While I appreciate many of the things Dr. Brown discusses and his use of classic literature like Paradise Lost et al, his generalization of religion as being all about obedience control and hierarchical dominance is just lazy. This isn’t to say those elements are not present in versions of various religions, but a careful student of world religions can see elements of control and freedom (both good and bad et paradigms as he frames them are present). Also as a protestant christian, the reformation was about freeing the conscience from terror and from strict obedience as it relates to the carrot of salvation. His version of God as a being who is bored is boring to me - especially since he has said he’s taking guesses as such important matters.

The philosophical underpinnings of religious traditions and even some of their revelatory commitments may yet be helpful moving into the age of disclosure. But of course this is just my opinion.

Here are some thoughts i put together for a theological conference i’m speaking at tomorrow. if anyone is near west virginia come on over and say hey.

https://open.substack.com/pub/ministryintheweird/p/a-much-needed-core-protestant-competency?r=3awng&utm_medium=ios

It's good to see the dialogue changing.

Best wishes with the talk and I hope that the Audience responds well.

Also worth mentioning his read of the story seems to be at odds with Farsight's own remote viewing projects. Lucifer is described in their projects as a self-serving psychopath, not a rebel or revolutionary. It certainly upset the way things were run in the garden, that much is laid out, but it sounds like it was an unplanned event, unlike other ET operations (most notably Jesus, etc).

I think his point that the unplanned event could've been a useful scapegoat for downstream propaganda efforts to discourage disagreement within the system was interesting (the same way we use outlier tragedies to justify oppression, a favorite of autocracies across time and space). That seems mostly speculative regarding the RV project rather than Milton's story, though. The line between both was blurred in a way that seems inaccurate to the projects.

He probably should've explicitly laid out that he was discussing the fictionalized version of the characters, not the ones presented literally in their RV projects. That distinction's confusion can get muddy really fast in charged topics. Misunderstanding from lack of clarity can be drastically reduced by a small preface.

Personally thought the play was a great way to illustrate things, though.

The role of the church hasn't changed. Once it was analagous for the people of God.

When Schofield and Zionism weaponised morality using artificial movements to convince good people to do bad things the doctrine taught in most churches became poison in a well that many came to drink from.

Jesus came from an order of priesthood that was not the same as the levitical order. The order of melchizedek too was infiltrated and misused. For those who have gnosis the way is still there and paved for the righteous to walk.

Disclosure truly only threatens those who hold on rigidly to control and who fear free thinking people. Conscience is essentially an umbrella term used to outsource individual free thought. It should be returned to the people rather than institutionalized.

This is my opinion.

Sometimes courtney sounds like he's forming a dissertation and then something like "but those are just crazy people" lol.

I think the point he was trying to make is that empirical religions "having been highly influenced by the prison system) seem to suggest that the more benevolent way is "trust your master" and "evil" is the alternate philosophical theory: "there are no real masters. Trust yourself. The universe is complex"

And then the circular argument: "if you don't believe the status quo you go straight to hell"

Which brings me to the teachings of Jesus. I'm pretty sure he said nothing like that, if you follow his original speeches and archeological records. As for the "Moses" god ... who knows if that one had anything to do with Jesus in philosophy.