Presenting my It Has to Be Read. selection for the month of January, 2025, The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture Wars by Dr. Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner
Being "deaf, dumb and blind" to those on the bottom level of the three-tiered socio-political structure of the Indo-European raiders from the Eurasian steppes -- who conquered Europe, then colonized the world, The Patriarchy is similarly "deaf, blind and dumb" to females and girls and other sub-humans on the bottom tier. "Bodies without minds," the top tier of priest-kings or middle tier of warriors "claim."
Like the slaves of the Old South, the bottom tier of alleged sub-humans have no future but what the top level "decides."
But that's clearly not Jesus. Jesus always always asked "Who do you say that I am?" He wasn't a Theocrat -- a Patriarch pretending to be for Christ.
Free choice is integral to the image of God. (I didn't say license).
But you know and everybody knows that patriarchs and The Patriarchy* like to "Lord it over" women and other slaves, for sexual purposes.
If there is one thing Patriarchy insists on is their automatic access to females -- meaning "no consent needed."
And Jesus wasn't like that, either.
So who do they think they're following?
It ain't Jesus.
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* Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale", Theocratic Gilead as Future America.
Being "deaf, dumb and blind" to those on the bottom level of the three-tiered socio-political structure of the Indo-European raiders from the Eurasian steppes -- who conquered Europe, then colonized the world, The Patriarchy is similarly "deaf, blind and dumb" to females and girls and other sub-humans on the bottom tier. "Bodies without minds," the top tier of priest-kings or middle tier of warriors "claim."
Like the slaves of the Old South, the bottom tier of alleged sub-humans have no future but what the top level "decides."
But that's clearly not Jesus. Jesus always always asked "Who do you say that I am?" He wasn't a Theocrat -- a Patriarch pretending to be for Christ.
Free choice is integral to the image of God. (I didn't say license).
But you know and everybody knows that patriarchs and The Patriarchy* like to "Lord it over" women and other slaves, for sexual purposes.
If there is one thing Patriarchy insists on is their automatic access to females -- meaning "no consent needed."
And Jesus wasn't like that, either.
So who do they think they're following?
It ain't Jesus.
______
* Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale", Theocratic Gilead as Future America.