Crypto-Everything

[everythingwill]

I really like the "crypto-_____" accusation. It's available in almost every situation.

Preacher: This life is passing, impermanent. "You're a crypto-buddhist???"

Bodhisattva: We venerate Guanyin's abundant compassion. "So you're a crypto-theist?"

Theist: There exist layers between us and the Ineffable All. "Alright that's clearly crypto-neoplatonism."

Neoplatonist: This expert academic-bureaucrat provides the foundation for what I'm saying. "You're sounding like a crypto-materialist for sure."

Materialist: I read up on the Kabbalah because Madonna mentioned it... "Crypto-jew!"


It's just the right sprinkling of schizo seasoning to make for a tasty experience, and I could see it being a lot of fun to insert this chaos into every otherwise boring social religious experience.

Comments

[causticus]

Hah, this is pretty funny. And yeah, the crypto-whatever thing has certain been abused many times over.

[everythingwill]

I think it's a humorous ode to the many perennial commonalities between religious traditions. It could be an oblique approach to introducing such a concept, in fact.

I want to join a church and convincingly accuse so many of crypto-buddhism that they take the full dive into comparative inquiry themselves, coming out either more Traditionalist than Guenon or convinced that they were actually crypto-christians acting as crypto-buddhists posing as vanilla Christians the whole time.

[causticus]

Nice, that would be a pretty interesting (and hilarious) means of getting people to take a more open-minded approach to religious inquiry. A sort of reverse psychology at play.