The most powerful force in the history of humanity is
Abraham's
Juggernaut, the tidal wave of monotheism that got its start
on Mount
Moriah, where Abraham sought to sacrifice his son. (Isaac in
the
Judeo-Christian tradition, Ishmael in the Islamic.) Right
now, roughly
one-half of the population of this planet belongs to one of
those three
religions. And the Sons of Abraham (as I like calling them)
are the most
virulent of the zealots.
The most powerful commandment is the first: I am the Lord thy
god; thou
shalt have no strange gods before me. Mike Hammer could have
fought on
either side in the Crusades. He could have sat alongside
Queen Isabella
when she kicked the Jews out of Spain in 1492 (they had to
leave on the
same day Chris set sail.) Mike could have been a Gestapo
agent in the
Warsaw ghetto. He could have fought alongside Pizarro and
Cortez and all
the butchers of the New World. He could have fought with the
US Army--
perhaps not at Wounded Knee, but certainly in one of the
other religious
wars we fought against the Native Americans. All he would
have needed is
a motive. "Oh, they're godless communists!"
He would have licked his lips and walked in, grinning.
Oh, isn't that Mike right now on CNN? Isn't he one of the
Orangemen? Or
is he a member of the IRA?
PS. Just to keep the flames roiling, consider that when
Yahweh spoke to
Abraham, He said, Don't sacrifice your sons for
religions.
(You guys have been too staid too long.)
Frederick Zackel
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