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of blood, guts and christmas presents

Posted by Farid (Moderator) - Friday, December 26 2003, 12:14:24 (EST)
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At the end of a long, extremely flattering and well aimed to please, piece by Simo Parpola presented at one of our conventions and posted over at beth, he ends by saying we modern Assyrians, whoever we are, can be proud of a long list of accomplishments and gifts to civilization...culminating in spreading Christianity...whose principles he claims are very close to what Ashurism was anyway (thereby feeding into the silly and discredited notion that all Assyrians HAD to become Christians IF they would REALLY remain Assyrian). I'll skip any similarities and get to the main praise he dishes us: That we "Spread Christianity".

Now...what exactly have you "spread" when you spread this stuff? Personally I'd far rather take credit for having something to do with the people who invented the wheel, the Assyrians...rather than with the people who started out killing their "dear" firstborn and ending with the murder of their own god, thank you just the same. The wheel was something of beneift no one can deny...I don't care what faith you profess...even the Amish don't run along holding up the axles to their carriages...but use our wheel. I realize people have been killed through certain selective applications of the wheel and the principle of circular motion...but then we don't pray to wheels...we don't eat them and drink axle grease and call it "Grace"...we don't long for and pine after a heaven filled with tires and gears and windmills presided over by a head Grease Monkey.

There isn't anything divine about a wheel. Certainly you can use it to kill with...but you'll hardly ever find someone eager to kill FOR it.

To spread Christianity means to spread exactly what? It can't be "loving goodness" because that was around before. Even someone as selectively educated in Voodoo and filled to bursting with hobgoblins as Andy admits people knew how to kiss before Christ came along. The Trinity is hardly worth breaking a sweat over...so there are three manifestations of the godhead...big deal. Hop a freight train along the Oregon coast and you'll see ten zillion manifestations of god you can actually touch. What's to kill over three no one ever saw? And remember...refining and defining this "Religion of Love" meant killing a whole lot of people just as looney as the ones who finally won that war. They killed you if you crossed yourself with two instead of three fingers, or from left to right instead of the other way...they killed you if you believed the holy wafer didn't really start out as dead human meat to be transformed by a witch doctor into bread...same with the wine being first real blood etc. These were all hanging, burning, drawing and quartering offenses Christian meted out to Christian by the millions, even killing "enemy" children...as we still do. If things seem "peacefull" in the Flock now it's only because they killedhundreds of thousands of equally innocent and addled persons as themselves who formed the Opposition...more Roman stuff, for their idea of "peace" too was to create a Wasteland.

According to Andy it's the Eucharist...a fancy word for eating human flesh it would be a sin to chew because it "melts in your mouth"... and drinking human blood that's every bit as tastey and "bold yet smooth with fruity afterglows reminiscent of ripe pears and oak with dusting of licorice" as a fine Cabernet...that's distinctively and uniquely Christian. He says it's symbollic only, "what do you think we are, savages"?... but I don't know. Judging by their performance in the last 2000 years I'd say it was as close to the real thing as possible.

But so what if it is "only" symbollic. Does that hide the fact of what it's a symbol of? Would the police not be concerned if I made "symbollic" threats to blow up an airplne? What if I established a church where "symbollic" child molestation was the ritual? It tells a great deal about people when you read the symbols they choose to express themselves with, their greatest feelings of "Love" with, no less...and in this case you have to ask yourself why this symbol of an actual and most disgusting act all societies everywhere, except for a few islands where meat wouldn't keep...have roundly condemned?

Is ACTUAL cannibalism smiled upon anywhere in Christendom that the symbollic act could merely be shrugged off as a harmless contrivance in harmony with societal mores not to mention in celebration of a "god"? Hell no. Even just hint at the real thing and people's gorge will rise and they'll condemn you even if it would have meant your slow miserable death had you not bitten into Charlie's arse.

Not only do we eat the gore and feed it to our children...making sure first to hang the instrument whereby the meat was rendered dead...I mean the cross of execution...which could as easily have been a machine gun or syringe, round their soft warm necks we also kiss and embrace...just to remind them the meat was killed FOR THEM...but we tell them it's okay...it's what god wants of us...and more than that he wants us to "wash ourselves in blood". I don't care how symbollic this business is...it unsettles people's minds, especially the young and immature...as it was MEANT to do.

Wash yourself in blood enough times and drink it and eat the meat it dripped from and you might get strange notions about what else this god demands. If it's all symbollic eating and drinking and not the real thing..."Heavins!"...then maybe it's symbollic Love and Kindness and Good Fellowship as well...maybe those things aren't meant to be real either. Hell this god stops at nothing he's willng to pass off as "Love"...and more than that, "Perfect Love". I say it perverts kindness...decency...generosity, charity...all the simple things this planet desperately needs...to mix them up with executions and blood and dead meat and showers and baths of blood. To call it "symbollic" still begs the question: Symbollic of WHAT...and WHY? If this is indeed the god who made it ALL, then there must be a pretty damn good reason he chose blood-sacrifice and symbollic cannibalism as the best measure of your willingness to "Love Perfectly".

Is it because this is SO disgusting a thing under all other conceivable circumstances...condemned even when a bite of Charlie's arse is all that stand's between you and death by starvation...that to get you to do it...to do it with "Joy" and "Love" in your hearts, no less... and in the hearts of your five and ten year olds, prepares you for something...something you could learn to tolerate in NO OTHER way...something uniformly and universally so damn disgusting that to turn around and do it smilingy "for God"...and country of course...unhinges you "just enough"...conditions you "just enough" to also do other "special" things equally forbidden when directed to by the same powerful infuences that got you to go against both your "nature" and ALL of society's teachings by playing at being a Cannibal?

It's a fantastic sort of reverse aversion therapy...get you to LOVE what you also and at all other times are strongly urged to HATE...take something you've been taught all your life is just about the most disgusting thing imaginable...condemned by every single instituion and cultural rule of almost every society on earth for at least the last 1000 years and get you to do it willingly...even joyously...when a "god" asks you to. Like maybe in preparation to starve 500,000 children to death when a "president" asks you to?

How else do you explain how we just did what we did...and went shopping for Christmas presents the next day...without skipping a beat?

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