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Neo-Tech Advantage #33
THE SEVENTEEN-HUNDRED-YEAR OPPRESSION OF HUMAN HAPPINESS
About 300 A.D., Christian theologians discovered the ultimate
neocheating technique to control human beings. That technique was to link
guilt with sex [Re: Section Four Neo-Tech Reference Encyclopedia]. With that
technique, the Christian church rose to its height in power, causing Western
civilization to crumble into the mystical Dark Ages as human well-being and
happiness sank to the lowest level in recorded history.
The history of Christian oppression of individual life, rights, values,
happiness, pleasure, and sexuality is outlined on the following pages:
CHRISTIAN OPPRESSION OF HAPPINESS
(from research by Morton M. Hunt and others)
100 A.D. - 385 A.D.
- Roman Empire still appeared vibrant, but was
surrendering to a new religion...Christianity. Rome plunged into altruism and
asceticism.
- Roman pagans began persecuting those Christians who became altruistic
fanatics and used any means to meet their goals of destroying the
life-enhancing and productive aspects of Roman civilization. Those neocheating
Christian leaders had the dual objective of wiping out the pleasures of human
life as well as destroying the high standard of living enjoyed by the Romans.
The early Christians heroically formed tightly-knit anarchist groups for
effective protection from the oppression of the bureaucratic Roman government
while laying the foundations for their own much greater oppressions.
385 A.D. - 1000 A.D.
- The rise of the unkempt ascetics (hippies) in Egypt.
Based on Christian self-torture and denial (e.g., St. Simon).
- Christianity discovered a fast, neocheating route to power -- the
foisting of guilt onto innocent value producers. As an effective rallying
symbol, they found and elevated to martyr-level status an obscure historical
individual who died three centuries earlier. That individual ironically was a
gentle, appealing rebel who heroically stood up to the injustices of the
parasitical-elite authorities -- the same type authorities who three centuries
later usurped and mystified him for their own dishonest exploitation. That
individual, their new symbol, was named Jesus Christ. ...Jesus has been done a
rank injustice by the Catholic church.
- Christians became increasingly preoccupied with sex as they struggled against
lust (e.g., by burning off fingers to resist temptation). Thinly veiled,
neurotic eroticism steadily increased within the church.
- St. Augustine (born 354 A.D.) promoted guilt through his books: (1)
Confessions -- self-accusations of his pagan, lustful youth. He
converted to a Christian in 386 A.D., then gained power through neocheating by
hatefully using guilt to turn the goodness and pleasures of man against
himself. Promulgated how all are born between feces and urine. (2)The City
of God -- his major work -- speculates how babies might be born from women
"uncankered by lust and sex". Demonstrates passionate hatred for human life.
St. Augustine became a master neocheater in achieving respect and power by
making problems where none existed. He destroyed values rather than create
them.
- By the 5th Century, marriage came under church domination.
- The decline into dark ages coincided with the rise of Christianity.
Collapsing under the Christian stranglehold, 6th Century Rome was repeatedly
ravaged and looted. One million population was reduced to fifty thousand. The
city lay in rubble and ruins. The Senate ceased for lack of qualified men.
The hygiene, science, and culture of Rome was abandoned as Christianity took
hold.
- By 585 A.D., Catholics argued that women did not have mortal souls and debated
if women were even human beings.
- Sex was reduced by Christianity to an unromantic, harsh, ugly act with penance
easily and hypocritically granted to men whenever required. Women became
pieces of disposable property.
- Clergy and popes turned to prostitutes and neurotic sex. (e.g., The Pope of
904 A.D. practiced incest and was a lecher with children).
- By the 9th Century, Christianity dominated. Women were considered property of
men. The church sanctioned wife-beating. Men were merely fined by the church
for killing women.
- For the Catholic clergy, sex without values (e.g., prostitute sex, orgy sex,
even forced rape or sadistic sex) was not a serious offense, but sex with
values (e.g., loving or valuing a woman) was a high sin with severe penalties.
For, love and valuing resist control by "authorities", therefore, had to be
squelched.
- St. Jerome stated that he who too ardently loved his wife was an adulterer.
- Christian marital sex was performed only in one position and then only to
conceive a child. Sex was never to be performed during penance nor on Sundays,
Wednesdays, Fridays, holiday seasons.
- The major Christian sin was not sex, but pleasure.
1000 A.D. - 1500 A.D.
- Courtly love reflected happiness and contradicted the
malevolence of religion. Churchmen feared and fought courtly love (e.g., St.
Thomas stated that to kiss and touch a woman with delight, even without thought
of fornication, was a mortal sin).
- The struggle was between oppressive religion and renaissance free
thinking. Also, the struggle was between papal power and the new Aristotelian
ideas.
- In the 1300s, an ominous new interest in witchcraft and exorcism began
appearing in the church. Priests fulminated about the evil powers of women who
formed sex pacts with the Devil.
- By 1450, the dichotomy was complete and the dogma was established by the
Catholic church that all physically desirable women were evil witches. The
church was losing its power, and demonizing women was their means to fight the
rediscovering of human joyfulness brought on by the emerging Renaissance.
- Renaissance noblemen in the 15th Century equated beauty to good. To counter
this trend toward good and beauty, the church attacked through the Pope. The
Catholic church developed a new breed of neocheating malefactors not known
before...the inquisitors who were backed by a series of papal pronouncements
and bulls. The Pope set up two theologians (Jacob Sprenger and Henry Kramer)
to act as inquisitors. Sprenger and Kramer wrote a widely influential book
dealing with the "evils" of women and witchcraft. That led to the burning to
death of tens of thousands of innocent women during the Renaissance.
- Crosscurrents and contradictions -- the "lady ideal" projected by the happy,
benevolent spirit of the Renaissance versus the "evil witch" projected by the
unhappy, malevolent spirit of the church.
- King Henry VIII was the first major figure to combine love and marriage. He
waged a long battle with Bishop Wolsey and Pope Clement VII about his divorce
and subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn.
- Renaissance enlightenment made sex seem not so sinful and disgusting as the
church insisted. The middle class began to associate sex with love.
1500 - 1700
- The Reformation combined with the enlightened
Renaissance by considering sex in marriage as wholesome and free of guilt. But
the malevolent Christian position continued to burn women as witches.
- Martin Luther battled Catholic asceticism by advocating the enjoyment
of every pleasure that was not "sinful". Luther lived in a lusty "eat, drink,
and be merry" style. He fought Rome and claimed that celibacy was invented by
the Devil. He insisted that priests could marry and asserted that marriage was
not a sacrament at all, but a civil matter. Luther asserted that sexual
impulses were both natural and irrepressible. He broke from Rome and married.
He cheerfully loved his wife and held pleasurable sex in marriage as good.
Luther's reformation rapidly spread across Northern Europe.
- John Calvin (the father of the Bluenoses) was the opposite of Martin Luther.
Calvin was sour, malevolent, and had a ferocious theology based on human
depravity and the wrath of God. He was an unhappy ascetic who had ulcers,
tuberculosis, and kidney stones; he considered life of little value. Calvin
set up a brutally strict theocracy in Geneva that allowed no dancing, fancy
clothes, or jewelry. The death penalty was imposed for adultery. Even
legitimate love was stringently regulated. Engagements were limited to six
weeks. No lingering at romance was allowed. Weddings were grave with no
revelry. The Calvinist marriage had two functions: (1) to produce children,
and (2) to reduce sexual desires.
- Most Puritans, however, were quite unlike the inhuman joylessness of Calvin.
But a few vocal fanatics such as John Knox in the United States continued to
pile misery onto others. His Blue laws of the 1650s were against amusements,
smoking, drinking, gambling, fancy clothing. He also promoted public
whippings, scarlet letters, executions for adulterers, and the Salem "witch"
executions (executed 26 women and two dogs in 1692).
- Early Puritan traits were mainly stern expressions masking mischief and
romance. Church trial records show much "sinning" existed. But only sex
outside marriage was attacked. Puritans were very much for sex inside marriage
and condemned the virtue-of-virginity concept. Most Puritans were tenderly
romantic and good lovers.
- The image of the sexless Puritan with a stony heart is false. For example,
the 17th Century Puritan John Milton (Paradise Lost) projected a healthy
view of married sex. He displayed idealistic, romantic views about marriage.
Moreover, Milton sent tracts to Parliament urging modern-day, easy divorce.
Milton's Paradise Lost projects a benevolent view of Adam and Eve in a
romantic-love context. Milton rejected St. Augustine's malevolent views of
life, sex, and pleasure.
- 16th Century Puritans combined the ideals of romantic love with the normality
of sex in marriage. Woman's status improved under Puritanism (e.g., if beaten,
women could separate and even divorce.). Property rights and inheritance laws
improved. Marriage became a civil contract.
1700 - 1800
- The rationalists in this new Age of Reason rejected the
gloom of Christianity. They scrapped the church's portrait of woman as evil.
- 18th Century love rejected Christian anti-sexual values and idealized
the mythical Don Juan, who was impeccably mannered, lustful, haughty. Love was
reduced to mere sensuality and pleasurable sport with the motive to seduce and
then desert.
1800 - 1900
- Religious Victorian men, on the other hand, were patriarchal and
stern. But they played that role at their own sexual expense.
- Out of religious Victorianism arose a great hunger for a fantasy sex
life. Flagellation, pornography, and prostitution rapidly increased.
- Capitalistic economics were greatly accelerating the dissolution of medieval
religious ties along with their unjust social customs and racism.
- The religious Victorian home was threatened by talk of female suffrage,
divorce reforms, and free love.
- Victorianism was a reactionary, desperate delaying action (in collusion with
the church) against the inevitable changes made by an emerging industrial
civilization. Religion-oriented Victorians tried to fight change via religious
coercion, government force, and police activities.
1900 - 1950
- Margaret Sanger staged a historic fight for birth
control claiming that a woman's body belonged to her alone. She published
birth-control information in 1914 and opened birth-control clinics in 1916.
Outraged Roman Catholic elements had her arrested and jailed.
1950 - 1980
- Modern sexual revolution toward openness and honesty has
caused the church's malevolent influence over sexuality to wane. In a last
desperate effort, "modern" and new-wave churches evolved that adopted
existentialist and fun views of sex in order to diminish the value and
importance of sex. Thus, those churches kept control by undercutting people's
self-esteem. Without self-esteem, one cannot experience abiding happiness or
psychuous pleasures. Without self-esteem, a person will continue to be
controlled by neocheaters using the tools of mysticism.
1980 - PRESENT
- An ominous rise of overt mysticism, born-again
Christianity, and fundamentalist religions signal a turn back toward malevolent
views of life, love, and sex. A revival of fundamentalism and theocratic
concepts are conditions ultimately sought by all mystical leaders. No matter
what deceptive facades they present, all mystical leaders are destructive
neocheaters who ultimately want to reign with murderous power. But today, for
the first time in history, mysticism and neocheating are being irreversibly
undermined by the spreading Neo-Tech matrix.
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