What books can I read to reconcile myself to the fact that God exists but he is not the loving God of Christianity that I thought he was and the ugly reality is that we are on our own in this life and cannot expect help from above? Do not recommend Nietzsche
>>24698001Spinoza's "Ethics.">All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
>>24698001Start with the greeks
>>24698021
>>24698001psychoanalysis
>>24698001I tecommend the Book of Job.
>>24698001>the loving God of ChristianityYou mean the evil God of Christianity that claims to be good and loving, and will torture you for eternity in hell for thought crime.
>>24698001If you want something anti-material (this world of suffering is not the world of God), anything involving the Gnostics (specifically the Sethian Gnostics, not the general movements rooted in gnosis). There are some good lectures of it in YouTube if you wanna dip your toes into it firstIf you want something historical to explain how Christianity can be so cruel (without dismissing the loving nature of God), you can read this (https://www.jstor.org/stable/42720464) or maybe something by the Apostolic Johannite ChurchIf you're looking for a new theological framework, consult this image and look for a seemingly good book on the matter (maybe something by Alfred Whitehead)
>>24698001Get into Gnosticism, Hinduism, Manichaeism, Zoroaster, then delve into Buddhism, Plato and studies on VERY early Christianity. Then read up on Yahweh and El as the "two Gods in Heaven".It'll all make sense when you put everything together. There is a God of eternal loving-compassion, but he exists simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. He is not a deity, but something far greater than that. We are all pieces of his essence struggling to return home, but getting trapped by false divinities made in our own image and motivated by selfishness and primal thinking. If there is a Demiurge, he is born from our collective egos and anxieties.
>>24698029he's not wrong.
>>24699319>>24699332gnosticism always seemed incompatible to me. If god is an infinite being of all power, there should be no demiurge, or the demiurge is subordinate to his power. It seems like a shrinking from the good in the world and a rejection of it all for a clean boggyman. Ive been more of the opinion that all is good, but good at different levels. Petty goods are what are more commonly called "evils" while greater goods are broader more all encompassing goods. these being eminences of the one true god of infinite and essential good.
>>24699343you're a kindergartner waiting for your parents to pick you up. you play outside in the sandbox with no other kids, they're all home, supervised. you're waiting for your dad. the teachers never come out to check on you, they're preoccupied or are home too. you create a world in your sandbox and you drive cars in it. you make the cars crash sometimes. you destroy your world and make a new one. you wait for your parents. you curse, knowing the teachers would scold you if they heard but you know they won't check on you and you know they can't hear you. you keep waiting. you take your frustrations, however minor, out on your world. you keep waiting and keep playing, for a long, long time.
i've written a book about this very issue and shilled it here but i doubt you'll read it if i recommend it, i've found that most people are not comfortable thinking for themselves, they want to be told what and when to think, if you want to be introduced to new uncomfortable ideas you need to do the work
>>24699343Consider the Aglipayans then, particularly de los Reyes' original envisionment of itModern scientific rationalism reveals the impossibility of Christ's resurrection. Consider, then, that Christ's resurrection was mythic and literary rather than spiritual; How then might we make sense of Christianity? The resurrection narrative would have to be an extension of Rome's political meddling: that the imperfect knowledge of humanity has tainted God's perfect knowledge by ascribing Redemption and Salvation into His love. The redemption narrative necessitates the metaphysical concept of Hell, the political infrastructure of criminalization and prisons, and the dehumanization of heretics and deviants. To be worthy of love, a person has to meet conditional standards and criteria. To enlighten the savages, Christian societies must correct certain behaviors and enforce faith upon these communitiesNo, God is more loving than anyone who claims to be his prophet. Jesus Christ (the raleal historical Christ) was nothing more than an evangelist, just like the rest of us. There is no sin, there is no evil, and there is nothing outside of God's love. Within God's love, there is only us and all of our shared social problemsThis was de los Reyes' metaphysical foundation for his flavor of Nationalist Socialism, which was useful for conceptualizing collective identity (the local culture's identity as it relates to a broader national-cultural identity)
>>24699517The real historical Christ*
>>24698001Nihilist don't need books, just worship Satan you coward.
>>24699250As opposed to an all loving government, right?
>>24699343>all is good, but good at different levels.Do you live in the real world? Are you out of your fucking mind?
>>24699539I'm not a nihilist and condescending elitist cunts like you is one of the reasons I've falling out of Christianity
>>24698001>the loving God of Christianity>loving
>>24699539You worship yahweh lmao
>>24699931I'm not Jewish
>>24699977Christ's name, Yeshua, literally means Yahweh Saves
>>24699977The God of Christianity is yahweh. You worship yahweh. Jesus never rose and is never coming back. Telling you this does not mean i worship Satan.
>>24699977I know, that's what makes it even funnierYou worship the tribal diety of a schizophrenic desert people
>>24699995No it isn't retard.>>24699992>>24700032Jesus isn't Yahweh. Jesus is God
