Thou Shalt Love God Or Else Doom!
THOU SHALT LOVE GOOD OR ELSE DOOM
BY
DAVID ARTHUR WALTERS
Thou shalt love YHWH or else! YHWH's contract with his Bride Israel specified that the Chosen People should love YHWH above all, or else.
Or else what? or else all hell shall eventually break loose, and everything good shall be lost. That is why the first commandment enjoins us to bind ourselves to the Tribal God Before All Other Tribal Gods, eventually converted into the One and Only Universal God. If we do not love the Absolute Universal God, Who, as Supreme Lord, is the Supreme Socialist Dictator, we shall be ripped into shreds vainly loving the distinctive particulars of an infatuated existence.
Religion is the organized worship of Power and politics is the relative distribution of Power. Thus we find the Leading Principle of ancient religious politics expressed in the form of a Contract with YHWH posing as "the Lord." He covenants that, in consideration for being universally loved, the lovers will have Holy Land upon which to lovingly flourish and, furthermore, the Chosen People shall possess all the appurtenances attached thereto and all the goods thereon unto their heart's fondest desire; provided, however, that if the Covenant is broken by a few people, the Iron Hand of the Law shall spell out D-o-o-m for the whole tribe!
Alas, after thousands of years, men of all persuasions are still learning the hard way. Fortunately, the Lord has been forgiving. We recall that Moses himself talked the Lord out of crushing the Chosen People for worshipping the Golden Bull while he was getting the Commandments.
So in that case the Lord was merciful, and the Chosen People got a Big Break - Moses had his Levites kill a mere 3,000 of their brothers and friends for their idolatry, a very mild chastisement which made the slayers holy by baptising them in blood. Therefore the god feared is loved for one's own damned good. That is, Love must arise from fear, in hopes that a lawful, loving, cooperative response will be more successful than a grasping, competitive, hating one.
Yet there is empirical evidence tending to prove that hate engenders hate, and that the best weapon of all is Love. So Universal Love is eventually declared the ideal for Mankind, but, alas, along the Way to Love certain obstacles present themselves. Love became so popular that some people, not understanding Love's origin in the Law or fear of punishment, and unaware that Love is the acquired habit of observing Law, foolishly believed that Love can replace the Law before everyone, down to the last man and woman, has donned the Habit of Love. The politically astute Supreme Commander, in an Appendix to the Contract, stipulated that everyone should love each other as they love YHWH. Of course, this implies that they should fear one other too, particularly those God-fearing, Self-righteous judges among them who have direct access to the Lord. They must not permit evil in their ranks.
No! Evil-doers must be executed. Evil must be hated and punished, but Good must be loved and rewarded. The Taliban judges knew that - the Afghan courtroom was simple: the Book on the Bench, a Sword for beheading and mutilating on one hand, a Whip for whipping on the other.
Alabama judge Moore, a person of the Book, agreed with the Taliban, quoting his book Book. Sodomites must be executed forthwith before others misuse their gentalia and orifices. Blasphemers, female, thieves, adulterers, idolators, murderers - all must be murdered. Remember, the Greatest Love of is to love the Supreme Commander - those Manichean devils who don't must be executed - only the Red Dragon is honored by being enchained in the pit. T
That is the Deal, the offer we had better not refuse: take it or leave it. Yes, we can leave it if we will, and to the criminal extent that we leave it, the sinful individual will is free.
The Law might seem harsh on individuals, but it is necessary if we would have divine order prevail instead of anarchic chaos, or instead of the infinite nothingness prior and subsequent to the order of life. We should never forget that, before all and first of all, there is a Power higher than any individual or group, and it is in our best interest to submit to it just as it behooves women to submit to men - do not cry "rape!" in response to "Thou shalt love god or else!
Anyone who does not obey may have his free will, he may believe that he is a god unto himself, and he is, but he is also a "god" spelled backwards.
Of course those who love YHWH should love one another as well, after they love YHWH first of all and always, for the Law of the Universal God necessarily applies to the distinctive particulars that it may be realized on Earth as a Concrete Universal or Person.
Wait a minute, have we not contradicted ourselves here? Never mind, this all works out in mysterious ways. Just remember this: as it is abstractly in heaven, so is it concretely on Earth. Since the power of individuals is relative and dispersed, it is nearly impossible to make them love each other; therefore they must be enjoined to love; but if they fail to positively love each other, they might still enjoy the benefits of society if they obey the negative injunctions - the Thou Shalt Nots - and vote for right-wing authoritarian governments who have faith in private property and "might makes right." It is lawful to hate and to kill enemies including missionaries of other religions; but one sort of hatred must by all means be avoided: Groundless Hatred of brother against brother, of Jew against Jew.
Because of their Groundless Hatred, Jews lost their Temple, the Seat of YHWH and the Law and the Nation to the Romans. Hence the Jews are not supposed to have either religious or political center back again until the appearance of the Messiah. In the meantime, we have much to learn from them.
The Catholic Fathers learned a great deal about Church Politics from them and the Byzantines. The Principle of Divine Leadership must be employed on Earth, and to that end a Hierarchy of Powers leading up to the Power is necessary: nothing gets done without the exercise of power. The High Priest is infallible! Yes, power can be abusively employed - used contrary to the Contract; that is the technical definition of blasphemy: the use of Power against Power, YHWH against YHWH. Of course, technically speaking, the Leading Principle is not the sole property of any one man or group of men, but some may represent it more than others in their various powerful offices.
You see, men are not powerful, their offices are powerful. Mind you, lest power be abused, the prohibition against Groundless Hatred must be extended to all Mankind in the context that men should not hate each other without due cause; for instance: men should not hate others just because of their race; all that is required is that they be members of the one and only legitimate religion.
As we know, Hitler was one of the many unholy examples of the abuse of power. His case reinforces the theory that the Universal God must be feared before all, or else all hell will break loose.
Therefore the Universal God is to be loved as the Law. Love on Earth is the expression of the Highest Law. It appears that any absolute distinction between Love and Law is dangerously false, as was proven by the example of Luther and others who learned the hard way, that there is no Love on Earth without Law to secure it, and had to back track and ask the worldly prince's professional soldiers to "stab and kill" 100,000 peasants who were audacious enough to fly the Rainbow Covenant Banner and to demand with pitchforks and sticks a Kingdom of God on Earth.
In any case, "Thou shalt love God or else!"
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