Friday, January 06, 2012
Rise of The Chosen People.
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Sipping on beer #1 at 1649. Sip. Yum.
Tonight's link dump will now take on a somewhat darker complexion: Ancient Mythology.
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My Take: The 3 biggest biblical misconceptions. Huh?! The Bible evolved over time? It's not really 'The Inerrant Word of God'? Darn. Whowouldathought?
Indeed, it turns out that 'Monotheism' was probably invented by The Egyptians, not The Jews, according to PBSs' Egypt's Golden Empire. The Jews simply 'borrowed' the concept from the Egyptians. Darn. It seems that the original idea of 'one god' was inspired by The Sun. An Egyptian Pharaoh, Akhenaten, apparently started the 'new cult.' Sigmund Freud wrote a book on the subject titled, Moses and Monotheism. The pharaoh apparently noticed that 'all life' depended on The Sun which 'shined down' from above. 'The Sun must be the true God!' 'We will worship The Sun!' 'Heaven must be above!' 'We go to Heaven after we die!' The Sun was a benevolent God.
And then The Jews discovered that god.
What a find! The Jews did a few 'modifications.' They invented 'intermediaries' called 'priests' who acted as 'middlemen for a price.' Money honey! The Jewish version was not so 'benevolent' as the Egyptian version: He not only created and nourished, He destroyed and killed. He created Hell, the opposite of Heaven, 'down below.' Fear factor! Cha-Ching! Caught between hope and fear, the common man was at the mercy of the priesthood. The priests lived very high on the hog indeed. Slurp.
The Jewish god was a male, of course, because the priests were male. Never mind that the female was the actual Gateway to Existence. God was male! Females became second-class citizens and have remained so.
The Jewish god declared that Jews were his 'chosen people.' The priests passed that information along to their subjects. It was Tribalism run amok. Jews became superior to all other 'tribes.' It was written in the law. Jews became the ultimate racists and remain so.
One small thing: The newborn Jewish male needed to contribute something to the Jewish god as a 'sign of solidarity.' Nothing much, only the 'juicy part' of his penis, which the god found offensive. Snip. Congratulations, son! Now you are a Jew! One of The Chosen People...
Sipping on beer #1 at 1649. Sip. Yum.
Tonight's link dump will now take on a somewhat darker complexion: Ancient Mythology.
----------
My Take: The 3 biggest biblical misconceptions. Huh?! The Bible evolved over time? It's not really 'The Inerrant Word of God'? Darn. Whowouldathought?
Indeed, it turns out that 'Monotheism' was probably invented by The Egyptians, not The Jews, according to PBSs' Egypt's Golden Empire. The Jews simply 'borrowed' the concept from the Egyptians. Darn. It seems that the original idea of 'one god' was inspired by The Sun. An Egyptian Pharaoh, Akhenaten, apparently started the 'new cult.' Sigmund Freud wrote a book on the subject titled, Moses and Monotheism. The pharaoh apparently noticed that 'all life' depended on The Sun which 'shined down' from above. 'The Sun must be the true God!' 'We will worship The Sun!' 'Heaven must be above!' 'We go to Heaven after we die!' The Sun was a benevolent God.
And then The Jews discovered that god.
What a find! The Jews did a few 'modifications.' They invented 'intermediaries' called 'priests' who acted as 'middlemen for a price.' Money honey! The Jewish version was not so 'benevolent' as the Egyptian version: He not only created and nourished, He destroyed and killed. He created Hell, the opposite of Heaven, 'down below.' Fear factor! Cha-Ching! Caught between hope and fear, the common man was at the mercy of the priesthood. The priests lived very high on the hog indeed. Slurp.
The Jewish god was a male, of course, because the priests were male. Never mind that the female was the actual Gateway to Existence. God was male! Females became second-class citizens and have remained so.
The Jewish god declared that Jews were his 'chosen people.' The priests passed that information along to their subjects. It was Tribalism run amok. Jews became superior to all other 'tribes.' It was written in the law. Jews became the ultimate racists and remain so.
One small thing: The newborn Jewish male needed to contribute something to the Jewish god as a 'sign of solidarity.' Nothing much, only the 'juicy part' of his penis, which the god found offensive. Snip. Congratulations, son! Now you are a Jew! One of The Chosen People...
