The One True Faith

 

 

I might as well apply my ontological axiom of truth in all things to theology. Either there is not one true faith, or the one true faith is not yet revealed, or never will be because we are not smart enough to speak God’s heavenly language.

 

All good religions that supported historically and prehistorically the worship of good deities—none of them was the one true faith, although some were true and greater, and others were more false and of less significance, It may be unimportant to argue about which was more true or less true than to take the high road and admit that these faiths succored and uplifted thousands and perhaps millions of believers, and that is and was a most worth objective or purpose.

 

Max Stirner, on Page 8 of the Byington translation of Stirner’s book, The Ego and Its Own, writes this: “We  know, of course, the revolutionary innovator and disrespectful heir, who even took away the sanctity of the fathers’ sabbath to hallow his Sunday; and interrupted the course of time to begin at himself with a new chronology; we know him, and know that it is—the Christian. But does he remain forever young, and is he today still the new man, or will he too be superseded , as he superseded the ‘ancients’?”

 

Stirner seems to offer that as Christians theologically supplanted the Jews, so would the Christians be superseded by a more modern faith. I do not disagree with Stirner’s take here but seek to assure and comfort Christian’s today and Muslims too that their faiths need not be discarded and superseded by new faiths worshiping newly identified deities. Rather the new faiths can be blended with the old faiths, and the new deities can join the pantheon of good deities in heaven to be worshiped.

 

Now let me quote this same paragraph from Landstreicher’s translation of Stirner’s book, The Unique and Its Property, Page 13: “We are quite familiar with the revolutionary innovator and disrespectful heir, who himself profaned the sabbath of the fathers to sanctify his Sunday, and interrupted the flow of time to begin a new era with himself; we know him and recognize that he is—the Christian. But does he stay forever young, and he still the new one today, or will he also be surpassed, and he surpassed the ‘ancients’?”

 

Max Stirner is right that benevolent deities and the religions that spring up around them to change as history progresses forward.