Absolutely. A tree connects the earth to the heavens, with as many roots in the ground as it has branches in the air.
What do you think of the Abrahamic God, Maia?
Spell it out, extensively.
I think the Abrahamic god is an evil god, promoting violence and extremism. This is manifested most prominently, in our own day, by Islam, but Judaism and Christianity are no strangers to this either, especially in the past.
Not quite as extensive as I was hoping…
But, I mean, what is the Abrahamic God as an object, or as an idea? What type of object is it? What type of person, if it is a person? You demonstrated the divinity of nature expressed by the symbolism of a Tree. So what is the Abrahamic God, what symbol is that?
I think it’s possible that the Abrahamic god is a real entity, a minor war god who has convinced his followers that he’s the all-powerful creator of the universe, and so on. Alternatively, he may be a thought-form created by his worshippers, giving him power and agency. Indeed, there may be no distinction between the two ideas.
My intuition is that the Abrahamic God is an amalgamation of old gods, and mostly a perversion of Zeus, maybe a perversion of Aries as you say here. It’s a type of intentional twisting and slandering of the Pagan gods. But it does seem to recall even older gods, like the Egyptian worship of Rah, and the Persian worship of Zoroastrianism.
Maybe the Abrahamic God is a type of Leviathan with hundreds or thousands of tentacles… just my impression.
Yes, I think that’s certainly possible. Even his original name, JHVH, recalls the name Jove, a Roman name for Jupiter (Zeus).
Leviathan, of course, is the seven-headed dragon of Revelation. At least in Kabbalistic lore.
Thank you darling, Jove is exactly what I was looking for. I knew you had it in you.
Has anybody told you that you’re an absolute doll lately? wink wink
Well, that little exchange turned weird very quickly…
I’ll just add, of course, that Dragons are supernatural creatures that can freely transform into human Avatars and back again…
I think this is relevant.
I apologize, you’re right.
I didn’t know that Jove referred back to Zeus.
And so it makes sense that Abrahamism is nothing more than a slander against the Greek pantheon.
A slander, definitely. No god in the Greek pantheon ever encouraged his worshippers to slaughter millions just because they don’t believe in him.
Judaism is an Anti-Authoritarian ideology/religion. They were at war with whatever Gods reigned supreme in history. Thus, whatever represents a ‘Masculine’ type of idea, is opposed, deposed, and attempted to be destroyed. This has remained consistent for thousands of years.
Which is why, the Jewish interpretation of God and Divinity is unlike what other religions and peoples know.
There are many conflicting ideologies and religions involved in Abrahamism/Christianity/Judaism/Islam, and the rest.
I’m simply glad for your insight.
Judaism, and its offshoots, Christianity and Islam, have promoted monotheism, authoritarianism and patriarchy throughout their history. It would be difficult to think of a more masculine-orientated ideology.
I always wondered what Jews, Christians, and Moslems recognized as their God. Are they seeing the same entity/symbol, but from different angles? Or, are there distinctly separate entities, and the denominations are worshipping actually different Gods? It seems to me, now, that they are indeed separate. And that the Abrahamic “God” is not a singular entity.
The “Mono”-theism is an intentionally misleading misnomer. They pretend like they’re talking about the same entity, or referring to the same symbol, but they’re not.
That’s the problem with one-true-god-ism, of course, because it leads to conflict between believers over ridiculously minor points of detail, and accusations that the others are not worshipping the same god at all. I think it’s easier to judge them by what they do. Does this god that they worship promote hatred and violence? Does it suppress women? Does it have a holy unerring scripture that you have to believe or else? Then it’s probably the same god.
When it comes to ‘YHWH’, the Jewish God, my impression is that of a giant octopus with one-eye, that has thousands of tentacles that can extend infinitely. It can also be referred to as “Leviathan”, as a creature of the sea. But it is distinctly separate from what the Christians perceive as “God”, which is Jesus Christ as “The Son of God”. I mean, the theology is all over the place and discordant, which is why common people are so easily confused as to their own spirituality.
I agree with the Græco-Roman view of the pantheon and polytheism: the ‘Gods’ are at war, and always have been, with one rising and falling to supremacy at different points in history. There is no “One God” because the gods that rise and fall are different. One Epoch is defined differently than others. Sometimes there are times of peace, and other times of war, as an obvious example. There are old gods, and there are new.
Next up: the Abrahamic God and stalking.
You know, if He even exists at all. [-o<
You may leave now, lamb. Your deep insights into “Dasein” are probably wanted… well, somewhere, maybe.