Christianity in Decline
The Copernican Revolution, the ecclesiatical response, the subsequent decline of Christianity, and the CTMU
The decline of Christianity is often considered to have begun with the heliocentric model of Copernicus. Heliocentrism, which says that the Earth and other planets orbit the sun, conflicted with traditional Christian geocentrism, which said that the Earth is the center of the solar system and the location around which orbit the heavens in all their vastness.
The Catholic Church initially tolerated heliocentrism, assuming its consistency with geocentrism and granting Copernicus and his followers the leeway to promote it. But then, in light of contrary observations by philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno, it decided that heliocentrism had to go. Bruno was subsequently burned at the stake, and later, Galileo was persecuted for his own heliocentric leanings.
Today, the problems of Christianity have grown beyond anything imaginable to Christians of the past. In seeming contempt of Christian tradition, Christian leaders from the Pope to the pastors of small neighborhood churches now endorse what used to be sins and heresies from feminism and homosexual marriage to the destructive mass migration of anti-Christian migrants, loyal to Islam, Hinduism, or even Voodoo, to formerly White, predominantly Christian nations by the millions.
This trend rubs many young Christians the wrong way, striking them as decadent, effeminate, and unworthy of a religion whose heroic Crusaders bravely liberated Europe and Jerusalem from murderous Islamic invaders who had terrorized and enslaved Europeans in brutal waves of conquest.
Most of the following dialogue is buried in the comments section of a post on X. I decided to unbury it before it became unrecoverable.
Post (from X): “Basically every pretty Christian girl I’ve spoken to in the past year has had the same complaints about dating: They want to be wives — but the single men at their church aren’t particularly masculine, and guys never ask them out. They ALL say this. It’s the same story EVERY time. Further; I know a lot of tough, masculine men that would ask these women out in a heartbeat. Few of them have a desire to go to church. Not because they don’t care about going to church. They want to go to church, but feel repulsed by the general effeminacy of the experience when they go. They aren’t into the singing, the obvious effeminacy and weakness of the preaching, etc. They’re interested in hard-hitting, uncompromising biblical truths — not an experience that feels like it’s tailored towards women. The fact that churches are completely failing to attract masculine men tells me something is deeply wrong with the church in America. It needs to be fixed. Lose those men, and you’ve lost the country.”
Response: Your hypermasculine theologically inclined friends, if that's what they are, probably don't go to church due to what they see as the low moral and intellectual quality of jealous know-it-all priests and pastors. Under the venal guidance of these shepherds, Christianity is unable to adapt to modern reality.
There's just one way for Christianity to adapt to modern reality consistently with its own nature and ongoing scientific progress, and I pretty much originated it. Yet I seldom hear from self-styled "Christians", ostensibly because Christian flock-tenders are steering them away from the future, back into soundproof rooms under which the floors have rotted out.
One can only surmise that these shepherds are afraid of losing money and power.