more notes for Scientism

These ideas came to me in the second half of 2024

1. There is the fact that relics are important to Catholics. They are gory yucky pract ices, to retain and display bones from the bodies of saints. It is just a macabre, atavistic and dark practice which focuses on death, not life. I feel that it is not right to exploit the true fact that the soul or penumbra of an old person st icks around the form they bore. It should be known, but not a part of the religious faith or observances. I feel this about even up to third level relics.
2. The macabre death fests of Mexico and the whole nihilistic tradition there wearing some of the habits and tokens of Christianity should be erased from any culture in the New World or elsewhere. It has no place in a faith which affirms Light, Good and God as Life as its central tenet.
3. I do not see much incr ease in strong morality and firm virtuous convict ion growing with the t actic of a clergy such as is in Catholicism. People are not appreciative of the inherent eq uality of the sexes nor of the honor of women, respect for their equal int elligence or average physical st rength and size borne out by the stat istics of population world wide.
4. I an anticipating a diaspor a in the clergy of Catholicism along the lines of the evolution of the Rabbinate of Judaism after the Babylonian exile and dispersion into Europe. In studying the results of the two structures of clergy management, I see better results and less corrupt ion in the Jewish arrangement.
5. I do expect a weakneing of the centralized traditional struct ure of the Cat holic clergy sys tem. With the strictures I like to refer to as the triad of “Peter, John and their clique”, there is little place for women t here in church, although at the beginning, when it was James’ church formation, mar ried couples ran churches or town groupings as equals and there was much sharing of duties. It would have been good to have maintained t hat over the centuries rather than descended into misogyny.
6. The int olerance of Catholics toward ot her observant religious or cult ural groups bodes ill for the fu ture. Often, Koreans, for example, ar e segregat ed into their own liturgical schedules and readings. I see no way a round this problem at present for the next century.
7. Generalizing Sainthood. Because Peter, Simon, Paul and Jude did not let Classic Catholicism to evolve after the Council of Nicea, it became a very slow process to saint someone. There was no flexibility between denominations. I have been distressed for some time by this st upidity, for truth be told, there is a plet hora of saints coming to my a ttention each year. and I wish them to have golden crowns as they should, to be written in the Lord’s Book of Life, and to hobnob and commune with others, not just as dead ghosts at the beck and call of Osoris, but as genuine astral entities in a Vast universal Christian Church, who might imminently aid humankind fur ther. For example, in the Jewish faith, the Prophet Isaiah. Now, the Jews will say, “we mean Saint when we say Prophet” but, that’s the Islam rationale. A St. is someone who has certain powers, qualities and a role to play. In the American church, there’s Benjamin Franklin. So what I have been doing to compensate for the inadequacy and antiquity of the R .C. Church is to throw these Saints into Mormonism, the Church of latter day saints, because that is what they are, indeed. That will not please most, but for now, until I launch Scientism, it will have to do. In my denomination which is a syncretic one of the West, any origin of the saint will do. They can be nominated, study, reported on and made saints. As with Hinduism, men and women can become “living saints”, something in contrast to the Catholic requirement that they die in Christ first before living again in Him for missions on Earth. This will be a vast improvement for the Western believers. It will be more realistic and open thinkers to the view that saints may be found in the most unexpected places.