RE: Unity Through Faith?
June 30, 2025 at 11:30 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2025 at 11:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
There's no problem with faith or unity through faith just because the abrahamics are dogshit at it. Pagan societies managed to bring together people of wildly disparate god beliefs for ten thousand years before the current crop of theists came along, a blink of the eye ago in the history of religion, and failed to unite people who believe in just one.
It's not even difficult to understand how this happened. Monotheism, as an institution, is about the standardization of the sacred, and the centralization of authority. The dumbing down of our experience of the numinous so that it can be handled and manipulated in discrete units towards the whims of whatever ruler invokes it's name - because..you see...in monotheism..there can be no dissenting opinion. There is no one else to appeal to when the king on the throne of earth or heaven is mad. The monotheistic tradition is in a battle with itself, in this, bursting at the seems of the bag it's attempted to sew us all into - forever locked into scourging it's own of the various things it deems superstition, heresy, and idolatry that arise from within it, insanely premised as an external existential threat. All of that, to facilitate the exportation of violence, in order to gain exclusive control over resources. A deed and title to the land and it's people as possessions. People who truly cannot be governed except by their consent - and all of this.... weirdness....just a byproduct of manufacturing that consent.
It's not even difficult to understand how this happened. Monotheism, as an institution, is about the standardization of the sacred, and the centralization of authority. The dumbing down of our experience of the numinous so that it can be handled and manipulated in discrete units towards the whims of whatever ruler invokes it's name - because..you see...in monotheism..there can be no dissenting opinion. There is no one else to appeal to when the king on the throne of earth or heaven is mad. The monotheistic tradition is in a battle with itself, in this, bursting at the seems of the bag it's attempted to sew us all into - forever locked into scourging it's own of the various things it deems superstition, heresy, and idolatry that arise from within it, insanely premised as an external existential threat. All of that, to facilitate the exportation of violence, in order to gain exclusive control over resources. A deed and title to the land and it's people as possessions. People who truly cannot be governed except by their consent - and all of this.... weirdness....just a byproduct of manufacturing that consent.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
