Tract 8: Is Baalite Worship Being Mistaken for Christianity? (How Techno-Puritans Define Good)

In this compelling episode, we dive into the reinterpretation of Christian beliefs and ancient religious practices through a techno-puritan lens. Explore the redefined concepts of the kingdom of God, heaven, and sin, and understand the ethical debates between deontological and consequentialist systems. Our journey takes us through the intriguing intersections of polytheism and monotheism, revealing how rituals like sin transference and animal sacrifice have transitioned from their polytheistic origins to modern faith practices. Delve into the implications of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, the shifts in spiritual and moral understandings, and uncover the critiques of figures like Maimonides and Ramban in interpreting sacrificial traditions. Join us as we rethink spirituality, individual responsibility, and the evolving role of technology in God's overarching plan.

[00:00:00] Of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, . What is the kingdom of God? That's heaven. That's what's being described here. Heaven is a time.

You don't become one flesh with someone by having sex with them. Is that two people having a child together does literally make two people one spirit. That makes a lot more sense. Yeah. What is being talked about here isn't Sex. It's the creation of a new person, . That just, like, when I read it with the techno puritan framing, it makes so much sense to me.

When I read it with the traditional Christian framing, it makes so much sense to me. It makes a bunch of weird claims where you need to like get all metaphorical and everything and yeah, it feels like you're bending over backward to make it work. And this is just correct. It just seems correct. Of course.

Real worship is not done through [00:01:00] masturbating emotional states. Even if they include feelings of grandeur and awe, they are still basal emotions.

Of course they feel good. That is what masturbation does. It makes you feel good. That is not a sign that it is good. As a side note here, people will use the story of the gold used in the tabernacle from Exodus as an excuse to worship in luridly decorated buildings.

However, it is important to remember that we believe , some polytheistic stories and tales worked their way into the religious texts like the Bible. especially when you're talking about older texts like Exodus, but that God loudly and explicitly marks where this has happened, so anyone paying even the littlest bit of attention will notice. what's being done in this tabernacle

Imagine you go up to a place of worship, and you saw this ceremony being carried out. Quote, He must kill the young bull and priests must bring its blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar It must be a dove or young pigeon. the priest will bring it to the altar and pull [00:02:00] off its head, which he will burn on the altar.

The bird's blood must be drained out of the altar. the side of the altar. Then he must tear the bird open by its wings

end quote. It is not like any of this is subtle , but it does mean that God expects you to actually be paying attention when you read it, and use the smallest amount of discretion when doing so. It's like someone saw that scene

Siva, Om Nam S to

and they walk away and they go, Yeah, that was definitely a bunch of good Christians . that's what this story is meant to teach us, is what ball light worship looks like

that this bull light sin transference, virtual doesn't work. It's also recorded for us in the Bible Eve. It did work both Moses and the other Israelites would have been able to go into the promised land. when I look at Christians who pray to a God of [00:03:00] precious metals and animal sacrifices, the God that gets off to humans ripping apart birds as an act of worship, I am reminded of

All will be well, and you will know the name of God. The one true God. Behemah Coital. Behemah what? Behemah Coital. He's here. He's everywhere. He's coming. Come,

he's talking about a bug. He thinks God is a bug? He's got religion. Maybe we should kill him. Why? Because he believes in God like you?

It's the wrong God!

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With the [00:04:00] abrahamic tradition for us and finding an iteration of it that I think is true. And you can take a bit like an outline for another denomination of christianity that we call techno puritanism And i'm just gonna jump right in because I like that. I like the active theological conversation But there's also some risk with that because when you're having an active theological conversation about what you believe That really opens you up to criticism and can make you look kind of foolish, especially if it includes well, any sort of religious component, right?

If you don't have a big community to back you and you say something like, oh, well, this guy was walking on water, people are like, oh, you must be in a cult, you know? So as Nigel says in the opening scene of The Devil Wears Prada,

All right, everyone, gird your loins. Did someone eat an onion bagel?

All right. How do technopuritans define good?

Although this one could also be called the new covenant. I saved this tract for later because I suspect it is going to anger more people than our other tracts. Most because it has much more radical reinterpretations of [00:05:00] classical biblical stories than we have gone into before this. Like the,, the tabernacle, as well as Nebuchadnezzar's dream, and it regards sin and telling people that they are sinners, which is never popular.

But as Galatians 1 10 says,

For do I now persuade men or God, or do I need to please men? For if I pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Modern Christians have narrowed their concept of sin by focusing on the sins of others that cause disgust in them. They say, that person has gay sex, that's a sin.

And that person masturbates, that's a sin. And it's like, yes, that is true, but you should be more focused on your own sins than those of others. What does the Bible tell us about how we should live our lives? Let's go over a few lines here. Corinthians 10 31 instructs, Whether therefore you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God, end quote. Corinthians 5. [00:06:00] 10, which states, and he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again.

Colossians 3. 23 states, and Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men, Romans 14, 23. But if you have doubt about whether or not you should eat something, you are sinning.

If you go ahead and do it for you are not following your convictions. If you do anything that you believe is not right, you are sinning. The Bible is pretty clear about what is sin. Sin is anything you do not for God, whether that's listening to music, watching a sports game, playing video games, looking at art, or gay sex.

If your response to this is, no one can live a sinless life then, congratulations, you just found out you're not a God. In this tract, we will focus on technopuritans conceptions of good and evil. But we talk about what I think [00:07:00] the traditional interpretations of Christianity get wrong about sin, let's talk about what broader society thinks about good and evil, and how it got there.

So, what are your thoughts so far on, like, what the Bible says sin is? Does that sound right to you, or? I mean, it, I like, I like the focus, at least in the quotes provided. On the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law, though I ima