talkpolitics | The American Religion: The God of Slavery

In order to enslave a population one must first enslave the would-be slave owner. Caesar did this in Gaul by separating the Gallic military from its spiritual leadership. Once the martial practitioners were indoctrinated into the Roman religion, they became willing enslavers of other people. In order to do this quickly and efficiently, Caesar used the persuasive power of one of the Gallic spiritual leaders. Once Gaul was firmly under the Roman fist, the Gallic spiritual leaders were enslaved to teach only pro-Roman ideas to the children of the martial elite. They were locked up in an ivory tower institution.

A similar process had been accomplished at a different historical period at the other end of the Mediterranean Sea. Greece had been enslaved to serve the martial ambitions of Egypt. The teachers of the children of its martial elite were slaves of Egypt who taught pro-Egyptian ideas. When an ambitious Greek youth wanted to get a better education he sailed to Egypt to study. There he could learn all of the things that were forbidden to the mind of the soldier-slave.

The Levant had also undergone a process of Egyptian enslavement as a bulwark against Babylonian encroachment. As a result of the tug of war between Egypt and Babylon, the Levant was populated with people of a mix of slave religions. The Jewish chronicles give us a glimpse into the variety of these cultures. The Jewish religion was both pro-Egyptian and pro-Babylonian. At the same time, it was anti-Egyptian and anti-Babylonian.

When the Egyptians enslaved the Jewish martial class they cultivated a hatred for the relatives of Abraham who ruled Babylonian territory. Abraham's ancestral deity became demonic in the eyes of his descendants. Abraham's cousins were a threat to the One True God of Egyptian circumcision. Josephus even goes so far as portraying Abraham as the crafter of the material Creator deity despite traditional evidence to the contrary.

In an enslaving religion the eternal forms are enslaved. They are crafted in the stew of subjugation. The eagle is said to be immune to the vicious shafts of instant death that the great sky slave hurls down upon a cowering tribe. The eagle becomes the icon of freedom for people who fear the wrath of the slave upstairs. If they fail to pay their respects to the heavenly slave, they fear eternal torment in an after-death domain that exists only in a slavish consciousness.

Slavish bolts from out of the blue.