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Who ever authored the story of Christ new something good existed within the human psyche… Of course, the science of psychology did not exist, and there were no words to describe the altruistic compassion and caring that most people were, and are, capable of experiencing. Psychologist call this word Conscience…
Thanks to institutionalized religion, I am not religious, but I guess I could be considered agnostic. Decades ago I read the bible many times and studied the message of Christ intensely. Having radically different interpretations than do the wolves who run their for profit scams called churches, I know it’s not important whether you believe the caricature “Jesus” existed or not. I also know churches take advantage of people who suffer from what I like to call the “Santa Clause Syndrome”, because believing what right wingers believe requires the same mental processes to believe in Santa Clause. Most people grow up and develop some form of critical thinking skills, unfortunately Right Wing extremist are a little slow in this area which makes them highly delusional and somewhat psychotic conservatives. (I’m sorry if this offends you Santa Clause but some things just have to be said…)
What is important within the story of Christ is the consistent message of conscience, it is written as if someone is trying to explain to people that conscience exist by telling the story about a man named Jesus. And Jesus said things that conscience tells those who have one all the time, such as, treat others the way you would want to be treated, being your brother’s keeper, be the Good Samaritan, helping the poor and sick, not being greedy, not going to war etc… These are the things that that inner voice called conscience tells liberals and progressives all the time, and they don’t have to be religious to feel, know, and do the right thing.
Moreover, when we see church leaders and politicians doing and saying things that are obviously anti conscience, if not outright evil, we could say from a religious perspective, these people are “Anti Christ” because they are, in fact, “Anti Conscience”. And when people of conscience take the world back from the Anti Conscience Psychopaths, (aka wolves in sheep's clothing) that are wreaking so much hell in the world with their dominant influence over governments, we will call that “the return of Conscience to government”, or if your religious and prefer the ancient term for conscience go ahead and say “the return of Christ”, but the truth is the rule of Conscience is who and what we are waiting for.
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