One of the things we worked out in the blog did what a really good exchane does. It started in one place and ended up in a much more productive one.
It started with the fact that, while the whole mephasis in America is disestablishing any trace of the old established religion of the Bible, our entire Middle Eastern policy is based on that same established religion.
The only reason anyone can say that what we call “The Jews” have any claim to Israel is the idea that the Old Testament gives them the right to it.
So I pointed out that many of the things we try to shoehorn into the Old Testament are actually concepts that the Jews got from the Aryan Zoroastrians. They are not Semitic concepts, they are Aryan concepts that got back to us through the Jews’ close contact with the Persians, the only non-Jewish people praised in both Testaments.
But I didn’t really know where I was going with that, so commenters set me straight.
In the careful, diplomatic style readers use when dealing with Ole Bob, which I encourage, one commenter told me I was boring him sick. So it developed into something useful. He forced me to think about it before I doddered along.
One thing that came of it was a realization that all the obsession with avoiding sex and being sterile that is such an integral part of early Christianity cannot, with the most monomaniacal efforts of the most dedicated Old Testament fanatic, be shoehorned into the Old Testament.
“It is better to spill your seed into the belly of a whore than to cast it upon the ground.”
“Be fruitful and multiply.”
Those are inthe Old Testament. But not one word of St. Paul’s ideal of total chastity and nonreproduction is even HINTED at in the OT.
But early Christianity is a solid mass of people deciding to remain sterile for the rest of their lives for God’s sake.
The subtext of every Christian denomination I know is that Jesus, a man, never had a sexual desire in his life. The popes, who claim to be direct descendants of Peter, are required to avoid marriage.
Peter was married.
Jesus never condemned sex. He blessed the Marriage at Cana. Why should he bless something he wanted people to avoid?
So where did this whole obsession, which is still strong today and has done so much damage to our gene pool, COME from?
It could only have come from the vastly powerful relgiion of Zoroastrianism, the established faith of Persia, which was eighteen hundred years old when Persia was conquered by Islam.
Just as Modern Christianity has degenerated into self-hatred after two millennia, just as modern Judaism has degenerated into little except self-pity, Zoroastrianism in its last stages had degenerated into total self-destruction.
Zoroaster taught that Ahura-Mazda, which became the later Jewish concept of Jehovah, was the Lord of Good, the God of the Next World:
“My kingdom is not of this world.”
Ahriman, who became our Satan, was the Evil One and also he was The God of This World. And that was what wrecked it.
More and more, This World became altogether evil in the minds of Persians and of those who tok their ideas.
Persia was as big as Rome. It was the empire Rome could not defeat. Our history has totally forgotten how it was half of the known world in the time of Jesus and a thousand years before.
So the idea that this world was evil, and all reproduction, all things of the body, were evil, was pure Zoroastrianism. It is called Manichaeism. But Mani was in Iraq synthesizing Christianity and Zoroastrianism a century before Mohammed was born.
The hatred of self is a product, not of hte Old Testament, but of a degenerated form of an Aryan faith history has forgotten and tehology has worked at forgetting.
Right or wrong, that’s a hell of a concept.
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