In this book NASTY of NICE? an in depth qualification for ‘scapegoat’ religious system is examined, together with the strategic influence it had upon the developing nation of Isreal and how they perceived God. This concept had huge ramifications into the church age, up to the modern day.
At a human level we all to one degree or another experience lack. The abundance and diversity of products and services advertised which compete for our attention, confirms the areas of our sense of lack. Our quest to fulfil the sense of lack in acquisition of things, gaining platforms of power through wealth or prestige all fail. Our inability to recognise our own condition leads us to blame others for our chronic sense of lack, I doing so we create victims and perversely another fleeting opportunity to feel better about ourselves. In communities whether small or large, the intensity of this sense of lack can lead to rivalry and if not checked, social breakdown. The system conceived from ancient tribal times to dilute such heightened social tensions, when internal law became ineffective, was the scapegoat mechanism. In raw form we would describe it as a lynching. A victim would be randomly chosen most likely for their perceived disqualification to the social norm, but crucially believed to be guilty, would be murdered. The immolation of the victim would have such a dilutive effect of the dangerously heightened tensions, that the peace that broke out would be attributed to the victim and they would be venerated. Inevitably this quasi belief that sacrifice brings peace, became a religious tradition and foundation upon which social stability, mobility and cohesiveness could thrive. Such veneration of the sacrifice conceived godlike status. Therefore, the tribal god became the one who through displeasure brought crisis, also became the god who required sacrifice to bring peace.
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