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This is the key difference:
"Low" religion - a legalistic and heathen substitute for uncivilized people who more or less need to be "told" not to rape or murder because they can't control their own impulses and/or have no genuine morality or Godliness of their own; uses pagan underworlds (e.x. hell, the Norse underworld) as mythical fear of punishment, devoid of rational morality, a devolved and degenerate form of religion only relevant in 3rd world countries or archaic legalistic sects and institutions.
"High" religion - based on higher intellectual philosophy or theology, like that of Martin Luther or John Calvin, or other writers, such as Augustine - uses higher moral principles than mere "fear" or punishment, such as free will and salvation through the grace of God, as opposed to primitive "rituals" or "sects".
Damnation is Eternal separation from God (e.x. Ghehenna or Hell), not a mere pagan or heathen underworld with a primary emphasis solely on instinctual fear of death (e.x. hell) nor "revenge", but rather a voluntary separation from God for eternity as the result of one's own free will or conscious decisions.
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My current belief is that many, if not most people, even those professing to be "Christian" but primarily of a heathen lifestyle and persuasion, will go to Hell - perhaps not the same "level" of hell as a Hitler or a Ted Bundy, but they will not ascend to the same "Heaven" as someone, perhaps, like Calvin, Luther, St. Paul, or a true "disciple" who dedicated their entire life to the pursuit of God. Christ had only 12 disciples out of millions of followers, and he seemed to require a higher standard of self-sacrifice for his disciples than he did for his potentially millions of lay-followers.
While in contrast, one who professes "Christianity" but is primarily heathen, materialistic, legalistic, or archaic in their own ways or persuasions, adhering to a degenerate and archaic ritualized form of "salvation" dumbed down to the level of mass marketing, based on ritualism and ignorance rather than rational and conscious understanding, free will and whatnot.
"Low" religion - a legalistic and heathen substitute for uncivilized people who more or less need to be "told" not to rape or murder because they can't control their own impulses and/or have no genuine morality or Godliness of their own; uses pagan underworlds (e.x. hell, the Norse underworld) as mythical fear of punishment, devoid of rational morality, a devolved and degenerate form of religion only relevant in 3rd world countries or archaic legalistic sects and institutions.
"High" religion - based on higher intellectual philosophy or theology, like that of Martin Luther or John Calvin, or other writers, such as Augustine - uses higher moral principles than mere "fear" or punishment, such as free will and salvation through the grace of God, as opposed to primitive "rituals" or "sects".
Damnation is Eternal separation from God (e.x. Ghehenna or Hell), not a mere pagan or heathen underworld with a primary emphasis solely on instinctual fear of death (e.x. hell) nor "revenge", but rather a voluntary separation from God for eternity as the result of one's own free will or conscious decisions.
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My current belief is that many, if not most people, even those professing to be "Christian" but primarily of a heathen lifestyle and persuasion, will go to Hell - perhaps not the same "level" of hell as a Hitler or a Ted Bundy, but they will not ascend to the same "Heaven" as someone, perhaps, like Calvin, Luther, St. Paul, or a true "disciple" who dedicated their entire life to the pursuit of God. Christ had only 12 disciples out of millions of followers, and he seemed to require a higher standard of self-sacrifice for his disciples than he did for his potentially millions of lay-followers.
While in contrast, one who professes "Christianity" but is primarily heathen, materialistic, legalistic, or archaic in their own ways or persuasions, adhering to a degenerate and archaic ritualized form of "salvation" dumbed down to the level of mass marketing, based on ritualism and ignorance rather than rational and conscious understanding, free will and whatnot.
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