Glossary
Institutionalized religion that differentiates labels and serves priestly control rather than direct divine connection.
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Organized religion
Institutionalized religion that differentiates labels and serves priestly control rather than direct divine connection.
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Jesus cannot have meant simply follow me; Jiang says he taught that the kingdom and divine spark are inside the person, so organized religion cannot save by obedience.
diagnosis
Organized religion creates artificial differences among faiths so religious authorities can exploit people and justify their own role.
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"jesus said if those who lead you say to you see the kingdom is in the sky then the bird of the sky will..."
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"...inside of you okay so what jesus is saying is this organized religion does not work guys so there's"
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"no way jesus would say follow me and you're good believe in me and you're good he would never ever say that because he..."
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"I don't exist. I'm not an entity in this world or in the next. Do not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin..."
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"...religion is great. Okay? I'm a big supporter of religion. But organized religion is problematic. Because organized religion serves the interests of the priests..."
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"...in God, okay? And so for the peasant class, we have organized religion, whether it's Islam or Christianity. Okay, Christianity, Jesus, right? Jesus tells..."
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"...as serpents and as innocent as dogs okay so jesus hates organized religion okay the pharisees"
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"...then the church is like okay we need to create an organized religion and we need to fool people okay how do we fool..."
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"...For him, all things fail. Okay. So what Nietzsche hates is organized religion. Because organized religion, it is very serious, very somber. It basically..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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