Fear of the Worm, Not of the Eternal One

I gain more insights from long personal correspondances with Born Again Christian fundamentalists than I do from the many fine books on comparative religion.

These two cyber friends have a morbid fear of mouldering in the grave

as all humans must do after the housing for their eternal soul, the body, is used up.

It is as natural as burying a sacred Torah scroll, after long use, when the holy words can no longer be read.

These two Christians, non-coincidently, do not believe in reincarnation. The eternal, divine soul was only created for THEIR little lifetime, and that soul must forever retain only THEIR personaility and memories.

Therefore they have hypnotized themselves into cultish fantasies that after death they will be young again, and will rise up to Heaven with J-Man (who himself was to have died, then cheated death).

The primitive spirituality here reminds me of Moslem suicide bombers. Just what are martyrs going to do with virgins or food when their bodies do not exist?!

The Torah says, "Dust you are, and to dust you will return." Since we humans are in the "form of HaShem the eternal, we know that moral people who have lived well, will keep on living eternally. We are not to know exactly HOW, but it sure aint in our familiar skin.

The skin-thin theology of Christians extends to their view of the Creator. The Creator of all time and space -- by definition and repeated statements-- cannot possibly be confined in time or space. But in their egocentric audacity, and childlike spirituality, Christians imagine that the Eternal, too, at least temporarily, or in part, was a living, breathing, suffering and dying human being.

They don't believe in the Eternal at all. This is Peter Pan and Neverneverland stuff. Kidsstuff.

Noahides know that losing their childhood religion is wrenching. Multiply the shock and sadness of finding out that Sana Claus wasn't real by several thousand. Outgrowing this childhood "faith" (it's a mere "faith," not verifiable history) has a painful, awkward adolescent period, before Torah engages their adult minds.

Tags: Again, Born, Christian, death, fear, idolatry, mortality, reincarnation

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Comment by Isaac Mozeson on May 29, 2010 at 1:36pm: Lee Ann and others who have had the courage and integrity to step away from the dominant idoltary:
my admiration is boundless.
Belief in past lives, future lives or reincarnation is not of much importance. What IS important is that no reject any faith where the Eternal has ANY physical form: not any angel, humanoid, J-man or even Elvis.
Anyone who can imagine a deity putting a disbeliever in eternal hell is a worshiper of the Marquis de Sade.
or some sadistic demon.
Our Creator is so compassionate that HaShem can forgive an idolater for being brainwashed, as long as his/her actions are just. But if an Evagelist or MessyAntic pastor were to threaten or mistreat someone like the Hodges, that person could earn the Torah equivalent of "hell" : dying like a rat, with no eternal existence in the spiritual dimension.

Comment by Isaac Mozeson on May 28, 2010 at 9:38am: Thanks for letting me know somebody is reading out there, Nan.
Of course some "zombies" can be very bright. But they wear a symbol of death and torture around their necks.
And they have a history of death and torture of innocents who don't want their mystery cult take on eternal life.

Comment by Nan Griffiths on May 28, 2010 at 8:05am: Dear Isaac,

You hit the nail on the head with just one word, "Zombies". The living dead. I appreciate your knowledge of those still left in xianity. May HaShem wake them up and soon.

Nan

Comment by Isaac Mozeson on May 27, 2010 at 3:15am: K. wrote:

Fear of the Worm indeed!

This one Xian I write to seems to be making a slow turn from idolatry. He claims he is Jewish, but I asked him if he had ever been circumcised and he said no.......I asked him if he ever heard about that the original language of the bible is Hebrew, and he said he had never seen Hebrew.........we are dealing with people who do not read their own text but rather listen to the paid or bribed liars from the pulpit/church and who just move people in droves................it's people like this who never read the IRS CODE BOOKS and are TOLD what to believe rather than ask and question authority and never realized that they have been tricked.!

Caio Issac,
K.

IM responded:

Very crucial point, K.:

In my 16 years of formal Judaica-Hebraica education the pedagogic style is always QUESTIONING texts and authorities, and seeing what answers are satisfactory.

White, Japhetic "education" is the opposite. Students, even in university (not just Catholic catechisms) are taught to unquestionably receive data so they could regurgitate it.
Like Moonie brainwashing, but with nice institutions and degrees.

This is why the professors would not give me a PhD at NYU. I had documented that the earliest Western literature was merely creatively ripped off from Talmudic tales.
No parroting sacred lies, no degree.

Forget theologists, we need cult-specialist psychologists, deprogrammers, to help with the world's non-Torah zombies.

Isaac