Atheist Memes

I would not say democracy is one person ruling all the kingdoms of the world.

Caeser is gone, but is he really? We still have fascist lunatics trying to resurrect the Roman Empire every 80 years or so.

We haven't raised our thrones above the stars, we've torn down the thrones that were raised above us. And more people came along to try to build new thrones. The problem is that we haven't torn them down again yet.

All are equal, but not because we are equally nothing. All are equal because we are equally divine. That is the way the world is supposed to be. And one person or group raising themselves above another is an attempt to take away their divinity, and thus their equality.

Even the early-modern humanists who first formulated the arguments for equality and inherent worth did so as an extension of the argument that we're all intrinsically divine.

Now we, too, are like the most high because we have become the gods of our world - we have even ascended to the heavens above the tops of clouds.

Are we though? Does the average proletarian feel that way? I sure don't. I feel disillusioned, disadvantaged, and disempowered by those who have raised themselves above the place of mortals, built thrones for themselves on power and wealth and on the backs of others they exploit. Maybe the billionaire oligarch caste feels they've ascended to the heavens above the tops of the clouds, but not by their own efforts. They need to be torn down, because they only enjoy their privilege by subjugating others. Is that liberation? Or just libertarian-capitalism?

While Jesus was telling us to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, Satan offered those he tempted all the kingdoms of the world.

If you were networking underground with a ramshackle bunch of disillusioned, marginalized people, potentially laying the groundwork to overturn the status quo... Would you want the IRS on your back? Because the people who asked him whether they should pay their taxes were doing so to entrap him, so they could go to the Roman authorities about him. They were essentially fed-posting. And his response was to get them off his back.

Satan's "liberation" is anarcho-capitalism. Jesus's liberation is anarcho-syndicalism. Which do you prefer?

Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
–Matthew 19:21-24

And now we don't even need him anymore because God is dead, and we killed him.

Have we? Or do we just say so in our hubris? How does one kill the Monad, the essence of life and the universe itself? Why would we even want to?

If you mean you killed the Demiurge, good on you. But I can guarantee you, it's still alive and kicking. Look at all the religious people using their religion to praise trump or netanyahu. Those people are still stuck in delusion.

Maybe you've killed your personal demiurge. The demiurge of your own microcosm. But the Macrocosmic Demiurge is still alive, and will be until all sentient beings are liberated from delusion and suffering.

We still have a whole Kali Yuga to get through before we reach that point...