Bias against pagans

Author: Andreas Firewolf

 

 

Jewish and Christian bias against all others

According to mythology Moses was the adopted son of the Egyptian Pharaoh. He murdered an Egyptian foreman and hid the body. When it came out he had to flee to the dessert. (Exodus 2.) This story can not be true. If Moses was the son of the Pharaoh there was no reason to hide the body or to flee. So we should assume, that Moses was a foreign laborer.

According to the story that Moses told, the Jews were slaves in Egypt and were treated badly. But in Exodus 16:3 it is stated: The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” The Jews ate well in Egypt. So they were not slaves but foreign laborers.

Moses was taken in by Jethro, a priest of the order of Melchizedek and married a daughter of Jethro. (Exodus 3.) Jethro initiated Moses in the old Zoroastrian magic and religion. After a while Moses returned to Egypt. His brother Aaron came to him to help him. (Exodus 4.) (This contradicts the story that Moses told in the bible. According to the story that Moses told, the Egyptians killed all male sons of the Jews. (Exodus 1:22.) So were did Aaron come from? How did Aaron survive? Was he also 'adopted' by the Pharaoh?)

When Moses left Jethro (his father in law) and returned to the Jews, he had decided to start a new cult. As cult-leaders usually do, he started telling the Jews 'that they were chosen', 'that they were special', that they were better than people that did not follow Moses. That is what cult-leaders do. They seek out weak-minded people and tell them, that they are not weak-minded but 'special' and 'chosen'. For illustration: Imagine that you want to start a cult. And you tell the people, that they are foolish to follow you, that they must be insane, when they follow you. That is not the way to start a cult.

Moses and company monopolized access to the spirit world and put the death penalty on each and every person who challenged the monopoly of the Jewish priests. Example:

Leviticus 20:27. A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.

The Jews were explicitly forbidden to turn to 'other gods' or to listen to spiritual people. They were also told, that all non-Jewish people were less and could not be trusted. This is not extraordinary. It is what cult leaders do. They make the followers afraid of people outside the cult, so that they do not run away.

As long as the cult of Moses was limited to an unhappy tribe of Jews, it was not a big problem for the rest of the world. This changed when the Jewish cult gave birth to Christianity. According to the bible, the noble woman Mary became pregnant before marriage. No upper-class Jewish family wanted her and 'her mamzer' in the family. So the family of Mary arranged a marriage with a carpenter named Joseph. They hurried to Bethlehem, were Mary was not allowed to enter an inn, because she was carrying a mamzer. So Jesus was born in a stable. Joseph did not accept Jesus and refused to teach him. So Jesus hang out around the temples and learned about religion by listening. Then he created a new faith with a loving and protecting father, that he never had. After a while he got into trouble with the Jewish priests. He challenged their monopoly. His mind was poisoned by the tales of Jewish heroes, who put their fate in the hands of Yahu and were miraculously rescued by Yahu. So he challenged also the Romans, trusting that 'his father' would rescue him. That did not happen.

In the first century, Paul started a new cult, derived from the cult of Moses and loosely based on teachings subscribed to Jesus. It became known as 'Christianity'. And like Moses, Paul told the Christians, that they were better than anybody else. His followers were eager to believe that and cultivated it until it became a culture, with a very severe bias towards people, that were different. When European Christians started to overrun the world in the 16th and 17th century, they did that with this bias. They were unable to see the civilization and often brilliant ideas and culture of indigenous people in all other continents. Instead of learning from these cultures, they labeled them 'primitives', 'half-wits', 'sub-human'. Since they were not really humans, it was not a sin to exterminate them or to turn them into slaves. When 'these primitives' resisted, it was considered 'proof' of their inborn 'aggressive nature' and another reason to exterminate them. So they committed genocide on all continents in the name of 'a loving god'.

 

Christian bias in history and anthropology

The people that started 'history' and 'anthropology' as scholarly disciplines were all raised and bred in the Christian culture described above. They looked at other cultures with a lot of Christian bias. And they were under the influence of the idea, that all these people were 'lesser human beings', 'primitives', 'half-wits'. But how many of these scholars would survive a week in prehistoric Europe? When we apply Darwinism to modern humans and prehistoric Europeans, we should assume, that the prehistoric Europeans were on average more intelligent than modern man. When a student today flunks an exam, he will do it again. If a prehistoric European made an error, he or she would in many cases die. You can not be surprised by a hungry bear and expect to repeat the test a few months later. In modern culture almost everyone survives and can reproduce. In prehistoric Europe only intelligent and healthy people got old enough to reproduce.

When we disregard the idea that prehistoric people were less intelligent and we disregard the idea that prehistoric people were more aggressive, then we get a very different view on prehistoric people. When you want to understand the prehistoric Europeans, you should study the Native American tribes and how they lived when they encountered the Christian invaders. Specially the Algonquin of the east coast of North America lived in similar conditions as the prehistoric Europeans. What we know about the Native American tribes, is that they were basically peaceful, generous, hospitable and that they had a reconciliatory nature. That is how tribal people usually are.

 

Believe in human sacrifices is based on Christian bias

The Christian scholars liked to believe, that the prehistoric Europeans were primitive barbarians and that the sacrifice of humans was common. Examples:

In the Netherlands there is a woman found in a bog. The Yde girl. It is often claimed, that she was probably sacrificed. If a woman had first described this case, she most likely had suggested, that this was a prehistoric example of femicide.

The National Museum of Denmark writes:

At Trelleborg a sacrificial site was found from the time before the Viking fortress was erected in 980-81. In five c. 3 metre-deep wells human and animal skeletons were found, together with jewellery and tools. Of the total of five human sacrifices, four were young children aged between 4 and 7.

This interpretation is based on cultural bias. There are very good other interpretations. Was the adult victim a woman? If so, why did one not conclude, that this was 'evidence' of femicide. Perhaps a very Christian male drowned his wife and children in the wells, because his wife refused to become Christian. Or perhaps there was a serial killer that liked to drown his/her victims. Or perhaps a woman drowned another woman and her children, because the victim was seducing her man. Or perhaps it was a ritual of dying and rebirth that went wrong. Or the children went swimming in the well and an adult tried to rescue them. Every conclusion is an interpretation. The conclusion of someone reveals more about the mindset of that person than about what really occurred.

The writings of Christian writers before the second half of the 20th century should be regarded as political propaganda and should not be taken serious. When you dismiss the writings of Christians about pagans, there is little or no indication that prehistoric Europeans sacrificed humans or that they were in any sense immoral, incompetent, cruel, aggressive, et cetera. When we take the Yde girl as example, there is no indication that she was ritually sacrificed. When a people has the habit of ritually sacrificing people, you should find a large number of corpses. One for every year or one in every nine years for example. When there is only one corpse and you state 'that this is evidence of human sacrifice', you proof that you are under the influence of Christian bias towards pagans.

I am not stating, that the sacrifice of humans did not occur at all. But I am stating, that there is no evidence that humans were sacrificed at all. Christian bias has conditioned many people to believe, that prehistoric Europeans were 'primitive' and 'sub-human'. We should free ourselves from that conditioning.

When we would bring the accusations of human sacrifice to a modern court, the court would throw out all Christian writings as 'hear-say'. Try to proof that tribal people in prehistoric Europe sacrificed humans! And try to proof that found human remains are not the victim of murder, war or accidents. How much of 'the evidence' would stand up in court?