John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readJun 6, 2024

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For one thing, it exposes the basic flaw in monotheism.

Ideals are not absolute.

A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgment, from which we fell.

The light shining through and animating the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Truth, beauty, platonic form are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center of every society are ideals, not absolutes.

Morality is not absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero. Morals are ideals. The core codes, beliefs, habits that enable a healthy society.

Logically the central one being that one's value and status being function of what one adds, not what one can extract. That is why ours is so necrotic in so many ways.

To the Ancients, gods were what we would consider metaphors, ideals, memes today. The concepts acknowledged as essential to our knowledge of living. In that world monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

Politically expressed as monarchy. Ancient Israel was a monarchy.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The many ideas and ideals interacting.

Constantine adopted Christianity because the monotheism served to validate rule from above, as he was bringing the Empire together.

The Catholic Church served as the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.

When the West went back to democracy and republicanism, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

Israel is missing that 2000 years of civil evolution. It is still a sect wrapped up in what is at its core, Bronze Age tribalism. Which was starting to become outdated 2000 years ago, as the Zealots didn't think their god had to bow to the Roman gods and accept being part of the larger network of states that was developing. Now it is the Zionists that think their god is beyond question.

Nodes and networks. One and oneness.

Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. Because what goes round, comes round. Karma.

Turn the other cheek, because two wrongs don't make a right and when the feedback spirals out of control, everyone loses. Circuit breakers in the feedback loops.

So if the next generation is going to learn and grow, they need to go back and really understand what it is they are dealing with.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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