From a historical perspective, I think the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is the beginning of the end for organized Christianity.
It’s been branded now by it’s extreme right wing, the same way Islam is struggling with its radical right. Hindus get whacky too, so do Jews, it’s not the religion, it’s the whacky extremist psychology that gloms onto it and twists it up to their pathological needs.
But it’s bad for marketing Christianity, to be branded by the intolerance of the extreme far-right. That’s not what Jesus said. He didn’t say “Thou shalt judge people.” They don’t listen.
That’s unfortunate.
I’m not thinking now, I’m thinking to our children, and then to theirs (and really, then to theirs). I’m a trans-generational trauma guy, I watch as it moves through us.
I suspect our children are going to reject the narcissistic pathogen more and more, and their children will even more. Power, control, and domination, I don’t think our children’s children will like it.
I think they’ll want to be free to decide on their lives. The current “conservative” position is not tenable.
Trump has destroyed the “Republican” party, I don’t think it will ever recover once the dust clears on the historical line. Trump has destroyed democracy. I think Christianity may struggle as well.
We need to decide majority-rules rights now. Vote.
I don’t think the Culture Wars of the early 21st century are going to help church recruitment with our children, and their children – I don’t think “thou shalt judge thy neighbor” is gonna fly.
Things change from cause-and-effect, but that’s not the end of it. Everything changes on context, change the context, change the event. Is that transformation of now to the next possible or impossible?
The context needs to support the event, da Vinci has a helicopter in the 1480s, so what. He has to wait for everyone to catch up. Context allows the event, the mind cannot know what it cannot yet grasp.
The problem is, the information you need you can’t ever grasp because it’s not graspable information, it flows through the fingers like sand leaving your hands wonderfully empty.
Jesus said “don’t judge each other” – they say judge each other.
Jesus said “love” – they say hate.
I think they’re confused. They now represent the brand for marketing. That’s deeply unfortunate.
Religion v. Secular – Roe v. Wade. Who gets to decide when “life” begins and when a person has rights? They do, I guess, because they have achieved the power to dominate and control others to match their beliefs.
That’s not what he said to do.
Trump is a grotesque – a being empty of soul, their love eviscerated by narcissistic pathology collapsed into a black-hole of itself. He corrupts everything he touches, he’s corrupted Christianity.
But he’s just a symptom, a call to the like-minded, the pied-piper of the pathology… come join me… they came to his call.
They are exposed now. Before they were hidden everywhere among us. Now they’re exposed everywhere among us. Zuckerberg’s Meta has banned discussion of Roe v. Wade.
Good luck with that – this will divide our nation – Free-Choice states and No-Choice states – neighbor against neighbor. Majority rules on rights – vote.
You have no rights except those you are willing to defend. Everything is parallel process right now – there – here.
To reveal that which is hidden – in us. It’s called self-reflective insight, it’s a executive function of the frontal lobe.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857