Christian Morality
Derivation of Principles

Chapter 8.
Elitism, bigotry, exploitation, etc.

There are forces in subconscious minds which cause all significant sin. They are really just one force with numerous manifestations. Traditionally, that force is called pride. It is manifested also as jealousy, elitism, bigotry, etc. Those forces are psychologically conditioned to function on a stimulus-response basis with power as the positive reinforcement. They therefore escape awareness in the victim's own mind.

Organized religions cannot remove those forces from minds, because the environments are not suitable. In fact they promote them inadvertently due to power and status. Christ meticulously described a path which would overcome those corruptions. But he said it was a path which is hard to find and follow (Mat 7:14).

Religious authorities promote those corruptions, because worldliness, power and authority are reinforcements for the corruption. They also whitewash the sin, which requires corrupting the moral truth which Christ taught.

Elitism is the subconscious assumption that worthy persons must be built up, and unworthy persons must be degraded. It includes the assumption that such a dichotomy is objective, necessary and virtuous.

Power gives elitism its sanctimonious characteristics. Power is the positive reinforcement for the subconscious forces which create sin. As all positive reinforcements do, power becomes viewed as virtue. So acquiring positions of power seems to turn sin into virtue. It is the path which seems right but leads to death (Prov 14:12). Power makes sin seem right, while it destroys life.

Conversely, everything powerless persons do is viewed as sin by corrupt persons. That's why Christ described the remedy in terms of giving up power (Mat 19:21). Powerless persons become vulnerable, and vulnerable persons become victimized by sin. They then see the truth about sin. They also acquire a need to overcome sin by solving problems. The act of solving problems reverses the effects of sin and develops all moral characteristics, because all of morality, intelligence and constructivity is taxed in attempts to solve problems.

Notice that this path is also the means of promoting life, because promoting life is the same as morality. Also notice that solving problems is totally objective, which means something either works or doesn't work. In other words, the problems and answers are the same whether there is a God directing morality or not.

All God can do is provide assistance; he cannot change what morality is. Corrupt persons try to change what morality is, and doing so is what makes them corrupt. When God gives commands, he is describing requirements that already exist, not creating them or changing them.

The proof of this is criminal codes, which even atheists accept, because they don't want to be victimized. No amount of saying otherwise is going to change what crime is. Of course, around the edges, a lot of perpetrators want to call their sin virtue, which is what elitism is.

The purpose of elitism is to acquire and control power. The power that elitists acquire is used to sanctify their own corruptions while condemning the persons below them. Amplifying the difference between the persons with status and those without is a conscious purpose of elitists. They exaggerate the differences by degrading vulnerable persons. The degradations including throwing obstacles in the path of vulnerable persons. They also include calumnizinig, scandalizing, vilifying, insulting, mocking and ridiculing lowly persons.

There are two standards to elitism. While degrading the nobodies, the worthies are built up through positiveness, praises and lovy-dovyness. All sin requires dual standards, because the perpetrators cannot accept for themselves what they do to their victims. That's why hypocrisy is involved.

With elitism, the standard for the victims is projected onto the victims, as if the victims bring it onto themselves. The degraded conditions that the victims find themselves in is portrayed as evidence of their unworthiness. Status is portrayed as the proof in the pudding. Why would some persons have status unless they were more worthy?

The truth is that the victims are not the corrupted incompetents that elitists make them out to be. Instead, they are the persons who are less inclined to perpetrate sin to acquire power. Christ described morality in such terms. He said the lowly victims of injustice are more worthy than the perpetrators (Mat 5:3-12). But everything he taught is replaced by humanly synthesized theology which says the opposite. It says that the corrupters who control power speak infallibly for God, and the gimmickry which they control replaces the need for moral truth.

Sin has a closed loop of logic with it which is self-feeding. The victims are lowly, vulnerable persons. Their appearance and environment is supposedly a result of their own sin. The sin against them is supposedly necessary and virtuous. But the victims react to it, which is threatening to the perpetrators. So the perpetrators need to subdue them, control them and force them to support the domination, exploitation, elitism and bigotry, not only calling it virtue but remolding their character in the pattern of their persecutors. The more the victims resist, the more worthy and necessary the sin against them. The victims are hated as supposedly being the cause of the problem.

For these reasons, Christ taught morality not in terms of appearances and worthiness of elite and powerful persons with status but in terms of social justice for lowly and needy persons and loving enemies and doing good for persecutors. Only a refusal to return sin for sin can break the cycle of sin justifying more sin.

Breaking the cycle of sin is willingness to be effect rather than cause. Sin requires being cause over someone or something. There is no sin in being effect, but it is amost impossible to be cause without perpetrating injustice.

Christ taught this principle by saying that if a person strikes you on one cheek, you should offer the other as well (Mat 5:39). Offering the other cheek is willingness to be cause. Worldly and corrupt persons despise this principle. They often ridicule Christians because of it and pretend that retaliation is so much more realistic.

Retaliation is the equivalent of throwing stones while living in a glass house. Power mongers assume they are invincible, but they bankrupt themselves trying to make themselves invincible. To be invincible enough to perpetrate injustice—and all force creates injustices—they have to be able to remove truth from the universe. They would have more success at stopping the wind with a machine gun.

The reason why nonretaliation makes more sense is because once an injustice occurs, it never does get undone.  Retaliation does not undo desctructivity. It is nothing but vengeance. Vengeance is created by forces in the mind and has no ability to improve anything. Vengeful persons pretend that they can control enemies through intimidation and coercion, but it never happens. The more successful anyone is at temporarily intimidating and coercing, the more determination they create in the victims to overcome the forces. Eventually, the destroyers stumble and fall, and no one sympathizes with them. It's like the Nazis thinking they could take over the world. The more successful they were, the more enemies they created, until they were destroyed.

Corrupters assume they can defy opponents and force their perversions onto their victims. Sin is perpetrated on the assumption that no one can do anyting about it. But there is a truism which they are not aware of. Whenever an injustice is perpetrated, a counterforce of justice builds up against it until the source of injustice is destroyed. This mechanism always occurs and can never be defied. Corrupters can only delay the result, they can never prevent it.

The proof of this mechanism is in the minds of the perpetrators. A force develops in their own minds in response to the external force of justice that truth creates. The force in their own minds is the test of sin. If the force does not exist, there is no sin. The force that develops is highly visible, because the perpetrators have to deny, conceal or rationalize their sin. Their opposition to truth and justice demonstrates their guilt.

These facts may look artificial to deniers of moral truth, because the universe functions like a machine in producing truth and justice. So how does the universe function like a machine? The mechansims are in minds. Minds do certain things which create universal results. Unified reality increases in minds as understanding. Unified reality in minds creates the power of truth in the universe. Consider how science and medicine have destroyed myths and superstitions.