How Christians demonize what they don't understand

[Lacewing]

In the documentary The Age of Disclosure, "several interviewees say there is a group of 'fundamentalists' within the Deep State who try to discourage investigation into the UAP/NHI story, because they believe it’s all demonic, and we shouldn’t be messing with it. The movie gives you the sense that these crazy Christians are trying to inhibit progress."

Certainly, fundamentalist Christians would oppose or deny anything that might demonstrate shortcomings or faults with their belief system. However, to actually claim it's 'demonic' is really ridiculous without any understanding or proof. Such primitive fear seems so archaic for this day and age.

Here's another angle... could it be that their efforts to inhibit clarity and truth are more demonstrative of so-called 'evil' being imposed on humankind? Why would clarity and truth be threatening to anyone/anything other than deceivers and deception itself? What is the motive for keeping people in the dark?

Is there not benefit from fiercely questioning what we've been told and what we think, no matter how attached to it (or defined by it) we might be? Do we prefer continued deception over the realization of 'being wrong'?

[Dubious]

Is there not benefit from fiercely questioning what we've been told and what we think, no matter how attached to it (or defined by it) we might be? Do we prefer continued deception over the realization of 'being wrong'?

It's the questions, doubts and uncertainties which make us aware that all thinking is perspectival and that all our beliefs - including science which seeks to "prove" nothing - gets collated within an index of probabilities which again, doesn't seek to prove but simply grants degrees of verity to the theories in question. A cultist, by contrast, is book ended to a single belief or scripture preventing the inclusion of any normal doubt sequences to uphold their reality independent of the one which actually exists or known to exist. Any such extraneous thoughts simply default to being Ultra Vires within the corporation of cultists.

In short, it's only cultists who will never admit to being wrong in order to reify and maintain their deceptions. The one interesting thing about fanatics and such is by what process this perversion dynamic get so hideously inscribed within the human psyche as to paralyze the normal impetus to admit to a temporary or even perennial state of uncertainty. There are only things the gods can know and they don't exist. Only the cultist canon remains a fixed emblem immune to all that would infringe its certainties.

Put another way...

What it means to be human has yet to unfold
No god can declare but by man must be told.

...and what must be told is first listed by the question whose final response can only yield probability but never certainty.

[promethean75]

"However, to actually claim it's 'demonic' is really ridiculous"

Not from the perpetrator's point of view. The ruling class needed to dissuade the working class from infidelity when it invented Christianity (or i should formalized it.... it was invented by peasants.) Other religious views that challenged or brought into question the dictates of christian life might encourage the working class to start questioning everything... all the way up to the State. So, demons and devils had to be invented; the forces that make you suspicious of christian dogma and turn you away from it are the work of demons leading you astray, etc.

Two thousand years later, you've got broke white trash families sitting in double wide trailers wielding bibles like shields because they're certain demons are all around em tryna make em quit their job, turn communist, vote democrat, rob a bank or any other activity that reduces their economic viability to the capitalist (or the emperor, depending on your century).

So you see, planting the idea of devils not only gets (or attempts to) god out of trouble as the responsible party and final arbiter of evil, but it also discourages disobedience to christian dogma and culture. This is not ridiculous at all. It's a critically important failsafe.

Don't you guys say anything stupid or I'll leave for another year.