Leaderless Religion

Recently there’s been a resurgence of interest in Leaderless Resistance. The pertinent point here is if no one person is leading your resistance, there is nothing for your oppressor to target. With leaderless religion, you don’t risk the sort of compromise which makes you the Harlot Church.

Over at my other blog I specifically draw out the theology of leaderless religion. Here I tend to cover some of the applications of that. Christian Mysticism is not something led, not precisely taught. It is revealed by living it, and caught by those to whom it has been granted by God. If the issue were resisting our evil government, then you should follow the advice in those two videos found in various places around the Net. However, the ultimate resistance, as I see it, is simply don’t be entangled in what matters to the oppressor. In the long run, none of this which you see matters. On the way to that long run endpoint, we simply deny that evil the one thing it has to have: your surrender.

You can surrender in a thousand ways. The big one is fear, anxiety about what they’ll do. As long as what you hold most sacred are things they can’t touch, there’s no handle on controlling you. To some degree, this is what I hope to see. Become other-worldly, and live as if suffering and dying is not a bad thing.

But I am not deluded enough to think it’s for everyone. It requires a full blown Christian Mysticism, and there are walls to this truth, as one of the martyrs in the second video noted. He was right, though, in that this is not about the guy bringing the message, but the message itself.

Just pretend for a moment my blather suddenly became very popular, with thousands of hits per day, and faithful readers all over the world. I’d be writing pretty much the same stuff, but I’d be warning people to absorb this stuff and make it your own. Let it change you, but just as surely should you put your own stamp on it. The best part of what I have to offer is something you need coming out of you, not me.

Yes, this opens things up to a world of abuse. As if we don’t already have a problem with that. Truly, nothing I can say would change that one way or another. Whether I like it or not, if there were thousands of readers and I was “famous,” there would be a good sized chunk of them doing things with my name I would hate. Really, I couldn’t stop them, but those who truly get it would not be fooled, anyway.

I don’t want to lead you, just want to show you. If it grabs you the way it grabbed me, I can disappear pretty quickly and what happens next is almost certainly the best it can possibly be in this world. In case you are wondering, that means my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord and leader, and they’ve already killed Him. He can’t be stopped.

Nor can we who have a clear vision of Him. Don’t follow me; follow Him. The only way I can introduce you to Him is the way I write here and elsewhere. Once I’ve given you the glimpse He’s given me, you are on your own with Him. I can’t pretend to do much more than help you clarify what you see for yourself. If I have to do too very much of that, I’m going to feel certain you don’t see Him.

After awhile, the content of my posts about mysticism and religion become repetitive, but if you notice, you may be reading too much and not doing your own religion. I don’t want to be your fount of truth about Jesus. Sure, we can fellowship in His presence and so forth, but you’re going to get bored if the only way you get to know me is reading what I write here. So do us both a favor, and find a way to reveal Him yourself, and tell me how you do it, because maybe I could use a few pointers. Or maybe I just need a little refreshing.

I don’t need disciples.