Saturday, May 19, 2007

Ch. 7. Radical Priest asks, "Which Came First ; The Bitchin' Or the Beg ?"

The history of ‘ Civilization ‘ is the history of religion, with recent focus being greater, certainly in monetary terms, than any known to humanity.

The differences in opinion are following form and running hand in hand with reprehensible, incomprehensible and extreme degrees of religious fervour coupled to reflex and rabid blood lust married to braindead murdermatons.

The future of ‘ Hell ‘ is well secured.

With his usual inconsiderate addictions to domination and violence, MAN has run amuck in a way never before seen in our known span of time.

The Greeks, The Romans, The Christians, The Moors. Each has had some massive campaigns, spread over pieces of earth so large they are measured as percentages of total planetary land surface.

But never before has any really threatened the ultimate survival of life at this corner of the Solar System.

Since his warring began, MAN, has acted out his inner rage, flexed his bully muscle, and actualized his incomplete maturation process from one forest to another, one hill to another and one sea to another; unfettered; and as wantonly as any drunken harlot in an alcoholic stupor surrounded by any number of intoxicated randy dog-like males.

What the Hell is GOING ON ??!!

Where did our ‘ God ‘ go ?

“ Oh, he’s over there with a rocket launcher aimed at that caravan.”

There are three major religions going at it like never before.

Each are wielding total decimation in one form or another.

Each touting a God that is greater than the other, yet somehow, the same.

At the time Moses mysteriously appeared with his “ Word of God”,

there were already well founded spiritual beliefs in India, China and Persia; not mentioning the Egyptians, who seemed to be into something a little more vain and hedonistic and therefore not entirely spiritual in my view.

Given that there is not one artifact of antiquity anywhere to be found to support Moses and the Mt. Sinai theory, the basis for the beginnings of the Judaism and Christianity may well have the genius stroke of a seer having an epiphany or of a philosopher, who took preexisting material and rewrote it.

In any event, each of the contemporary spiritual beliefs of the middle eastern enclave at that time was well enough established to not be influenced entirely by the supposed “ Ten Commandments” or the birth of Jesus and the ensuing drama that goes along with that.

It appears that Zarathustra was the first spiritualist to invite the duality of Heaven and Hell, separating his celestial guide from the evils of earth and giving him supremacy over his demonic arch rival.

Zarathustra didn’t ever imply that HIS guide/God was the ONLY one, since he was following in the paths left by Krishna and Buddha and most likely taking guidance and inspiration from them and/or from their teachings.

The Torah was supposedly inspired by the written translations of Moses and compiled into it’s form, as “ The Old Testament” by scribes under the tutelage of elders who may well have compiled and prepared teachings synonymous with any number of sources already in existence.

The duality of God versus Devil came to the fore and remained the central crux of this areas religions. However right next door were other, older, healthier religious beliefs that might have taken hold of popular contemporary western culture if it hadn’t been for the fanaticism of King Constantine.

The eastern religions in practice at the time of Moses were considerably different in presentation, but no less worthy. Their central characters were touted as being either the son of a great God, or the recipients of the great God’s inspiration.

No matter which source, the core tenet is that mankind needs to honour and respect the earth and all things in it.

The superficial differences really don’t matter when it’s all said and done.

During the initial growth of humanity; of ‘man’; for facility;

‘he’ was without language.

His understanding of all that surrounded him, or her,

was limited to his experience and his sight.

He developed a relationship with his world which eventually incorporated a consciousness of basic realities, like pain, gravity, darkness, and sleep.

Upon that simple knowledge he developed skills, and understanding of slightly more complex realities, like rain, fire, shelter, or bodily coverings. He also eventually learned about obscure things like poison berries, over-eating, birthing, and communication, not necessarily in that order.

He then learned to kill.

His prey, and his enemies.

Sometime along the road he began to have ideas about larger powers which controlled various systems like sunsets, or storms with the resultant lightening, or heavy rainfall with the resultant flooding, and within his small universe, such forces would have had to seem absolutely awesome. They would also have been realized as being beyond his capability, and therefore the realm of greater entities living ‘ up there’.

Given the short life spans of Joe Lascaux and his neighbours, most would be subject to the unbridled zest of adolescence and the ignorance that goes with that.

Now I wouldn’t plop a school bus full of teenagers out in the middle of the jungle and expect much more than total disaster; and the eventual complete annihilation of each one of them wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

” Lord of the Flies “ illustrates that clearly enough.

But during primeval days that young mind was virtually all they had as their basis for self government and survival information.

Since there wasn’t any other information to be had, nor knowledge of anything more than what they had right in front of them, the only source of wisdom would have come from the ‘elders’; who would likely not be much older than them; though I won’t rule out the possibility that there were seniors in the mix, even during Egyptian times, elders of 50 years were rare.

So Joe’s tribe was a tribe of adolescents, burdened by the oats and impetuousness of youth. They were also burdened by the insecurity, fear, vanity and recklessness, and the general angst of youth. The unfathomable reaches of the night sky would definitely have been beyond their comprehension, and wide open to interpretation, speculation, adoration and homage, while the unavoidable inner traumas of

“ who am I ?”,

“ what does it all Mean ?”

“ what is love ?”

would have nagged away at the back of ‘his’ mind much as it still does today.

Being a tribal animal, the primal human would also be inclined towards some of the other ills that befall the adolescent intellect, with those I’ve mentioned above, coupled to things like competition, jealousy, fear, confusion and superstition.

That playground in their heads was fertile territory for short tales and tall, and with the advent of speech, these ideas eventually were shared after being harboured within under unknown categories that haunted them in the night.

Early homo sapiens had a lot of time to think about these things long before ‘he’ could ever tell anyone about them, or even formulate them into a sentence.

How would he have described a celestial concept without a language ?

How would he describe a conquest with naught but the bones left over?

He painted, drew, carved and molded, but that was about it.

As people, we know that everyone loves a good story.

We also know that the squeaky wheel gets the grease; to wit, around a campfire embellished by a roasting carcass, the description of the days activities was a popular event, and that the raconteur of times would invariably be the individual who dominated the discourse.

Eventually, the story tellers would have become known and valued, for given their predisposition towards being ‘men of words’, their talent and value to the tribe would not have gone unnoticed.

With this it isn’t too hard to see what happened down the road.

The tale tellers of old, became the cultural hubs of the tribes, and the intellectual guides for the less adept ‘explorers’.

It’s not too much of a step to the inevitable, and given a little competition between orators, the story teller with the most fantastic story would doubtlessly have become the ‘main man’. The sorcerer or medicine ‘man’ would have held an even higher position of esteem in the tribe, and may well have been one and the same.

Oh sure, the tribal leader would still have had rule, but the story teller had imagination, and that would lead the avid listener to an avenue of mystery and escape; a pastime that is well accommodated and well acculturated within the characteristics of Mankind to this very day.

Now for my money, though the teachings of Krishna may well have been the first formal offering of guidance ‘from above’ by a son of God; their elephant God and six armed dancers and blue babies and such, were just a little weird.

The following compilations of religion were more reasonable and were comprised more of help than they were of egocentric posturing, until the jostling and elbow jabbing of the Christians came onto the scene that is.

The Muslims had incorporated everyone into their system, the Judaics came forth with a modified version of that and specified more distinct parameters, but the Christians postulated that THEIR guy, was the ONLY guy; which invariably invalidated everyone else, and thereby negated and insulted systems that were already in place.

So Johnny-Come-Lately, barged into the scene and decided

‘he’ was going to upstage everyone.

It certainly had happened around the campfires of antiquity already, but it did take a headstrong lot indeed to challenge, needlessly I might add, the existing religions of the day.

I strongly suggest that the act itself was a mere gesture of foolhardiness and self absorption , concocted by a cartel of religious insurgents to put their brand name on the theme of the day.

In short, the unwelcome imposition of man’s will into the realm of the ‘Gods’, did not incite retaliation from the ‘Gods’, but rather from men who believed in these ‘Gods’.

Krishna was touted as a son of God.

Confucius was not.

Buddha was not.

Zarathustra was not.

Abraham was not.

Moses was not.

Muhammad was not.

Jesus was touted as the ONLY son of the ONLY God.

Like someone pushing their way to the front of the line.

That was definitely an incitement, and an act of deliberate fantasy imposed upon a pre-existing spiritual structure that was already well founded and well accepted; in that region anyway; while elsewhere, the tribes of mankind were honouring their God’s through the many faces that ‘He’ was wearing in Asia, North and South America, Polynesia, Oceania, as well as Northern, Central and Southern Europe.

Our weekdays are named after such Pagan Gods as Woden and Thor.

There were also Zeus, and Neptune and the rest of the Grecian Gods who were more relative to daily life than unknown unseen beings who supposedly ruled from on high.

Of all of the superstitions / religions, most of the earliest ones were bestowing their spiritual structures upon known earthly entities, things of the tangible world; the Sun, the Moon, the Spirit of the Hunt, or the Ruler of the Sea, and so on.

Each of the spiritual beliefs of humanity were birthed and nurtured around the campfires and places of worship, and evolved through the course of natural selection through tangible, earthly associations. Each were active independently though concurrently, and were separate and unknown to each other until the travels of Europe’s explorers.

Yet despite the variety and differences between them, each was born of mankind’s inclination towards giving up his seniority to a higher force. Each, however did had valid and traceable relativity to the culture that birthed them, and were structured around the very elements of their daily lives.

At NO time did any of these ‘Gods’ ever claim to be the ONLY GOD !

Furthermore at NO time did their Gods appear and address a crowd,

or pose for a photo op.

Oh sure, plenty of aware souls communicated with ‘God’.

Many of them were able to recite or incite parables and doctrine,

but NONE of these were necessarily directly from ‘God’, they may certainly have been premonitions or visitations, insights or realizations, but by the time they were put into words or text, they were likely to have been modified since

they had traveled through the medium who received them and presented them to the public. They were therefore second hand right from the getgo, and tainted by the bearer as clearly as the reteller of tales of conquest would have unavoidably modified the material from receipt to dissemination.

It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway.

ALL of the Gods of Mankind are equal.

ALL of the visions, concoctions and rantings are as worthy as the next.

In terms of spiritual guidance and adhesion, the musings of the ‘God’ agent,

the babblings of the ‘God’ drunk, the writings of the ‘God’ struck,

the tales of the ‘God’ seeing, believing or espousing; are all equal.

Mankind had birthed his ‘God’ from his environment, and embellished

‘Him’ with whatever chattels he found fit.

Each ‘God’ had been a creation of the quest of ‘Man’,

and all men are as equal as their ‘Gods’.

The pursuit and need for a superior entity is an intrinsic characteristic of the human condition. The means by which it has been effected however are handicapped and limited by the capabilities and the limitations of the initiator and the recipient.

The reasons and intentions that mankind has levied upon it’s people through it’s means of communicating and peacemaking with the ‘heavens’ have been for the most part, noble, honourable, and sincere; until religious belief was turned into a weapon that is.

This realization has saddened me deeply because the goodness that lives in man’s heart is being used against him for ulterior purposes.

The growth of mankind has been subject to manipulation and convenient distortion with power, control, and self aggrandizement at the crux of it.

Through the ministrations of maniacal, power hungry Kings, the inherent drive of civilizations to have and worship a God of their choice, has been rerouted into cause and motivation for global domination.

The Christian concept for ‘Salvation’ is the greatest hypocrisy of known civilization.

From it’s questionable inception,

“ Thou Shalt Not Kill”

has been flagrantly ignored, violated, inflicted and wielded across nations by the swords of religious zealots with the consequent demise of millions, and the potential of ultimate decimation of the Earth.

We are standing in broad daylight, yet remain as blind as bats,

We have our eyes wide open yet can’t even see the nose on our face.

With all of the spiritual parameters that we have poured over throughout out time,

we are living as wild beasts.

For any chance at a future, mankind must take his global awareness and unite

as one ‘nation under God’,

or WE shall all perish as one foolhardy species that just couldn’t do,

what it has professed in the name GOD.

I see the abolition of crosses, ankhs, wheels, ohms, whatever, to be replaced with the O.

The One, the Sphere, the single unit, the Ouroboros, the circle of time, ………

The circle, a most perfect to end to a most perfect beginning.



I look forward to hearing from you.
Peace Out,
Radical Priest,
Reverend Michael Valentine Goldsun
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