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No, emphatically not, not as far as race, gender, ethnic, marital, familial, fraternal, sororial, slave/master or any other kinds of human relations, unless you’re an authoritarian, patriarchal, dictatorial, domestic fascist, that is.In example (Quotes compiled by Franklin Veaux):1 Samuel 15:3: Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants [some translations have this as “sucklings”], cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.Psalm 137:9: Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us, he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. (Interestingly, this is exactly what the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch sailors did to the Native infants in the West Indies. In fact, it’s been a common genocidal tactic of invading armies since biblical times.)1 Peter 2:18: Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.Deuteronomy 25:11-1: If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.Exodus 21:7–8: When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again.Luke 14:26: If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, even their own life--such a person cannot be my disciple.Employing ‘terror and awe,’ such practices have deep theological and religious roots in so-called ‘Cattle Cult mentality.’ Mosaic Law, citing male entitlement to captive women and girl children as lawful chattel or ‘booty,’ or as the ‘spoils’ of war, is cited at length throughout the Old Testament. God, Moses, Joshua and a host of other Old Testament patriarchs stridently order ethnic ‘cleansing,’ outright genocide of conquered males and male offspring, and the rape and impregnation of virgin girls, always citing divine, religious or ideological grounds. In this ethical system, the Earth and all of its assets (chattels and appurtenances) were given into the stewardship, ownership and control of the ranking men of the Cattle Cult in question.Awarded by the Creator (often the parochial, tribal war god of the soldiery, such as Yahweh, or Mithras in the case of the Roman legions), at the moment of the Creation, all of the earth is designated subordinate to a ruling, masculine elite in the constructed cosmology of the raiders. We see this pattern transcribed in Genesis. ‘Chattels’ are ‘property,’ which is to say, portable aspects of ‘territory.’ This is why slavery, rapine, haremizing, and concubinage have consistently been elevated and enshrined within the institutions of war as ‘sacred’ mandates, as evidenced in Mosaic purity laws and other patricist codes of the ancient Near and Middle East. And it is why such practices — as the instruments of a thriving, global, illegal underground — are universally, tacitly accepted today.In the Old Testament, Mosaic rules of war and invasion are very specific: “When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands the town over to you, use your swords to kill every man in the town. But the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.” (Deuteronomy 20:10–20:14)Sometimes the demands of ‘purity’ are more rigorous, as in Joshua 11:14: “The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed.” In ISIS’s ‘New Caliphate,’ just as in the Old Testament, captive women are awarded to the conquering heroes as rewards, as part of the ‘hero’s portion,’ and as incentives to greater ‘valor’ and sacrifice upon the field of battle:Biblical prophets issued the percentages of loot, booty, and feminine ‘spoil,’ to be awarded fighters and military priests, in accordance with Mosaic Law.The major recipients would be the Hebrew tribal and military leaders, meaning elite warriors and the ruling priesthood — the Levite priestly caste: “Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep, and 72,000 cattle, and 61,000 donkeys, and of human beings, of the women who had not known man intimately, all the persons were 32,000. The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500, and the LORD’S levy of the sheep was 675; and the cattle were 36,000, from which the LORD’S levy was 72; and the donkeys were 30,500, from which the LORD’S levy was 61; and the human beings were 16,000 virgin girls, of whom 32 were the LORD’s share. Moses gave all the LORD’s share to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had directed him.” (Numbers 31:32–31:41)Members of the priestly Levites, Moses’ own caste and tribe, were guaranteed a lion’s share of any spoils of war: “from the people of Israel’s half, Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.” (Numbers 31:47) Sometimes the rewards granted to the Levite priesthood were in return for sheer misogynistic, religious, ethnic violence, whereby the shrines and sacred precincts of indigenous feminine deities would be subjected to ‘holy’ vandalism and ‘purification’ by fire:Now when all this was finished, all of Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, broke the pillars [Goddess poles] in pieces, cut down the Asherim [the sacred groves of the Goddess and/or Goddess figurines in the forms of Goddess poles or the Tree of Life] and pulled down the high places [mountain-top celestial shrines] and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession. And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites by their divisions, each according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the camp of the LORD. (2 Chronicles 31:2)Out of roughly 50,000 of recorded human culture, only the past 5,000 have been typified by organized violence and ideological warfare on this kind of scale. Prior to the technological/ideological revolution that spawned warfare (the so-called ‘Secondary Products Revolution,’ a byproduct of the Agricultural Revolution and the amassing of stored wealth), there was simply no concept for it — no model or mental construct by which to institute, maintain, or support it. According to the hierarchical caste systems of dominance-ranking societies, the shift required the complete reversal of formerly held beliefs in life as sacrosanct, mothers as central, and women’s bodies as sovereign and holy. In earlier, woman-centred, matricist societies, it no doubt seemed a fundamentally insane concept — like planning to contrive to murder children by actually institutionalizing their wholesale murders and violence.Mounted by the increasingly striated, hierarchical caste systems of dominance-ranking societies, the new patriarchal religion comprised a true ‘pecking order,’ instituted and maintained by attrition and punitive disciplinary tactics. In enforcing unquestioning obedience to ranking males, the values of earlier societal matrices had to be inverted, turned upside down and demonized in order to inculcate the wholesale slaughter of mothers’ sons on the fields of war, or of vulnerable infants at the breast. Whether grown or juvenile, the attrition to males in the new society was prodigious and must have required intensive rationalization and enforcement.The method for murdering the offspring of foreign males and its justifications are lauded, lionized, and detailed in the Bible. The practice is actually held up as a form of holy vengeance and divine punishment: “O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us! Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!” (Psalm 137:8–137:9) This method of ridding the arms of conquered women of the unwanted children sired by alien males was typically followed to the letter by Conquistadors, and other colonizing, imperialist invaders, across the Americas, the Caribbean, and other parts of the colonized, Europeanized world. Ironically, the best documents of this practice, consistently deployed against Indigenous peoples in the ‘New World,’ are to be found in the accounts of priests carrying forth the Inquisition and the Witch Hunt, entailed to the cohorts of Spanish, Portuguese or other Catholic invaders.Males raised within the conventions and protocols deemed appropriate for their gender, within any of the Three Main Orthodoxies, are conditioned to assume hate practices as expressions of religious observance or piety. These can include religiously-motivated genocide, stoning non-virgin brides to death, burning witches or prostitutes alive, treating women as property, and other acts considered atrocities if not protected under the rubric of ‘freedom of religious expression.’ Many Jews and Christians regard the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) to be the inerrant Word of God, written by authors that God has directly inspired, and containing injunctions that people should use to govern their behavior today.If people cite or quote passages from the Bible that promote discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, or nationality, etc., and if they advocate that this oppression should be upheld in contemporary society, then some courts may define their effort as promoting hate and hate literature. If they do this in the workplace, their actions may justify termination, and if such influences motivate genocidal acts against civilians, they are considered war crimes and prosecuted as such. Yet, by far, the greater proportion of such acts are perpetrated by members of one Abrahamic faith-based group against another, often citing scriptural premises. An example is the recent genocideby Serbian Orthodox Christians, which victimized Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina.Another example is the case of the convicted soldier, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who shot dead 17 Afghan women and children in 2012, and is currently serving a life sentence for war crimes. He had previously been reported for several gratuitous acts of violence against Iraqis. In a letter requesting that his life sentence be reduced, Bales stated that by the time he committed the crime against the unarmed civilians he had lost compassion for Iraqis and Afghans and that his mind had been “consumed by war.” Although Bales cited no specifically religious motivation for his behavior while in Muslim lands, he claimed that his enculturation within the ubiquitous, dominant ideology of war made these behaviors seem normal to him in that context. “I planted war and hate for the better part of 10 years and harvested violence. After being in prison two years, I understand that what I thought was normal was the farthest thing from being normal.”(http://www.telesurtv.net/english... Afghans-Was-Erratic-Violent — 20150818–0029.html)Because the worst human rights abuses in a Cattle Cult society are perpetrated against those designated as spiritually ‘polluted’ objects, a category which includes voluntary or involuntary sex workers or sex-slaves (like the millions of women and children categorized as property and forced into the sex trade annually worldwide), Amnesty International has recently championed the case of Human Rights accords to cover sex workers. Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, described their plight in the press release publicizing Ireland’s adoption of the new resolution: “Sex workers are one of the most marginalized groups in the world who in most instances face constant risk of discrimination, violence and abuse. Our global movement paved the way for adopting a policy for the protection of the human rights of sex workers which will help shape Amnesty International’s future work on this important issue.” (Salil Shetty, ‘Global Movement Votes to Adopt Policy to Protect Human Rights of Sex Workers,’ Amnesty International, Press Release, August 11, 2015)The Judeo-Christian expression of Cattle Cult values includes Islam. Muslims count themselves among the ‘People of the Book,’ and are but the most recent members of the ‘Three Main Orthodoxies’ comprising the Abrahamic tradition. While no equivalents for the savage biblical verses cited above exist in the Koran, resorting to the traditions of thought associated with, or deriving from, ancient Judeo-Christian scriptures can only result in the kind of collective madness and xenophobia we see presently expressed in the increasingly violent and fascist United States, the State of Israel, the newly triumphant Neo-Nazi governmental coup in Ukraine, and in much of the Arab world.These nation states’ collective behaviors represent a well-established enculturation, manifesting as the inevitable result of following the violent, dysfunctional edicts and values of the Cattle Cult ethos, and amount to an implicit, biblical rape culture. Institutionalized human rights abuses such as sexual slavery, human trafficking and the illicit trade in women have a venerable lineage in Scripture. Embedded within the Western world’s most vaunted moral codebook, upheld as the ‘Word of God,’ predatory rape culture is propped up and supported by these tacit, underlying, ‘religious’ principles of elite male entitlement.As moral handbooks or codes of conduct, texts such as the conventional Bible and its derivatives can only bear poisonous fruit. The lineages of such documents are clearly compromised by racial and gender paranoia, xenophobic self-interest, and other, similarly egoic or fear-based sets of rationales. Such toxic cognitive patterns and thought forms are by no means inextinguishable, however. Their roots may appear deep from one perspective, but are actually quite shallow, temporally speaking. The era of war and rapine, elevated as supreme and lauded as divine mandate, is but a ‘flash in the pan’ compared to the many millennia during which we, as a species, co-created egalitarian, life-revering, shamanistic/pantheistic societies in which to live and thrive.References:Shetty, Salil. ‘Global Movement Votes to Adopt Policy to Protect Human Rights of Sex Workers.’ Amnesty International, Press Release, August 11, 2015.Spretnak, Charlene. (2011). Anatomy of a backlash: Concerning the work of Marija Gimbutas. The Journal of Archaeological Mythology. (vol 7). Special Issue 2011. (pp 1–27).TeleSur. ‘Report: US Soldier Who Murdered 16 Afghans Was Erratic, Violent.’ telesur.net: “http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Report-US-Soldier-Who-Murdered-16-Afghans-Was-Erratic-Violent--20150818-0029.html".Wright, Lawrence. ‘Who Killed Kayla Mueller?’ The New Yorker: August 14, 2015.Younis, Nussaibah. ‘How ISIS has established a bureaucracy of rape.’ TheLondonGuardian: Sunday Issue, August 16, 2015