@meaning_enjoyer a successful malignant ideology will promise to make your life better while actually sabotaging it and making it worse in ways that seem to prove the ideology correct. the more you follow it, the worse everything gets, while you become more and more devoted to it. demonic even.
¡Jeb!x.com@meaning_enjoyer a successful malignant ideology will promise to make your life better while actually sabotaging it and making it worse in ways that seem to prove the ideology correct. the more you follow it, the worse everything gets, while you become more and more devoted to it. demonic even.
Society is a giant game that’s governed by competition and envy. The reason you initially strayed from your conviction is because you adopted the rules of this game, all of which were crafted by other hands. These rules encourage you to rank people by their status, to view people by what they can offer, and to introduce conditions into your interac
... See moreLawrence Yeo • The Inner Compass
perpetrated on people by religious authority figures, mixing religious beliefs with political policy and action led by people who have not earned their positions of influence by proving their love of humankind, and thus are not deserving of trust
George Barna • Churchless
the end, idols completely fail. They not only fail to deliver the godlikeness and immortality they promised at first, they rob their worshipers of even the most minimal human dignity and agency. Of all the charges the biblical prophets file against idols, the most damning is this: “Those who make them become like them.”