Reddit reviews Yahweh the Two-Faced God: Theology, Terrorism & Topology (Apocalypse Theater Volume 1)

tl;dr the West has two heads: A Christian one, and a rational one. The Christian one led to the Dark Ages, war, and poverty. The rational one led to its twin sisters, the scientific method and free markets. The Christian one has been pushed back but has held onto the moral code of the western world until the modern day. A bloody, naked man nailed to a cross for sins he did not commit, and the Las Vegas strip cannot both be ideals in the same mind at the same time. Holding both of these ideas makes us unpredictable, dangerous, and crazy. We have to pick: Capitalism, or Christianity.

Well Socialists follow Christianity in terms of ethics. Quote:

"These moral values, Marx observed, are “as old as the Judeo-Christian tradition. But their acceptance for social organization—their social realization—would be new….”

In other words, the difference in moral values between Christianity and Communism is that the Communists intend really to live by the principles that the Christians merely preach.

Marx was actually quoting the Apostles when he wrote his slogan "each according to his ability, each according to his need":

Acts 2:44-45, "All who believed were together and had all things in common; 45 they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_communism

Thomas Moore was a Saint in the Catholic Church who wrote the book "Utopia". In it he gave an outline for what a propertyless, classless society would look like. He was even lauded by Marx and Engels.

"Praised by Marx and Engels, the Soviet Union in the early twentieth century honored him for the purportedly communist attitude toward property rights expressed in Utopia.[7][8][9"

Hegel did not reject God so much as decide that humans, when undergoing a metamorphosis into the nation state, would become a kind of "world-soul", which as you said replaced God with the State without missing a beat.

I bring up Calvinism not because of anything specific to it but just because it does explicitly what most Monotheistic religions usually only imply (other than their ideologically pure versions seen in groups like the Wahhabists or the Pentacostals).

Christianity comes from a philosophy known as Platonism. In Platonism, our knowledge of entities, concepts, and especially ethics comes to us from a noumenal/alternate dimension, which our normal senses cannot access. That is to say the human learns about the world from a supernatural source.

This metaphysics (and epistemology) was kept in varying degrees of purity from Plato's time until the Enlightenment, at which time the Aristotelian (pagan) metaphysics was (re)discovered and promptly allowed the creation of science, music, art, political freedom etc (although Aquinas did help precipitate some of the debates). That's another story.

Under Platonism, the human mind is effectively impotent. Or put better the mind is passive. Concepts arrive at it not through an individual, volitional, act of abstraction. All knowledge is delivered from another dimension, in a degraded and often unintelligible, subjective form.

This is at the root of all "Revelation" religions or "Monotheistic" religions (Yahwism from now on): "The Divine" reveals information about the world to "The Chosen", who then either spread this knowledge to the "Unchosen" or "Profane" or infidel, or act out his will directly:

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

2 Timothy 3:16 "

This also has to do with the character of God himself, who is by definition, outside of time and space (the relitavistic modern physics dumpster fire is the most recent take on that concept). This is in direct contradiction with Pagan religions where the "Gods" were often seen as "natural"; They represented some aspect of nature. Most of the God's were superhuman, but not supernatural per-se. They all followed the laws of reality. This is one thing about the left that I like: They trust sense data... Just not the concepts concepts formed from it.

Because of this Platonic thought process, is it any wonder that Plato created the blueprint for all totalitarian political systems in history?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)

Based on his own epistemology, he decided that people must be divided up into castes of gold, silver, bronze and clay. Led by a group of (likely) secret sect of philosopher kings. Yahwism divides the world between the elect and the profane.

IS it any surprise that a group of people called Neo-Conservatives used Plato's Noble Lie as a founding principle of their movement? And that they specifically mobilized the fundamentalist Christian power bloc specifically on Plato's recommendation?

>Wahhabism (Arabic: الوهابية‎, al-Wahhābiya(h)) is an Islamic doctrine and religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.[a] It has been variously described as "ultraconservative",[1] "austere",[2] "fundamentalist",[3] or "puritan(ical)";[4][5] as an Islamic "reform movement" to restore "pure monotheistic worship" (tawhid) by devotees;[6]

^ This is where the west is heading if we have a big war or economic crash. Reason or Faith. Capitalism or Christianity. You cannot serve two masters.

>According to Robert Lacey "the Wahhabis have always disliked the name customarily given to them" and preferred to be {called Muwahhidun (Unitarians).[53] Another preferred term was simply "Muslims" since their creed is "pure Islam".[54]


These two metaphysical positions represent the conflict at the heart of the western world: The Yahwist (Christian, Platonic, Mystical, Totalitarian) side and the Pagan (Atheist, Aristotelian, Rational, Libertarian) side. This rabbi sums it up:

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/64639/jewish/Couldnt-the-Jews-and-Greeks-Get-Along.htm

"Strangely, this may have worked to humanity's advantage in one regard: The Greek mind applied itself to figuring out the material world. When your belief system begins with Divine revelation you don't necessarily apply yourself to mundane matters of how things work (LOL COMMUNISM). So technological (economic, political, artistic, philosophical) progress became chiefly the domain of the Greek mind throughout history.

...Torah is an understanding that behind the world lies a Divine Will, unhampered by the limitations of nature or human logic — because it is the source of all this. Why are there laws of nature? Because G‑d generally chooses to work in consistent ways. Why did history unfold the way it did? Because that is all in G‑d's plan."

Amen.

He gives away the totalitarian nature of this system,

"We can have a thousand reasons for not mixing meat and milk, but when it comes down to it, we do it because that is our personal connection with the Divine Will, the Life of All Things. And that is the victory of Chanukah"

Any wonder how we ended up with 300,000 pages of bullshit laws?

All these people want is for you to surrender your mind. That's it. That's what O'Brien was after in 1984. He wanted Winston to say the direct opposite of what physical reality told him. THIS WAS THE WHOLE POINT OF 1984.

Anyways Yahwish, or National Socialism, or Marxism all follow the Platonic Metaphysics. In Marxism, the Divine Revelation is imparted via your economic class:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consciousness

There's "Bourgeois Truth" and "Proletarian Truth". There's "Aryan Truth" and there's "Jewish Truth." Platonism is a form of radical subjectivism: The truth depends upon the person hearing it. There is no way that these systems can avoid being totalitarian: It's baked into their metaphysics.

This dynamic of Yahwism empowering a small elite is summarized well in this short book:

https://www.amazon.com/Yahweh-Two-Faced-God-Terrorism-Apocalypse/dp/0985021101

This Platonic worldview held by many people often leads to often hilarious exchanges between believers and non-believers:

https://youtu.be/OL8LREmbDi0?t=3456

The debate almost invariably grinds to a screeching halt when the Christian points out that all knowledge is subjective, and that the Atheist is simply relying on his fallible, human sense to approach the world when he is viewing reality through the Divine:

https://youtu.be/dc0AZd_WDtA?t=1250

The Christians ARE the ones being completely logical in this situation: These people debating are often leftists, and to a leftist, all concepts are arbitrary. The Christian says "great! So all sense data and knowledge of reality is subjective and arbitrary too! But guess what? God (or the party/Fuhrer) does know reality!"

Unironic "checkmate athesits".

Shane Killian did an entire series showing how Religion and Statism both make the same errors:

https://youtu.be/anP42zvPPRQ