I will just rephrase a central argument against religious spiritual life, merely as to better portray who I am. Some might say we've acquired such a collective intellectual development (horizontal complexity) that the belief in God is grounded in ignorance, and human primitive experience. While others who do recognize the spiritual component of human life, might shove away the teachings of Christ and his mystical body (the church) as just a possible flavor for deepening their spiritual faculties. It is this second group who I would like to address.

If we follow this assumptions of flavors of spiritual life, where we pick interchangeably and explore and deepen our higher faculties of experience and disavow the notion of a shared “right way” of living (where we understand living as the experiencing of life through our higher faculties) we are quickly lost from the central reality of sin and the beautifying role of Jesus Christ in our lives.

One might feel the proclivity to discard my argument at the moment, but I feel need to ask of the reader to exercise the possibility of sin as a reality; where sin is the synonym of the deadening of the spirit independent from the human conscious understanding of his own wrongdoings. It is because of this reality that human beings lose “themselves” and their capacity to experience higher states of living, albeit they are ignorant of their own damage and continue to pursue spiritual development while at the same time losing their capacity to further explore said higher faculties.

Now speaking of the role of Christ, he is the objective reality, we might feel the need to discard such a bold statement, but if we ground our life's development in the philosophy of understanding a truer self, we see how without the capacity or the alternative of a truer objective perspective it would all be humans playing at deluding themselves to infinity without there ever-being truth, beauty, or something beyond languaging artifacts; subjectivity to infinity.

Christ is not an escape but rather the objective (a closer relationship with him, that is), the human being that is also God and has allowed us despite our wrongdoings, whether ignorant, conscious, or deliberate to live life at not just a deluded level but rather at a level where true beauty, strengthening of spiritual understanding, and the aspiration for true novelty are feasible. There is an actual focal point in our lives beyond vertical and horizontal stagnation, stimulation, and ignorance; this is the axiom of Christianity in the figure of Christ as the embodied ichthus (apotheosis)?, not as an ideological figure, as some would like bastardize.