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The Judeo-Christian menace
By Frank Scott
Online Journal Contributing Writer
May 12, 2002—We are supposedly in a struggle with an Islamic world bent on taking
over "the West." This, according to pundits, government figures and other bigots who
use the worst racial and religious slanders, reducing more than a billion human
beings to hordes of terrorist madmen. But where does the madness originate and
which religious doctrines are at the root of the savagery that grips our world?
It is the political economics of capital that drive the global engines of the market
and
power its killing machines. But religion plays an important supporting role, by
preaching divine goodness to rationalize earthly evil. Individual words of Judeo-
Christian piety and love, spoken by sincere believers, rarely match its institutional
deeds of greed and hate practiced on millions of people under its rule. Calling Islam
a threat to this kind of "Western civilization" is a charge empty of context and full
of
bigotry.
Influenced by our mind managers, many accept that "they" are evil and that "we" are
good . Of course, most humans are inherently decent, if given the chance to act that
way. But it is Judeo-Christianity, propelled by its western capitalist motor, that is
the
worst killer, molester and polluter the world has ever known. Islam, in its most
extreme forms, is the equivalent of a mob armed with pistols , while the Judeo-
Christians are the Crusades, World Wars, nuclear and biological weapons,
colonialism and racism, all rolled into one.
The Koran is cited by those who condemn all Muslims for the excesses of some, but
it is the older Bible that contains the seeds from which the murderous policies of the
West take root. Rejecting the moral message of justice that some find in its
scriptures, its institutional lust has been to dominate , slaughter and pollute , while
depicting itself as superior, divinely chosen, and when aggrieved, righteously
vengeful in acting on the will of God. Who are the real fanatics?
The present horror in Israel-Palestine is an example of this religious bigotry.
Palestinians are deemed fanatic when they are driven to suicidal despair by their
plight, and blow themselves apart to kill their invaders. But the brutal, colonial
power
of Israel is depicted as a nation of persecuted souls, seeking shelter and besieged by
suicidal madmen corrupted by their evil parents. It is as if rich young Palestinians
loll
about on chaise lounges, and suddenly their wicked parents say, "Go blow
yourselves up and kill some innocent Jews." The lack of context given these bloody
actions could lead simpletons to conclude that Arabs hijacked four airplanes, killed
themselves and thousands of Americans , because Western women hide their
identities behind cosmetics and hair coloring, instead of burqas and chadors.
In the wholesale terror of Judeo-Christian war and the retail terror of Islamic
retaliation, victims are mostly innocent, and tragically so. They are pawns of policy,
and complicit only through ignorance and subjection to propaganda. Despite tales of
how misinformed "they" are, it would be hard to find people more confused about the
material world than "we" are. The corporate West has the most powerful weapons of
mass destruction ever created, but it also has media weapons of mass confusion. It
uses both, and without mercy.
The tongue-twisted twit in the White House, who makes Reagan look quick-witted by
comparison, is transformed by media into a bold, wise wartime leader. Congress
follows this line and alternates between being lapdogs and bootlickers. Whether
snuggling at his crotch or groveling at the Israeli lobby's feet, this disgraceful mob
of
bought and paid for politicos has defamed democracy . With few exceptions, it
praises the occupying military force in Palestine, and supports our war on everything
labeled terrorist. It demands that the world treat the USA as chosen people of the
planet, above the rule of any law, save that of its own Judeo-Christian interpretation.
Our commissars of consciousness identify social realities only in caricatured
individuals. Whether these are ancient religious icons, as in the Moses or Jesus
legends, or contemporary figures, as in a heroic Bill Clinton or Eli Weisel or a
demonized Yasir Arafat or Ariel Sharon, they misrepresent the material world,
oversimplify complex issues, and distort the humanity at the core of most religious
belief.
We meddle in the lives of millions who never invited us into their world. We
disrespect their cultures, empower their dictators, and murder them at will, all to
maintain an energy system that endangers the planet. Religious fables about people
returning to a place where they've never been, to collect real estate given them by
God, and of a virgin giving birth to God's son, blend with political fables about
democratic societies protecting the world from terror. These are myths which serve
to cover for the global domination of corporate capital and nothing more.
Judeo-Christians who work for peace and justice can cite scripture for the source of
their moral ideals. But they are outnumbered by the Judeo- Christians who practice
war and injustice, citing the same scriptures for their murderous beliefs. The
outcome of a struggle between these two groups is important for the future of
humanity. The West can and must help save the world, not because it's superior, but
because it bears responsibility for threatening the world in the first place.
The international movement for democracy and peace is a hopeful sign, but for it to
succeed it must not only stand against injustice and the power of corporate capital. It
must also understand that Islam did not create the polluting economy, the weapons
of mass destruction nor the racist practices that still curse humanity. The Islamic
world is hardly perfect, but it carries no major responsibility for the ugly mess that
is
material reality. The religion of corporate capital's states, armies, banks and
industries is Judeo- Christian. And until it is transformed, that is the religious
menace
to humanity, not Islam.
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