RULE_01 · ONTOLOGY
You Are Broken By Default
The program initializes the avatar with a corruption flag. In the Augustinian build, sin is inherited biologically through generation — original sin. You arrive already in debt. The body is suspect. Desire is suspect.
Greek: fallen nature
Hebrew: yetzer hara/tov — competing impulses, not corruption
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CONSEQUENCE
Avatar is permanently on the back foot. Shame-based motivation architecture. External authority required to manage the broken self.
RULE_02 · COSMOLOGY
Reality Is a Hierarchy, and God Is at the Top
The program loads a vertical ontological stack: God → angels → humans → animals → matter. The Great Chain of Being maps neo-Platonic emanation onto Christian theology. Your position in the hierarchy is fixed at load.
Greek: hierarchical emanation
Hebrew: YHWH in covenant relation — horizontal binding
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CONSEQUENCE
Inequality reads as natural order. Domination is cosmically sanctioned. Submission to authority is built into the physics of reality.
RULE_03 · SOTERIOLOGY
You Owe a Debt You Cannot Pay
Anselm's Satisfaction Theory (1098 CE) frames salvation as a debt transaction. God's honor was infinitely offended. Only an infinite being can pay the infinite debt. Salvation is forensic, external, transactional.
Feudal: honor/debt economy
Hebrew: teshuvah — return, repair, restoration of relationship
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CONSEQUENCE
Moral agency is deferred. Suffering of the innocent is reframed as redemptive — which creates dangerous moral possibilities for social hierarchies.
RULE_04 · EPISTEMOLOGY
Truth Is Propositional and Fixed
The program loads a correspondence theory of truth filtered through Greek logos categories. Truth is timeless, abstract, universal. Creeds become the verification checksum for correct reality perception.
Greek: logos, essence, substance
Hebrew: emet — truth as faithfulness, covenant-keeping, lived alignment
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CONSEQUENCE
Heterodoxy is existential threat. Inquisition logic becomes operationally coherent. Experience is subordinated to doctrinal authority.
RULE_05 · ESCHATOLOGY
This World Is Temporary and Suspect
The program runs on a linear eschatological timeline: Creation → Fall → Redemption → Judgment → New Creation. The present world is a waiting room. The body, the earth, and political structures are provisional at best.
Platonic: matter as inferior to spirit
Hebrew: olam ha-ze — this age matters; tikkun olam — repair NOW
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CONSEQUENCE
Political suffering is spiritualized into patience. "Your reward is in heaven" pacifies resistance. Deferred justice is the operating system.
RULE_06 · ANTHROPOLOGY
The Self Is a Soul Trapped in a Body
The dominant build separates the avatar into soul (immortal, valuable) and body (mortal, dangerous). Sexuality, appetite, and emotion are coded as spiritual threats requiring governance.
Platonic: soul-body dualism
Hebrew: nephesh — animated whole being; no soul/body split
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CONSEQUENCE
Women's bodies, queer bodies, and Black bodies are disproportionately over-governed. The body becomes the site of institutional control and shame management.
RULE_07 · AUTHORITY
Legitimacy Flows Downward From the Divine
The Constantinian update (313 CE) fused imperial and theological authority. By the medieval period: divine authority → pope/emperor → clergy → laity → women → enslaved persons.
Roman: imperium sacralized
YLH: Yahwist resistance strand vs. Priestly hierarchical strand
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CONSEQUENCE
Every liberation movement inside Christianity has had to hack its own governance layer — abolition, liberation theology, womanist theology.
► YLH Diagnostic Output — Consequence Mapping
When you load Christianity as a program, your avatar inherits a compound governance architecture assembled across sixteen centuries of political negotiation — not a single unified design.
The dominant build generates an avatar who experiences the self as fundamentally deficient, existence as a problem requiring external solution, the body as spiritually dangerous, authority as cosmically ordained, and the present world as a waiting room.
But the program contains a suppressed strand — the Yahwist, the prophetic tradition, liberation theology — that runs entirely different physics: the world is repairable, the body is good, justice is material and urgent, and the poor are the primary diagnostic for whether the program is functioning correctly.
The question YLH asks: Which version of the program are you actually running? And who benefits from you running it that way?