In the beginning man created god. No. Diop didn’t write that. But he alludes to it in this passage
Because of the requirements of agricultural life, concepts such as matriarchy and totemism, the most perfect social organization and monotheistic religion were born. These engendered others; thus, circumcision resulted from monotheism; in fact, it was really the notion of a god, Amon, uncreated creator of all that exists, that led to the androgynous concept. Since Amon was not created and since he is the origin of all creation, there was a time when he was alone. To the archaic mentality, he must have contained within himself all the male and female principles necessary for procreation. That is why Aomn, the Negro god par excellence of the “Anglo-Egyptian” Sudan (Nubia) and all the rest of Black Africa, was to appear in Sudanese mythology as androgynous. Belief in this hermaphroditic ontology would produce circumcision and excision in the Black world.
[..]By contrast, the ferocity of nature in the Eurasian steppes, the barrenness of those regions, the overall circumstances of material conditions, were to create instincts necessary for survival in such an environment. Here, Nature left no illusion of kindliness; it was implacable and permitted no negligence; man must obtain his bread by the sweat of his brow. Above all, in the course of a long painful existence, he must learn to rely on himself alone, on his own possibilities. He could not indulge in the luxury of believing in a beneficent God who would shower down abundant means of gaining livelihood; instead he would conjure up deities maleficent and cruel, jealous and spiteful; Zeus, Yahweh, among others.[emphasis mine]
And elsewhere he writes about the human origins, he says
Although scientifically attractive, the hypothesis that man existed everywhere at the same time will remain inadmissible so long as we fail to find fossilized man in America, a continent not submerged during the fourth quaternary when man appeared and on which we have all the climatic zones from the South Pole to the North Pole
It seems scholars have been reading Yhwh backwards. Read correctly, back to front, it means He/She… which is nice.
And on another note:
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That’s an interesting article. It seems to make much sense.
The comments by some people on that post, on the other hand, are far from sensible
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If you like I can be your god!
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At the moment all positions have been taken.
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Naw…..I gots muh pink unicorn.
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That’s awesome!
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Did you read the comments? Some people seem to be pissed off at the idea of a s/he god
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I’d be pissed if I were a woman.
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I agree. But these people are pissed because someone has dared claim the nature of god among the Ancients was fluid. Having both male and female natures
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For some odd reason, I can’t see the comments.
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After the page loads complete scroll to the bottom of the article and click on the comments icon.
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Ahhhh
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I couldn’t either, JZ – I think you have to click on ‘comments’ button. . .
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Did you see them eventually?
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The comments here?
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On that article JZ linked
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Crazy. Not to mention, these arguments are based on something that doesn’t exist. “How dare you imply a make believe thing can be fluid in terms of gender! That’s just crazy!”
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Haha ha.
That’s the funny thing. People taking offence at imaginary beings
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An all-powerful and all-knowing being purposefully confused all the languages and then selected the one without vowels or punctuation to transmit its most important communications to humanity.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Nothing, my friend, nothing!
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The Semitic languages SOUND cool though. (But I also think they sound sorta evil, with the harsh intonations and gutterals). But I love listening to Middle Eastern music.
I mean…look at the Semitic names… Malachi. Jehosephat. Uriah. Sounds better than “Bob” King Bob smote his enemies doesn’t sound as bad ass!
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They then had to wait several thousand years before someone invented a J so they could finally pronounce their god’s name properly.
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God works in mysterious ways. This is just one of them. Allowing each generation a chance in formulating her/his name
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I am disappointed no one came up with the name,Fred.
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A lack of imagination perhaps?
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Allen, or Steve would be nice, too
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😀
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JZ, it’s s/he. 🙂
No doubt in my mind that men created gods.
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I, too, have no doubts we created gods, all gods.
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Methinks Diop had a keen eye.
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I think so too
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That man created gods is quite obvious, IMO. This post touches on a few of the reasons, although I’d like to know more. Also, when these omnipotent supernatural entities were being created, how did institutionalized religion enter the picture? Did someone say:
“Now that we have this powerful and frightening idol, let’s create social organization around it so that we can control the people.”
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Bob, I wish history or anthropology would shed light on these questions. I don’t know if it began as a means of control or that’s a later development when some crafty fellows saw they could exploit belief in deity
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Detective Thomas Papania: You figure it’s all a scam, huh? All them folks? They just wrong?
Rustin Cohle: Oh yeah! Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey, “He said for you to give me your fucking share.” People… so god damn frail they’d rather put a coin in the wishing well than buy dinner.
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All them folks are all a scam.
Prayers will buy lunch. Cash is for the pastor
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When the first animal skin clad homo sapien got lucky with a prediction, and that lucky person was elevated to shaman status, and that lucky person found they no longer had to work for their existence, it was on. Just got worse from there and steeped in tons of bullshit.
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Haha.
They exploited it then, they still do. It doesn’t matter if their predictions are demonstrated to be wrong. They still cash in
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Mak and I have created the Great Golden Boot God who kicks ass and takes names later. It’s time we institutionalize it and start taking donations for our tax exempt business. Please send us donations or risk having your asses kicked.
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Apart from creating the Golden Boot, we are the only prophets.
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True. I see the comments on the Times article now. Yeah, can’t have a transgender or woman god now, can we?
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We can’t have. A woman. A goddess! Nothing of the kind
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Gotta catch me first! Hahaha………
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We have messengers all over the place
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Did you get my application for Golden Boot Enforcer?
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It must have been deleted by our other operatives. I will consult with my fellow prophet to see what can be done
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I have it. I’m going over it now. We’ll let you know soon.
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Inspired, your comments make me grin. . 🙂 “God(s) love ya!”
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😀
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“This video contains content from BBC Worldwide, who [sic] has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.” 😦
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Try this https://youtu.be/xxLgLoSZVEc
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I had watched it earlier before the BBC decided to block it in my country.
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As God is made in our image, surely each of us should be able to give it the gender and sexual orientation of our own choosing.
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You know I agree
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Yes, I was eventually able to read through them. . 😦
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Reblogged this on vequinox.
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