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The Rise of Judeo-Christianity
From its beginnings in the obscure and threatening climate of the middle east, the Judeo-Christian religion embraced the idea of a single god who had a sense of moral, or absolute "right" and "wrong," justice. As characterized by Nietzsche, Jung and others, this religion was a revenge of primitive humankind on an environment that was incomprehensible and a death that was unfathomable. Initially confined to the tribal environment of Zoroastrians and their dualist fundamentalism, Judeo-Christianity reached full stride with the emergence of Judaism.
Judaism, as the first monotheistic religion with an imperative toward change in the world, was based in a racial cult adhering strictly to the ascetic principles of a moral religion whose "eye for an eye" became infamous in their local area. Where Judaism succeeded was in its creation of a culture whose focus was on domination of others an enrichment of those within that culture at the expense of others. This paranoid viewpoint led to a dogmatic, absolutist, violent series of regimes.
When the Jewish and Roman citizens of the time became overwrought with the archaic symbolism of paganism and the rigid moral judgment of Judaism, a religious thinker named Jesus Christ came to the forefront with a "kinder, gentler" non-racially-based Judaism. Christ suggested forgiveness instead of war, and peace instead of domination, but at the heart of his ideas was the same morality in which one either did "right" or "wrong" according to a doctrine of social compromise and arbitrary benevolence. While Judaism had stayed confined, this new religion - preaching freedom from death through "correct" behavior - grew like wildfire and soon left the middle east.
In the hands of the most advanced culture of the time, Europeans, Christianity became a nightmare as the logical and assertive peoples of the north attempted to interpret its metaphors as literal commandment. A new fundamentalism of interpretation arose, and from it the final form of Judeo-Christianity, the protestants. These new Christians accepted all of what was said in the Bible, but considered material outcome on earth to be a sign of God's favor of disfavor, a throwback to the materialism of Judaism or Islam. Because of this conflict in ideology, soon crusades against Judaism and recent arrival Islam, a warrior cult of mystical naturalism, split the Judeo-Christian religion into oppositional branches.
Since that time, Christianity has become the founding supposition of all modern "Westernized" empires, whether in actual form or in the presence of morality, the judging of individual deeds according to an absolute social logic. Currently, debate over moral right or wrong still occupies most of acts of law and lawmaking bodies, and while crucial issues like intellectual advancement and destruction of our natural environment are denied the religious conflict continues on symbolic issues like abortion, prayer, and civil rights.
The Rise of Judeo-Christianity
From its beginnings in the obscure and threatening climate of the middle east, the Judeo-Christian religion embraced the idea of a single god who had a sense of moral, or absolute "right" and "wrong," justice. As characterized by Nietzsche, Jung and others, this religion was a revenge of primitive humankind on an environment that was incomprehensible and a death that was unfathomable. Initially confined to the tribal environment of Zoroastrians and their dualist fundamentalism, Judeo-Christianity reached full stride with the emergence of Judaism.
Judaism, as the first monotheistic religion with an imperative toward change in the world, was based in a racial cult adhering strictly to the ascetic principles of a moral religion whose "eye for an eye" became infamous in their local area. Where Judaism succeeded was in its creation of a culture whose focus was on domination of others an enrichment of those within that culture at the expense of others. This paranoid viewpoint led to a dogmatic, absolutist, violent series of regimes.
When the Jewish and Roman citizens of the time became overwrought with the archaic symbolism of paganism and the rigid moral judgment of Judaism, a religious thinker named Jesus Christ came to the forefront with a "kinder, gentler" non-racially-based Judaism. Christ suggested forgiveness instead of war, and peace instead of domination, but at the heart of his ideas was the same morality in which one either did "right" or "wrong" according to a doctrine of social compromise and arbitrary benevolence. While Judaism had stayed confined, this new religion - preaching freedom from death through "correct" behavior - grew like wildfire and soon left the middle east.
In the hands of the most advanced culture of the time, Europeans, Christianity became a nightmare as the logical and assertive peoples of the north attempted to interpret its metaphors as literal commandment. A new fundamentalism of interpretation arose, and from it the final form of Judeo-Christianity, the protestants. These new Christians accepted all of what was said in the Bible, but considered material outcome on earth to be a sign of God's favor of disfavor, a throwback to the materialism of Judaism or Islam. Because of this conflict in ideology, soon crusades against Judaism and recent arrival Islam, a warrior cult of mystical naturalism, split the Judeo-Christian religion into oppositional branches.
Since that time, Christianity has become the founding supposition of all modern "Westernized" empires, whether in actual form or in the presence of morality, the judging of individual deeds according to an absolute social logic. Currently, debate over moral right or wrong still occupies most of acts of law and lawmaking bodies, and while crucial issues like intellectual advancement and destruction of our natural environment are denied the religious conflict continues on symbolic issues like abortion, prayer, and civil rights.
