"Monotheism Is a Totalitarian Concept," Some Say

Originally posted at an atheist site in a comment about the Taliban not being identified as Islamic extremists. nappc · 20 hours ago Ancient deference to religion dies hard. And we have bought into the idea that to criticize a part is to criticize the whole. This seems to me a very totalitarian concept. But then monotheism is a totalitarian construct. Report Reply +1 Green Peacemst's avatar - Go to profile Green Peacemst · 3 minutes ago I see that you have co-opted Cold War corporate American establishment militarist anti-social propaganda of "anti-communism" and "totalitarian", and are misusing political concepts as a tool for broader reasoning. Antithetical, rebellious reasoning, or even, pluralist extremist, reasoning against unified conceptual realities is what, exactly? Is that itself a "non-totalitarian" construct? Shouldn´t it be intended to be a "fragmented" pluralist construct? Guess what. The question boils down to unifying concepts, and whether absolute truth exists. The playing field of absolute truth starts filling up with the less than absolute totalitarian smoke-blowers of smokescreens, whether they are totalitarian or anti-totalitarian in a totalitarian ideology. Anti-social "Freedom" is one of them, like Free market ideologues. The only "escape" has been achieved by the UN defining Human Rights, that comes from the modernization of Jesus´ 2 loving Commandments for Moses and God. The human right to the Freedom of Religion then allows University-based standards of Comparative Religious Studies that apply the standard of human rights to any religious practice. That way, pluralism now avoids the problem of anything remotely like death cults attributed to Satan or God, but advocates the invigorating diversity of anything like Gandhian interfaith Christian-Hinduism that might include what I´m getting fond of doing, citing God as Ganesh the six-armed blue elephant for Gandhi, Buddha, others, and centrally, Jesus. Personally, I´ll offer up some good news. As a former Unitarian Universalist interfaith spiritual seeker, I´ve done the key and essential work and analyzed the problem, including the meaning of "science" and its popular application as scientific materialism. Talk about "totalitarian constructs." In short, "science" itself is actually scientific philosophy, formerly natural philosophy. As such, our focus is brought back to "philosophy," which is liberating as "totalitarian constructs" go. lol. That is, as a liberal arts Bio Anthro major in college, with a masters in International Relations having drawn on social constructionism, etc, I´ve had the insight that instead of "science," the necessary and sufficient worldview needs to be Multidisciplinary Philosophy. So far, that realm is left anemically as "liberal arts" and "multidisciplinary studies." Monotheism, meanwhile, is an abstracted term that loses track of historical meaning, and psychosocial and cultural components that we can now articulate in a pluralist setting. Oblivious to the indoctrination scenario of US Big Biz economic ideology that structures your view of modest dissatisfaction of a media behavior, you just use your favorite scapegoat stereotype. Big Biz corp execs just keep pulling strings, yours, advertising, and Fox pundits, etc. Your freedom of thought corresponds to the desires of activists to advocate reform and in the end, eco-social justice. That corresponds to UN human rights and sustainability. Those are specfic values that didn´t exist under Alexander the Great in 330 BC/E, who assumed power in a vortex of assassination and execution. His own celebrated conquests resulted in his own assassination at the ripe young 32 years of age. Followed by 40 years of Civil War by his top 4 generals. Impressive. The Romans followed with their own adversarial fair weather friendships and blood baths. Ancient Greek Philosophers had sunk their teeth into something, and guess what the foundation of Socrates´ pivotal method was? A pronouncement by the Oracle of Adelphi. 100% transcendental. Uh oh. However, Aristotle fled Athens when he heard of his "protege" Alexander´s assassination. In his philosophy, he had deduced an Unmoved Mover, but couldn´t reconcile it with an eternal Universe that he believed in, despite his inductive deducing also the First Cause. So, as a "law enforcement officer for human rights and sustainability," I instruct you to put down your weapon, "totalitarian constructs." Jesus´ 2 Commandments are about love, not totalitarianism. You are extending your stereotypes based on some presumption about churches. Shift your focus to University-based learning and society, which I proclaim now as the eminent basis of modern high integrity Christianity for UN pluralism. The conquest of the world has been accomplished by Western culture´s good and bad Christian elements of integrity and human bio-psychosocial hypocrisy and worse. That "conquest" of US style corporate imperialism is a done deed. The good side resides in pluralism faced with the Christian-proclaimed, internationally and secularly negotiated standards of University-based, UN human rights and not for profit sustainability culture. That´s how that all begins to work. Revive the Saxon´s Holy Tree Irminsul, now in the modern context. Celebrate Ganesh the Divine Elephant with six arms! UN human rights sets the stage for the balance of spiritual truth and ethical and moral imagination.