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My diary desu

I have no idea, people just got tired of gloomy traditional Christianity which prescribed suffering in order to go to heaven

America was literally purpose-built as a tool of the NWO, so does it surprise you that it perverts everything it touches?

>>16653891
Because America is an empire and in empires religions become political cults

>There is a necessary correspondence between the most advanced stages of a historical cycle and the most primitive. America is the final stage of modern Europe. Guénon called the United States 'the far West', in the novel sense that the United States represents the reductio ad absurdum of the negative and the most senile aspects of Western civilization. What in Europe exist in diluted form are magnified and concentrated in the United States whereby they are revealed as the symptoms of disintegration and cultural and human regression. The American mentality can only be interpreted as an example of regression, which shows itself in the mental atrophy towards all higher interests and incomprehension of higher sensibility. The American mind has limited horizons, one conscribed to everything which is immediate and simplistic, with the inevitable consequence that everything is made banal, basic and leveled down until it is deprived of all spiritual life. Life itself in American terms is entirely mechanistic. The sense of 'I' in America belongs entirely to the physical level of existence. The typical American neither has spiritual dilemmas nor complications: he is a 'natural' joiner and conformist.

>The primitive American mind can only superficially be compared to a young mind. The American mind is a feature of the regressive society to which I have already referred.

>>16653891
Americans, most of all, hate being told that they're not good people, which is what traditional (and right) Christianity does. People here LOVE the good feels that Christianity, with most of the hardships and struggles (the dark nights of the soul) stripped from it can give. 99/100 Christians here haven't even read the bible, and probably don't even know who Paul is. If you asked them to name all of the Apostles they'd give you the blankest stare to ever grace the earth. Televangelists know this, and make bank off of practices that are directly at odds with the word of God, because they know the population is willfully ignorant

>>16653957
Nobody likes being constantly told they're a worm, traditional Christianity is a death cult

>>16653963
Well, if you don't recognize your faults, it's hard to ascend and become a better person, which is what God ultimately wants for all of us. No pre-marital sex and excessive drinking may not be "fun", but there's no denying that it leads to a better, less degenerate society

>>16653963
>traditional Christianity is a death cult
as it should be

>>16653983
It's really just about making people as miserable as possible because it's an inherently misanthropic religion. Protestantism might be cringe, but at least it encourages people to take what life gives them instead of grovelling and self flagellating.

>>16654003
If that's your take, you obviously don't understand Christianity very well. If you followed the bible to a T, you'd be a very wise and happy person, not miserable.

>>16653891
Both extremely general while also extrememly perspectivist. If you want to reengrave what you want to hear then fine, but otherwise try to take a dynamic look at things. How many percentage wise of people actually go to these things in your pic? pretty small. and its god to not the veriety and proportion of religiosity in different places. My grandmother is a methodist and goes to a tiny methodist church with maybe 30 people. and thats a pretty common thing across america too. America is a big place with a large amount and veriety of religiosity.

>>16653952
That's some serious butthurt euro

>>16653891
Here ya go, OP.

>>16654020
It's impossible to live up to an unrealistic standard specifically designed to make people feel like shit

>>16653891
that's hardly the american christianity, there are mormons, catholics, branch davidians etc

>>16654141
>branch Davidians
Well, not anymore

>>16653891
The Second Great Awakening (and other Great Awakenings that followed - e.g. Civil Rights was #4, BLM was/is #5)

>>16654024
>I cannot accept my faults
>The Christian life proposed by Christ's Church is too hard

>>16653891
Pentecostalism and charismatic movements in general have a lot of soul. I don't believe they're truly given charisms (beyond the normal gift of faith) but it gives people an intense spiritual experience. There are presumably some fakes, but believers actually are moved to speak without conscious thought.
It represents one of the most charming aspects of America. Outsized emotion.

Rich mega churches, prosperity theology and televangelist charlatans are despicable and do represent excessive American capitalism.

>>16653891
t. Spiteful eurodemon

>>16653891
We left Europe to get the fuck away from the backwards snobs in the churches and in parliament, that's why. And now the rest of the world is American rather than the other way around.

>>16654724
We left Europe because there was new land where we wouldn't have to pay a bunch of taxes

>>16653891
Americans can't tell the difference between spirituality and emotionality.

>>16654745
It was for both

>>16654751
Tfw the puritans in America were far more annoying than the religous groups in Europe at the time

>>16654761
I don't like the king
I don't like Christmas
I don't like quaffing
I do like having sex with my wife

fpbp

>>16653891
>Like, is there a book that documents how all this shit came to be?
Look no further

>>16654837
This is the opposite of what you mean to say.
Luther rightly found problems with Church corruption that allowed people to avoid true penance for sin.
Most American christians like baptists unironically mistake Lutherans as catholics most of the time.

>>16653891


«EVANGELICALISM» IS A «PROTESTANTISTIC» SUBSECT; «PROTESTANTISM» IS ANTICHRISTIAN.

How do I save my grandmother from the clutches of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart? The charlatan has her in his grip.

>>16653952
Ok, ok, I’ll read him. What book is this from?