What the man called Christ taught was a good way for us all to live this experience called life, and it's rooted in spirituality. Book religions are what power drunk men wage war about. If we're able to come out the other side of this mess the world is in, it would be truly amazing if people could learn to speak the language of the heart and leave all those foolish (and deadly) games in the rearview.
The game of money is the problem. What it is and what it means. Man's religion has been overtaken by people motivated by money, but they will swear to the grave that their mansions, designer clothes and private jets, were God's wish. There is so much deception out there, most people practicing it at that level have even deceived themselves.
This virus of deception (and now with augmented ai reality) is spreading far and wide, and the groundwork foundation it has been built upon is aggression and dominance. Its core belief is the worship of power; the power that is wielded in this material realm, if that feels coherent or relevant to you.
The Maga movement are mostly the uneducated working class, and they have been taken advantage of by these slick pastors that preach fear, hate and shame. They ply emotionally coercive methods to milk tithes that simply do not function as "God's work". They may do just enough to have records of this or that, but the sole purpose and agenda is hidden behind the curtain (and offshore accounts).
This is about the human experience and how fallible we can be, or how prone we are to temptation beyond the cusp of reason, and I'll jump forward right here and now to say that I believe the internet has magnified mankind's worst tendencies. In fact, I'll say that the internet has been weaponized and is being used to that effect.
Pardon me, I just have so much to get off my chest.
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