@J @hidden @une @snacks well Jung was influenced by nietzche, and nietzsche made a really good argument that the christian orthodoxy was kind of tainted at its foundation-- for example, that it glorified abstaining from the use of power, which most of its followers weren't in any position to indulge in anyway. It's a kind of a "cheap" religion that way.

Also, something that bothers me immensely about christianity is that it promulgates a kind of false unity, that the christian god is THE final embodiment of all the important, ultimate forces, and that there's nothing else. It does give SOME nods to jesus' human nature and his struggles with that, but overall, the story isn't exactly close to the lives of normal people. It's not easy to RELATE to. It kind of has a tendency to float away, and leave people utterly void of spiritual experience outside of the two hours every sunday. It leads people to completely exclude the sublime from any part of their day-to-day lives. As if they're thinking "yeah that's God shit, nothing to do with me!" when the reality is that everyone is meant to seek a connection with something like the divine.

It makes perfect sense for people to want to stay away from that rigid order, but yeah that's no excuse for most hippies and other "free thinkers" or wahtever not filling the resulting gaps with SOMETHING other than just primitive nature worship bs, or better yet updating christianity.