Abrahamic violence: Hebrews,
Christians, Muslims
"My god is a god of peace!"
Abrahamic religious and spiritual people
fall all over themselves trying to justify this statement. No one,
so
far,
has stood up and said, "My god is a god of war!" Conveying clearly:
endless war, rape, massacre, genocide, torture and so on. Yet, it
is a foundational point of the Earthfolk analysis to look around
the world and note both the icon of the Mushroom Cloud and that of
the militarized Spaceship Earth. Evidence abounds that one of the
great divine deceptions of the Abrahamic father
god is that the advertised "God of Peace!" is made present through
the
vision,
imagination
and
practice of exploding
Atomic Bombs—vaporizing humans, Poof!
A web search turns up an avalanche of
sites and articles about God and violence and about the Abrahamic
god and violence. In the main, their tortured
arguments testify to the problem at hand—which for Earthfolk
is their starting point. That is, that a Lone Male god created a Lone
Male human
without a Mother Goddess or a human female. Since this foundational,
primary and primal act of mythic, personal and intimate sexual violence
is
not acknowledged and/or recognized so the Shadow/Dark characteristics
of the Abrahamic god are not factually, honestly or properly stated
and evaluated by Abrahamic theologians and scholars.
It is fair to say that at the end of
these traditional arguments that the Lone Male god is judged to be
"Not guilty!"
Here are just several links.
1) "God and Violence in
the Old Testament" by Terence E. Fretheim (The scholarly
footnotes provide a pathway for further research.)
2) Post 911—"Your god's
more violent than mine!" exchange between a Christian and
a Muslim.
3) Cruelty
and Violence in Bible from the "Skeptic's Annotated Bible" offers
hundreds of Biblical verses referencing cruelty and violence. There is
a long list of nearly 2,000 verses and a Short
list and pdf file.
