Post #133 "Violence as Our Way of Life"

We have become a people of violence. It is all recorded in our ancient mythological accounts. Violence brings in and accompanies civilization as the culture moves from a tribal society into the Agrarian Age. Its all about violence in the taking and claiming of land. It all leads to possession and then to trading and accumulating wealth and more wealth. It establishes classes of the wealthy: those of comfort and leisure, those of abundance, as compared to those of need, those of want and poverty, those that know toil and sweat and weariness, those that were deprived of their identity, those whose life-style was violated, those whose property was claimed and stolen. And on and on to violence and more violence. It was like a greedy, rasping violence descended like a dark swirling cloud for there was a great division where the vulnerable were separated out were violated. Moral values were violated, as was the soul of the land itself. The story of the Garden of Adam and Eve was forgotten. People could no longer remember a Garden of sweetness and lushness where no effort was needed, no clocks needed to be set, or food to be cropped nor where pain, suffering, nor the death that ended everything was a part of normal life. There was no greediness or hatred, for here, it was said that God came and walked and talked with those that inhabited the garden, whoever in our ancestral and genetic code they may be. One thing we can glean from the story is that with the first dawning of humanity there was no male and no female...no gender and no need for gender The division occurred, as all division occurs, when creation is a process of division and in no way is the entity that Intelligence longs for in its desire to become God. When Godliness can not be attained much less assumed, or even understood, what is the next best thing to do? What is the only thing to do? Why, Create! Create God according to our needs, according to our design, according to our desires, according to our image and likeness. Create God and place him over the creation we chose. Create God and say that this God ordered the soon-to be Israelite nation to come into the Promised Land and violently attack, destroy, kill, and take captive the inhabitants. Good way to put the blame on the tribal God who in reality represents his people and is the archetype of his settlement or special group of elect people. (These could be some of the settlements referred to in the Tel in Jericho. Sounds like a pretty vicious and unreasonable God to use this method to bring about promises to a people. Something here seems fishy. Whatever the Garden story is about, it tells of a place that is entirely in sinc with itself. No wonder we are a people of division. A people of violence. A people of Creation