Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Technological Progress Dissolves Ancient Ideas
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Ten beers and a double shot of CM later and I am still hanging in there compared to the disaster that was last week. Hmm. This leads me to speculate whether I was gassed on that occasion. Maybe. Maybe not.
In any case, as I was watching this You-Tube video, it dawned on me that the Jewish (and especially the Muslim) cultures devalued the female relative to the Christian culture because of The Virgin, or the lack thereof. Jews and Muslims lacked female heroes. Indeed, Jewish culture blames the female (Eve) for God's wrath. Muslim culture, on the other hand, seems to have been hijacked by a male clique intent on overthrowing the original female god, Allat, changing the god's name to, Allah. The Creator became, in both cultures, male. This is ludicrous on the face of it, because males cannot give birth. Believers overlook this, but skeptics laugh, and skeptics are few and far between. The skeptical minority inevitably loses the battle because it takes more 'consciousness' to be skeptical, while any unconscious dumbass can be a believer.
But apparently, over time, technological progress causes ancient beliefs to fade into the mists of Myth. This process has been accelerated in the 21st Century, and is the substrate of the clash of civilations currently in progress. Thus, modern television can report instances where the Virgin Mary appears in strange places, like, for example, beneath overpasses, or on toast.
What ancient could have guessed that images of The Virgin would appear under railroad bridges? Or on baked bread?
Ten beers and a double shot of CM later and I am still hanging in there compared to the disaster that was last week. Hmm. This leads me to speculate whether I was gassed on that occasion. Maybe. Maybe not.
In any case, as I was watching this You-Tube video, it dawned on me that the Jewish (and especially the Muslim) cultures devalued the female relative to the Christian culture because of The Virgin, or the lack thereof. Jews and Muslims lacked female heroes. Indeed, Jewish culture blames the female (Eve) for God's wrath. Muslim culture, on the other hand, seems to have been hijacked by a male clique intent on overthrowing the original female god, Allat, changing the god's name to, Allah. The Creator became, in both cultures, male. This is ludicrous on the face of it, because males cannot give birth. Believers overlook this, but skeptics laugh, and skeptics are few and far between. The skeptical minority inevitably loses the battle because it takes more 'consciousness' to be skeptical, while any unconscious dumbass can be a believer.
But apparently, over time, technological progress causes ancient beliefs to fade into the mists of Myth. This process has been accelerated in the 21st Century, and is the substrate of the clash of civilations currently in progress. Thus, modern television can report instances where the Virgin Mary appears in strange places, like, for example, beneath overpasses, or on toast.
What ancient could have guessed that images of The Virgin would appear under railroad bridges? Or on baked bread?
