Matthew’s Gospel 18:3
“And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven”
Regarding the term “children” as applied to the faithful, S. Freud (whose “Moses and Monotheism” we heartily recommend for further reading) explains that whereas in pre-existing civilizational/religious schemes, the entity referred to as « people » was nothing more than a reservoir of cheap labor needed to swell the ranks of armies and build all manner of monuments to the glory of their material/spiritual masters, with Moses it is suddenly turned into an under-aged offspring who needs to be educated.
Now, as natural as it may seem to « educate » an actual “child” – if only to pass on to him the means to survive in a potentially dangerous world – the training of adult “children”, when strictly not a professional affair, is bound to raise eyebrows. Some nasty conspiracy theorists go so far as to call it “brainwashing”.
Whatever you think of it, in the year of grace +2025, you only have to switch on any cultural television/radio program to hear some most learned intellectual, often well into old age, utter in a suddenly strangely childlike voice, full of awed tenderness, a “my daddy used to say this” or “my mom would do that”, to get an idea of Homo juchremanensis’ truly psychotic reluctance to assume adult status. May you rest in peace, uncle Sigmund!
Why not read Homo juchremanensis (epub/kindle) and try adulthood for a change ?
