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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9368)	12/2/2005 6:31:30 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Gus > Totalitarianism grows out of a desire to establish social and human unity by reducing the diversity of individuals and peoples to a single model. Yes, sure, but that's only a part of the problem because it's quite clear, as with different races, that a "single model" is not achievable except by the destruction/elimination of all competing races to the one in power or else the merging, through miscegenation, of the various races into a hybrid. With monotheistic religions, the hybrid is Islam and what we now find is a competition between the new "designer" religions, Zionism and Evangelism, and Islam. Traditional Christianity seems to be be preoccupied with an identity crisis of its own, particularly in relation to the role of women, homosexuality/pedophilia and racism, so it hasn't played much of a role in the conflict. > In this sense, he argues, it is legitimate to speak of a "polytheist social arena, referring to multiple and complementary gods" versus a "monotheistic political arena founded on the illusion of unity." Once the polytheism of values "disappears, we face totalitarianism." This is only a philosophical argument. The worship of different Gods is not achievable under the present monotheistic model because all accept the God of Abraham as the central theme and are, in fact, genres of that idea. The Jews believe[d] that if they kept the covenant with the Almighty, the Messiah would come and take them to the Holy Land. The Christians say that to be a believer one has to accept Jesus Christ, who is the son of the God of Abraham, as the Saviour and then then they will have everlasting life. The Muslims accept the God of Abraham (which they call Allah) and regard Mohammed, Moses and Jesus as prophets. In the circumstances, it's clear that Mohammed intended for Islam to be "the monotheistic religion of all monotheistic religions", in other words, the polytheistic religion you describe -- >>Polytheism best describes our current state of affairs: several gods --(the Christian) God, Allah, Yaweh<<. But what I'm saying that all this conflict over the God of Abraham and what the Bible actually says is nonsense and that each and every person is entitled to have a god of his own, just to suit himself and to lead that person to his own "promised land" and also to confer "everlasting life" on him, if he so desires -- and anything else, for that matter. It's an existential solution to an age old and, in fact, insoluble problem -- indeed, a trap.