HOW MANY GODS IN ONE HEAVEN?

By

Michael O’McCarthy

©

06-11-04

Onward Christian Soldiers

“Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,

With the cross of Jesus going on before.

Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;

Forward into battle see His banners go!”

Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865. Music: “St. Gertrude,” Arthur S. Sullivan, 1871


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A War Poem of Samuel Ha-Nagid

“Their strong men lay on the battlefield, puffed up like bellows and pregnant women. All together they lay, slaves and lords, princes and servants together. With their king, the new Agag, they all lay around like dung on the field and were not brought to burial. Only one out of a thousand was saved, like single grapes in an abandoned vineyard. Blotted out is Amalek's memorial from the Spanish land, his army scattered, his kingdom destroyed . . .

“The slain we left for the jackals, for the leopards and wild boars; their flesh we gave as a gift to the wolves of the field and the birds of heaven. And great was the banquet, all were satiated. Over thorns and thistles were their limbs dragged; the lionesses stilled their young with them . . . Great and rich was the banquet prepared, and all were filled, drunk on blood without measure. The hyenas made their rounds, and the night was deafened with the cries of the ostriches . . .

“And we conquered their land, destroyed the fortresses and towers, subjugated villages and towns, and overwhelmed the capital city with violence." Samuel Ha-Nagid, circa 1055 ad.

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"The Anger"

"…carry your weapons and kick the heretic people out of your land. The people of Fallujah are like wolves when they attack the enemy".

Sabah Hashim, contemporary Islamic poet

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HOW MANY GODS IN ONE HEAVEN?

This is the latest stage in an age old war between the East and the West. Between rational thought and delusional mass psychology; between its use by the archaic male class rule of both Islam and fundamentalist Judaism and that of the modern, male dominated, Western, corporate class rule.

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So long as the “Liberal” and “Conservative” Western ideologues are allowed to continue their fallacious and delusional rants about the nature of the world-wide confrontation between Western “democracy” and Islamic fundamentalism more and more American and European “coalition” soldiers will die in Afghanistan and Iraq. And more and more civilians in both Islamic and Western societies will die.

As the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists strike at the “infidel enemy”, in country after country and as Washington is allowed to cast this war as a battle between the defenders of “freedom” and the fanatics who hate “freedom, they will die in a hopeless, futile exercise so long as the West is allowed to hide the truth of its new World War for global and cultural domination..

This intensifying propaganda is the only front the US corporate class has in its domestic win column. The US and its “allies” cannot broadcast the truth of this Fourth World War no matter how clear it becomes to the citizens of the world. To do so would undermine the psychological edge it has with that domestic population which continues its support for imperialist wars while hiding under a cloak of relative material comfort and enmeshed in its highly contorted belief system of Judeo-Christian religious supremacy.

Its domestic allies, the Christian and Jewish “believers” require no inducement. They believe in this Western Jihad as their path to Salvation. They accept the lies of the Bush administration as a necessary weapon of war against liberalism, secularism and against the lesser humans of the “Third World.”

The primary success of this continued brainwashing of the populace of the United States and its westernized allies is based upon its distribution of relative material bloat. To maintain both the class separation from the rest of the world and it illusion in the Homeland world are the propaganda’s primary aim. It is this material bloat that comprises the US‘s illusionary veneer of “freedom.”

At the base of this bloat is the law of Darwinian capitalism: Western culture’s one obsession is its access to and acquisition of material comfort. That is the objective bribe to the middle and lowering class members of their society. Getting all you can while you can is success. Those who can’t, those without, are not worthy. They can perish or live on the Patrician’s charity. The indoctrination of Christianity and Judaism and their jingoistic patriotism and its component racism is both a secondary reason d’eter and the prominent message in the brainwashing process.

Yet the Islamic fundamentalist truth speaks clearer and clearer every day:

This is the latest stage in an age old war between the East and the West. Between rational thought and delusional mass psychology and between its use by the archaic male class rule of both Islam and fundamentalist Judaism and that of the modern, male dominated, Western, corporate class rule.

In this war there are three major forces at play:

The dominant force is represented by George W. Bush, (Bush II), the archetypal white male patriarch; the white, messianic Christian. His neo-conservative, ideological American predecessor was Ronald Reagan followed by the more liberal patrician, George Herbert Walker.

Bush II though is the much more messianic of his class elite. Their God is a white God. It is a Protestant God derivative both of the Old Testament fire and brimstone, Heaven and Hell, and a revengeful, sword bearing Jesus as they would have him be on Earth. This is a messianic, capitalist Jesus whose heirs are the white west, its benefactors, and their allies.

What makes Bush II terrifying, however, is not ethnic color or power alone. Those aspects of his character define the basis of the class to which he belongs. This class is his power base and its right wing constituency. What defines Bush II is the mandate that he expresses on behalf of the half of his class. It comes out of a process:

The governing ideology of the US corporate state is that of white, male supremacist Christianity and its ideology is neo-conservative, State-Corporate capitalism. Prima facie is a simple examination of the faces in the Senate, Congress, and Joint Chiefs of Staff, in front of the corporate media cameras and microphones, in the corporate boardrooms and behind the pulpits of the churches supporting Bush II.

It is an ideology originating from the European colonization of what is known as North America and the genocide and mass subjugation of its native population. This ideology was then refined in the process of the enslavement of Africans and the evolution of its primary, dictatorial, imperialist state, that of the Confederate States of America. It is an ideology predicated on the continued exploitation and subjugation of the female gender.

It is based on a premise that North America was given to white men by its white Christian God and it is the mandate of the US to so rule until the second coming of this spokesman for God, Jesus Christ, and the Judgment Day of all humankind. The extension of this politique to world domination is then is the US State’s version of Rudyard Kipling’s White Man’s Burden with Bush II as King Richard the Crusader and King George combined.

That the CSA was overthrown by the more modern version of the to-be corporate state is a matter of historical necessity. But the state remains at its base the same. It only varies in its extremist mission from mainstream Christianity with contemporary, liberal concessions to gender and race, to the fundamental, messianic “crusadism” as espoused by George W. Bush in early post 09-11 days. It is broadcast as the “War Against Terrorism,” which is the disguise for the current US administration’s Project for the New American Century. Or simply called it the New Millennium Imperialism. The war in Afghanistan and Iraq its political and military prototypic testing grounds.

There are forces interacting with the aims of this US class war. Some are seen as ‘friends.” Some are “allies.” Some are a diametric opposition.

Who are the Bush II Friends?

Because Bush II is sworn to his class, it is clear that his Friends look most akin to him. Foremost they are of English and “Caucasian” European wealth. As members of the class, they think akin to him, or are willing to bend to the will of his thinking. Bush II, like his Anglo- European royal predecessor, (King George of Britain,) has not only the power of the moment, he has the momentum that comes from the political and military juggernaught of post 09-11-01 that pulls them along in the suction of his wake.





Who are the Allies?

The Allies are those of varying hues, throughout both the domestic and “developing world.” They are those that George II is convincing that his will be the better world and one that will be shared somewhat if they become obedient servants to the Class and natives residents of the global plantation. Or who he bribes or terrorizes into compliance.

The ‘rest of the world’ are all those that the class deems to be of little importance and to be dominated or in opposition to its strategic goals and to be conquered or eliminated.

The class’s strategic Middle Eastern, national interest is tied to its industrial-corporate dependence upon petroleum and its refusal to retrofit its transportation-industrial cultural to a non-petroleum energy source. This Oil War is the material driving force for class’s involvement in the area.

(Were this mid-Africa, the Middle Eastern nations could destroy themselves in great bouts of genocide were it not for that strategic interest.)

There is now no pretense: An openly declared plan on the part of the class is to dominate the world by strategic use of overwhelming, incontestable military force and corporate monopoly.

What is missing from the current popular analysis by the Resistance is the nature of fundamental elements in the ideology that propels this class and its adversaries in this, the most monumental battle for class, Imperial world rule.

To understand that we must understand the role of the Class’s Friends and Allies.

The Class has no Friends in the Middle East. Because the Class is ethnocentric, it can not. It has Allies.

Israel is cast as the Class’s key Ally; an armed satellite state in the midst of the world of OIL. But Israel is a temporary Ally, not a Friend. This is because as Jews they cannot belong to the Class. They are the killers of Christ who is the Class’s Godhead and its doctrine of eternal salvation through redemption.

(This despite the incredible and bizarre contradiction in the reality of Jesus, a Palestinian Jew, who they see as the spiritual Lion of their philosophy. Even in the current, warped ecumenical interpretation of the Bible’s forecast for Armageddon, Dispensation and The Rapture, the Jew must convert or perish in Hell as any other infidel – unredeemed sinner.)

The Saudi Royal family’s despotic/corrupt regime is the key strategic Islamic State Ally and supplier of OIL for the Class’s corporate state. Egypt and recently Pakistan have become Islamic co-partners.

There are ideological and theological belief systems employed by these three states to gain and manage popular control of its people and the geography underlying it.

The opposition to Western corporate rule:



The opposition is predicated upon the equally irrational “theology” of the other two forces at play in the Middle East.

Zionism: This at first seems a contradictory. An ally which is at the same time antagonistic to the class’s world plan, for Israel worships the God of Abraham and believes itself to be the ideological vehicle for the “chosen people’s” re-occupation of the chosen land. That there is no God but their God, and it is their right to occupy and rule Israel and Palestine, (their land,) until such time as the coming of the Zionist messiah and the infinite rule of the world by its God. It is a belief system for which they will die in martyrdom.

Fundamentalist Islam believes itself to be the religion of the one god Allah and all who are not Islamic are infidels and that the “State of Islam” which knows no geographic domain is in a perpetual ‘state of war’ until such time as all the world is Islamic and/or subject to the rule of Islam.

The last three “battles” for the Middle East that involve US forces, the expulsion of Iraq from the oil rich monarchy of Kuwait, the battle for control of Afghanistan and now the battle to occupy Iraq, have all been pre-cursor engagements in the opening days of Bush II’s World War IV.

In the case Saddam Hussein and the “weapons of mass destruction,” these were only ploys. Reasons for direct invasion into the Middle East of massive occupation troops so that the US could offset any threat to the OIL interests. It is also the prototypic, pre-emptive battle of regime change and occupation for the rest of the world in its strategy of New World Order domination.

Hussein’s military threat was to the state of Israel as a US power satellite and to the stability of the ruling nobles of oil in the region; Iraq’s weapon’s proximity to the OIL that fuels Western Corporate engine.

Subjectively however, Hussein was the proxy for all the current President’s political and emotional angst. Hussein was the thorn in the Bush foot. This war was also compensation for his father failing to oust Hussein and Hussein’s attempt to assassinate Bush I. this cannot be underrated in understanding both the personal psychology of Bush II and that of his Class. These “white” men are pretenders to the heritage of the Imperial Republic of Texas, that of the white, Protestant manhood that “won” Texas after defeat at the Battle of the Alamo.

Yet there is another momentous element at hand. As much as the State of Islam has no geographic boundaries, it is still an ideology entwined in the almost intractable, intrinsic sense of nationhood. As the US experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan and spasmodically throughout the world, which is endemic throughout the Middle East, is a force equal to that which drives the “my country, right or wrong,” the God and my country fanaticism so ardently espoused in the US.

This mixture is familiar: it is that found in the mentality of the French and US in its attempt to conquer and control South East Asia in the French and US war of imperialism.

The Middle East then becomes a war of the quicksand version of quagmire. It is one of a prolonged occupation similar to that of its failed predecessors, the Roman Empire, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Or worse: will lead it to use nuclear weapons to “destroy the nation in order to liberate it.”

This religious nationalism propels a force that would rather die than surrender to the Infidel invader, no matter what the nature of its own national government.

War is barbaric. Whether it is the continuing use of depleted uranium weapons used during Desert Storm or in Kosovo and now in Iraq or a suicide bomber. The mass carpet-bombing, the use of death by napalm firestorm, the use of WMDs’ in the poisonous gasses of dioxin-based Agent Orange and its derivatives used by the US military against millions of South East Asian civilians and US military personnel were no less barbaric than Palestinian suicide (‘homicide’), bombers, or the new Iraqi “paramilitary terrorists,” as Bush II calls them.

But the self-righteous, self-serving rhetoric of the Bush II Administration the war against those who “hate America” and “its freedom,” are nothing more than key phrases in the defense of white racial, corporate domination. It has become the raison d’être for the opening battles in the US’s war for World Corporate State hegemony.

The problem for the Realpolitik, however, is for an entity to manage its wars when it employs the use of an irrational thought process like religion as its philosophic basis for war.

When you couple genocidal ideology, such as White Christianity, Judaic Zionism and the religious prejudices of fundamentalist Islam those Object Ideas unleash a rationale for war that is not always controllable by its leaders.

That is if the goal of the warrior is “heaven” and all sides in the current conflict believe that God is on their side and the ultimate aim is to sit next to God’s in Heaven, then dying for God makes perfect sense. Such extremism knows no bounds once unleashed. Under all three superstition based ideologies, the corporeal world is but a cloak to be worn loosely.

War is not rational. The reasons of defense of the nation, geographic expansion, the strategy, tactics, etc. may be, but the psychological momentum of the act itself, nor necessarily the ideology that underwrites it, are not.

If you understand war it produces an even more terrifying perspective:

Tens of thousands upon thousands of untrained Southern white males threw themselves into the sure death of cannon and rifle fire in the US’s most barbaric and devastating war, the so-called Civil War. This was a war in which young men were cultured in the belief system of the white, male South’s Christian supremacy and send off to war for the South for an ideology based on pure lunacy: That one race and a nation based upon a racist-based ideology were superior to the other.

Japanese Kamikazes, (suicide bombers, or “killers” in the Bush lexicon,) died for their Emperor in a war their country was obviously losing; this was for a man who said he was the delegate of, and empowered to speak for, God.

Al-Jazeera, a man identified as one of the Sept. 11 hijackers said, “It is time we kill the Americans in their heartland,” on a video made before he died in one of the hijacked planes.

Was his recruitment to die in Jihad and the thousands of deaths that followed not based on the ideological promise of his ascension to Heaven where he would be sit next to Mohammed surrounded by “thirteen vestal virgins?”

Leaving aside the issue of foreknowledge or complicity by the current US administration or its intelligence agencies in the plans of Bin Laden and al Queda, was there any rational force that could have controlled this man’s fanaticism given that the mandate of the “State of Islam” is to destroy the Infidel and if necessary in doing so, give up his mortal being and ascend to “heaven” in the process?



Or, on the other hand, given the Corporate State’s previous strategic need to allow al Queda to operate in behalf of petroleum, could Bush II have thought he could control the extent of al Qaeda’s fanaticism in order to use it for the New World Order’s strategic balance in the Middle East? Did he and his intelligence organs realize too late the extent to which the irrational becomes modus operandi under the power of that kind of genocidal ideology?

To leave out the discussion the depth of impact of the “subjective” nature of these religious “ideologies” is the same kind of mistake so often made by liberal and the conventional Left that leaving the ideology of “racism,” “sexism,” and “ageist exploitation” out of a discussion on the nature of class manipulation, exploitation and oppression in American history that took place until the 1980’s.

Understand that racism has its own inertia beyond class exploitation. Sexist ideology in the development of the US corporate state history needs only be noted by pointing out that women didn’t get the vote until 1920. The battle against the ageist exploitation of children as “servants,” begun in the 1900’s was not was not addressed in US law until 1938. African Americans were not enfranchised as US citizens sufficiently to vote until 1965.

That the US corporate state religion is under the control of 40+, white, middle and upper class males speaks to the continuing choke hold these “subjective” ideologies play in US rule.

Add the Bush II doctrine of the right to preemptive nuclear first strike to this mix you have a global design guided by an irrational ideology that stipulates that there is only one God to whom man must answer and that God is of a Caucasian skin color and singular in origin and theology. That leads to the portent of a catastrophe unlike any in human history. It leads not only to the fully explosive WWW IV but also to the Armageddon and The Rapture the Christian White right so fervently requires in its quest for Heaven.

The overthrow of the Bush neo-cons and the electoral replacement by a populist, multi-class, multi-race, pro-internationalist government in the United States is the sole solution. The strategy of anyone but Bush has taken on a truism of its own, given the peculiar dysfunction of Bush. He unto himself is a dangerous, mentally ill man. If the election of John Kerry is the first step in the process of building a base for a more progressive, rational progressive movement, albeit a pathetically timid one it may be the only one option left to the electorate of the United States before it is overcome by the complete consolidation of ruling power by the White Right and the wrath of Charlton Heston’s Moses.

Michael O’McCarthy

04/30/04 ©