Terrys vision for his new Christian Religion
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:16 pm
Ten days before Terry died he outlined his vision for his new denomination of Christian worship. [0]
Its pretty obvious whats wrong with the "church", whether catholic, protestant, or non-denominational churches, are almost always self-serving places. "The church is dead". The church uses congregations donations, not to enrich the community or help the congregation, but to buy a bigger building, to build a revenue-generating private school, to put together high-budget performances for Christmas sermons, etc. etc. The word of god is not the primary focus. Actually helping people is not the primary focus. "Church is not the building but the people". Church entertainment. With your Christian rock and laser lights. Megachurches. Televangelists. Corrupt pedophiliac catholics. Jesus would've hated all these (Matthew 23).
So too Terry says the computer industry is sick. Back in the 70s and 80s of silicon valley, it was a place of human empowering optimism. Now it is a place of exploitation, exploiting our personal data, exploiting the primitive parts of our brain (social media dopamine addiction), and exploiting the world over for cheap resources and labor to make devices planned to be obsolete in 2 years. Greed and wastefulness.
Ten days before Terry died he vowed to cure the sickness of the church, the computer industry, and the world. "The best religion is the one with the most new vistas of understanding over a lifetime." The foundation of his proposed religion is that of the direct, personal communication with god [1]. "No one will teach god because everyone will know me."
0 - I'm starting a New Religion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwK2aMkvsPQ
1 - How to Pray in Temple OS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Qxn6FvHkU
Its pretty obvious whats wrong with the "church", whether catholic, protestant, or non-denominational churches, are almost always self-serving places. "The church is dead". The church uses congregations donations, not to enrich the community or help the congregation, but to buy a bigger building, to build a revenue-generating private school, to put together high-budget performances for Christmas sermons, etc. etc. The word of god is not the primary focus. Actually helping people is not the primary focus. "Church is not the building but the people". Church entertainment. With your Christian rock and laser lights. Megachurches. Televangelists. Corrupt pedophiliac catholics. Jesus would've hated all these (Matthew 23).
So too Terry says the computer industry is sick. Back in the 70s and 80s of silicon valley, it was a place of human empowering optimism. Now it is a place of exploitation, exploiting our personal data, exploiting the primitive parts of our brain (social media dopamine addiction), and exploiting the world over for cheap resources and labor to make devices planned to be obsolete in 2 years. Greed and wastefulness.
Ten days before Terry died he vowed to cure the sickness of the church, the computer industry, and the world. "The best religion is the one with the most new vistas of understanding over a lifetime." The foundation of his proposed religion is that of the direct, personal communication with god [1]. "No one will teach god because everyone will know me."
0 - I'm starting a New Religion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwK2aMkvsPQ
1 - How to Pray in Temple OS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Qxn6FvHkU