>>16062216it provides an ethical/moral code for men who don't want/know how to deal with metaphysics and are uncomfortable dealing with emotions or any kind of mystery and so it's ideally suited for nihilist consumerism Rick and Morty bullshit. it's almost tailor made for materialism (both sense of the word, consumerist + atheist) science cultism
i like Aurelius too, he served his purpose for me in high school, but most people move on after they realize that his guide stunts you emotionally and shuts you off to much of what life has to offer. but it provides a convenient and deep/authoritative-sounding response to religion/metaphysics (characterizing people who follow these things as weak and unwilling to face life head on) so it was perfectly suited to the Reddit atheist psyop, and later the COVID vaccine science cultism.
>>16062219there's a bit more to it than that, you are reducing a complicated issue to a narrative that suits your argument, which is a common tactic deployed by the people you claim created christianity.
i am not going to take your bait other than to offer an opposing point of view about Christianity (the faith, not the religion): the story of Jesus and the New Testament contain within them the echoes of a number of older religions and mystery schools/esoteric traditions- zoroastrianism, egyptian religion, mithraism, hinduism, buddhism among them.
the figure of the resurrected messiah preaching a message of mysticism and transcendence of the material world to triumph over forces of darkness is present in many other religions and stories including paganism- Christianity (especially in its esoteric and mystical forms) shares much with earlier "pagan" belief systems
characterizing Christianity as one, single organized religion is ignorant, and a common tactic utilized by the Epstein-funded atheist master debaters. You put words in your opponents' mouths, you use strawmen and ad hominems. It only ends up making you look cheap and sad.
