Monday, September 8, 2025

Is Christian morality irreversibly cucked?

I don't have much to say on the subject of Christian morality but I would like to point one thing out, one crucial insight, which I think everyone is missing. 

In the past Christian morality went against material forces while today it goes with those forces. Let me explain. 

Humans have a tendency to psychologically internalize the material forces of their environment, right? In the past the world was incredibly brutal and the tendency would be to internalize those brutal forces as a moral code. Humans had no trouble staying in touch with reality since the brutal and unforgiving real was always an ever-present feature of existence. In such an environment you would want to tone it down, you would want to make people more compassionate and tolerant and forgiving. In that world the morality of Christ would help lift the civilization out of its most brutal tendencies, since the brutality of reality was being psychologically internalized by everyone.

Now come the industrial revolution and the tech revolution, and mass media, and people get really soft. It's possible that this great new world where everything is easy and soft could only have been made possible by the enlightening effect of Christianity, that no other moral system would make the industrial revolution possible. It's possible that you need an ideology that runs contrary to material forces in order to have a great civilization in order to overthrow violent material forces and realize a better world. But now that you have realized this better world people are getting really soft and they're turning into pansies. The human mind and body evolved under conditions of brutality and need resistance in order to get physically strong and mentally fit. In the absence of these forces of resistance the human mind becomes delusional and the body obese. But now the Christian morality that preached softness and compassion is contributing to the decay caused by soft people rather than resisting it. In the beginning Christian morality opposed material forces but now it aligns itself with them, now it exacerbates them. Now the leftist points to Christ and says "see that Christian morality supports socialism" and basically she has a valid point. Why yes, the morality of Christ does superficially support allowing infinity refugees and turning the other cheek for your rape gang, but I think it needs to be pointed out that Christ was a contrarian and would be called an "incel," by these very leftists and that the kind of conformist people who use Christ as a weapon today hated him back then.

Today what is needed is self-discipline and responsibility. There are lots of harsh things that Christ said too and in a soft world that is dying from its own softness it's better to pay attention to the harsh Bible verses than the soft ones. Mathew 5:17-19 has more relevance than Matthew 5:38-42, "every word of the law will be fulfilled," and when Jesus says he comes to bring the sword he's being literal not metaphorical. Matt 10:34 The Bible has to be understood in it's historical context and that means understanding what intentions the speaker would have today under these new material forces, how a contrarian Christ would respond now.





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