"The Thinking Housewife," Conservative Christianity And Religiosity As A Cover For Cruelty

You'll Never Guess What These Guys Are Doing... And Why

(See the "reveal" below.)

Alan: Too frequently, religiosity is a cover-up for cruelty. 

Often this cruelty arises from the need for "salvation assurance." And one of the easiest ways to feel confident about one's place in paradise is to look down on the damned. 

An unexpected "downside" to the innate superciliousness of salvation assurance is the correlative belief (typically unconscious) that if God "signs off" on eternal torment, surely we -- his designated agents on earth -- can not only feel good about the torment that afflicts "The Lost" but even feel good accelerating the speed with which lost souls receive their eternal "reward."

And so begin inquisitions, the Albigensian genocide and Islamist jihad.

The Thinking Housewife Almost Never Mentions Love, Compassion, Mercy Or Forgiveness
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-thinking-housewife-almost-never.html

The Thinking Housewife: More Shylock Than Portia
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-thinking-housewife-more-shylock.html

The Thinking Housewife Plunges Into The Abyss Of Conspiratorial Thinking

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-thinking-housewife-plunges-into.html

Why "The Thinking Housewife" Is Mad
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-thinking-housewife-is-mad.html
The Thinking Housewife: "We Can Be Pretty Sure That Many Good People Are Roasting In Hell"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-thinking-housewife-we-can-be-pretty.html

"The Thinking Housewife's Passion For Pope Paul IV Who Initiated Jewish Ghettos"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-thinking-housewifes-passion-for.html

The Thinking Housewife and Closeted White Supremacy

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/dear-fred-im-actively-working-on-couple.html

"The United States Of Homosexual Imperialism," By Laura Wood, "The Thinking Housewife"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-united-states-of-homosexual.html

Are Highly Religious People Less Compassionate?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/reprise-are-highly-religious-people.html

Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/conservative-christians-delight-in.html

Often, Stinginess And Cruelty Are Christianity's Paradoxical Effects

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/often-christianitys-paradoxical-effects.html

"Totalitarian Absolutism And The Thinking Housewife"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/totalitarian-absolutism-and-thinking.html

Liberalism: "Satanic Rebellion Against God?" (The Thinking Housewife)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/11/liberalism-satanic-rebellion-against-god.html

The Thinking Housewife And The Vilification Of Pope Francis by Catholic Traditionalists

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-thinking-housewife-and-vilification.html

More Catholic Than The Pope: The Radical Catholic Traditionalist Movement

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-radical-traditionalist-catholic.html

What Catholic Traditionalists - And Other Christian Conservatives - "Don't Get"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/what-catholic-traditionalists-and-other.html

"What You Need To Know About The Man Who Claims To Be Pope"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-man-who.html

"The Thinking Housewife" Slags Pope Francis As "Sloganeering Papal Impostor"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-thinking-housewife-slags-pope.html

Sedevacantism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/sedevacantism.html

The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism

The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die. 

The sooner the better. 

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right." 

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,  hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html 

Having poked their own eyes out, they fail to see that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.

Psychological Projection

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/projection-psychology.html

Psychological Shadow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)

The Evangelical Persecution Complex

(Projection's Finest Hour)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-evangelical-persecution-complex.html

Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass Final Judgment. 

Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold. 

Remarkably, although they are prone to believe all manner of Trumpeted nonsense, none of them are tempted to believe in their own spiritual peril. 

The Pharisees Are Always With Us.

Here's What They "Look Like" Today

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-pharisees-are-always-with-us-heres.html

"The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/obamacare-and-hard-central-truth-of.html

"The Politics Of Horror In Conservative Evangelicalism," '09 Outstanding Academic Title"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-politics-of-horror-in-conservative.html

What Catholic Traditionalists -- And Other Christian Conservatives -- "Don't Get"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/what-catholic-traditionalists-and-other.html

"What You Need To Know About The Man Who Claims To Be Pope"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-man-who.html

It Is Important To Know These Things So Religion Doesn't Do You More Harm Than Good

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/it-is-important-to-know-these-things-so.html

What Too Many Christians Get Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-way-too-many-christians-get-wrong.html

   

Domican Preacher Bartolome De Las Casas, 16th Century "Protector Of The Indians"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-above-quotation-is-not-fabricated.html

Christianity's Bedrock Commitment To Torture: Remaking "The Faithful" In God's Image

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/christianitys-bedrock-commitment-to.html

Americans, Especially Catholics, Approve Of Inquisitorial Torture

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/americans-especially-catholics-approve.html

Time For Catholicism To "Shelve" Traditions And Texts That Represent God As A Terrorist

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/time-to-expunge-catholicism-of.html

"The Thinking Housewife" And Why The Catholic Church Must Change

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-thinking-housewife-contraception.html

"Trial By Ordeal: The Bloody Old Testamental Roots Of Modern Justice"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/trial-by-ordeal-bloodthirsty-roots-of.html

"Trial By Ordeal: Alive And Well Into The 17th Century"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/trial-by-ordeal-alive-and-well-in-17th.html

Seldom Sermonized Bible Quotes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/seldom-sermonized-bible-verses.html

Worst Bible Passages

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/worst-bible-passages.html

"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/is-bible-more-violent-than-quran-npr.html

Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html

"God Enjoys The 10 Plagues Way Too Much"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/god-enjoys-10-plagues-way-too-much.html

Pastor John Piper "discusses the vexing problem of God ordering the mass killing of every Canaanite man, woman, and child."

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peterenns/2012/07/john-piper-on-why-its-right-for-god-to-slaughter-women-and-children-anytime-he-pleases-and-why-i-have-some-major-problems-with-that/

Mistakes In Scripture: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/mistakes-in-scripture-when-bible-gets.html

ISIS And The Inquisition: The Shadow Side Of Religion. Why Does Belief Do This?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/isis-and-inquisition-shadow-side-of.html

"What ISIS Really Wants" And How The Patriarch Abraham Appears To Be The Instigator

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants-and-how.html

What's Wrong With The Abrahamic Religions: Absolutism, Scriptural Inerrancy, Bloodlust

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/07/whats-wrong-with-abrahamic-religions.html

Christians Ignore Jesus' "Commandments" But Are Punctilious About Things He Never Said

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/christians-ignore-jesus-commandments.html