Why do you describe both the Biblical
and Western traditions as a Warrior's Quest culture?
It's as simple an answer as saying, "Because
in the Abrahamic Biblical Genesis, it is the Story
of Origin which we tell ourselves. It is how we creatively imagine reality
to be." But,
before that, the more difficult question is, Why do Abrahamics
(Secularist and Scientismists) deny that they are a Warrior's Quest
culture? Especially
in America which has developed the Sacred Secular Civil Religion
of
this Warrior's
Quest culture?
Few Americans would
say, Yes, we're predatory Warrior's Questers seeking planetary
dominion. Why?
Because there seems to be something instinctual which
says that being a predatory warrior is being less
than we can be
as humans. "Be
all you can be" is a military recruitment commercial, but as
it airs, one can't but sit back and snicker, "Oh yeah!" Like
the listener doesn't know that behind the commercial flash is the
skull
of death.
That the commercial
is a
lie—that as a soldier you are merely collateral damage ("friendly
fire").
America and the West are predatory capitalists because
they are Warrior's Questers. They believe that "Might
makes Right!"—re: Atomic Bombers. And that there
should be no end to consumption—in any arena. No boundary that
respects nationality, gender, religion, etc. Everything is for the taking. The dominion driven Warrior's Quester lives
by raiding, stealing, plundering, raping, kidnapping ... people, property
and cultures.
Religious Big Stories are, on one hand,
cloaks of Holy Righteousness placed over the predatory warrior, when
he/she is assured, "God
wills it!"
In a horribly humorous way, this "God wills
it!"—the "Deus
vult!" of the medieval Christian Crusades—is
shouted in Arabic today. Abrahamic
brethren as they be, the
Islamic terrorists are faithful to
the shared mythic Biblical stories. Christians,
Jews,
Islamists—all faithful sons of Abraham. Kin of Cain and
Abel engaged in a never-ending fratricidal war.
Each dreams the dream of Joshua:
leading a scorched Earth campaign in preparation for entering
the Promised Land.
All these Abrahamic religious groups, as is the American
economy, are war based economies. Historically, each has been and
appears will relentlessly ever
be. The culture of each cannot answer, "When
is enough, enough?" They each share the fundamental belief
that, The
Earth is not enough! That the Earth is for their God's and their
own dominion and domination.
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