Tremendous words here - amazing work not to be taken away. So few are aware of so much and from birth are gently coerced forever to never be what they were meant to be by our creator. It is the brilliance of Christ’s teachings they feared the most as to look within and become like Him usurps their power. It is time to look Satan directly in the eyes without fear as it is then his power dissolves and today it is about to happen: These are the words of the one and only Jim Caviezel who also played Him in the Passion of the Christ delivering beautifully Christ’s message in a speech to thousands recently as Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is indeed “WARRIOR”✅🙏💥: “ Every man dies…not every man truly lives…you! you! you! We all must fight for that authentic freedom and live my friends! By God we must live and with the Holy Spirit as your shield 🛡️ and Christ as your sword ⚔️ may you join St. Michael and all the Angels in sending Lucifer and his henchmen straight right back to Hell where they belong!! “ 💥🙏
Great statement, Matt! This so needs to be said in this day and age where so many just want to be spiritual living in some hippie, anarcho capitalist/communist community of small farming by hand, hoarding gold and storable foods for the Apocalypse. Institution needs to be defended. You say "globally extended" human sacrifice networks of Pagan cults.
Let me weigh in for a minute on the meaning of sacrifice: the belief that a child must be sacrificed for BAAL or Molech stems from the belief that good harvests and good things must be paid for, and there's "no free lunch." Evil must be compensated for good. As the Old Testament said: "There is no Atonement without shedding of blood." Blood must be shed in order for atonement to come.
BUT...and this is a big "BUT..." since sacrifice was the "norm of the ancient day," the Hebrews were speaking the language of the day, in order to be relatable, and because this is the culture that they came out of. BUT...I can show that their real intention, and trajectory, was to abolish sacrifice, once and for all. The Jews saying "there is no atonement without shedding of blood," I maintain, is like China and Russia talking "green" and "sustainability" in order to be politic and to avoid World War III. They don't want to upset the apple cart too much nor rock the boat too much. But their real intentions are stated by their actions: regreening the Chinese desert, building space infrastructure, rail lines, and funding for nuclear fusion.
Same with the Hebrews, I maintain. Even before Jesus shows up, Jews were already on a trajectory of eventually abolishing sacrifice. Hosea 6:6: "I desire mercy and not sacrifice.”
First, a substitution is made: animals instead of humans.
Then, sacrifice is to be done in Jerusalem, rather than locally. You can make the argument that this is akin to the gradual abolition of smoking by first banning it in bars, then at beaches, then parks, and so on. Now, as a smoker myself, I am all-too familiar with this concept of using a gradualist, "stepping stone" approach to ban something, and I hate it, when it comes to what I enjoy. But...in the case of something like shedding of blood or sacrifice, I think this could be a GOOD thing.
Sacrifice is equivalent to Slavery, I maintain. And I think the ancient Jews probably thought this too. Sacrifice, and the notion that there is "no free lunch" and "you can never have it too good," or the deeming of human development as "utopian" is so ingrained into the mindset of Pessimism. Today's version of Baal Worship, I maintain, is this pessimistic, Anti-Utopianism that asserts that suffering and payment of pain for anything positive is just the "Natural Order of Things" and therefore inescapable. I once heard an Ayn Rand-admiring friend of mine utter the phrase: "That Perpetual Motion machine known as Socialism." Whenever you hear a rationalist, Atheist skeptic use the phrase "perpetual motion machine" to describe something, you know right off the bat that they think the thing is either impossible, a lie, or wrong.
Socialism may be a perpetual motion machine, if you do not like Socialism, and that's fine if you believe that. But this is often extended to say or think something like: if all the countries from Vietnam to Senegal and everything in between got connected by rail line, got electrified, and became at peace and stable and prosperous, that is too "pie in the sky" and thus too "utopian" and "too good to be true." It is easy to say, given what we have been programmed with, to call THAT a "free lunch" or a "perpetual motion machine" or "utopia." The dominant belief is that you can never have it that good, and that suffering or payment must be given. That anything good must also be accompanied by an equal evil in order for payment to be made.
Newton's 2nd Law of Thermodynamics requires that payment must be made because of increasing entropy in a diminishing world, never taking into account an open system with unlimited and abundant energy constantly flowing in from an infinite universe outside. When jesus multiplied the fish and loaves of bread to feed the hungry, seemingly from nothing," and seeming to get "something from nothing" (there's that "perpetual motion machine" again), he was making a statement about Energy being an Open system, constantly flowing in. Thus, Newton's Increasing Entropy in a diminishing world is a restatement for modern times of Baal worship: that children must be paid in blood for harvests to come.
Wow. That's an incredible comment. Thanks for sharing that composition
Also on the point of the Jewish intervention onto the mass child sacrifice program of the ancient world, the OT is crammed packed with the most sever attacks on the barbaric practice. Some examples I found (which were published in my previous report on the Royal Blood Sacrifice of Prince Albert Victor):
The Old Testament Intervention on Child Sacrifice
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
Deuteronomy 18:10
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Psalm 106:37-38
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
Leviticus 20:1-5
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings 17:17-18
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Ezekiel 23:37
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Jeremiah 7:30-34
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Jeremiah 19:4-5
Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:31
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
thank you for all your work Matt, i am an avid reader of your writing. this topic is at the center of my thoughts these days and this particular article is very intriguing to me and leads me to a question:
you point out how the old testament at length condemns the act of child sacrifice and is therefore perhaps good evidence of christianity being a reliable bulwark against the pagan forces. my question is, if we are bring up the old testament, what about all the god sanctioned violence? i am not well read on the bible but a common criticism i have heard is that there are numerous accounts and references of god sending people against villages and cities and other peoples to kill them, including the taking of israel from its original inhabitants. to be clear, i am a skeptic, so i dont neccesarily believe any of the old testament is fact, but i am curious what you think of this in this light of christianity perhaps being the better way forward. thank you for your time and all the good pieces.
If I can offer my two cents: I have wrestled with this problem myself. When I was far younger, I was a radical Christian, but then began reading the Old Testament scriptures in sequence as part of a study series that our church put out. When I read about the orders from God for the Israelites to kill the Canaanite tribes in the land that they were coming to possess, it reminded me an awful lot of the bad version of "Manifest Destiny" in America where some people believed that God had ordained the White people to rule the continent and remove the Indians in the Plains and in the West. So it caused me to doubt the authenticity of the Bible as the "Unadulterated Word of God" because if God was good and merciful, why would he order his people to enact a genocide and removal for conquest? It caused me to eventually fall away as a Christian because my faith had been shaken.
But then, years later, as I began to fight against Anti-Semites and Neo Nazis online, I began to ponder on the ancient origin of the Jews more deeply and reconsider the history of the origin of Israel as an ancient state. I thought about Nietzschie's defense of Paganism and his attack on Jewishiness as a "slave religion born of resentement" and his endorsement of "Aristocratic Morality" where the rule belongs to the strong, and related it back to the Nazis and their belief in the "right to rule" based on genetics alone. I also thought about early America. I had come to the conclusion that by making God alone their King, the Jews had rejected the idea of any Human being worshiped as a God, and so therefore established the idea that no Human is special over others by intrinsic heredity alone and that this was the basis for their anti-idolatry. For what is Racism but Idolatry, right? You're worshiping the Created rather than the Creator. What makes the King of England's shit stink less than any other Human? Right?
Then I thought about Rights being endowed by a Creator, which can only be defended by a govt, rather than granted by a govt. Because they are apriori. I again revisited that scene, in my mind, of Samuel rebuking the Israelites for asking for a King. The Israelites were considered to be in sin when they said: "For we want to be like other nations." Which signaled to me that they were NOT like other nations. That Israel was a Proto-America, breaking away from the idea of Kingship to be ruled by a Constitution (The Torah) and Judges to interpret that law.
Then my thoughts turned toward what the Israelites were fighting against: Systems of God Kingship and arbitrary rule where rights were conferred by a monarch, who could decide who was to be sacrificed to Baal and who couldn't. I likened the racism of Nazi Germany and oligarchical rule in general to this idea of arbitrariness in decision who gets to live and who gets to die, rather than the right to life being enshrined as a gift from an abstract, unseeable God. Rather than the whim of some monarch right in front of you that you can see. I reasoned that this must be the REAL reason Jews were hated so much: because their system had become an anomaly, threatening the power structures that were the natural order of that day. And that, down through the ages, this ancient hatred became transformed and mutated into all the other forms of Anti-Semitic theories we see today.
So...I ask you this: If you have a bunch of societies around you, that think it's OK to sacrifice children, and they defend that system with military might, is it not right to fight against them in order to stamp out this practice? Was it not right for the North in the American Civil War to use force to stamp out the Southern practice of slavery, with all its barbarity?
Then I returned to the subject of the Indians again and realized this: Unlike the Whites and Indians, who were strangers separated by an ocean, and the Whites coming in from afar to presume that God had ordained them to rule...
The Israelites WERE Canaanites and Babylonians themselves! They had come from that culture and stock. The Bible even says so. They spoke Canaanite languages, were of Canaanite/Babylonian racial and cultural progeny. But...By their decision to abolish sacrifice and make an unseeable God their King, that one decision made all the difference in the world. It was like the Americans, being of English heritage and stock, deciding to enshrine the principle that Rights come from God only and cannot be granted arbitrarily by some Monarch, and this making all the difference in the world and creating a great, big, huge gulf between them and the English.
The Israelites had "come out from them and become separate." They were not invaders coming in to presume to rule a foreign land like the Whites in Western America. They were people who had come out from the same stock and heritage as their neighbors but, by a decision, had come to accept a completely different paradigm. They were more like the North of America deciding to fight against The South in the American civil war to stamp out a barbaric and violent tendency within their own ancestral culture.
After having read this, some people might be asking about CURRENT DAY Israel and its fight against Muslims and the Arab-Israeli conflict. But there is a huge distinction between the two...between modern and ancient Israel. Today's Muslims are more like Jews than ancient Canaanites were to ancient Israelites: accepting the idea of One God and having many of the same prophets as Israel. Today's fight is an oligarchical-engineered divide and conquer operation by an overseas empire to pit monotheistic faiths descended from the same system against each other. So therefore I am making the disclaimer here that I do not by this endorse the Christian/Zionist idea of a Greater Israel. Muslims and Christians today are the way they are by the invention of the Ancient Israelites stamping out the ancient practice of child sacrifice to Baal, which has practically become extinct as a practice among the working classes of all of these societies. You can thank the ancient Israelites for paving the way for the Modern World with its more just and fair systems of republicanism.
Tremendous words here - amazing work not to be taken away. So few are aware of so much and from birth are gently coerced forever to never be what they were meant to be by our creator. It is the brilliance of Christ’s teachings they feared the most as to look within and become like Him usurps their power. It is time to look Satan directly in the eyes without fear as it is then his power dissolves and today it is about to happen: These are the words of the one and only Jim Caviezel who also played Him in the Passion of the Christ delivering beautifully Christ’s message in a speech to thousands recently as Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is indeed “WARRIOR”✅🙏💥: “ Every man dies…not every man truly lives…you! you! you! We all must fight for that authentic freedom and live my friends! By God we must live and with the Holy Spirit as your shield 🛡️ and Christ as your sword ⚔️ may you join St. Michael and all the Angels in sending Lucifer and his henchmen straight right back to Hell where they belong!! “ 💥🙏
God Bless you Matt!
Great statement, Matt! This so needs to be said in this day and age where so many just want to be spiritual living in some hippie, anarcho capitalist/communist community of small farming by hand, hoarding gold and storable foods for the Apocalypse. Institution needs to be defended. You say "globally extended" human sacrifice networks of Pagan cults.
Let me weigh in for a minute on the meaning of sacrifice: the belief that a child must be sacrificed for BAAL or Molech stems from the belief that good harvests and good things must be paid for, and there's "no free lunch." Evil must be compensated for good. As the Old Testament said: "There is no Atonement without shedding of blood." Blood must be shed in order for atonement to come.
BUT...and this is a big "BUT..." since sacrifice was the "norm of the ancient day," the Hebrews were speaking the language of the day, in order to be relatable, and because this is the culture that they came out of. BUT...I can show that their real intention, and trajectory, was to abolish sacrifice, once and for all. The Jews saying "there is no atonement without shedding of blood," I maintain, is like China and Russia talking "green" and "sustainability" in order to be politic and to avoid World War III. They don't want to upset the apple cart too much nor rock the boat too much. But their real intentions are stated by their actions: regreening the Chinese desert, building space infrastructure, rail lines, and funding for nuclear fusion.
Same with the Hebrews, I maintain. Even before Jesus shows up, Jews were already on a trajectory of eventually abolishing sacrifice. Hosea 6:6: "I desire mercy and not sacrifice.”
First, a substitution is made: animals instead of humans.
Then, sacrifice is to be done in Jerusalem, rather than locally. You can make the argument that this is akin to the gradual abolition of smoking by first banning it in bars, then at beaches, then parks, and so on. Now, as a smoker myself, I am all-too familiar with this concept of using a gradualist, "stepping stone" approach to ban something, and I hate it, when it comes to what I enjoy. But...in the case of something like shedding of blood or sacrifice, I think this could be a GOOD thing.
Sacrifice is equivalent to Slavery, I maintain. And I think the ancient Jews probably thought this too. Sacrifice, and the notion that there is "no free lunch" and "you can never have it too good," or the deeming of human development as "utopian" is so ingrained into the mindset of Pessimism. Today's version of Baal Worship, I maintain, is this pessimistic, Anti-Utopianism that asserts that suffering and payment of pain for anything positive is just the "Natural Order of Things" and therefore inescapable. I once heard an Ayn Rand-admiring friend of mine utter the phrase: "That Perpetual Motion machine known as Socialism." Whenever you hear a rationalist, Atheist skeptic use the phrase "perpetual motion machine" to describe something, you know right off the bat that they think the thing is either impossible, a lie, or wrong.
Socialism may be a perpetual motion machine, if you do not like Socialism, and that's fine if you believe that. But this is often extended to say or think something like: if all the countries from Vietnam to Senegal and everything in between got connected by rail line, got electrified, and became at peace and stable and prosperous, that is too "pie in the sky" and thus too "utopian" and "too good to be true." It is easy to say, given what we have been programmed with, to call THAT a "free lunch" or a "perpetual motion machine" or "utopia." The dominant belief is that you can never have it that good, and that suffering or payment must be given. That anything good must also be accompanied by an equal evil in order for payment to be made.
Newton's 2nd Law of Thermodynamics requires that payment must be made because of increasing entropy in a diminishing world, never taking into account an open system with unlimited and abundant energy constantly flowing in from an infinite universe outside. When jesus multiplied the fish and loaves of bread to feed the hungry, seemingly from nothing," and seeming to get "something from nothing" (there's that "perpetual motion machine" again), he was making a statement about Energy being an Open system, constantly flowing in. Thus, Newton's Increasing Entropy in a diminishing world is a restatement for modern times of Baal worship: that children must be paid in blood for harvests to come.
Wow. That's an incredible comment. Thanks for sharing that composition
Also on the point of the Jewish intervention onto the mass child sacrifice program of the ancient world, the OT is crammed packed with the most sever attacks on the barbaric practice. Some examples I found (which were published in my previous report on the Royal Blood Sacrifice of Prince Albert Victor):
The Old Testament Intervention on Child Sacrifice
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
Deuteronomy 18:10
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Psalm 106:37-38
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
Leviticus 20:1-5
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings 17:17-18
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Ezekiel 23:37
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Jeremiah 7:30-34
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Jeremiah 19:4-5
Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:31
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
Amos 1:13
Thank you! See my answer to Matt Smith's comment below.
Bang on Matt! Check out Elizabeth Nicksons post today phew between the two of you, I'm having an extra cuppa coffee this am! :)
https://open.substack.com/pub/elizabethnickson/p/our-enemy-is-radical-intelligent?r=1b895l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
thank you for all your work Matt, i am an avid reader of your writing. this topic is at the center of my thoughts these days and this particular article is very intriguing to me and leads me to a question:
you point out how the old testament at length condemns the act of child sacrifice and is therefore perhaps good evidence of christianity being a reliable bulwark against the pagan forces. my question is, if we are bring up the old testament, what about all the god sanctioned violence? i am not well read on the bible but a common criticism i have heard is that there are numerous accounts and references of god sending people against villages and cities and other peoples to kill them, including the taking of israel from its original inhabitants. to be clear, i am a skeptic, so i dont neccesarily believe any of the old testament is fact, but i am curious what you think of this in this light of christianity perhaps being the better way forward. thank you for your time and all the good pieces.
If I can offer my two cents: I have wrestled with this problem myself. When I was far younger, I was a radical Christian, but then began reading the Old Testament scriptures in sequence as part of a study series that our church put out. When I read about the orders from God for the Israelites to kill the Canaanite tribes in the land that they were coming to possess, it reminded me an awful lot of the bad version of "Manifest Destiny" in America where some people believed that God had ordained the White people to rule the continent and remove the Indians in the Plains and in the West. So it caused me to doubt the authenticity of the Bible as the "Unadulterated Word of God" because if God was good and merciful, why would he order his people to enact a genocide and removal for conquest? It caused me to eventually fall away as a Christian because my faith had been shaken.
But then, years later, as I began to fight against Anti-Semites and Neo Nazis online, I began to ponder on the ancient origin of the Jews more deeply and reconsider the history of the origin of Israel as an ancient state. I thought about Nietzschie's defense of Paganism and his attack on Jewishiness as a "slave religion born of resentement" and his endorsement of "Aristocratic Morality" where the rule belongs to the strong, and related it back to the Nazis and their belief in the "right to rule" based on genetics alone. I also thought about early America. I had come to the conclusion that by making God alone their King, the Jews had rejected the idea of any Human being worshiped as a God, and so therefore established the idea that no Human is special over others by intrinsic heredity alone and that this was the basis for their anti-idolatry. For what is Racism but Idolatry, right? You're worshiping the Created rather than the Creator. What makes the King of England's shit stink less than any other Human? Right?
Then I thought about Rights being endowed by a Creator, which can only be defended by a govt, rather than granted by a govt. Because they are apriori. I again revisited that scene, in my mind, of Samuel rebuking the Israelites for asking for a King. The Israelites were considered to be in sin when they said: "For we want to be like other nations." Which signaled to me that they were NOT like other nations. That Israel was a Proto-America, breaking away from the idea of Kingship to be ruled by a Constitution (The Torah) and Judges to interpret that law.
Then my thoughts turned toward what the Israelites were fighting against: Systems of God Kingship and arbitrary rule where rights were conferred by a monarch, who could decide who was to be sacrificed to Baal and who couldn't. I likened the racism of Nazi Germany and oligarchical rule in general to this idea of arbitrariness in decision who gets to live and who gets to die, rather than the right to life being enshrined as a gift from an abstract, unseeable God. Rather than the whim of some monarch right in front of you that you can see. I reasoned that this must be the REAL reason Jews were hated so much: because their system had become an anomaly, threatening the power structures that were the natural order of that day. And that, down through the ages, this ancient hatred became transformed and mutated into all the other forms of Anti-Semitic theories we see today.
So...I ask you this: If you have a bunch of societies around you, that think it's OK to sacrifice children, and they defend that system with military might, is it not right to fight against them in order to stamp out this practice? Was it not right for the North in the American Civil War to use force to stamp out the Southern practice of slavery, with all its barbarity?
Then I returned to the subject of the Indians again and realized this: Unlike the Whites and Indians, who were strangers separated by an ocean, and the Whites coming in from afar to presume that God had ordained them to rule...
The Israelites WERE Canaanites and Babylonians themselves! They had come from that culture and stock. The Bible even says so. They spoke Canaanite languages, were of Canaanite/Babylonian racial and cultural progeny. But...By their decision to abolish sacrifice and make an unseeable God their King, that one decision made all the difference in the world. It was like the Americans, being of English heritage and stock, deciding to enshrine the principle that Rights come from God only and cannot be granted arbitrarily by some Monarch, and this making all the difference in the world and creating a great, big, huge gulf between them and the English.
The Israelites had "come out from them and become separate." They were not invaders coming in to presume to rule a foreign land like the Whites in Western America. They were people who had come out from the same stock and heritage as their neighbors but, by a decision, had come to accept a completely different paradigm. They were more like the North of America deciding to fight against The South in the American civil war to stamp out a barbaric and violent tendency within their own ancestral culture.
After having read this, some people might be asking about CURRENT DAY Israel and its fight against Muslims and the Arab-Israeli conflict. But there is a huge distinction between the two...between modern and ancient Israel. Today's Muslims are more like Jews than ancient Canaanites were to ancient Israelites: accepting the idea of One God and having many of the same prophets as Israel. Today's fight is an oligarchical-engineered divide and conquer operation by an overseas empire to pit monotheistic faiths descended from the same system against each other. So therefore I am making the disclaimer here that I do not by this endorse the Christian/Zionist idea of a Greater Israel. Muslims and Christians today are the way they are by the invention of the Ancient Israelites stamping out the ancient practice of child sacrifice to Baal, which has practically become extinct as a practice among the working classes of all of these societies. You can thank the ancient Israelites for paving the way for the Modern World with its more just and fair systems of republicanism.
those are some good points and that us civil war metaphor is quite apt, thank you for that thoughtful reply.