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The Glass Ele-phant

By © Anton Vendamencsh, 2017

Chapter 3/ Putin’s Comment on Christianity 1

(Russia’s President Putin does not necessarily agree with me or I with him. Nevertheless, on the surface of it, we are in agreement that “There were those years of militant atheism when priests were eradicated, churches destroyed, but at the same time a new religion was being created. Communist ideology is very similar to Christianity....” The following explains my perspective in greater detail.)

I have argued in many a blog in the past that the notion of God arose from the necessity of a man to prove his capacity for love by self-sacrificing his life on behalf of the life of his community. Were the sacrifice not forthcoming and communicated, the community would die—sooner or later. Once the sacrifice became established, the community gave the sacrifice unreserved adulation, which is why God—by virtue of charisma—also became King. Still, the man was first God, before he became God-King.

In the course of time, the God-King became repressed due to the fact that certain men could gain greater material profit for themselves when the community was divided and its men and womn were at each other’s throats. Unfortunately, the God-King, too, became demoralized and corrupt, and, thus, despised by a large segment of the community. This is most obvious in the case of the French King Louis XVI, who was guillotined in 1793 during the French Revolution. Because no one remembered how the role of the King came about, the rule of kings became passé thereafter, and he was replaced by the most divisive form of government possible: parliamentary Democracy.

While most theologians are likely to dismiss the notion that God arose out of the need to bond humans, it is evident in the fact that the modern community has been torn apart by so-called government of parliamentary ‘democracy’. The major cause of the sundering of the community is the violence of the wealthy and those who seek to become wealthy.

The reason why there is no such thing as a modern community (unless we persist in calling a dysfunctional crowd and its fantasy borne assertion that for all evidence to the contrary it is a viable community) is that wealth—even if it does not extend past that o the middle-class—and not community is everyone’s priority. All efforts by the people to reconstitute themselves as a community born of God and Nature are repressed by various overtly and subvertly violent police actions, which are supported by so-called laws issued by the lawmakers of Parliament. One wealth making effort at the present time is that of the U.S. President Trump, who plans to make (mostly in the face of a rising China and the Clintons’s appropriation of the U.S as its private fiefdom) a failed America ”great again”. And how will that happen? By threatening war on weaker nations such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela and keeping numerous conflicts boiling in places such as Afghanistan, Ukrain, Iraq, Syria, Lybia, and fostering new conflicts such as between India and Pakistan. The politically illiterate and fascist U.S. citizenry aplauds.

The politically illiterate Latvijans, the people with whom I share a common fate, too, have been persuaded by the American oligarchy that the disintegration of their national community is due to Russia Russia Russia, rather than communism dressed up in middle class city-zen* clothes by their fake leaders. For example, it is more important for the current Latvijan Foreign Minister that the public knows he is gay (Latvijans are expectantly waiting for their Foreign Ministry to be converted to a same-sex wedding palace), rather than take the responsibility for Latvija being occupied by the boots and propaganda of NATO forces under the command of a U.S. General.

*City-zen—a more accurate spelling of the word ‘citizen’, the dweller of a city as opposed a countryman, a dweller of wood or countryside. A city-zen is a virtual being who lives in a city, which is a virtual and human-built environment.

The current native Latvijan is a descendant from the inhabitants of former Livonia, which was occupied by the neoChristian Germans during the 10-11^th centuries. As a consequence of the occupation, the native people became both nameless and historyless. While a segment of the population merged with the Lithuanians, who merged with the Poles, the larger portion remained in place and was forced to forget who they were or had been. Their self-rediscovery occured after the Great Northern War (1700-1721) between Sweden and Russia, which war was won by Russia. In that war the northern part of what is now Latvija was devastated. The people who survived, survived because they hid in the woods and swamps of which the area has plenty. In the area of Valmiera (Wolmar in German), some 50 km from the Estonian border, ”only the wolves howl”—so wrote general Sheremetyev to tsar Peter the Great.

The war devastated not only the native population, but sent the ruling German nobility (under the aegis of the Russian tsar) into a panic, because there was no one left to work for them. To save the situation, the baroness (generalin* von Hallart) of Wolmar who was a friend of the wife of German Graf Zinzendorf from Dresden, Germany, went on a visit to Dresden, to try persuade her friend to persuade her husband, who was a supporter and provider of shelter to a radical Christian offshoot of the Hussites (later known as the Moravians). The Graf was persuaded, and in 1729 a number of members of the sect arrived in Valmiera to lay out the groundwork for more arrivals in 1737. The history of Latvijans was set in motion during the Summer Festival of 1739. It was a revelatory experience. My forebears were among the Christian artisans and would be rescuers.

*The title ‘generalin’ was somtimes accorded to women of high rank by Russia. In this particular case, generalin Hallart’s husband had been a highly regarded Russian general at the Saint Petersburg court. When the general died, the Russian tsarina Catherine I let his pension remain with his widow. This enabled the generalin to support the Moravian church, from which support came both the Latvijan and Estonian nations.

What distinguishes the ‘remnant of the Hussites’, who became known as Hernhuters (Cepurnieki) in Latvija, was that they did not believe faith in God was all that was needed to be considered God’s children, but that one had to live in a manner to do God proud, and this could be achieved only by providing others with an example worth emulating. In the case of the Moravians, they persuaded the native nobodies of Livonia to leave the wood and swamp not only by bringing them the word of God, but by working shoulder to shoulder with them in the field. It was governmnt by direct example that provided the harisma necessary to move a forgotten people from violence instilled lethargy.

The Hernhuter movement was so successful that it began to worry the German barons and their Lutheran ministers. In 1743 on their behest the Russian tsarina Elizabeth issued an order (ukaz) that told the Moravian instigated movement to cease all activities. The movement had no alternative, but to go underground.

Slowly, in ways that no one quite knows how, in ways unacknowledged by historians to this day, the movement went up (by 1739 the movement among Latvijans was some 5000 strong), then down (confessions of sin became near hysterical) and revivalist, then secular [secret meetings, with watchmen/ (?armed) guarding against spies and intruders, took place in wood and granaries]. It was out of this by historians unmentioned metamorphosis into a secular movement that the Moravian Christians reemerged as latter day communists, aka Bolsheviks*.

*Unbeknownst to most westerners, the name Bolshevik derives from the name of a mushroom delicacy known as Boletus edulis or as in Latvija by the name of ‘baravike (varabeka=the Power mushroom). By means of a shift in consonant sounds (as per Grimm’s Law), the name came to be pronounced ‘Bolshevik’.