From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   Throwing the baby Jesus out with the bathwater of imperfect beings   
   failing to adhere perfectly to a teaching (an attempt to sound clever   
   about the bigger picture of mocking and deriding and attempting to   
   socially cancel the likes of Christianity) had at least one grave,   
   unintended consequence: it removed from collective awareness what   
   was once the sense of one's actions/behavior being watched.   
      
   "Freed" from being watched by a God, suddenly any and/or all behavior   
   became, well... well, who fucking cares? Nobody's watching! Do as   
   you please!   
      
   However, arguably all that happened was trading one set of shackles   
   for another, because self-centric behavior always ultimately destroys   
   others en route to itself.   
      
   The proof in the value of being watched is, as behavior became   
   increasingly, self-centric, the increase need to install *cameras*,   
   i.e. devices whose purpose is to watch actions/behavior, knowing   
   that, otherwise, mass devolution would proceed at breakneck pace.   
      
   Christianity never had to be "real" to work. It worked/works in   
   the sense of keeping destructive self-centrism at bay when even   
   half-assedly adhered to.   
      
   And there will never enough cameras save society from its loss....   
      
   --   
   oldernow   
   xyz001 at nym.hush.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)