By a Mortal Man Part 4
[Note: We covered a lot of ground in the first three parts of this thesis. In the first part we discussed how truly sophisticated and predominant is this world of deceit in which we find ourselves (and not just regarding daily news). We were also especially focused on the question of the “psychology and politics of religion” (a rather rare theme in theological studies and frankly in political science as well—if you can believe it?). One big concern of this series is on how people who specifically believe in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, namely those following and believing the many alarmist, contemporary, evangelical preachers who are essentially brainwashing Christians today into thinking those Revelations are pre-emptively meant for us alive in the 21st century—when there is a lot of evidence those writings were meant for any before and within a few centuries of the early Common Era (200 BC to 300 AD), and not for the second half of the Common Era (1000 AD to the present).]
[Note continued: We’ve looked at substantive evidence the so-called End Times Apocalypse has been preached dozens and dozens of times over ‘many’ centuries, and yet, deductively the End Times never came all those times? We also perused evidence that many early Christian gospels were suppressed from the ‘official’ Constantine Canon that came to become the New Testament (after much bickering and politicking between various church leaders and so-called heretics) and thus this substantial degree of censorship and suppression has thwarted awareness to fuller degrees of what Christianity (pl. –ties) actually meant (within all the conflicting debates) and this “politicization of religious censorship” had created a more or less rigid and dogmatized version of how Christianity evolved within the Roman Empire and Roman Catholic Church. Nevertheless, due to fairly recent discoveries of the Deep Sea Scrolls at the Qumran caves on the west bank of the Deep Sea as well as theGnostic Gospels (52 texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt including ‘secret’ gospels) in the northern Egypt the world is now exposed to a various lineages of new information (actually old information suppressed) about various sects of Christianity that can provoke alternative views in our trying to interpret religious history (and especially in relation to any End Times Apocalyptic literature and what it might, and might not, mean to Christians living today—despite the fact that seemingly few Christians today bother to research these modern discoveries). Nevertheless, any worthy psychology of religion would ask: Why the hesitancy to re-evaluate these findings within the more dominant orthodox churches and sects?]
[Note continued: We try to get some kind of trust value (credibility index if you will) from what is essentially an anonymous author of the Book of Revelation (and one of the more alarmist gospels of the entire New Testament). We wonder why this John of Patmos personage could have been taken so seriously first by those bishops selecting the official New Testament Canon, and then subsequently by millions and millions of Christian believers, century after century, yet given we know practically nothing about the author, especially when apocalyptic, biblical literature in general, was actually written mostly for Jewish audiences even ‘before’ Jesus the Christ, and before Romans had destroyed their Judean homeland in 70 AD causing the Jewish Diaspora around the Mediterranean. It seems the brunt of apocalyptic literature was especially a viable religious literature before Jesus the Christ was reputed to have lived—suggesting it was not a genre of literature primarily as a response to Christ’s crucifixion. Moreover, given that both the assumed canonical gospels, and also those gospels considered less legitimate (by those who claim to judge these matters) there were also public teachings versus secret teaching within the Early Christianities (plural) strongly suggesting those who, over history, have relied solely on the public teachings of the ‘canonized’ New Testament are deprived of critical information that could shed significant light to Jesus’ teachings, masses of people are less aware, etc. Therefore, you present reader, really should seriously consider reading parts 1 through 3 of this essay series to get the full value of how these various ideas are connected. Lastly as summary, one reason why these explorations critically matter today is because too many Zionist Christians seem to be OK with Israeli genociding Palestinians in Gaza in the 21st century—and the many war crimes that are continued to being committed there. This is a very serious moral issue, especially when modern Christians may be essentially brainwashed by official canonical literature even if in reality there may be no ‘imminent’ Second Coming of Christ soon, or ever into the future, as presumed from the orthodox readings or interpretations.]
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=233424
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=233965
We, hopefully as intrepid readers, recognize anger and acrimony will likely provoke much hostility and the volatility on such topics as religion related to politics. People, granted, take their belief systems very seriously—both political and religious. These are topics masses of people zealously avoid but this can be to all our own detriment—if when not broaching these subjects can lead to terrible consequences. Nevertheless this is some realm where many angels dare not thread and you cannot blame them.
Now to make a paramount point—regardless of the seemingly unspoken taboo on the subject of religion being related to politics, religion, as we heirs of the Abrahamic religions have come to understand, is ‘especially’ its own form of politics (supposedly on a higher and over-riding level); and, such realities are what we hopefully mature and responsible people need to deal with—regardless of where such analysis takes us. Humanity has come to a point in which silence on such topics can no longer be justified—especially given that even the professional fields of psychology and psychiatry have essentially ignored or skirted around these mind fields as well.
Moreover, far too many people who work in areas of analyzing foreign policy, war, and politics in general, professionally, have equally been far too lame in robustly analyzing how the psychology of religion effects modern politics—and such a status quo is completely unacceptable.
And why does it take a person as this writer, who is essentially not far from the poverty level, and who gets paid nothing to write political essays, feeling a need to light a match under the derrieres of those tens of thousands of professionals who make the King’s ransom in bucks for their too often mediocre contributions to what could be important and relevant thought?
One obvious example of religion related to politics in the modern world is 9/11, when the world was told by the ‘controlled’ mainstream media around the West, and frankly much of the world in general, that religious fanatical Muslims high-jacked airplanes and flew them into the Twin Towers. This of course to the aware is complete deception.
A deep and intrepid dive into this false flag event clearly points to Israel’s attack on Americans that day. So ultimately we have one religious people (Israeli government and Jewish control of the media) telling a still mostly Christian nation of the United States that they have been attacked by Muslims from other countries in the Middle East (who just happen to be Israel’s enemies). Thus Christians were convinced to go to war with Muslim nations in a War on Terrorism (and consequently Islamic nations attacked afterward were conveniently Israel’s enemies who they, Israelis and the Media, convinced Western Christians that their Israeli Muslim enemies were also our Christian enemies—so convenient to get the West to fight Israel’s enemies). Thus several Middle Eastern countries were subsequently attacked as prompted and planned by Zionist Neoconservatives.
General Wesley Clark – “We’re Going to Take Out 7 Countries in 5 Years” Democracy Now interview
Whose goal was that to attack a bunch of countries in the Middle East? Hum, that seems like a tough one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxKn-1S8ts
Imagine that—9/11 was magically used ‘covertly’ by Neocon insiders to attack a total of seven countries supposedly all hostile to Israelis’ interests (at least from Israel’s point of view). Talk about Divine Intervention. Wesley Clark’s opinions expressed there about Iran are just as relevant today!
9/11 is clearly a textbook case of politics and psychology directed, and emphatically, related to religion (and concomitant degradation of deceit from metaphoric bad angels (“mass media messengers MMM” as the ancient Greek meaning of ‘angelos’ means messenger).
See books by Christopher Bollyn:
Solving 9-11: The Original Articles
Solving 9-11: The Original Articles: Volume II
The War on Terror: The Plot to Rule the Middle East see link:
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Christopher-Lee-Bollyn/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AChristopher+Lee+Bollyn
Also see video of his book talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXKdLciIf9k
Note to within this video (7 minutes) you are reminded how “decades ago” already Christopher Bollyn realized the Palestinian conflict was one of the biggest conflicts in our times, and how the Israelis were playing singularly a zero sum game—precocious and yet obvious—using their excuses of religious literature and religious belief to engage in all manner of war crimes over the decades. Why then has the huge field of psychology been mostly mute on this moral issue of a supposedly modern supposedly democratic country manipulating politics around the world for the ethnocentric goal of stealing territory and engaging war crimes?
Christopher Bollyn also refers to when the Likud coalition in the 1976/7 as terrorists coming to power (over forty some years ago). He has been one of minority of real and intrepid investigation journalists on top of the most important of matters.
Frankly there could be a multiple volume encyclopedia on the relationship between religion, politics and psychology (and frankly there should be several to glean hopefully from many, diverse opinions). Equally there should be entire sections of library shelves dedicated to these topics (from a secular point of view).
Rather to randomly peruse, say the Internet, on related matters we quickly encounter so much doctrinal apologetics on such matters from religiously orthodox perspectives (often trying to explain away any seeming feelings of cognitive dissonance) even to a point of ridiculousness. No of course the God of the Bible was, and is, never harsh or blatantly a tyrant.
Take, for example, the following statement from a recent article entitled:
How Yahweh Conquered RomeChristianity and the Big Lie by Laurent Guyenot at:
https://www.unz.com/article/how-yahweh-conquered-rome/
“What is the biggest Jewish lie in history? Without contest, it is the claim that Jews, of all the nations inhabiting this earth, were once “chosen” by the almighty Creator of the Universe to enlighten and rule over mankind—while all their enemies were cursed by the same Creator. What is truly bewildering is not the enormity of the lie: many individuals may feel chosen by God, and even nations have done so. But only the Jews have managed to convince billions of non-Jews (Christians and Muslims) of their chosenness. How did they do it?”
Well, obviously, the above statement is an opinion, and is couched within the racial bias that in fact there are Jewish lies of significance affecting the world (which this author concurs). Equally it has been Christians themselves who have convinced fellow Christians of this phenomenon to their own eventual serfdom. A little further into his essay he asks:
“How did they do it? How did the Jews manage to smuggle their Big Lie into the exclusive religion of European nations? That is a legitimate and important question, isn’t it? From a purely historical perspective, it remains one of the greatest puzzles; one that secular historians prefer to leave to Church historians, who are comfortable with Constantine hearing voices near the Milvius Bridge. The question is, very simply: How is it that Rome ended up adopting as its spiritual foundation a doctrine and a book claiming that God chose the Jews, at a period of widespread Roman Judeophobia? And how is it possible, that, less than two centuries after turning Jerusalem into a Greek city named Aelia Capitolina, where Jews were forbidden to enter, Rome adopted officially a religion that announced the fall of Rome and a new Jerusalem?”
[Note: The term ‘Judeophobia’ used above is almost never encountered in our world of cultural and news propaganda, still somehow, we are saturated with the ubiquitous term of ‘anti-Semitism’. How can there be so much supposed anti-Semitism when we never, or seldom ever encounter any discussion on Judeophobia? Moreover, to witness from AI censoring search engines on the Internet we are quickly made to realize, via such manipulated search results, this term Judeo-phobia applies more readily to ancients in places like Egypt. Also, ironically, it is used in discussion to the ancient Romans, but given the fact the Romans basically sacked Judea and killed and crucified a great many Jews back then, how do we find ourselves encountering this assumingly rare usage to their empire or culture (versus more contemporaneous descriptions)?
Regarding our day’s modernity, think, for example, about the reality that ethnically, Jews especially, some, do in fact have so much power throughout the entire world: financial, political, media, movie, publishing industry, educational influence, and corporate, non-profit (so much related to financial donations) etc., and yet there is a paucity on the Internet or elsewhere to any open discussion of “fear of Jews” and their power in modern times, other than counter-narrative Jews themselves trying to highlight any such fears are either irrational or delusional. The concept is rather conveniently shunted to a time-machined discussion of ancient Egypt or Rome, and yet there have been so many negative things supposedly stated about Jews for so many centuries in so many places throughout history (and given Jews have been expelled from so many locations for so many centuries) we are to believe none of it was cause by any legitimate fears or phobias (possibly worthy of articulating)? Quite amazing.
Meanwhile, of late, some right-wing contemporary Jews attack co-Jews within their own ethnic group if they, the attacked left-wingers, happen to differ on important matters, such as when plenty Jews both in Israel and in the West, were being attacked for protesting against the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians in Gaza after the Israeli false flag operation on October 6th (specifically carried out to allow and promote such mass murder of Muslim Palestinians).]
Israel’s leading paper says its own army deliberately killed Israelis on October 7. But in the U.S. media: silence:
Israel ordered the “Hannibal Directive” on October 7 by ordering the killing of captive Israeli soldiers and civilians. But the U.S. media continues to hide the truth.
Therefore, it seems such a term as Judeophobic/-ia could be used far more prominently in our modern society, given the reality of matters, in relation to the deliberated distorted bludgeon of the term ‘anti-Semitic’ (completely meant to imprison and isolate the tortured mind aware of Zionist and Israeli atrocities). Not only is the world of goyim being warred upon by Jewish causes but goy universally are being conditioned to feel hogtied so as to not feel free to discuss either their tormentors or their oppression. How is that for real psychological and political power that Jews in general and the ADL wield?
“And you will know the truth, and that truth will set you free.” Video of ADL anti-Gentile hypocrisy:
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=238321
Not only is a great percentage of the U.S. Congressman and Senators more or less forced to abide to the overwhelming power that Jewish lobbies have over our legislative branches, but this same reality has now been saturating into 50 State legislatures as well. We, like the rest of the Western world, are being forced to abide the criminalization of any criticism of Jewish power while they attempt to brainwash the planet there is no legitimate reason for people to have justified and explainable Judeophobic causes.
Concomitantly, why do so few people not understand that the term ‘spiritual’ from Latin meaning “to breathe” means ultimately almost anything that can ‘inspire’ us? For something to be spiritual does not mean it has to be other-worldly as in supernatural. Inspire, expire, our human lungs are like the angel wings that can carry meaning when our vocal cords produce words that inspire one way or another.
Equally why do so few people not realize that for a person to be “demonically possessed” metaphorically means when people are led to believe, essentially, in lies that they have literally taken possession of in their souls? If people, and huge populations via propaganda, have literally taken to believing major genres of disinformation and deceit, that is believing such deception is truth and acting accordingly—they too are the equivalent of demonically possessed (as such deceit can work against their true interests and it often does—which is why the deceit exists in the first place). This is the enormous power of deceit (and as spiritually described as a skill specifically beholden of Satan—yet any mortal or group can engage).
Surely it is very interesting to listen to such biblical scholars discuss demons and possession in the Bible like this video where Sean McDowell interviews Dr. Michael Heiser:
Mind Reading, Demonic Possession: the Bible on Demons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4SbHoOZpQQ
It is fascinating to watch even well-educated scholars, who do not stop at official church doctrine, but are willing to venture into less kosher areas of knowledge and pseudo-knowledge, reveal, simultaneously, so much that many people do now know and yet equally maintain certain levels of an almost childlike naiveté—it is spell-binding. Still when people are willing to watch how the sausage of religious dogma is made (as it evolved from one epochal age and religion to the next and the next) then they can understand just how hypothetical and sometimes how seemingly ridiculous the evolution to both ancient Judaism and Christianity came too be.
It is not just apocalyptic literature that abounds with fictional themes and cartoonish paragons but much of ancient religion seems to do as well in general. Equally it is not lost on some small minority of academics realize children are readily, in an early manner, indoctrinated to religious stories.
So despite the likelihood that multi-dimensional studies of ancient religion (from many angles and lenses) can confuse the soul with so many questions and phenomenon (too much information not necessarily conforming to tidy and simplistic models showing much black or white), it is still empowering for common people, believers, and Christians en large, to realize they do not need to take only those talking heads of religious fanaticism and evangelisms, who take everything so literally to heart. For example those who preach “biblical inerrancy” and “biblical infallibility” can be counterbalanced with other scholarly ways of realization and exploration.
It seems the more you study and the wider your range of analysis the less dogmatic, on average, you tend to be.
Take for example the very bright, articulate, well researched scholar Doctor Andrew M. Henry and his Religion For Breakfast series of lectures that focus on early Christianity and late Roman studies. This dude is a worthy for those interested in scholarly approaches that do not try to indoctrinate subjects into some cultish like corner. Listen to his podcasts:
The Origins of the Antichrist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvsjMuHkGBc
Granted with this guy as one of your mentors, you will not likely become of those street corner preachers screaming about the imminent end of this sinful world, and you may even feel a bit overloaded with disparate factoids and background schema in which you might “not feel quite sure” what to make of it all, but you will likely feel better informed on what the racket regarding those discussing the Second Coming it all about.
The problem some believers have when delving into the Gnostic Gospels and Deep Sea Scrolls is that these explorations also lead to other writings that seemingly can be traced from other earlier religions before Judaism. For example, there are many similar stories in these earlier religions strongly suggesting Judaic religion writers borrowed quite a bit—again muddling the waters of any one true faith via Abraham with confident clarity.
For example, some research into older religions and their lesser known religious tracts delves into such ideas as humans mating with angels or other-worldly creatures and then birthing new entities like the so-called Nephilim. Again there seems to be a certain parallelism from childhood fantasy literature and religious historical literature.
And this is where the skeptical mind needs to kick in gear because any scholar worthy of his or her salt cannot easily believe humans biologically mated with any creatures other than other biological creatures from this same planet at any time in human history. Nor is it seemingly possible of humans having mated with other worldly extra-terrestrial aliens (sure it makes great speculation for the imagination but not too likely in respect to the complexities of biological reality and geographical probabilities).
Equally we supposedly have through ancient religious lore some supposed angels of a higher order instigating via their desire to mate with the “lesser” mortal worldly creatures? Why if they are truly of a higher order?
One parallel reality of something like this affection or lusting for, say, female humans, supposedly by arguably anatomically males of an assumed race of being closer to God, could this parallel the psychology of, say, some swarthy Middle Eastern mens’ infatuation with blonde, Nordic women (or any women of another race). This biological viability would supposedly violate norms or decrees to mate and marry outside one’s own ethnic and cultural group, and the creation of stories explaining such supposed deviance to in-group preference. Whereas to out-right deny that plenty of men from other races are not infatuated with blonde women would be disingenuous. Google “female angels” and click on images and you are likely to encounter a bias toward the blonde Scandinavian women. And yes they were supposedly Scandinavian or Germanic peoples exploring areas of the Middle East way before when they were known as Vikings or the Varangian Guard, so it is a remote possibility. This of course does not mean there is any connection, but as far as reality versus fantasy goes, something of this nature is more likely.
Why are elves and fairies often depicted with blonde hair and blue eyes in fantasy?
Whereas, to claim some humans have never thought of themselves as “above” other humans (such as having divine origin) does not reflect history or real life. Even today we have the Chosen race, in which some Jews, such as some Rabbis who go so far as to claim only their ethnicity is divine (whereas gentiles are created from a lesser matter).
Other than the possibility of a supposed self-defined, or religiously presumed superior race of men desiring to mate with women considered somehow inferior there can be no real life examples of except in the world of fiction.
And this is one huge problem in modernity—clinging to religious mythology to justify racism and oppression. Today, which Western politicians pretty much en masse, or institutions, save the ICC and human rights organizations like Amnesty International, are calling out those fanatical religious crazies who want to take their fanatical religious literature as gospel truth, even though it is at best fiction make-belief, while they nevertheless force it on the entire world? Luddite, Likudite politicians and Rabbis, along with Netanyahu in Israel, continuously refer back to their ancient religious scripture as justification for their war crimes and genocide of Palestinians today.
Netanyahu’s references to violent biblical passages raise alarm among critics
There are some brave outliers telling the truth (THANK GOD!!) but the majority of Western politicians have been either bought, blackmailed or intimidated.
Irish MEP calls out EU’s stance on Gaza: ‘Crime against humanity’ Clare Daly a real humane being.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fj-5obrDMk
The lesser known Book of Enoch for example helps further take the plausibility of religious reality to levels of religious fantasy—and yet such literature was certainly part of the evolution of religious stories, such as when God’s loyal Angels who went to war with the fallen Angels after a supposed “civil war in Heaven” (that the official Canon of the Bible does not much discuss in any detail, and yet any curious mind could, and maybe should, ask why). Still several non-Canonical serious of writings are referred to in the Canonical works of the Bible.
It seems religious literature has been used to justify war and war crimes for a very long time.
Furthermore, it is important to note that a lot of stories and mythologies (be they from religion or not) can do a very good job describing human motivation, behavior and history (which is why fiction sometimes reveals more about truth and real history than do non-fiction versions or supposed academic histories claiming objective research and analysis).
For example, it is not just other-worldly demons and serpents who lie and deceive others. To lie or deceive is not of the supernatural realm—it is from this earthly world of human society. As some know it is big time business. There are huge governmental and non-profit budgets engaged in manufacturing all manner of deceit, which includes books and news article on many subjects related to history and politics.
For example when we listen to media spokesperson for the U.S. State Department we get some of the most polished of liars on the planet. Checkout this one example of the constant doublespeak from both sides of the mouth that Ryan Cristian comments on in another of his consistently great investigative news commentaries podcasts at 2 hours and 10 minutes where he comments on more of the same insincere falsity they tend to fob off to the world practically every day:
Trump Assassination Attempt Narrative Continues To Unravel As Israel Intensifies Palestine Genocide
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/trump-assassination-israel-genocide/
Important early Judeo-Christian biblical stories actually originated from earlier Middle Eastern religions, such as the mythic Garden of Eden was originally in Mesopotamia (with big rivers and hanging gardens and not the Levant) still the current war raining down in Gaza is in that unholy land, and yes a Satan’s level of deceit is being used to justify and sustain it, starting with Anthony Blinken—a man who arguably walks with a disingenuous and dark shadow.
Under his executive power we encounter U.S. State Department spokesman Matt Miller starting out his press briefing session discussing America’s “core values” supposedly buttressed as such around the world (in respect to the Trump assassination attempt); but of course there is no mention within his U.S. Government line of hypocrisy to discuss any Israeli-motivating—United States attempt to engage the murder of Qasem Soleimani (or who was behind it or why)?
Satanism, from myth or religion, is an analogy, with a strong connotation to accuse and to lie. This is what most public audiences around the world get daily form world governments and their buttressing media.
From ancient alchemical texts such as the Emerald Tablet we get such aphorisms as “As Above So Below”. One way of interpreting this supposed piece of wisdom is to realize the Gods and other supernatural beings are not so different from mortals. Why?
It was not then just some reptilian-like snake in the Garden of Eden that engaged in “temptation against God’s will”. Evil is often portrayed as chthonic (under-worldly as opposed to celestial) where scary creatures reside. Slithering snakes, even if they can miraculously speak a human language, are not to be trusted by our anthropoid species (as primates are instinctively afraid of them). Sea serpents are not much better on the congeniality index—still they make for good fiction.
Ironically the four beasts in the Book of Revelation are eerily similar to descriptions of ‘Cherubim’ (high hierarchy level of angels) in other religious literature. This seems a little strange.
But then what about the so-called demiurge—a supernatural force that has connection the material side of the universe and is sometimes thought of as malevolent? The fictional side of ancient libraries could have been breeding grounds of Abrahamic religions. And it should be no shock as to how many fictional novels make a public library—because fiction and story-telling appeals to the human soul.
Still it is seldom hypothesized that one way to interpret the story of Adam and Eve eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, is to imagine that a typical human-like creature could likely be curious about “the exercise of power” in general (would not then knowledge of good and evil seem something any or many a curious person would naturally want to know more?).
Why was this story actually invented and promoted—be it fiction or non-fiction? It depicts the almighty “supernatural” power player, namely an all-knowing God, seemingly playing mind games with his supposedly naïve and recently birthed humans (made in his image)? What kinds of unspoken messages are really being conveyed by this very early story of the official Old Testament?
It then seems, hypothetically, one real take away message for Adam and Eve being punished for partaking into forbidden “knowledge” is that it is OK for God to have access to “classified” secrets and OK to censor his lesser humans in the realm from knowing too much about how things like power are actually exercised and justified—such as related to good and evil?
Still, doesn’t this early Biblical morality play, and message, not just seem strange, but odd in the sense we could be asking questions like “What exactly is knowledge about good and evil?” “And why are some camps acting so defensively about it?”
Who then, and by what criteria, determines when something is good or evil? Are these determinations just supposed to be imposed on those with less power in a given society? Is this the type of Indoctrination lesson for a supposed Democracy in which informed people have the right to vote for how power is exercised? Not so much.
Should the President of the United States, or certain high ranking politicians within Congress, or federal employees not voted in legally or illegally decide these matters however they reach their conclusions? Should judges and lawyers of the various political systems be trusted to determine the supposed sacred knowledge of good and evil—given how obviously corrupt the legal system of the United States in particular has become? How about Kings of some monarchy? Who and what are the sacred arbiters for making such dictates?
Apparently then (from a deep dive into a deep state analysis) during the history of religions, Gods were eventually created by the human mind (“anthropomorphized”) because it became obvious to many, over time, that human actors who were trusted to look out for the greater good, often could not, or would not, act in fair and impartial manners (just like most politicians at the European Union siding with Israel’s war crimes).
It then became apparently easier to convince large populations by religious enculturation, via early historic tribes, that a supposedly impartial and fair-minded Godhead, via the messaging to human intermediaries, namely prophets and angel messengers, who would reveal on what knowledge they could trust as viable and sacred truth—hence the whole history of prophets and religious literature.
Was God’s punishment and abrupt eviction of Adam and Eve, then, really a hidden message, condemning even an attempt to question God’s special authority (as usurped and defined solely by God)? Why was the right of denial even instigated in the first place? Did this become some precedent for this same God to declare himself the ultimate authority on all matters of importance, regardless as to how humans came to feel (or more likely those priestly Levite classes, then later Rabbis, who claimed to speak for God or Yahweh)?
If we have learned one thing in the last decades it is there are people who are judged by the laws on the books and other peoples who are above the law. For them there is no prosecution and prison time. It does not matter what sins they partake of they are still above human law. And does such human political realities have historical precedents? Likely, and likely when societies were ruled by religious rulers such societies justified these inequalities with religious precedents.
Did certain classes of people, such as the Levites, who acted as the sacred ones, get special privileges above and beyond the rest of society, and could this have been reason enough to hypothetically create a God in which they alone could adequately speak and act—that is if they derived extra and important power from their society believing via faith and trust?
Is this how certain, more or less, self-selected humans became the equivalent of Gods (or at least the spokespersons for such God(s))? They were able to have their concoctions of laws and judgments imposed on the entire society as Holier-Than-Thou decrees in which no mere mortal could question in any legitimate way. God’s decision making style and criteria, dictated by such human intermediaries, was beyond access and direct understanding for the masses—or kind of like classified as in National Security (or Levitical Security)? And even if not, in today’s parlance, police forces and spies were being directly paid by the powers-that-be that run the governed (via the tax collectors) and not by those paying the taxes.
[Note: One central and recurring theme of this essay series is on the prevalence and capacity for deceit to affect human interaction (and especially as related to politics). By now it should be clear as well that religions can be, and has been used as authoritarian bludgeons to create authoritarian forms of governance based on faith in the belief in the infallibility of those who speak for God or Yahweh.]
Yet, despite this long established norm of religious infallibility, we average people can still radically explore, from ‘theoretical’ perspective, the idea that any given religion can be analyzed as if it were complete fiction (as if created solely within, or by way of, the human imagination). Although these religions are presumed by many to be non-fictions of absolute truth. Still it is fair play for free thinkers to engage such forms of theoretical analysis (at least for people who are willing to take responsibility for their conclusions).
This is where the individual, who truly takes responsibility for his belief systems and assumptions, comes to acknowledge his right and his duty to analyze all information from a skeptical point of view (especially if the information is potentially important). This is the due diligence of being a mature and independent of mind, body and soul. No people have to believe anything on blind faith (and often they should not) nor do they have to accept the word of others on the same notion—including Adam and Eve. Why did Adam and Eve not directly challenge God for claiming they had no right to eat of such a tree of knowledge? Did they assume it was not their place to presume any such right? Where in the Pentateuch is there any declaration of the right to life and liberty—and for that matter any of the delineated Bill of Rights?
When religious dogma and its accolades, acts in the manner of authoritarian tyranny, it is a good idea to call out any potential abuse of power for what it is and when it happens. No human who claims to speak for God or morality should be exempt (including all historical prophets and writers).
And this is equally true for when human governments deny individuals there rights. What about Julian Assange who they (career politicians and career bureaucrats as “The Chosen”) claimed stole secrets from the Gods and shared knowledge with the common races of people (those who pay taxes for the political leaders who come to think and feel they are above the common man)?
Is, and was, Julian Assange really a dark, fallen angel messenger that deserved to be stuck in the purgatory of an Ecuadorian Embassy in London for a long period of time only to then be thrown in the hell of Belmarsh Prison for equally a long length or real and chronic suffering? Why were so few professional journalist “messengers” (the epitome of the word ‘angelos’) willing to speak for his rights and for truth?
Did Edward Snowden flee the United States because he knew he would have been cast out of Washington D.C.’s Beltway into damnation of one sort or another (at least as bad as many January 6th MAGA fans were for a very long time)?
Full List of Capitol Rioters Jailed So Far and the Sentences They Are Serving
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-capitol-rioters-jailed-sentences-january-6-1826075
Is it only secular governments that take political prisoners? Where does religion and God’s supposed rule begin and end—versus secular forms of government? Or is there some schizophrenia going on for future generations as to whether certain religions dominate versus humans having real freedoms from religious domination?
Adam Green does a pretty good job creating podcasts that include various right-wing, orthodox Rabbis explaining how Jews are going to rule over the rest of humanity (according supposedly to Yahweh’s dictates). See the beginning of this video as an example:
ZioWars: The Moshiach Menace | Know More News w/ Adam Green
https://odysee.com/@KnowMoreNews:1/ziowars-moshiach-menace:7
And despite various major search engines trying to censor the blatant truth, in which several Rabbis (a minority overall but still several) such as justifying genocide of Palestinians (and there are several similar videos to be found) try: Jake the Metaphysician Muslim on Rabbis calling for genocide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTo3juqJpig
These examples of barefaced racism and oppression are being justified as religious decree supposedly justified by a supernatural supreme creator the world is expected to take as existential fact. Why should any of these Rabbis get a free card to espouse the most racist and violent actions possible? No religion or religious scripture should be exempt from human scrutiny (no matter how merely mortal are those doing the evaluation).
Laurent Guyenot recently wrote: “To my knowledge, the Hebrew Bible does not recommend that Jews should strive to be loved by non-Jews. On the contrary, Yahweh said to his people in Deuteronomy 2:25:
“Today and henceforth, I shall fill the peoples under all heavens with fear and terror of you; whoever hears word of your approach will tremble and writhe in anguish because of you.”” See:
Fear of the Jews and the Jewish God of Terror
https://www.unz.com/article/fear-of-the-jews-and-the-jewish-god-of-terror/
Guyenot goes on to write:
“If Yahweh wants to spread terror among non-Jews, doesn’t that make him a terrorist, or the god of terrorists? It does, and it makes Zionists good Yahwists. In his 1951 memoir The Revolt, Menachem Begin bragged about “the military victory at Deir Yassin,” because the news of this slaughter of 254 villagers (mostly unarmed men, women, and children) immediately led to the “maddened, uncontrollable stampede of 635,000 Arabs. … The political and economic significance of this development can hardly be overestimated.”[1] Wasn’t Begin a worthy servant of his national god?
What Netanyahu is doing today is more than a hundred Deir Yassins. And the goal, again, is not just to kill indiscriminately, but by doing so to terrorize millions of Palestinians into leaving “voluntarily”. This explains why they let so many images of the martyrdom of Gaza filter: it is a public crucifixion, meant for all to see.”
Is this then not so indirectly related to why Adam and Eve was punished for eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil—because some immoral decree, sooner or later, was to be passed on as unquestionable and sacred command by an Almighty God (and actively supported by religious zealots)?
Israel: Where Genocide Meets Real EstateBY Yoav Litvin
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/19/israel-where-genocide-meets-real-estate/
Is the entire corporate mainstream media and alternative media simply supposed to accept official Israeli explanations as to what actually happened on October the 6th and shortly thereafter when there are so many counter-narratives from people who should know—telling the world the official Israeli explanations are full of damn lies? See video (note not all search engines will allow):
Israeli propaganda – Hamas killing babies
https://odysee.com/@salutcousin:c/Israeli-propaganda—Hamas-killing-babies:2
Is this equally the kind of forbidden knowledge God’s supposed lesser subjects are not supposed to know about morally as to good and evil? Is this narrator really some serpent liar trying to seduce people from knowing God’s Chosen Peoples’ supposed righteous truth? Are these videos below equally lies from the demon devil because they say the Israeli government and IDF are lying:
“An Israeli Veteran explains the October 7th false flag in Israel” at Odysee.com
What really happened in Israel on Oct. 7? w/Max Blumenthal: The Chris Hedges Report at TheRealNewsNetwork.com
Arguably then, the Adam and Eve story, so very early in the Old Testament, is about censorship. Equally it is about insiders versus outsiders. It is a paramount lesson on how the relationship of power is supposed to exist between a Creator God (or really Jews claiming to be of ‘his’ Choseness) came to represent such a paradigm of Judaic authority in relation to the rest of mankind (not destined to rule any territory on the planet).
Why was this iconic story, serpent tempting human and naive creatures, then quickly punished for desiring more knowledge, in relation to naiveté, even in the Bible? Obviously it did not take long for the act of punishment to rear its head in mankind’s relationship with the Biblical Yahweh.
And speaking of censoring knowledge, and providing the official Fact-Checked counter-narratives, the astute observer equally is aware that not just For-Profit Corporations, like within the news industry, engages in elaborate deceit, but so too do some non-profit organizations (some designed primarily for such a purpose). Take the ADL, Anti-Defamation League, and the SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center. Both these organizations are known by politically aware people to engage in all manner of dishonest bias and distortion via their supposed research and advocacy.
For example, both are engaged in the psychological warfare of making it illegal for people to advocate for either ‘nationalism’ in general, or spokespeople for the white race in general (when it is a fact there is significant political warfare being engaged against the idea of nationalism (except for Israel) and against equal rights for white people, especially gentiles and Christians to unite and express concern about any demonstrable ideological, sociological and political wars being actively engaged against their own kind. These too are forms of lies of serpentine nature.
To merely express “white pride” in general is considered racism, even while expressing pride in being of any other ethnic group is not. Arguments against people being OK to express feeling pride in their own Caucasian identity is attacked as if it is presumed to automatically mean all other non-white people are inferior—which is not true. Why is it not OK to claim White Lives Matter? Having pride in one’s own people is deliberately being used as a reverse form of racism while several nonprofit organizations are actively working to denigrate white culture around the world.
ADL and the SPLC work along these lines—using such reverse racism to suppress any right to having healthy pride about oneself if one happens to be Caucasian and gentile. They are deliberately engaged in disinformation against groups they pigeonhole as White Nationalists and White Supremacists, along with their covert use of undercover, government and private agents, trying to instigate illegal activities in such groups, to be used as propaganda efforts, and then claim these promoted manipulations of their doing, is producing white racist tendencies to far greater degrees of reality than anything close to what is actually happening—all in the name of killing free speech primarily for white, gentile, people who may feel alienated.
As recently argued, deceptive propaganda is, metaphorically, a form of spiritual demonic possession if people are led to believe lies (because believers are essentially ‘possessed’ by false facts they have taken to heart). Therefore one can be spiritually possessed by other than supernatural forces—namely any human or organization capable of feeding others fake news. We should appreciate just how human and routine can be these supposed spiritual events—whether it is truth telling or lying. One question is who gets to tell the world who are they deceivers and who are the good guys. Obviously those who have the money to dominate the media and non-profits decide and they are not deciding in favor of disenfranchised white, gentile people to tell their own side of the story.
When we have people like the very biased, and arguably reverse-racist person in Johnathan Greenblatt making hyperbolic or exaggerated claims about the extent of anti-Semitism from white-supremacist groups in the United States, and the world en large, especially in order to enhance his organization’s, and Jewish power in general, at the expense of other gentile peoples’ rights, we are dealing essentially with a form of spiritual lies trying to demonic possess the naïve. His and similar exaggerated lies are being consumed and taken to heart by many people (as the ADL wields enormous political clout in this dumbed-down and corrupted country as so many politicians have, more or less been forced to bend their knees to Jewish Power which dominates in the un-United States).
Never does he, nor people of his Zionist bias, allow for white people and Christian gentiles to criticize Jewish power openly and especially in regard to the abuse of Jewish power. The ADL, like much of the U.S. Government, might as well declare they work directly for the State of Israel and Zionist causes. He, Greenblatt, clearly sides with Jews in favor of Israeli genocide as opposed to Jews who oppose it (as we will shortly see).
Furthermore, given the true extent to a huge division between Jews themselves these days, why is this psychological civil war within so often misrepresented and misinterpreted as a conflict between Jews and Gentiles? If you listen to the following podcast from Owen Jones interviewing Gideon Levy (from about the middle at say minute 27) you realize that the world population of Jewish peoples is polarizing:
Courageous Israeli Journalist EXPOSES Netanyahu’s Hideous Plan – w/. Gideon Levy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkgHDYYRxo
Some of this is equally going on with Christians around the world. Still, given the extent of how much the Bible is read and believed as gospel truth, why is there not more critical analysis as to various meanings behind the overt words of the biblical stories (especially when this Yahweh dude is being promoted as some ultimate divine form of Authority)?
Or for that matter why did some angels in heaven, in general, rebel against God as we are told about a figure called Lucifer, a once glorified arch-angel? Was it really simply a matter of ‘his’ pride as we are told in Biblical and religious propaganda? Could there be alternative explanations as equally valid (or are we only allowed the orthodox and censored version)?
Some may feel uncomfortable even asking such questions. But think of it this way: consider the many wars and conflicts created by religious doctrines throughout history (fought by human mortals) do we not have an inherent right to think about, discuss and research the various possibilities of how religious motivates human politics in all its manifestations. Of course we should if we have a price to pay.
Certainly we humans are sophisticated enough to realize than anytime we are discussing any form of political power we should be able to realize any form of power can be abused (and too often is so abused). And what could possibly be a better form of power than convincing huge populations of people that the authority figures of their religion cannot be questioned? How could this not be the ultimate form of political abuse if certain cabals of human players so deemed such a plot?
Was the Catholic Pope infallible? Many seemingly throughout history apparently thought so. Carlo Maria Viganò is not the only person excommunicated from the Catholic Church. See Wikipedia’s List of people excommunicated by the Catholic Church. All these people technically are fallen, and supposedly are not wanted in Heaven (accordingly to some).
Furthermore, maybe Heaven is not, and was not as splendid and magnificent as what we have been led to assume—or why would there have been a civil war there between angels in the first place?
Moreover, usually wars can be explained and better understood from many different perspectives. So many believers assume that they want their soul to go to heavenly paradise when they die (presumably because their creator God of Love and Justice resides there). But if it was, and is, such a divine place of justice and lovey-dovey choirs why did it turn into the usual human-like episodes of personality politics, bickering and civil war there between the angels supposedly as explained in the Book of Enoch?
Whereas, in ancient Greek mythology Prometheus was punished for stealing fire from the heavens for humanity. Why didn’t those powerful Lords in heaven just have shared fire—given its importance regarding heat, light, and cooking, etc.?
Or why is Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, so very genius in its truth on describing how easily men are brainwashed by those who control the media and the tools of propagation, still revered as political insightful?
If you think about it the Bible as Christians know it, is not a political philosophy of individual rights. There is nothing in the Bible that has anything to do with promoting Free Speech or really any part of the Bill of Rights as we still presume to have it.
Although we will all get our judgement day there is nothing along the lines of a guaranteed fair trial and the right to fairly state your case (of course we see this to be equally true in the land of the free).
There doesn’t appear to be any notion of the right to free association or to petition especially for the Not Chosen.
Doesn’t it seem important for humanity at large, such as academies around the world to promote the study of how religions affects politics and human psychology? There is obvious a lot of connection.
End of Part Four—to be continued: