1. What Christianity Teaches (The Blueprint)
At its core, Christianity teaches humility, love, forgiveness, sacrifice, and grace. The message is simple: treat others with compassion, recognise your own flaws, extend mercy where it’s undeserved, and live with a spirit of service rather than superiority. It warns against pride, greed, judgement, and empty displays of righteousness. The focus is inward — change the self, not control the world. At its best, it’s a call to radical empathy and self-awareness.
2. How the Nincompoop Mind Rewired the Message
Unfortunately, human psychology doesn’t like discomfort, humility, or ambiguity — so the mind does what it always does: it rewrites the story to suit itself.
- Confirmation Bias took over: people saw what they wanted in scripture — vengeance, permission, superiority — and ignored the rest. “Love thy neighbour” became “Love thy neighbour, unless they’re different, annoying, or vote the wrong way.”
- Social Mimicry kicked in: belief became performance. People copied what others did, not what the teachings said. Rituals were repeated without understanding. Church became a social identity, not a personal transformation.
- Heuristic Shortcuts took the nuance out: parables were flattened into rules. Symbols were taken literally. Complex ethical teachings were boiled down into: “Don’t swear, go to church, and you’re good.”
- Habitual Thinking made it rigid: once a system was in place, nobody wanted to touch it. Even when it clearly contradicted the original teachings, tradition carried more weight than clarity.
- Projection and Tribalism sealed the deal: people projected their fears, prejudices, and egos onto God, and then used Him to justify power structures, wars, moral policing, and endless squabbling over who’s more “saved.”
In short: the teachings said “Be humble and love everyone.”
The Nincompoop mind heard “We’re right, you’re wrong, and God’s on our side.”
3. What It Could Look Like Through the Nincompoop Lens
Christianity, through the Nincompoop lens, would begin with this simple idea:
Everyone’s flawed. Everyone’s guessing. No one is above correction.
That humility would reshape everything.
Leaders would speak less like authorities and more like fellow strugglers.
Churches wouldn’t hide behind perfection — they’d lean into honesty.
The teachings would still hold — love, forgiveness, grace — but they’d be practised with full awareness that no one fully lives up to them. No pretending. No moral performance.
It wouldn’t weaken faith — it would make it usable. Less about saving face. More about facing reality. Less certainty. More courage to admit when you’re wrong.
4. What Christianity and Nincompoop Have in Common
Surprisingly, a lot.
- Both start with the assumption that humans are deeply flawed.
Christianity calls it sin. Nincompoop calls it cognitive bias, projection, and mental shortcuts. Same diagnosis, different phrasing. - Both call for humility.
Christianity says “the meek shall inherit the earth.” Nincompoop says, “you don’t know as much as you think you do.” Either way, ego’s not welcome. - Both require self-reflection.
Christianity through repentance. Nincompoop through psychological awareness. Both say: start with your own mess before pointing at others.
It’s not about merging ideologies.
It’s about recognising that Christianity, when stripped of its human distortions, was always closer to Nincompoop than many care to admit.