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Dethroning the Gods of the Religions, p. 6 Paul’s
assault on man and on the universe was the tool with which he utterly
devalues and nullifies all human achievements as products of the “flesh”
and the “wisdom of the world.. Then comes the ultimate inversion
borne of a psychology poisoned with resentment and revenge, it is the
foolish and the weak who are truly great in the eyes of his authoritarian
God and who will finally judge the world. In I Corinthians 1:20-28,
he writes:
This Christianity thus requires the complete debasement of the world before the God of Paul and his band of “believers”, a God who is at war with all that is great and natural, who is afraid of both human intelligence and the body. Moreover, in order for this new Pauline Christianity to equip itself with the right to imperialist or worldwide domination, it had to present itself as an extension of Judaism notwithstanding the fact that the Nazarene had abrogated and rescinded the Mosaic law for his disciples on the premise of the all-sufficiency of the liberating force of love and the universality of the divine reality. Therefore
to the deviation of Paul was added yet another, the adoption and annexation
by Christianity of the Torah, the Histories of the Kings of Israel and
the Prophetic Books - all of which make up the Old Testament - with
a view to establishing the belief that the God of Jesus was identical
to the one and only God of the Jews and that he was their promised Messiah
who would deliver the world from evil and place it under the subjugation
of the “chosen people,” which of course was now to be the
Christians with the Messiah at their head. The
monotheistic religions, ruled by jealous Gods who have declared the
nonexistence of all other Gods, have cut man off from the universe which
they demonize and calumniate. By such cunning man in his natural state
has been made something deformed and loathsome; he has been made sick
and despicable to himself. Obedience and belief are his only redemption
from guilt for all clever parasites and impotent usurpers know that
the reign of God requires that man must first be broken, filled with
self-hatred and put in chains. All Semitic religions live under the
curse of Adam; from his very birth man feels himself guilty and cursed
for a crime by an alleged ancestor against God whose prophets, priests
and “holy books” have imputed to all his descendants. Even
modern courts are more sane: no one throws an entire family and that
family’s family ad infinitum into jail because the father allegedly
committed a crime [11]. The
emergence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries of technocratic
civilization hostile to nature and to life was possible thanks to a
single event which was its necessary precursor: the desacralization
of the universe and the deprecation and depopulation of the Gods of
nature by the monotheisms. For since the Gods of nature posed unseemly
competition to the fatuous Semitic Gods drunk with unlimited vanity,
nature and all that is natural must be slandered, held up with suspicion
and dominated. Hence the screaming hysteria and manic paranoia of the
Semitic traditions in the face of all the paganisms, the “heathens”
and the “idolaters” of antiquity. Hence the opposition of
the natural and the supernatural, the vilification of the first and
the exaltation of the second. In
the war against the universe God becomes the enemy of all that is natural,
of the inherent joy of existence. The consequence of this was twofold:
on the one hand it allowed for unlimited blind intervention in the natural
order and on the other hand it cut man off from the universal powers
and hence his enfeeblement, his enslavement and progressive psychological
deterioration. Technocratic
civilization dispenses with the religious Gods even while benefiting
from the legacy of their hostility to nature and their assault on the
natural. It takes up and carries forward to its final conclusion the
priest’s method of degenerating and taming man: completely destroy
man’s link to nature - which always remains the only hope for his
freedom and independence from the collectivist man-made world - and
destroy nature itself in the name of his economic improvement. It
must be asked: how could the industrialist purveyors of our modern environmental
crisis not really understand the suicidal nature of the path they have
chosen? How could they flout the biological fact that every organism
survives only because it has achieved an equilibrium with its environment
and no organism survives by progressively degrading its environment?
Why are they apparently not concerned with providing a world that their
children and grand children can live in? The
priests of modern science propound the dogma of the chemical nature
of all life. Armed with this article of faith, our industrialist parasites
see no end to economic power. Profit by destroying nature and then profit
again by giving nature back to man in the form of a chemically synthesized
world. In such a world man is wholly controllable and manipulable with
no possibility of escape. In the moribund world of the machine as projected
in modern science-fiction where computers, metal and plastics constitute
man’s sole environment and in which laboratory structured chemicals
have become man’s food, he is a husbanded animal to be identified
by a control number and whose every brain modulation is the provenance
of the priests of chemistry. |
