[quote name='dhu' date='11 November 2010 - 06:25 PM' timestamp='1289479641' post='109184']
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Cioran, E. M.[/quote]A comment on the title alone.
While it is interesting for its phrasing, the statement is untrue. (The Gods can never be destroyed.) The statement should be:
"A civilization is destroyed only when its heathens are successfully alienated from their Gods." That is, when the heathen is destroyed - i.e. when the heathenism of the heathen is taken from it* (after which it ceases to be heathen).
* This includes a heathen's (or an originally-heathen society's) own deHeathenisation, even though the process is always kickstarted by the christoclass mindvirus (since deHeathenisation, being subversion, is not a natural process). DeHeathenisation=christoclass mindvirus. And but for it, the unaffected would have remained ... unaffected, that is, heathen. It takes the external impetus of christoconditioning. Lots of momentum (invasive christo-efforts, like evangelism to large-scale social-engineering, jesuitry/high-level strings) to get the thing rolling. Then the thing rolls all by itself.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Cioran, E. M.[/quote]A comment on the title alone.
While it is interesting for its phrasing, the statement is untrue. (The Gods can never be destroyed.) The statement should be:
"A civilization is destroyed only when its heathens are successfully alienated from their Gods." That is, when the heathen is destroyed - i.e. when the heathenism of the heathen is taken from it* (after which it ceases to be heathen).
* This includes a heathen's (or an originally-heathen society's) own deHeathenisation, even though the process is always kickstarted by the christoclass mindvirus (since deHeathenisation, being subversion, is not a natural process). DeHeathenisation=christoclass mindvirus. And but for it, the unaffected would have remained ... unaffected, that is, heathen. It takes the external impetus of christoconditioning. Lots of momentum (invasive christo-efforts, like evangelism to large-scale social-engineering, jesuitry/high-level strings) to get the thing rolling. Then the thing rolls all by itself.