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

To: Cyprian who wrote (16163)	8/25/2007 5:12:36 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: Thank you for your precision in speech. Judeo-Protestant is accurate. Protestants are not Christians. Anyway, from my polytheist viewpoint, Judeo-Protestants, Catholics, Christian Orthodoxs, (religious) Jews, you name it, are all "Jesus freaks" (Jews being more aptly called "Messiah freaks"): Message 23075309 The more I think about it and the more I realize what a great, terrible loss the transition from Greco-Roman polytheism to Judeo-Christian monotheism was... It really was the religious/spiritual equivalent to the degeneration of a democratic worldview into totalitarianism. Although European elites have all along hailed monotheism as a superior faith and the transition from polytheist paganism to monotheism as a progress, dismissing the former as primitive, nonsensical superstition, they were dead wrong and History has demonstrated ever since the genocidal noxiousness of the monotheist creed. The gist of polytheism is twofold: first, it rests upon the evidence that whatever claims a particular flock of believers make about their god, it's always a human endeavor, not a divine one. Therefore, it's fair and preferable to assume that all of mankind's religious communities, large and small, have the right to dream up their own, peculiar notion of a supreme being. Secondly, polytheism calls for debunking the notion of the universe as a "one-God-show", a sort of galactical, divine replica of a one-man-show".... Basically, polytheism dismisses as a futile squabble the apparent inconsistency of allowing SEVERAL supreme beings to coexist --since simple (theo)logic makes it obvious to worship one creator only as the source of all beings. The quest for the ultimate prime mover of the universe is, from a polytheist viewpoint, unachievable and even inhuman for the simple reason that such an absolute, infinitely distant being/rationale is, by definiton, absolutely and infinitely distant from human necessities/contingencies.... If you prefer a metaphor, I liken monotheists to employees working for some large multinational corporation with offices and factories in scores of countries. Now, suppose there's news of layoffs at the Belgian subsidiary: Belgian workers are turning wild about what to do, what's going on... Would it make sense for them to demand a meeting with the "Big Boss" in, say, Chicago? Polytheists' answer is clearly, No. For the company's CEO, the Belgian subsidiary is just a little flag on the world map of his corner office and a red or black number at the bottom line of the company's financial report. Polytheists would advise the anxious Belgian workers to talk it over with their local branch manager or even the EMEA vice president in London and forget about fighting it out with the "big boss" half a world away.... Gus