Christianities

New thinking has been published in 2026, including:

1. By Laurent Guyénot from Radbod's Lament, 2000 words each at

https://radbodslament.substack.com/p/christianity-as-an-antigenealogical This is part 1.

https://radbodslament.substack.com/p/christianity-as-an-antigenealogical-e02 This is part 2.

I comment on Guyénot’s analysis with 700 words below the other linked recommendations (2 and 3).

2. Another radical and historically referenced critique has been published at https://emburlingame.substack.com/p/the-finite-creed : This is about the Nicean Creed; how it was a coup d’état, which has grave repercussions still today. The Nicean Creed destroyed the Christianity which followed the life of Christ. By coercion and violence.

E.M. Burlingame’s “The Finite Creed” is a call to restore Paganism and non-binary thinking. It is 5000 words long. perfectly written.

3. Who required the sacrifice? Michael Myrick Oct 27 2026

https://michaelmyrick2.substack.com/p/who-required-the-sacrifice/comments?

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Foreword: There are so many understandings of Christianity, many at odds with each other, that it is hard to see where to begin.

The one common feature is the crucification and the idea of suffering being overcome in a process of transformation. There is the idea of universal Love, or Agapé. The focus on Jesus comes close to being a personality cult. The historical changes in the dominant ideology over two thousand years are often ignored. Medieval Christianity, with its monasteries and cathedrals, is a far cry from late Roman Christianity, and neither has much in common with Christianity since the advent of Protestantism. The appeal to the New Testament and especially the four Gospels, is easily weakened by examining how these writings came to be in the Holy Canon. The case for the Old Testament is even more spurious. Laurent Guyénot has argued, with others, that it is much less ancient than assumed, having been derived from Greek thought.

Having set the background, I turn now to the argument in Laurent Guyénot’s Part Two. This focuses on individual salvation as standing in contrast to traditional world views, for which ancestry and the continuity of the family or tribal lineage take presidence. Guyénot provides learnèd historical references and the arguments of others about the rationale of celibacy and original sin, tracing these back to the ex-Pharisee Saint Paul and the Church Fathers of the late Roman Empire.

Note that most of those claiming allegiance to Christianity today place great emphasis on “family values,” which indeed they often equate with “Christian values.” There is rarely mention of Luke 14:26 or Matthew 19:29, passages where Jesus calls on his followers to deny their family. This does not invalidate Guyénot’s argument; it demonstrates rather the inconsistency (double-think) which is a hallmark of Christian apologists. The Cross becomes just a flag indicating respectability.

Note also the apparently universal obsession in times past with salvation. This is partly the hope that death can be overcome, whether in the form of resurrection or some other individual survival. It is partly a call for the forgiveness of sins. There are ideas of atonement and redemption, the latter term taken from accountancy.

That was in times past. My hunch is that most people in the West today see things very differently. For a start, it is not clear what sins are. Presumably, wrongdoing, and weighing on one’s conscience, for those who still have much of a conscience. It is not sins that people want to be absolved from, but regrets, including regrets at not having lived life to the full. In some cases, there is the wish to explain or apologise to those we have hurt, often inadvertently.

As is evidenced by the numbers in favour of assisted dying, death is not feared as much as suffering. The Christian notion that suffering can purge the soul has lost traction.

At most, people today may have the wish that their suffering has not been in vain, or that what they have learnt painfully in life should survive them.

This does not seem to be whatever was meant in ancient times by salvation.

I return now to the topic of family. Guyénot quotes King Radbod replying to Bishop Wulfram: “rather hell with my people than heaven with strangers.” Radbot was clearly content with his family. But, for many, the reverse holds true. At a minimum, many would prefer in old age or frailty to be cared for by strangers than by family members. That is, family members are not necessarily kindred spirits.

Christianity, as presented by Guyénot, allows the genealogical family to be replaced by a sense of solidarity (identification) with the undefined mass of kindred spirits (soulmates) in the wider world. But, for this, the other paraphernalia of Christian faith is unneeded.

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Toxic Christianity, a precursor to Transhumanism?

under 700 words, May 2022

Many of those joining us in the struggle against transhumanism, deep corruption and the destruction of liberty make appeal to what they call Christian values. This applies in particular to voices from North America. In the face of great evil — whether this term be understood metaphysically or metaphorically — they are our allies. This said, much of the rot can be attributed to the incoherence of Christianity. Neither Scripture nor the tradition of thought called Christian provides much of a moral compass. Scripture fails because any quote can be interpreted variously, or else in its vastness is contradicted elsewhere. This also applies if Scripture is held to cover only the New Testament, not the Old. The tradition fails because it has been through so many metamorphoses, from early century radicalism through the oppression constituted by monastic life and into Puritanism, with their different conceptions of salvation and sacrifice.

Christian churches are largely compromised, having complied with confinement and its accompanying measures, even having been eager to suppress common liberties and community. Closer to Evil than to Good.

The values we are trying to rescue are those of the Enlightenment, which cannot be reduced to a set of doctrines. The Enlightenment draws on a commitment to the search for truth and to the force of reason, while accepting that our faculty of reason runs up against limits, not least because we have different ways of thinking about different things. It is set against megalomania and hubris. It is opposed to the concentration of power and therefore upholds systems of checks & balances.

One question to be addressed is how so many in key positions have chosen falsehood over truth and indulged in absurdities. We are not talking about legitimate differences of opinion.

How do these people live with themselves? But they are clearly devoid of conscience. Conscience involves a sense of self and consistency, with a direction of travel towards greater maturity, and honesty. (None of these concepts can be understood individually, by analytic means alone. They must be understood as interconnected, i.e. synthetically.)

One answer to that question (i.e. the origins of so much falsehood) is that the much-vaunted Christian tradition has always failed to be coherent. Despite Jesus, it falls back on convention. The recourse to rules and codes, which has become dominant in public life, has actually weakened moral fibre because it absolves people of individual responsibility for the rules they live by and does nothing to strengthen the faculty of judgement. As faith in any ultimate (metaphysical) authority has waned, it has been replaced by a crude conformism and by materialism. (Most of those claiming to be Christians have betrayed the saying of Jesus that the Law was made for Man, not Man for the Law.)

In certain circles, convention has come to tolerate (even welcome) the acceptance of bribes, or else has come to leave people vulnerable to intimidation. But this is only part of the explanation. It would seem that persons of weak character and compromised persons (i.e. subject to blackmail) have been placed in positions of power and have been obeying instructions. How else is the absurdity of their pronouncements and conduct to be explained? It can only be down to conspiracy, or conspiracies.

In a better world, people would only accede to positions of power gradually, having matured, which will mean after being tested over many years for both their character and judgement. An important principle here is that no profession can police itself, each profession must be policed by members of different professions. What we now witness, however, is that the procedures have long filtered out the best and the bravest. Something which has continued at pace since early 2020.

It is vain to imagine that bad people can be eliminated. But what can be done is to have procedures in place which prevent them from taking the high ground, which is what has happened. Any such procedures will need review and possibly regeneration with each new generation.

Long before the manipulation of contemporary music by corporate actors, reported on in October 2025 by Ben Rubin of UK Column, there was another kind of indoctrination by way of the lyrics in popular song about Love and Marriage, which infamously go together like a Horse & Carriage. Much exaltation of True Love, and being true to the beloved. Altogether a different take on Truth brought to us by the Deep Christian State, which, embattled, is now being replaced by its successors.