same exact time period Catholicism had its golden age in Europe (which you’re portraying as poisonous) is just coincidentally the time that Europe rapidly expanded. Coincidentally at the same time Catholic Monarchies conquered and evangelized a whole hemisphere (it was just the race though right? It’s not like the Spanish Reconquista was primarily driven by Catholic identitarianism right?) Then, coincidentally, when Catholicism is abandoned in the early 1900s, coincidentally morals decline, family ties decline, fertility rates decline. And in all this you seem to think you’re against certain Zionist influences? When you’re walking hand in hand with their hatred of Catholicism which they’ve had for ages. And yet you still don’t see how the immigration is driven by low birth rates (a direct denial of Catholic social teaching on the prohibition of contraception), therefore leaving jobs open to be filled by cheap labor. Now Europe is importing immigrants from all the countries that still ah e some semblance of faith in God, while Europes fertility rates fall into obscurity. Do yourself a favor and look when the Turkish German worker program started that brought all the Turks to Germany. Now look at the fertility rates leading up to it. Now look when birth control was invented. Now see the Catholic teaching on contraception. Your own excuse for why Europe is suffering is proven to be from a neglection of Catholicism.
If you introduce a poison into an area, at the bare minimum you’d expect to see some sort of decline. Not online did Europe not see a decline, it blossomed in a perfect symphony as Catholicism brought forth it in glory.
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@dan-saintdominic
Every single response you just gave stems from misunderstanding of my points above. I refuse to keep framing everything under the scope of Abrahamic religion, the world does not revolve around Christianity and it never will. You can continue to believe your glorified view of how Catholicism has been the driving force of development in W. Europe for the rest of your life, maybe it will make it more tolerable for you. -
@The-New-Sun I’ll just keep it at what you said then. You claim that the problems in Europe are due to third world immigration. The most famous of these mass migrations is from turkey to Germany due to a workers program from a shortage of cheap labor. This program peaked exactly when Contraception became widespread in Germany. Contraception is forbidden in Catholic social teaching. So your own reason for why Europe is suffering, whether I agree with it or not, is directly solved by Catholic social teaching.
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The rise in religion is instead people who have tried to fill the void through other means (wokism, current-thing worship, yoga, dieting, extreme reverence for niggers) and still found it lacking. Sorry, there's no replacement for the real thing, a structured life in the service of God and His only begotten son Jesus.
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It's fun to analyze what Christians are like and what the church has done and whatever else.
But what actually matters is that God exists. And He is Jesus.
To talk about anything else is pointless.
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I don’t agree with the premise. Seems religion is on the decline for the vast majority. Among the very online, it is having a bit of a come back due to a reaction to the former consensus of r/atheism. Since that has fully run its course the trad religious larpers are next to be mocked as cringe, but some of their thoughts will live on for the next pendulum swing.
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Brother forget everything you know about Christianity from social media and read St John of the Cross or Dostoevsky or something
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@VirtueAgonist I second that!
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@Sugar to answer OP: yes
in the same vein: do not let the actions of the weak persuade your connection to God.
