ON CREATING A CREATOR .......

WE  should care in life to get things right, or as right as we can .   The man or people who created the god of Abraham supposed and assumed back then, that god feels, reacts and reasons the same way as we do . Like ourselves he is envious, jealous, curious, loving, vindictive, murderous or forgiving, cruel and brutal, in fact as his mood takes him, in a sense exactly like us .

But we never consider seriously that god has no one to envy, has no peers or competitors, no real reason to blame us the people bellow whom he created and gave them characters, nothing to forgive but what he created. God presumably created us, chose some of us, hated some others, he apparently continues to care for some , as he cares for ants and mosquitoes, albeit we keep attributing to him equal opportunities, and fatherly attitudes . How he juggles all his subjects and what criterions he follows remain a mystery to our limited brains.

He exists through shows of over confidence, illusions of comprehension, his hugely self-belief sense of righteousness , his omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience do not match well his continuous sense of grievance at having been undervalued or replaced, do not match the original intended picture of a creator, nor his self appointed divine messianic promoters and followers .

This same creation, god, who loves and hates simultaneously, who is totally dependent on his creation's praise, while looking and considering them inferior and worthless, looking constantly for their flattery, false or true, is a clear sign of weakness, only worthy of low level sapiens and not what they themselves thought to empower their own divine creator with.

Authority, absolute leadership, self admiration, superiority and arrogant levels of self absorption , exploitation of others and wicked manipulation, are all sapien attributes, we shouldn't have given or passed to the divine back then or now , as passing to the gods, our own earthly attributes, we liberate them with freedoms from moral woes, flaws, remorse and worries. We turn them into extreme and unsatisfiable.

Theoretically all of the human race, but factually only a smaller part of humans share some traits of humility, congeniality, tenderness and an honest self-criticism, unlike all of our gods throughout history, and more so since the book of genesis, written by an Ezra around the Babylonian exile of the 6th century bce, created the god of Abraham, who brutally governed over some minor tribes for years. Hellenized Christians and later, Mohamedan Musslems , both inherited and adopted the book and its concepts of creation in their entirety.

Moral improvement of Homo Sapiens throughout history, was directly intertwined with the times of rapprocheman and convergence with god. Whenever men were closer to gods and in better relation and mirroring them, their morality degraded, they behaved with more immunity, like their god. It is unfortunately the traits of our times as well . Cruelty, sin, vengeance , vanity and false pride and superiority, were an inheritance we passed on to our gods, and we loved them for it, they returned it to us with supposed benediction and protection, and we loved them even more.

On a different note, more civilized countries all over the world nowadays are recognizing and updating their existing laws . Including here in the U.S. as Mr. Obama signed a week ago, amendments to a law recognizing  non-theist  groups and individuals, a long overdue step giving atheists and non-theistic communities the same protection and respect that have been given, or should I say accaparated, hogged and monopolized,  by religious communities for long centuries .    

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AUTHORIZING, LEGITIMIZING AND LEGALIZING THEFT ....

When I repeatedly keep talking about the crazy area of the world we call the Middle-East, and call them the "la la lands" I persistently include Israel, I don't really err much, as some might think or accuse, I don't consider  myself inaccurate nor inappropriate , even if it didn't reach yet the levels of the situation of say Syria, Iraq or Yemen, but surely they are on the same path , as they all are governed by some religious mysterious Divine hands, will and mind .

The recent parliamentary discussions, leading and allowing for the authorization and legalization of the law of theft, the law allowing and legitimizing settlers who previously acquired land by force and brutal methods from present or absent Arab owners, and built on it,  what is internationally recognized as illegal housing , is slowly and surely being voted in . Of course behind it all is the alt-right and the PM , Mr. Netanyahu himself with some of his religious neocons ministers.

Now assuming that with some friends , white, blue eyed of course, non Jewish couples from the U.S and Europe , make it to the occupied Palestinian West Bank, and manage to put our hands on someone Else's land and property, using bribery and applying  other forceful brutal means and designs , build it with entirely subsidized nice homes and lived in them with our families .

Would we eventually benefit from the same deal !! By legalizing and perpetuating the take over, or theft , of our newly acquired  homes ?? Or is the law strictly reserved for Jews ? Israeli Jews or foreign Jews, as all Jews in the world are automatically naturalized Israeli citizens anytime they wish . It's all being assumed hypothetically of course .

In all and any book of law or religion it is called legalizing theft , but the funnier part is , that in Israel, it's being done and applied  practically in the name of religion !! As Yahweh or their own version of Allah , promised them the land , by any means possible, and made it Halal  for them to acquire . And all Israelis believe or insist on believing that . Making it legal and the law of the land becomes trivial and inconsequential .

Now, and to add a final note ,  let's hope that words of condemnation, reprimand or criticism for such acts , for themselves or for future peace outcomes, used in this blog or other articles and publications, will not further trigger questions , investigations or surveillance  under anti-Semite false headings and pretexts, as it's all been lately reinforced by the passage of the Scott and Casey bill , here in the U.S Senate. With the sole purpose of widening the scope of controlling universities and the cultural publishing output of intellectuals  condemning or criticizing Israel or some of their misdeeds , as well as its politicians .

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NARCISSISM .......

Narcissus, was intoxicated by his own beauty and self image,  but in our times we face more politicians/leaders being as intoxicated by their own selves, their achievements, their birth and possessions and worth . To name a few ; let's look at Gaddafi of Libya , Saddam Hussein of Iraq, both gone.  We can always admire some of the existing ones, like V. Putin the Tsar, Sultan R. Erdogan, and the famous Netanyahu of Israel. Both George Bush Jr. and Tony Blair showed messianic tendencies shortly after taking office, especially before it became apparent that turning Iraq into the promised paradise was a big farce .

Of course Assad of Syria is definitely in a class of his own as well.  Our Trump the latest in elected U.S. presidents, surely is a phenomena to look at separately , Oun of small Lebanon could easily follow, as well as Zimbabwe's Mugabe who might step down soon, or not. Kim Jong-Un of N. Korea, his father and grand father before him are all solid candidates.

Vanity and greed are common in most, as it is mostly driven by total blind love of the self, it is after all not very different from Narcissism.  Arrogance is one of the least appealing of human idiosyncrasies, so again , why are so many of these horrible character flaws , shared by so many of our leaders ??

We accept our leaders at their own valuations, when they tell us, then they have no need for us, no more than god has any need for his worshipers.  It is more that they cannot comprehend the idea that they could be flawed, as we lie low outside the range of their imagination.

What Adam Smith calls "  men of rank and distinction" We make and turn our politicians into celebrities, for all to see, cherish and enjoy, and label them ourselves as men of rank and distinction. Their words and gestures become ours, they invariably turn into people who feel that the eyes and attention of the world are on them, and them alone. And mankind should be disposed and willing to go with them. They deserve to belong with the gods .

These leaders with their arrogance  fail to recognize these acts of popular admiration and applause, they are more likely to turn into indifference at best, malice and ridicule at worst. Leaders who are at any time capable of uncontrollable anger , aggression, cruelty and brutality , despair and paranoia .

It is no credit to our phase of civilization to be so easily manipulated and governed by so much vanity,  egotism and self worship . Where their ambitions are never fulfilled or satisfied . All sharing the same messianic self belief, with aggressiveness, lack of remorse, and invariably financial irresponsibility that always end in dangerous and disastrous behavior .

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