Greece, Democracy and Original Sin

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fff_591by Katherine Frisk:

In his recent Op Ed, Greek Guilt and Syriza Perfidy F. William Engdahl writes:

Every major world religion has cultivated feelings of guilt among its believers, none more expertly than the Roman Catholic Church with its dogma inspired by St Augustine, that insists we all are born in sin, guilty from the get go before we even take that first breath, the Doctrine of Original Sin.

Not irrelevant to the present Greek crisis is the historical fact that the Christian Church which arose out of Byzantium some seventeen hundred years ago, underwent a traumatic split around AD 1054 , known in church history as The Great Schism. At the centre of the theology of that split was the refusal of what came to be known as the Eastern Orthodox Church, to accept the Roman Catholics’ Doctrine of Original Sin. The Orthodox refuse to believe man is born guilty of the sins of his ancestors, guilt that must then be atoned.

The cruel irony of the Greek situation today is that despite that cultural heritage, a heritage that imbues Greek culture, today the Greek people feel a collective guilt that they have done something very, very bad and in a sense deserve what they are getting. The Greeks have been made to feel no longer good, but bad and guilty as causing this grave European crisis that was exposed in 2009.

I agree with Engdahl, and if he is correct on the Orthodox Christian view, I agree with them as well. But I would go further back than A.D. 1054, I would go to the New Testament. Absent from any of the sayings of Jesus, in other words, not what people wrote about him, but what he is quoted as saying, is any mention of Adam and Eve, which is the bedrock of the “original sin” theory.

And if we go even further back, we have two creation stories. If I tabulate them and their inherent differences, it becomes obvious that believing in both, that both are valid, creates within the mind of the believer cognitive dissonance. That is when two diametrically opposed concepts are considered to be one and the same thing. A perfect example of this is George Orwell’s 1984, “War is peace.” It is also similar to the concept of “divide and conquer.” So the result in the Abramic based religions is cognitive dissonance, inner confusion and turmoil and basically a type of mental insanity right from the beginning.

Here are the comparisons between the two, each of which have social, economic and political consequences:
Genesis 1.
“God” is named Elohim. This name contains a masculine prefix and a feminine suffix. The word is inherently both male and female. It can be likened to left and right brain functioning within each and every individual regardless of whether they are male or female or what race group they belong to. This concept is repeated in Proverbs 8.

We are told in Genesis 1 that the Elohim created the whole universe, the earth and human beings in a seven step process. All human beings were created before the seventh day of rest and they are made in the image of the Elohim. There is no “guilt” in this story, nor is there any mention of “original sin.”

Scientifically, with what we now know about DNA, quarks and the like, Gen 1 is compatible with scientific principles because we also contain all the minerals and elements of the universe within our own bodies. We are basically an image of the universe. You could say to put this into another context, we are a hologram of the greater hologram. A multi-polar universe, diverse in it’s manifestation but all containing the same vital, fundamental building blocks at it’s core.

Genesis 2.

“God”is named Jehovah. An all male principle. Adam is not made in Jehovah’s image. He is made from clay after the seventh day of rest. Jehovah breaths life into him, then takes his rib and makes him a helper. Eve is created from a part of Adam.

Eve disobeys Jehovah and eats from the tree of knowledge. Did she possibly discover a jar hidden somewhere with Gen 1 wrapped inside of it, as we in turn has since discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls? It is because of this knowledge that Adam and Eve are thrown out of the Garden lest they discover the secret of life itself. This then is their “sin,” their original sin, not carnal knowledge as proposed by St.Augustine and humanity has been burdened with it ever since, along with the sexism and the racism that follow on from this line of thinking.

Greece as Engdahl has elaborated on, is now burdened with “guilt”for a crime they did not commit and have been roped into the European Union and the EU, who some regard as some kind of garden of Eden, through the deception of Goldman Sachs. They have been threatened with expulsion from the European Union should they not capitulate their sovereignty. And should they take the bold step of leaving of their own accord, will be regarded as traitors to the European ideal and guilty of breaking up the Troika.

However, from a religious and a spiritual perspective that is exactly what they should do and return to Orthodox Christian principles. That human beings are not born guilty of the sins of their ancestors or that this guilt must then be atoned for. But in this case, the sins belong to Goldman Sachs, the corrupt banking system and an unelected European Parliament that is housed in a building that looks remarkably like the Tower of Babylon and that is essentially “Jehovah” in structure and in nature and not “Elohim.” Greece and the Greeks themselves are now totally trapped in cognitive dissonance, inner confusion, turmoil and mental insanity.

In John’s Revelation, the number 7 plays an important role as it does in Genesis 1, specifically pertaining to the 7 original churches of Eastern Orthodoxy centered in what once was Greece and is now Turkey. Rome on the other hand is equated with the anti-Christ and the sevens hills. And 2015 is a Shemitah year. A year of debt forgiveness. Greece is a microcosm of the macrocosm for Democracy, a concept of equal representation within a sovereign state symbolized by a woman, Athena. The turmoil in Greece has been felt around the world where it is becoming clearer by the day, that Nation State Democracy cannot exist alongside an unelected European Parliament. It is time to choose wisely, as it says in Proverbs 8 :

8 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

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