Presenting my It Has to Be Read. selection for the month of October, The Case for the Legal Protection of Animals: Humanity’s Shared Destiny with the Animal Kingdom by Kimberly C. Moore.
The Indo-Europeans who conquered all of Europe first, then their progeny who colonized the inferior "others" of the world in the 19th and 20th centuries, gave to the peoples of the world the "Us" - "Them" paradigm of the conquerors. It was essential to inferiorize the "other" in order to commit the mass murder, theft and rape that was their economies of plunder.
Because they had no philosophical solution to death (their own), the IE peoples had to psychologically project death and all its synonyms onto the "other" -- weakness, filth, bodily corruption. Two forms of this cowardly "geolocation" of death away from the superior self (Indo-European elite male warrior, priest or king), is to associate death (weakness, the body) with females [defined as body sans mind], and with inferior peoples. (See Bruce Lincoln, "Theorizing Myth", Eva Keul, "The Reign of the Phallus", Gillian Friedmann, "Fatal Court", Deseret News (2019).
The West has never -- never -- divested itself of this prevailing paradigm which is subconscious -- with the result that there continues to be massive violation and violence acted out against inferior (and therefore despised because subconsciously feared) "others."
While the founding fathers attempted through the U.S.Constitution to reverse this paradigm, that reversal requires undoing the fear of death. (See Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No.84 (?) on banning the aristocratic class in America through banning titles of nobility). Only Jesus has that solution (below).
Franklin D. Roosevelt demanded that Churchill disband the British Empire's colonies after WWII. Instead "the empire" killed him along with his foreign policy programs for the self-determination of under-developed nations.
Then the empire went underground. Ever wonder where all that plunder from forced Opium sales to China went? Or sales of tea? Or currently, poppies from Afghanistan and other mind- weakening drugs?
The extant hidden empire is now operating behind WHO and WEF. And they would love to -- and are trying hard to -- place animals on the same legal status as human beings, but NOT so as to treat animals better.
It is to place "inferior" humans on a more inferiorizing measuring scale -- this time a "sliding scale" rather than "innate value" (Imago Dei) at their "convenience" -- the better to excuse genocide in the name of "greening" whenever they need to have the public get rid of too many human beings (it used to be called "eugenics"). Even now they are kicking indigenous peoples out of their ancestral homelands (to their deaths) in the name of saving animal habitats -- the latter their latest excuse for saving the planet's vast resources for themselves -- their ultimate hidden end game that has not changed for millennia.
The Indo-European conquerors by the way, were told by their "sky gods" (Gen.6) that they were innately superior, and all other peoples (human beings) were innately inferior. They instituted a tripartite caste system throughout the world -- especially in the minds of the male "others" they conquered. Priests and Kings at the top, elite warriors in the middle, slaves, serfs and females at the bottom (See "Fatal Court" above; BRICS nations today).
America was supposed to change all that through the American Revolution (See John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, the dormant equal protection clause and Declaration of Independence).
To treat animals as God decreed in Genesis, the West and its empire mindset or psychological fear of death (bodily corruption saved by Descarte and others conflating "body without mind" with females and non-white races) would have to go deep and comprehend what American Indians mean when they call animals "All our relations".
This is an entirely different view of death -- without fear. The problem with the West and its subconscious innate inequalities is that along with casting out the inferior peoples to "The Despise", it has cast out their knowledge systems as well. So even if a person from the West were to "study" American Indian equalities, he or she would likely miss the point -- the point being switching out the subconscious projection of death, useful for murder -- and replacing it with Christ who is the only One who dealt with death through His (de facto) Resurrection from it.
(How many times does He tell humans to "Fear not"?).
It's just unfortunate -- to understate it -- that the pagan patriarchy overlaid real Christianity with its own paradigm of death and destruction, overtaking the real Christ.
The Indo-Europeans who conquered all of Europe first, then their progeny who colonized the inferior "others" of the world in the 19th and 20th centuries, gave to the peoples of the world the "Us" - "Them" paradigm of the conquerors. It was essential to inferiorize the "other" in order to commit the mass murder, theft and rape that was their economies of plunder.
Because they had no philosophical solution to death (their own), the IE peoples had to psychologically project death and all its synonyms onto the "other" -- weakness, filth, bodily corruption. Two forms of this cowardly "geolocation" of death away from the superior self (Indo-European elite male warrior, priest or king), is to associate death (weakness, the body) with females [defined as body sans mind], and with inferior peoples. (See Bruce Lincoln, "Theorizing Myth", Eva Keul, "The Reign of the Phallus", Gillian Friedmann, "Fatal Court", Deseret News (2019).
The West has never -- never -- divested itself of this prevailing paradigm which is subconscious -- with the result that there continues to be massive violation and violence acted out against inferior (and therefore despised because subconsciously feared) "others."
While the founding fathers attempted through the U.S.Constitution to reverse this paradigm, that reversal requires undoing the fear of death. (See Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No.84 (?) on banning the aristocratic class in America through banning titles of nobility). Only Jesus has that solution (below).
Franklin D. Roosevelt demanded that Churchill disband the British Empire's colonies after WWII. Instead "the empire" killed him along with his foreign policy programs for the self-determination of under-developed nations.
Then the empire went underground. Ever wonder where all that plunder from forced Opium sales to China went? Or sales of tea? Or currently, poppies from Afghanistan and other mind- weakening drugs?
The extant hidden empire is now operating behind WHO and WEF. And they would love to -- and are trying hard to -- place animals on the same legal status as human beings, but NOT so as to treat animals better.
It is to place "inferior" humans on a more inferiorizing measuring scale -- this time a "sliding scale" rather than "innate value" (Imago Dei) at their "convenience" -- the better to excuse genocide in the name of "greening" whenever they need to have the public get rid of too many human beings (it used to be called "eugenics"). Even now they are kicking indigenous peoples out of their ancestral homelands (to their deaths) in the name of saving animal habitats -- the latter their latest excuse for saving the planet's vast resources for themselves -- their ultimate hidden end game that has not changed for millennia.
The Indo-European conquerors by the way, were told by their "sky gods" (Gen.6) that they were innately superior, and all other peoples (human beings) were innately inferior. They instituted a tripartite caste system throughout the world -- especially in the minds of the male "others" they conquered. Priests and Kings at the top, elite warriors in the middle, slaves, serfs and females at the bottom (See "Fatal Court" above; BRICS nations today).
America was supposed to change all that through the American Revolution (See John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, the dormant equal protection clause and Declaration of Independence).
To treat animals as God decreed in Genesis, the West and its empire mindset or psychological fear of death (bodily corruption saved by Descarte and others conflating "body without mind" with females and non-white races) would have to go deep and comprehend what American Indians mean when they call animals "All our relations".
This is an entirely different view of death -- without fear. The problem with the West and its subconscious innate inequalities is that along with casting out the inferior peoples to "The Despise", it has cast out their knowledge systems as well. So even if a person from the West were to "study" American Indian equalities, he or she would likely miss the point -- the point being switching out the subconscious projection of death, useful for murder -- and replacing it with Christ who is the only One who dealt with death through His (de facto) Resurrection from it.
(How many times does He tell humans to "Fear not"?).
It's just unfortunate -- to understate it -- that the pagan patriarchy overlaid real Christianity with its own paradigm of death and destruction, overtaking the real Christ.