Anonymous
6/14/2025, 5:50:38 AM No.40527849
If you think about it, isn’t Christianity left-hand path to both Islam and Judaism? Not in the western sense, but in the actual traditional eastern sense
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 5:53:04 AM No.40527861
Well Christianity is unique in that it undermines conformity to God's law in favor of divine grace
Is that what you mean? It isn't a free ticket to live in lawlessness btw, rather it presents the freedom to obey the law because you are good, not out of obligation. Or something like that.
Is that what you mean? It isn't a free ticket to live in lawlessness btw, rather it presents the freedom to obey the law because you are good, not out of obligation. Or something like that.
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 5:54:54 AM No.40527869
>>40527849 (OP)
Arnt all modern religions kinda cookie cutter copys
Arnt all modern religions kinda cookie cutter copys
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 5:57:25 AM No.40527883
>>40527861
>It isn't a free ticket to live in lawlessness btw
Neither is the traditional left-hand path, even the most extreme of those (the aghori) hold on to strict values and rules. Left-hand and right-hand path are very contextual things, and I am simply arguing that Christianity is left-hand path to the other abrahamic religions specifically.
>It isn't a free ticket to live in lawlessness btw
Neither is the traditional left-hand path, even the most extreme of those (the aghori) hold on to strict values and rules. Left-hand and right-hand path are very contextual things, and I am simply arguing that Christianity is left-hand path to the other abrahamic religions specifically.
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 5:58:20 AM No.40527889
>>40527883
In what way though?
How would Christians break social conventions within Jewish and Islamic communities? Or something else that's LHP-ish
In what way though?
How would Christians break social conventions within Jewish and Islamic communities? Or something else that's LHP-ish
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 6:06:18 AM No.40527927
>>40527849 (OP)
Is this another "muh bacon" thread?
Is this another "muh bacon" thread?
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 6:08:57 AM No.40527952
>>40527889
Not adhering to the written law (instead following the law of the spirit) and purposely breaking it and eating forbidden things, ‘what passes through you will not defile you’, criticising and going against religious authority, twisting established Jewish ideas on their head, eating the flesh and BLOOD (blood would be even more offensive because that’s something that’s forbidden, yes you are physically drinking wine but the point stands) of God, the trinity, the fact is that Jesus is God, and if Christians become the sons of God and if Jesus is the son of God and if Jesus is God…. You realise where this is heading? Etc.
Not adhering to the written law (instead following the law of the spirit) and purposely breaking it and eating forbidden things, ‘what passes through you will not defile you’, criticising and going against religious authority, twisting established Jewish ideas on their head, eating the flesh and BLOOD (blood would be even more offensive because that’s something that’s forbidden, yes you are physically drinking wine but the point stands) of God, the trinity, the fact is that Jesus is God, and if Christians become the sons of God and if Jesus is the son of God and if Jesus is God…. You realise where this is heading? Etc.
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 6:28:44 AM No.40528062
>>40527849 (OP)
I think maybe the original Christianity could be characterized that way, but the version that became dominant after the first few centuries is the end-result of it being clawed much of the way back into alignment with Judaism, so its scripture has a confusing mixture of tendencies. And most modern Christians really love their straightforwardly-interpreted Old Testament.
I think maybe the original Christianity could be characterized that way, but the version that became dominant after the first few centuries is the end-result of it being clawed much of the way back into alignment with Judaism, so its scripture has a confusing mixture of tendencies. And most modern Christians really love their straightforwardly-interpreted Old Testament.
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 1:49:23 PM No.40529519
>>40527849 (OP)
I think it would help if you re-contextualize what LHP and RHP are. Or at least I find my understandings to give me an easy answer.
LHP isnt simply about breaking convention. LHP is about forging your own way. Extending the "path" metaphor, a RHP is well cut through the brush, easy trod and predictable - many many others have gone this way, and you know it a successful way.
LHP is looking at the brush and going "I think there's a way over here, too," and forging through on your own. It may look like breaking convention to RHP, but it is still going for the same success, just in a way not done before.
Thus, if a LHP becomes well established as successful, and develops a "proper way" to do it, that grows into a RHP. That would be Christianity. That would also be some people that do aghori sadhana, or follow LaVey or Crowley. You are no longer looking at the brush, and finding a new path that others have not trod. You are no longer LHP.
LHP is "dangerous" because there's no guarantee of success. It takes a very powerful person, and just because one person can do it, it doesnt mean others can. Not even about ability, simply about the nature of spiritual practice. Not all LHP successes can turn into a repeatable RHP.
Pulling it back to your topic: I would say Christianity and Islam both started as LHP deviations from Judaism, and have developed into RHP doctrines and practices, and now both have their own LHP practices springing from them.
I think it would help if you re-contextualize what LHP and RHP are. Or at least I find my understandings to give me an easy answer.
LHP isnt simply about breaking convention. LHP is about forging your own way. Extending the "path" metaphor, a RHP is well cut through the brush, easy trod and predictable - many many others have gone this way, and you know it a successful way.
LHP is looking at the brush and going "I think there's a way over here, too," and forging through on your own. It may look like breaking convention to RHP, but it is still going for the same success, just in a way not done before.
Thus, if a LHP becomes well established as successful, and develops a "proper way" to do it, that grows into a RHP. That would be Christianity. That would also be some people that do aghori sadhana, or follow LaVey or Crowley. You are no longer looking at the brush, and finding a new path that others have not trod. You are no longer LHP.
LHP is "dangerous" because there's no guarantee of success. It takes a very powerful person, and just because one person can do it, it doesnt mean others can. Not even about ability, simply about the nature of spiritual practice. Not all LHP successes can turn into a repeatable RHP.
Pulling it back to your topic: I would say Christianity and Islam both started as LHP deviations from Judaism, and have developed into RHP doctrines and practices, and now both have their own LHP practices springing from them.