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Personally, I think that history is inevitably complex, Christianity is one of many attempts to create a life-denying gnostic cult (Alexandria at the time was a maladaptive gnosticism factory). The fact that attempts to gentile-ise Christianity has been met with ostracism is particularly telling; I refer in particular to Marcion, who was scythian (ergo a gentile) and suggested dumping the OT (which, when actually read, is one of the most objectionable things about Christianity as a gentile religion). Further, attempts to judaise Christianity have been wildly successful; this of course includes Christian Zionism (the Scofield Bible and Dispensationalism), but it includes protestantism as a whole - one of the good things about Catholicism is that it kept people from reading the OT(!) and realising how jewish it is, and how venal, acquisitive and judomorphic yahweh is. Christianity as a whole, over the course of 2000 years, has served as an incubator for a religion revolving around the worship of a jew and affirming the idea that the jews were, at one point, the only ethnic group singled out by the creator of the universe for succour. Additionally, Christianity (by focusing on the salvation of the individual) makes people passive apropos civilisational decline (consider the meaning of the title of Augustine's 'City of God'! It is in contradistinction to the Earthly city, Rome, which was going down the gutter and eventually collapsed eighty years after Theodosius I's christianisation). The hypothesis that Tom Holland puts forward about Christianity being the fons et origo of liberalism and individualism is true, but it is in fact a damning indictment

I would recommend reading Laurent Guyenot's Unz review articles. When he touches on other topics, I think he is sometimes insightful, and sometimes misses the mark. However, I believe his articles on Christianity may greatly assist in overcoming this 2000-year long psyop (especially The Holy Hook and The Devil's Trick)

How many good books are there?