As explained n the previous essay, the use of the Moses narrative to structure and sacralize behaviors of colonist cultures leads to war crimes. It generates a master race culture that has no allies (bc it is uber alles) and is constantly at war. Inevitably, it gets surrounded and either surrenders or, to preserve its purity and sanctity, performs a Masada-style collective suicide. What is this religion, anyway? It is a religion first and foremost of "the word". The deity creates cosmos through the word, sets up ten commandments/rules of behavior with words, and its devotees consider the Torah, Bible and Koran, all Abrahamic texts, to be the "word of god". A logocentric religion of the word is contrasted with a biocentric religion of "nature". The history of world is of colonists' Abrahamic religions replacing indigenes' animistic religions. The chief military advantage of a word religion is that it can be carried in a scroll or book by priests who follow the genocidal colonists. When the indigenes are slaughtered and/or enslaved and their place-based shrines and sacred spots are destroyed, the religion of the word replaces the religion of "nature". Until recently, this process was commonly considered that of civilizing the uncivilized. The replacement of religions of nature by religions of words is no longer considered an act of civilization, due to the failure of Western industrial capitalism to sustain large populations in the Anthropocene. The great industrial cities still hobble on, while everybody is aware they are poisonous habitats. The inputs they require to function require global theft and environmental destruction; as much as the most ardent urbanites want to rescue the decaying infrastructures, these infrastructures were—after the advent of fossil fuel economies—built for short term profit, not for centuries of health. Look at LA as an epitomizing example; it is made out of toxic materials from top to bottom and can't function without fossil fuels. As Thoreau observed, city dwellers crave the natural and the wild, if only on their dinner plates; as soon as nature is gone, the city is wretched.
The moment cities become wretched, they are abandoned. That's what happened during COVID and urban commercial real estate values have plummeted. Places with robust natural features are seeing real estate prices explode.
After nearly 2000 years of the spread of Abrahamic religions and the constant-war colonialist behavior it sacralizes, the species of our planet are facing extinction—due to Abrahamic behavior, that is, behaviors sacralized by the Moses narrative. I have been bored by religions of the word my entire life, and I am not alone in my boredom. Word religions have to be taught because people don't naturally find them attractive; and the their best features are their animistic festivals like Christmas, which is not Abrahamic at all.
Indigenous peoples who have survived the constant-war master race cultures of Moses, and these include Hindu Indians and Shinto Japanese, have biotic place-based religions. But I am not defined as such a person, and do not belong to culture that, in contrast to word religion, practices biotic religion. The word religions equate god with life, and so do I. The Moses narrative imagines that life as racial, the quality of a very select people, a chosen minority, by the deity to share it "eternally". The deity's choosiness was decisive during the colonizing process of genocide; but that deity was, as evidenced by its own narrow prejudice, not ubiquitous and all pervasive and that's why and how its opposite (Moloch/Satan) was necessary. Moreover, this deity was obviously a projection of tribal ego, an collective imagining by a tribe that their existential interests were the primary concern of the imagining that united them, and gave them identities that were absolutely different than those of any other tribes. Moses speaks to the deity, and the deity speaks to him, telling him that when he kill everybody who is not of his tribe, he executes the deity's will. Moses' god is not life giver in this case: just the opposite. The Moses' word god is a race god, a master race god then; and the word of god is the word of those whose words invented the god. It is not life because life is biological and has no words; words are purely human.
Words are what separates us from "nature"—just as in the Moses narrative they separate the deity from nature.
So how to make an exodus from a religion of words and enter a religion of bios? A next essay's subject!
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