A Femdom Religion?

The teaching of Jesus was about tolerance, peace and love.  Yet Christianity itself has a reputation of bigotry, intolerance, force, violence and even hatred.  His teachings like; "Turn the other cheek", "love your enemies" and "resist not evil" as well as his behaviour in allowing himself to be betrayed, whipped and crucified doesn't fit in with the behaviour of the Christian church.  His teachings seemed to be masochistic. 

To quote the King James Bible.

In Matthew chapter 5 verse 38

Ye have heard that it hath been said.  And eye for a eye a tooth for a tooth:

But I say unto you.  That ye resist not evil: but whosoever she smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee and not turn not thou away.

Ye have heard that it hath been said.  Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

But I say unto you.  Love your enemies, bless them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you:

That ye many be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth the rain on the just and on the unjust.

We can see the same ideas in Luke chapter 6 verse 27

But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.

Bless them that curse you and pray for them which despitefully use you.

And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take away thy coat also.

Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again

And as ye would that man should do to you, do also to them likewise

For if ye love them which love you, what thanks have ye for sinners also, love those that love them.

And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? For sinners also do even the same.

And if ye lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thank ye? For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive much gain.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the highest:  For he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father is merciful.

Judge not and ye shall not be judged:  condemn not and ye shall not be condemned:  forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.  

Many Christians do not like these teaching and prefer to ignore them but Jesus not only taught this, he also practiced it.  Jesus allowed himself to betrayed by his disciple Judas, even though he knew what Judas was doing.  He didn’t try to defend himself from accusations made by the Pharisees, either.  He also didn’t cooperate with Pilate’s attempts to get him released. 

In the end, he voluntary allowed himself to be mocked and beaten and then whipped, tortured and crucified by the Roman soldiers.  So why was Jesus behaving in this way?  After all, he comes across as a total wimp, because he never attempted to stand up for himself.  You could even accuse him of masochism.  For this reason many Christians do not like the extreme "meek and mild" image that Jesus presents to the world.

Scholars, points out that the story of Jesus is not original or unique because many other pagan gods like Osiris, Orpheus, Dionysus, Bacchus, Mithras, Odin, Bader, Loki and Pan also had similar histories.  The story of a god-man who performed miracles like healing the sick, then was condemned to death and crucified, but returned from the dead, was commonplace in many pre-Christian religions.  These gods died on trees or stakes and some like Dionysus and Jesus died on crosses. 

Most of these stories come from Mystery Plays but unfortunately much of the knowledge of these plays were destroyed by Christians and Moslems.  So today we don't know a lot about what the Mysteries were, but if we look at the behaviour Jesus and other sacrificial Gods we can get an idea of what they might be about.

What Christians claim is that Jesus in the Bible sacrificed himself to the Father God for the sin of mankind.  They also claim that God was angry with mankind and Jesus sacrificed himself to appease the anger of his father.  This is, in spite of the fact that Jesus claimed that the Father God was a loving God.  In other sacrificial gods all the sins of mankind are accepted by the saviour god who then is abused, punished and put to death.  So he becomes the scapegoat for the sins of the community.

Now in all Mystery religions there is an outer and inner mystery, where all knowledge of the inner mysteries is unknown except of an initiated few.  In the earlier Mystery plays the saviour god sacrificed themselves to The Great Mother.  For instance, in the Nordic mythology, Loki, one of their oldest Gods, was sacrificed to the Goddess Skadi.  While even in the Jesus story, his crucifixion is witnessed by the three Marys.  Who probably represented in earlier times the Triple Goddesses.

Jesus is also called a king and this may be about a very ancient tradition where the king is sacrifice.  It seems in the matriarchal past only queens could rule but she had consort kings.  These were mostly young men, and if the queen grew tired of him then he was sacrificed for the fertility of the land. 

Why this happened might be because a deposed king may be angry at his lost of power and status and stir up trouble for the Queen.  Or he might be executed because he began to abuse his power, and tried to undermine or disobey the Queen.  So the sacrifice of kings had a long tradition until with the rise of patriarchy, kings became too powerful to allow themselves to be sacrificed.

For this reason, the tradition of the sacrificing the king may have happened as matriarchy was declining.  In a true matriarchal society men would not expect to have any power, and so a Queen could have many lovers with no fear that these men will want to take away her powers.  As it would have been unthinkable in those days, that a male could, depose a queen and rule in her place. 

But with the rise of patriarchy, then queens may find themselves with lovers with strong political ambitions.  So the only way to deal with them, was to have them executed, or threaten them with execution and claim it was a sacrifice.

This type of sacrifice probably wasn't voluntary, but in the savoir god tradition it was.  It was made very clear in the Bible that Jesus made no attempt to resist being crucified.  So from this we have to ask the question how can the voluntary sacrifice of the god-man to the Great Mother, save us all? 

In the past there was once a peaceful and caring matriarchal age that worshipped the Great Mother.  In this age women ruled society and men never questioned this rule.  Then women began to allow men more freedom but this went too far and men abused this freedom, and ended up taking over and ruling society through violence.  Clearly if we look at the history of the last four or five thousand years we can see clearly that men have made a terrible job at ruling the world.  Men's answer to all problems has been aggression and violence, .which has created a world of wars, genocide, poverty, fear, hatred and suffering. 

This was clearly seen two to three thousand years ago at the time of the saviour gods when there was still knowledge of the ancient matriarchal past.  At that time there must have been a large number of people who wanted the world to return to matriarchy and the worship of the Great Mother.  But what was preventing this, was violent and aggressive men.

This means that people who attempted to set up a matriarchal society of love and harmony, would be quickly conquered by violent men, who were only interested in loot and enslaving the population.  So it would be clear that the cause of all the wars, violence, poverty and suffering was these selfish and violent men. 

We know from history that the Amazons did for a while attempt to fight fire with fire and fight back.  But this clearly wasn't the answer because by becoming violent yourself you become exactly like the people you are fighting against.  In other words the only way Amazons could be free was to become as aggressive, ruthless and violence as the men they fought.  The Amazons failed to stop the rising tide of patriarchy, probably because women were unable to become as brutal and ruthless as men.

For this reason some women decided on a different strategy and attempted to reform these violent men. To do this they gave them a vision of what a caring and loving world would be like and explaining to them this is only possible if you are willing to sacrifice yourself to the Great Mother. So a story was created about a drama of heroic sacrifice, of a God-man sacrificing himself for the good of the world. To some degree this seems to of been successful because all over Europe and the Middle East there were saviour god religions.  So it seems many men were willing to sacrifice themselves to the Goddess in these Mystery religions. 

The reason might be that if men are the natural submissive sex then men would flock to a religion like this as it would allow them to express their deeper urges to worship women. Unfortunately, these religions became victims of their own success, because the violent men who had no interested in sacrificing themselves, saw these religions as a threat to their power and set about destroying them.

It is of interest that early Christianity was very popular among the slaves of the Roman empire.  This would make sense as many matriarchal societies where victims of the conquering Romans, so there would be a tradition of the worship of the Mother Goddess among the slaves.  For this reason they would be very sympathetic to a saviour god religion like early Christianity. 

Attempts by the Roman ruling elite to stamp out these saviour god religions, was at first was unsuccessful.  It seems that both Christianity and the Egyptian religion of the Goddess Isis and her saviour god Osiris were very popular among the common people and even the troops of the Roman Empire. 

The ruling elite meanwhile attempted to promote a religion based on the sun god, and another saviour god Mithras, but this didn't receive enough support from the people.  So in the end they decided that if you can't beat them join them. 

The Roman rulers simply hijacked the Christian religion and changed it to make it acceptable to them.  They then set about destroying the religion of Isis and Christian sects like the Egyptian Gnostics that refused follow the type of Christianity put forward by the Roman elite.  The actual teachings of Jesus like, "loving your neighbour", "turning the other cheek" was quickly ignored as the Roman rulers and became more interested in the religion of Judaism and promoted this, rather than what was taught by the early Christian Church. 

The promotion of Judaism was the opposite to what many early Gnostic Christians taught, as they referred to the Jewish Jehovah god as the Demiurge and claimed he was a evil god whom Jesus came to save humankind from.  The original Christian teachings was suppose to be an attack on the Old Testament and the patriarchal religion of Judaism, but this was soon changed to endorsing it.

Another big change was that many of the saviour god religions promoted sexual freedom.  We can see this is the religions of Dionysus and Bacchus where many of the famous Roman orgies were Bacchus festivals.  Sexual freedom at the time benefited wealthy women.  This was because if women had a sexual licence to have sex with whoever they liked, then no one could say for sure whom were the fathers of their children and so, men had little idea who were their sons. 

This meant that inheritance of wealth and power could only come down the female line.  Meaning that, a large amount of wealth and power stayed in the hands of women.  It seems that early Christianity was also an orgiastic religion of free love, before it became a state religion.  To promote the power of men, Christianity was changed to have strict marriage laws where it became a sin to have sex outside of marriage.  The idea being that rich and powerful men knew whom their sons were and could pass their wealth and power down the male line, preventing it getting into the hands of women.

Then Christianity as a state religion and later the Moslems set about destroying all knowledge of the ancient religion of the Great Mother.  With this knowledge finally forgotten by the common people, they were then able to put forward the idea that Jesus sacrificed himself to an angry god to appease him.  Rather then the idea that all men need to sacrifice themselves to the Great Mother, and to women, before we can have a peaceful matriarchal world once again.

Perhaps the mystery religions of the past were a few thousand years before their time.  They were trying to promote a vision of a peaceful and loving world in a very violent age.  Today in the 21st century we see in the West at least a different attitude to violent men.  It is far less acceptable for Western rulers to go out and conquer other countries, (though it still goes on, as we saw in the recent Iraq and Afghanistan wars).  And it is far less acceptable for them to rule through fear and intimation.  Western rulers today are forced to listen to the needs and desires of the common people and even respect the views and opinions of minorities. 

So perhaps the sacrificial/saviour god image within Christianity acted as a Trojan Horse for the patriarchal age.  On the collective unconscious level it created an archetype that has influenced all men in Christian countries for the last two thousand years.  So that the idea of voluntary sacrifice has become acceptable to men which is starting to bear fruit in the last hundred years.  It is interesting that feminism has progressed in Christian countries where men allow women to demand equal rights.  This is in stark contrast in Islam countries where feminist women are beaten up, put into jail, and murdered by being stoned and beheaded.

In contrast, we have seen in Christian countries Jesus like men, in Hippies of the 1960s where men have tried to practise peace and love.  Or ideas of the "new man" where men stay at home to look after the house and family while his wife goes out to work.  In its more extreme form, we have the concept of Femdom where women totally dominate men.  So are these men very much in tune with the archetypal sacrificial/saviour god?  Clearly if all men are strongly influenced by this powerful archetypal it will save the world from violence, wars and suffering.

Although Christianity has mostly ignored the teachings of Jesus and have concentrated more on the Old Testament god of judgement and fear, the symbols of a sacrificial Jesus are seen in all Churches.  Also, the Great Mother is represented in Roman Catholic Churches in the disguise of the Virgin Mary.  So even though many Christian priests have only paid lip-service to the teachings of Jesus and the drama of his betrayal and crucifixion, this is still taught.  These symbols, dramas and teachings have been unconsciously influencing men in Christian Counties ever since Christianity became a state religion.

So although in the short term the attempt by matriarchal women to create a submissive saviour god in the past seems like a failure.  The popularity of the sacrificial drama of Jesus Christ has brought about an archetypal change in men, which will allow men to surrender themselves to women and bring about a new matriarchal age.  After all, it is in Christian countries where we see the rise in feminism during the 20th century and more recently the beginnings of Female Domination.  The concept of the sacrificial god, does seem to be working on minds of men to allow themselves to tune into this powerful archetype.

If you want to read more about this go to my other blog. Femdom Christainity

 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bible – King James version

The Jesus Mysteries – Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy

Jesus and the Goddess – Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy

The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets – Barbara G. Walker

When God Was a Woman – Merlin Stone

The Christ Conspiracy – Acharya S.

The White Goddess – Robert Graves

The Golden Bough – Sir James Frazer.

The Great Mother – Erich Neumann