Homo americanus vs Homo sovieticus: & EGALITARIANISM.
“From a sociological perspective, hierarchy and egalitarianism ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. Organizations that are hierarchical are, by definition, the opposite of those that are “egalitarian.””
I have never been able to stand this “egalitarian western mentality”, inherited from an EXOTERIC INTERPRETATION of Christianism.
The Christians, the masses, have implanted it 'in the West'. Because they do not understand 'the esoteric nature' of the texts they manipulate. And anyway the 'masses is not initiatable'.
Fucking Christian do-gooders.
Christians are always lost 'IN THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS'; that is why 'they have never understood anything about the Bible/and the New Testament'.
THESE IDIOTS think that THERE IS GOD, and do not “understand THE UNITARY PRINCIPLE OF THEIR OWN NATURE”. IT'S HOPELESS!
From Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart:
“The picture MacMullen presents of pagan philanthropy is positively enchanting, even idyllic, but—alas—the evidence he cites from Libanius betrays him: if anything, it reflects only the rather restricted and occasional almsgiving practices adopted by pagan temples during the Christian era, as a result of the emperor Julian’s attempts to force the pagan PRIESTHOOD TO IMITATE THE CHURCH’S AID TO THE POOR.”
This is why the Christian's 'Savior Complex.'
“Again, I will happily stipulate that the rise of Christianity did not miraculously transform ancient society from the ground up, or for that matter from the top down; nor did it rid that society of its immemorial injustices.
To begin with, it is more than a touch perverse to credit the pagan cults with a religious egalitarianism greater than—or even comparable to—that of the early church. With some rare exceptions, such as the Bacchic mysteries, most organized religious societies of the ancient world admitted only one sex (GENERALLY MEN) AND STRICTLY EXCLUDED SLAVES from their memberships.”
“The Christians, by contrast, admitted men and women, free and bound, to equal membership and obliged them to worship together. This was, in many ways, the most radical novelty of their community: that it transcended and so, in an ultimate sense, annulled “natural” human divisions.”
From Christianity Without God: Moving Beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving the Epic Moral Narrative by Daniel C. Maguire:
“This sociopolitical egalitarianism in Israel put it at odds with the hierarchic centralized rules of neighboring city-states in that general area, and this often led to war. So protecting this EGALITARIAN SOCIETY [...].
SEEDS OF DEMOCRATIC THEORY.
THIS SYSTEM YAHWEH WAS TO PROTECT WAS A FIRST GLIMMERING OF DEMOCRATIC RULE.
It “depended greatly on consensual understanding of and commitment to COMMON INTERESTS requiring, as it were, the ancient tribal equivalent of ‘an enlightened and publicly active citizenry.’”
The feisty tribes of Yahweh were enlightened enough to know that UNLIMITED WEALTH wreaks “violence” (Micah 6:12) and is always shielded by lies and deceit, an insight that stands out in its enduring contemporaneity.
Yahweh and the people who crafted him were stubborn pioneers in early democracy.
As Gottwald asks: “What other instances do we possess from the ancient Near East OF THE UNDERCLASSES FROM A FEUDAL SOCIETY overthrowing their lords and living in an egalitarian social system over a wide area of formerly feudalized land for two centuries” before succumbing to monarchy?”
MARX BEFORE MARX.
“So, is God brutal? Or is God egalitarian and progressive? It all depends on the society’s shifting needs. For Tacitus, the gods were with the mighty. That made good imperial sense to the Romans.
When the early tribes of Yahweh pioneered an EGALITARIAN SOCIETY THAT FAVORED THE POOR OVER THE RICH [...] , their god became a “God of justice” (Isa. 30:18), described by Judith as a “God of the humble … the poor … the weak … the desperate … and the helpless” (Jud. 9:11). Strange credentials indeed for a god, but perfectly REFLECTIVE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOOD OF EARLY ISRAEL.”
What makes me laugh is the congenital hatred of the Jew by the Christian, whereas it is he the Christian, who carries the Jewish mentality in the West.
Hence the problem we have with the Christian, and how to get rid of him “politically”.
“In sum, the Hebrew gods show two things: (1) the people make the gods, not the other way around; and, (2) those gods have social functions. They can have a long shelf life and can be invoked centuries after their creation to prod folks to evil as with the Crusaders or Christian anti-Semites.
These prophetic movers and shakers put words like these into the mouth of God: “I remember the unfailing devotion of your youth, the love of your bridal days, when you followed me in the wilderness, through a land unsown,” when we pioneered together an EGALITARIAN JUST SOCIETY AND DR