Strange Ideological Flow

 "Most christian moral posturing I'd based on common morality that is then projected onto the Bible. Just ask them about slavery."
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/GraniRau/status/1711372935850529107

 "People really do just make up morality, it's based more on commonly held feelings and ideas than any religious text"

 This gives the impression that the culture comes first and the Bible comes second. They do a [read into] for whatever they want and ignore what's inconvenient. Used as post-hoc justification for decisions already made.

 "[...]Zechariah is the most interesting one because it spells out Jewish rule over gentiles and Christians really avoid it because it contradicts their theology."
 https://nitter.unixfox.eu/GraniRau/status/1713626281877639603

 Except...uh...do they avoid it?
 They worship a book.
 The book says to place israelites over them.
 At no point is this particular part of the covenant contradicted or otherwise lifted.
 They spend enormous effort making a society which at least appears to put israelites into all positions of power.

 Quite the coincidence, isn't it? You're not a coincidence theorist or anything, are you?

 I'm a coincidence theorist. It's not like that's the only coincidence. Render unto Caesar... Same way all Woke moral precepts come straight from the new testament. The problem with stuff like Christianity and Buddhism is that, despite the fact nearly everyone is illiterate and huge numbers are functionally non-verbal beasts, they do in fact end up following the written ideology. 

 The slavery thing is of course about how the mountains will be laid low, the rough places smoothed, and the low places raised up. It only looks like the book doesn't address it if you're autistic.

 The mechanism that transmutes dead paper into living stupidity is sufficiently mysterious. Nevertheless, we don't need to know the mechanism to, you know, know them by their fruits. 

 Despite everything, you can in fact own a gun in the United States. Normally you can even shoot someone with it - though it's far from perfectly safe and of course the process is the punishment. Most who catch a murder charge trying to self-defend are low-status or otherwise deserve it. There was even a period of reverse-ratchet, where Cthulu swam right.

 As curious as the abyss. Nevertheless, the pattern is undeniable.

 0. Speak the truth. 1. Believe the truth. Imagine someone wrote down these commandments? What if there was a constitution which exalted the power of property rights? Wouldn't that be even more curious?