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Critical Podium Dewanand Religion
Stages of evolution of religion through Omnitheism,
Polytheism, Pantheism, Monotheism
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Sacrifice date 25 march 2009
(This article has been excerpted from)
http://www.historyofjihad.org
Stages of evolution of religion through Omnitheism, Polytheism, Pantheism,
Monotheism
We saw the reason why religions have an stranglehold over human psyche.
But this hold has evolved through various stages to acquire the dangerous
dimensions it has today. Initially, after the religious consciousness
got hold of human imagination, the objects of veneration were those that
humans feared most, lightning, thunder, the sun, the moon, the stars,
the oceans, rivers etc. This was the Omnitheistic phase, where Humans
worshipped everything. By its nature, this phase bred tolerance of different
modes of worship, as there was no single way of or object of worship.
There was no order or boundaries of the objects of worship. This phase
still exists today in animistic tribal societies which are still out of
the pale of civilization.
Gradually as the religious view was further developed, there were select
objects that could be worshipped. Now the choice became limited. But still
there were multiple objects being worshipped. Religion became more organized,
and consequently more regimented. Rituals became more definite. But still
there was tolerance of different modes of worship, as there were many
modes of worship co-existing simultaneously. All ancient civilizations
like those of Greece, Rome, Hindu India, Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, were
at this stage of religious development. This was Pantheism or Polytheism
The next stage of evolution of religion, was when there was a further
restriction of objects of worship in on single object of worship. This
was the first phase of monotheism. There was little to no tolerance in
this mode of worship, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Shintoism, Taoism,
are examples of this mode of worship. This was object based monotheism.
The next phase of religion was the prevention of any object at all from
being worshipped. This was abstract monotheism. Islam is the first example
of this mode of worship. Other examples are offshoots of Islam, like Bahais,
Durze, Ahmediyas (Quadianis), etc. This phase is not tolerant of any other
mode of worship. An since the idea of a god is an abstract that is not
depicted as a picture or a statue, the followers of this mode of worship
have contempt for those religions which identify a god with actual man
made objects. This is logical basis of Islamic intolerance of other religions.
When such a religion is backed by the force of arms, it becomes tyrannical.
The next logical phase of the evolution of the human conception of the
unknown universe is atheism, where no object nor an idea is worshipped.
In fact nothing is worshipped at all. In all other phases of human consciousness
the common idea is about the unknown universe being misinterpreted as
an unknown power that consciously regulated human endeavor. It is only
the object being worshipped that differs. And even if there was no object
being worshipped, the idea of worship is intact be you Muslim, Christian,
Jewish or Buddhist, Hindu, or an adherent of any other. In atheism, which
is a further development of abstract monotheism, the concept of worship
itself is rejected. Hence atheists are philosophically intolerant of all
forms of religious expression. But, if and when, they at all becomes the
masters of human destiny, they need not be barbaric as the Muslims have
been to eject religion from human minds. They can have refined methods
of intellectual discourse supplemented with methods like administering
anesthesia, inducing amnesia and re-educating the human species to evolve
a synthetic but fully rationalized atheistic Man. We know this suggestion
is going to be fiercely condemned and taken to pieces, but there is no
other way out
How the evolution of religion has the seeds of its own
destruction
Religion has been till today an inseparable part of the human psyche
and society. We can never ever conceive, a society without religion. While
atheism as a school of thought has been prevalent since ancient times
and is as old as humankind itself, it was the Jacobins in France who for
the first time made atheism a part of state policy. But with their mass
cruelty during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, they discredited
everything they stood for, including atheism. The next experiment with
Communism took place on a major scale in the last (i.e. 20th) century.
Soviet and later Chinese communism did abolish religion and brought up
entire generations under the new education system that did away with religion.
But with the economic failure of Communism, everything associated with
the Communist outlook was discredited. But communism proved that, by using
state policy, it was indeed possible to abolish the idea of religion as
a necessary part of the human psyche. Atheism is an idea that is still
obnoxious to all religious people. Be they the neocons of George Bush's
Republican Party, or the ultra-orthodox Shaas party of the ruling Likud
Party of Israel, or the Hindu nationalist parties of India or the Buddhist
monarchies of Thailand, or the hate driven bearded savages of the Al Qaeda.
All of them would shun atheism today. But the fact remains that as theists
all of them are at variance with each other, with the Muslims staging
barbaric attacks on all of the rest be they Jews, Christians, Hindus or
Buddhists. The rest can co-exist, while still being at odds with each
other. The story is entirely different with the bearded savages of the
Al Qaeda, they will either slaughter the rest of them or convert them
to Islam, or better still for the rest of us, perish to the last man,
with all their co-religionists all across the world once and forever.
History will credit Islam with the final push that humankind
gave to Religion
Ironically it is in the inherent universal fanaticism of the Muslims
that is articulated by the Al Qaeda that the seeds of the destruction
of religion as an essential adjunct of the human psyche are to be found.
Had the religions of the world been like those of the Jews, the near-extinct
Zoroastrians, the philosophically tolerant Hindus, or the socially tolerant
Christians, then religion would not have challenged the very existence
of civilized society and then it would not be necessary of think about
the demise of religion. But because of Islam matters are coming to a head.
With the mindless cruelty of Islam spurred on by a paranoid mindset to
convert the entire human race to Islam, this barbarous creed is going
to bring about the demise of not just itself, but of all religion. And
if Islam is not destroyed, the entire human race, and all life on earth
might meet its end at the hands of the mindless and senseless, but ghoulish
Jihadis. Islam s going to force the issue of the negative , counter-productive
and destructive role of religion. All pre-islamic religions have been
negative and counter-productive, but it is Islam that is out and out destructive.
While all religions were hindrances to progress, no religion presented
itself as an insurmountable barrier to progress. If there has to be progress
then Islam has to be destroyed and if there has to be Islam, all progress
has to be frozen in time to the days of 7th century Arabia when the accursed
Quran was collate by that evil genius Mohammed in the Sandy wastelands
of Arabia.
In a way it is good for the long term benefit of humankind that religion
has taken the form of Islam that is going to give human kind the option
of Islam or progress. No other religion has ever reached these diabolical
limits that Islam has taken perverted human behavior to. A mild dose of
slow poison is what all other religions had been and they limited themselves
to that. But Islam has presented itself to humankind as the fatal overdose
of poison drinking which is going to mean the end of all progress and
free thought. Islam represents all that is evil and beastly. And so the
time has come for everyone on this planet to band together against Islam
to give it the kiss of death. And that is bound to happen, or else it
is Islam that will be victorious after which the only hope for humankind
to be human in any sense would depend solely on Muslims realizing the
sub-human character of Islam and overthrowing it from within, after many
centuries of atrophy for the human species.
Islam stunts all creative expression. Don't tell us that Muslims are
good calligraphers, and carpet weavers. And all the advances made by Muslims
in their so-called renaissance in the days of Haron-al-Rashid, were the
result of the efforts of the Persian converts to Islam. Islam was born
and bred in a land that due its harsh natural environment, precluded any
scientific development. This progress was achieved not because of Islam,
but in spite of Islam. In a milder way this holds true for all religions.
But Islam is the nadir of barbaric insanity. Islam is like the case of
a benign person with an unstable mind turning into a psychic maniac killer.
That benign person with an unstable mind is like all pre-Islamic religions
and the psychic maniac killer is Islam. Now that we have the psychic maniac
killer on the lose, we need to hunt him down for the general benefit of
humanity and to insure human progress. Without Islam being around, this
need would not have been that acute. Even the most ardent bible thumbing
popes could be neutralized and Galeleo and Copernicus's discoveries could
see the light of the day. He days of witch-burning and the Inquisition
could pass, and the reformation and the renaissance could come over human
society. But the darkness of Islam's savagery will not go that easily.
It will need a lot of help , and the help would have to in the form of
a thermonuclear holocaust of a large swathe of the Islamic world. No soft
options here. These words would sound crazy, today. But trust us, they
will not sound crazy enough, when the Jihadis unleash WMDs and Dirty bombs
and nukes on the civilized world. That day unfortunately may not be too
far off. History will credit Islam with the final push that humankind
gave to religion, all because Islam made it impossible for the human species
to live with religion, a feat that neither Christianity, nor Judaism,
nor Hinduism, nor Buddhism, could ever have achieved.
Why has religion dominated the human psyche
After reading all this one may ask, if religion is all that harmful,
then why has it dominated our psyche. The reason is the human fear of
the unknown. Religion has sought to explain or rather explain away the
unknown universe with the fantasy that there is a creator (maker) and
all that exists and happens in the universe is due to his will. And that
we all come from him and to him we return. This explanation was psychologically
satisfying as it left nothing unexplained. But the fact is that religion,
in spite of its complete explanation, was based on a fantasy, that there
is a god. So we can say that religion is a complete fantasy. Religion
poses questions like why do we exist, where do we come from, where do
we go after death. It talks of life after death and other such concepts
that seem quite frightening, since none can explain them. Humankind has
no answers for these. It is here that science comes into the picture,
not to give fictitious answers to such questions, but to
use all the human senses of perception to know more of the material universe
of which we are a part. The scientific view gives us an incomplete understanding
of reality. The scientific view is not and perhaps will never ever be
able to answer all questions, that religion passes off in the name of
a fictitious god.
Religion which was a deformity before Islam, has become
a calamity for the human race, after Islam came along
All the chicanery or religion would have been tolerable had not one of
them, decided to impose it on the whole of humankind at the pain of death,
as that accursed creed of Islam does. So the need to wipe out Islam from
the fruit to the root. While religion is a comfortable dead-end that invokes
the name of a god, to explain all that is beyond human knowledge, science
is an attitude that tries to understand the universe to the extent we
can. Humans have to decide whether we have to keep murdering each other
in the name of a fictitious god or to try to unravel the mysteries of
the universe generation after generation. Suffice it to say here that
the concept that there is a god is the greatest lie on earth. It has been
the most cruel delusion that has afflicted humankind. But the motive force
of religion being based on fear that plays upon our emotion, we develop
a paranoid commitment and loyalty to our religion, and any talk against
it arouses passions that call for the death for those who criticize our
religion.
This is seen in the chants like Death to the Great Satan America, Death
to Salman Rushdie, etc. Religion is like ones mother, any talk against
one's mother, arouses the most raw emotion and passion. There is no compromise
in matters of faith, and there is no question of changing one's faith,
as there is no question of compromise on anyone trifling with the morals
of ones mother and there is no chance of changing ones mother. We are
born to one and are bound to defend her honor from being violated. Same
with religion. But talking about ones profession, no one is that possessive
and criticizing ones profession does not arouse such passions. One can
always change ones profession or change it, somewhat like changing ones
spouse. Getting a better wife or husband is never an option beyond consideration.
Same with profession. The point here is that quest gives us science and
science gives us different professions, but fear of the unknown gives
us faith in a power that we assume to be ruling the unknown and that gives
us different religions. And on matters of faith there is no compromise.
We are ready to die or kill for our religion, but never so for our professions.
The point is the ideal human response should be like that it is for professions,
were a choice is based on freedom, caliber, training. It is an informed
choice, to which we have a rational adherence. Not so with religions,
which are a travesty of human capability of judgment and usage of our
faculties.
So we can see there is nothing ethical or moral about any religion. Morality
and ethics are independent of religion. But as religion gets a vice like
grip on human minds, it can and has been used to inculcate ethics and
morality amongst humans. So far so good. But when it is murder, race,
torture, tyranny, beheading, slaughter that is inculcated using this vice
like grip of religion, then religion becomes a problem. This is what Islam
does most acutely, although all religions do it in a milder and manageable
way. Islam crosses all limits of sanity, when the Quran asks you to slay
non-Muslims, Smite their necks whenever you meet them, etc. Religion which
was a deformity before Islam has become a calamity for the human race,
after Islam came along.
We need a dispassionate and ruthless mind of a hunter to hunt down to
its death the man-eater tiger that Islam is, by putting the bullets between
the tow eyes of that tiger, unless we intend becoming a meal of that tiger
called Islam
So where does all this leave us? With all non-Islamic religions we see
the primary use of the vice like grip of religion to mainly inculcate
good moral behavior amongst human. The bad part is also there, that seeks
to convert the followers of other religions through missionary activity.
Christians, Buddhists, Hindus all do this in varying degrees. But none
of them are after each other blood, as a matter of faith. They are all
noble-intentioned, but are impractical as they fail in the face of the
evil-intentioned vice like grip which Islam inculcates amongst its followers.
Islam teaches you to kill kafirs, to tyrannize them till, they accept
Islam, to rape their womenfolk, to humiliate them. So Islam uses the vice
like grip to arose raw, savage passions amongst humans. But in doing all
this while the Muslims are evil-intentioned, they are also very practical
and play on human emotions and human weaknesses. It is here that Atheists
have to score over Islam to be practical like
to Muslims in order to destroy Islam with a ferocity that will make the
Muslims either numb or into dead meat. Ut whatever the cost we need top
meet Islam's challenge with a single mind focused solely on giving death
to all Muslims, till either they are all dead, or give up Islam. It is
only those who have this kind of a cold practical understanding of the
challenge that Islam presents and the ruthless will to carry out this
intention can defeat Islam and save humankind.
Excerpted from http://www.historyofjihad.org
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