Triumphant Racism and Hate: A Walk through the Religious Origins
In the world first capitalist democracy, private agencies that monopolize the purchase and production of
information shape the government of the people at will. But often more than private agencies, religious
organizations plot the direction the government should follow - be it monstrous - before corporate interests
add their sovereign lobbying arguments. Prior to engaging the Iraqi slaughter, Bush said he prayed his god
every morning to help him reach the decision; the decision to massacre thousands of innocent Iraqis and to
sacrifice young American soldiers on the Middle Eastern hotel of hate and racism. Is this in the name of the
Good God?
By Ndzana Seme
The god Bush prays, the same one Christian groups worship, is also the one Muslims and Jews venerate.
But that Biblical god is it the good one Africans, Asians and other people in the world know and obey?
What should be the position of real Africans towards the war of religions that is currently ravaging the
world with an epicenter in the Middle-East, following the 9/11 in the US?
Don?t misunderstand me in the following analysis. I don?t believe there is such a thing as a nation or race of
the bad. I only think there are nations and races with cultural gangrenes. Good people fighting to reduce
these cultural gangrenes are found in all nations on Earth.
There are two complementary groups shaping the Bush administration?s imperialist and blood thirsting
ambitions: the Christian right and the neoconservatives.
According to an analysis by Nicholas Thompson (?John Bolton vs. the world?, Salon 07/16/2003), ?the
Christian right can be thought of as a body without a brain. It has a power base of millions, but no leader
capable of formulating a message that plays well among the non-believers, particularly the mainstream
media.?
?The neoconservatives, however, the defense intellectuals now running the Bush administration's foreign
policy, have always been a brain without a body. They run magazines and think tanks, and they type up
policy papers, but they have traditionally lacked both popular support and the ability to get elected to
anything,? the columnist points out.
Bush is the one who had ?joined the brain to the body, giving power to the neocons and respectability to
the Christian right -- even the rapidly growing number of dispensationalists, who believe that Jewish
domination of Israel is a necessary precondition for the return of Christ, the battle of Armageddon, and then
a 1,000-year reign of Christian peace.?
Millions of evangelical Christians see forewarnings of Armageddon in the crisis in the Middle East, writes
Nicholas Thompson. Dispensationalists, major strain within American evangelical Christianity, believe that
the return of Jews to Israel and the restoration of Jewish sovereignty over the Temple Mount is a
precondition for the rapture, the apocalypse and the return of Christ.
"I believe that Jesus can only return when all of the Jews have returned to their land," Thompson quotes
Norbert Lieth, author of 18 Christian books, as writing in the dispensationalist magazine "Midnight Call."
He joins television preachers like Jack Van Impe and John Hagee and bestselling Christian writers like Hal
Lindsey to explain the current struggle over Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank as prophesy made
manifest.
?They see their interpretation of Daniel and the Book of Revelations played out every day on the news,?
Thompson says.
The long time rationally unexplainable support of the US to Israel finds an unspeakable justification with
these Biblical tales that can be found in the three Mediterranean religious books: Bible, Koran and Torah. It
is not surprising that religion fans the flame of violence these days since it is known that the main common
ground all these three books share is hate with regard to the Egyptian oppressor having given rise to the
?elected people? of Israel.
Throughout the last millenniums, the defeat of the ?pagan? and ?nigger? Egyptian having been sealed, hate
as the basis of the Christian, Jews and Muslim cultures has always led the three-twin-religions? believers to
expressing their oppositions to each other through terrorism, genocides and massacres. The historical Wars
of Religions speak volumes.
Since 312 that emperor Constantinus the First the Great established Christianity as the unique religion of the
Roman empire, the north African imperial possessions were subjected to a policy of total effacing of all
traces of African civilization. African temples were all destroyed and statues? noses (those representing
Black personalities) broken during several Roman incursions in Egypt. African populations and cities that
were not the Roman Empire?s subjects, such as Nubia, Ethiopia and other states, were terrorized, looted,
destroyed and hunted down for refusing to adhere to Christianity. Roman words such as paganus (pagan),
niger (nigger) and other denigrating appellations were created during those barbaric periods to designate
Africans.
From the Roman Empire up to the end of the Middle-Ages, Christianity had been the fundamental pillar of
the Western model of government. With his book ?The City of God? and his principle of ?Two Swords?,
Saint Augustine, a doctor in Latin Church of African origins born in 354 in modern days Algeria, conceived
and organized the very tight relationship between the Church and the government (actually the kings,
emperors and their Nobility class) that ruled Europe during more than 1,000 years.
However, contrary to African spiritual philosophies (Africans and ancient Egyptians have no native name
for religion) that integrate all theories of the Creation and God, mostly centered on regulating the
harmonious relationship between the individual, the community and God?s laws of the Nature, the
Mediterranean religions had theorized the Western government?s principle of ?Dividing and Individualizing
in order to Reign.?
Deviancy from the African Communalism to the Western Individualism
A close reading of the passage of the ?Book of the Dead? (the one found in Egyptian ancient tombs)
devoted to the Last Judgment let easily understand that this part of ancient Nile, theological philosophy is at
the origin of the morals most accepted by nations in modern times.
"I did not make a sin against the people?" (or "Hello Great-Traveler who came from Heliopolis, I did not
make any lie") immediately directs you to the central place "the fellow man" occupied in this ancient vitalistic
conception of the existence. Loving one?s duty and giving joy to fellow men, and not causing them sorrows
and sufferings, are obligations prescribed to each individual for the life in the community in Africa.
Man was all except invested with a total freedom or sacred rights, since the last Judgment would be given
to him according to the weight of his services rendered to the fellow men on Earth and to the "Happy
Deaths" on the scale of History.
One can already raise the difference that widens between the high-Egyptian philosophy of the existence,
where the believer is interdependent with his fellow man, the Deaths and Gods, in order to deserve the
good judgment of Ausar (Osiris), and the Biblical conception where the search of the divine safety is
individual, going as far as preaching the division of the family and the community.
Contrary to the high-Egyptian supreme Ammon-Râ, the lenient and merciful God who sets prohibition to
sin against fellow men as the main believer?s duty, the paramount and inaccessible divinity becomes very
powerful, and especially jealous, avenger, quick-tempered and pitiless on the hands of the Bible writers,
with the Greek Zeus? lightning, or the destroying force of the Jewish Yahve.
To this end, Jesus has no hesitation to say: "do not think that I came to bring peace on Earth, I did not
come to bring peace but the sword. Because I came to put division between the man and his father, the girl
and his mother, the daughter-in-law and his mother-in-law; and the man will have as an enemy the men of
his house "? (Mathew 10, 34 to 36).
This doctrine, iconoclast compared to the Jewish Community traditions still defended up to that point by
Moses the pupil of Egyptian priests, thus consolidates the anthropocentric and individualistic conception of
the existence characteristic of the Phoenician, then Greek culture.
Jesus much more clearly explains it to his disciples by: "the kingdom of heaven is still similar to a treasure
hidden in a field. The one who found it hides it; and in his joy, he will sell all that he has, and buys that field".
The republicanism?s individual freedom, primarily competitive and commercial, consequently draws its
foundations from the Judeo-Christian culture conveyed by the Bible and politically consolidated in the West
since Constantinus the Ier the Great and Saint Augustine. It is obvious that a treasure so trailed along from
one hiding-place to another hiding-place can be so only because man is a wolf for man.
And, behind the philosophical and dogmatic frontage of religion, the economic, military and political
interests collect the fruits made possible by converted and subjected people. These interests never hesitate
to get dressed with Christian colors in the West.
The Genesis ?two beliefs ? that the world was a machine created by God to do his work, and that people
had been created in his image ? formed the premises of a syllogism that concluded with: Humans, like God,
should create machines to do their work?, wrote Russell L. Ackoff in his book ?The Democratic
Corporation.? The owners of American early enterprises ? current enterprise owners behave the same way
? ?were godlike in the small world they had created [?] Workers were retained only as long as they were
ready, willing, and able to do what the owners wanted. When they no longer were, like replaceable
machine parts, they were discarded by others who were compliant and usable?, Ackoff wrote.
Hatred as a religious basis for the domination of nations
The Western consciences, during the last millenniums, were modeled in a culture where the hatred stirred
up against foreigners is supposed to move away from the "elected people" any threat and to ensure them an
existential comfort. This results from an anthropocentrism that had placed the "sons of Israel" as the God?s
elected and consequently as beings superior to all others in the Universe - starting with those on the Earth,
in particular the Egyptians.
In the New Testament, the constant call for recombining and solidifying the Jewish nation is unambiguous
when we read at the rough guess Jude 5: "I want to recall you, you who extremely well know all these
things that the lord, after having saved the people and having drawn them from the country of Egypt, then
made perish the unbelievers".
It is even easy to find in the Bible that the World of Jesus and his Apostles remained circumscribed in the
old Greek empire left by Alexandre the Great and, obviously, in the Roman empire that this religion
particularly took care not to blame in any way. The Greek cultural radiation, based on the Phoenician
civilization, enormously influenced the Romans in about year zero of the Christian era.
Saint-Paul, the most persevering of these peregrine missionaries, preached in five areas corresponding to
the following contemporary zones: in Judaea to the Hebrews; in Syria to Colossians, close to Laodicea
current Lattaquia; in Turkey to Galatians (Gallic Celts living in the province of Galatia, current area of the
Ankara surroundings) and to Ephesians of the province of Asia, located South of current town of Izmir; in
Greece to Corinthians of the province of Achaia (modern Corinth is located at a hundred kilometers of
Athens), to Thessalians of contemporary Macedonia, and to Philipans of the same province; and finally in
Rome to the Romans.
Saint Peter traveled only to Turkey, in the Roman provinces of Cappadoce, the Pont and Bithynia, and to
Asia and Galatia. Saint Thimoty preached in Ephesia, in Asia. Saint Titus, for his part, evangelized the
Cretans in the Greek island of Crete.
The Apostles thus considered that they had well fulfilled their evangelization mission "throughout the world".
One would always wonder whether they "had struck" in Spain or in Gaule - at those times, like Rome,
under the Nile theological beliefs - and no one "had opened to them"; and all the more reason out of the
Roman empire!
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