The psychological makeup of supremacist sentiments, is an over inflated self-image, often mixed with an overbearing self-love and self-loathing.
Self-love and self-loathing often fight each other for supremacy. In need of definitions, and so, too often, this inner war is extended.
Supremacy needs nourishment; supremacist literature, speeches and lectures feed self-love while starving out the self-loathing. To ease this inner turmoil, one redirects and aims at the target one may deem as being inferior, and worthy of punishment.
This Ping-Pong battleground, always seeks to legitimize its actions. One juggles between bad actions versus worse actions, thus a severe action feels justified. Self-pity also plays an important role for it seeks to attract a one-sided sympathy.
A self-invented philosophy creates the twists and turns in order to prevent moral responsibility. By then, morality plays no meaningful role; it is suppressed, and pushed away, and that in turn is from pity, which hates responsibility.
This inner struggle between good and evil, and the worse evil, is very complex, and if not addressed and dealt with; it will bring utter destruction.
This complex psychology enfolds right before us today.
GAZA TODAY
They rejoiced and danced on the streets when Saddam Hussein dropped the SCUD missiles on Tel Aviv. 'An enemy of my enemy is my friend' is the common prevailing mentality.
Under Ariel Sharon the then prime minister, Israel withdrew from Gaza and accords were signed. There was no blockade over Gaza. They build their own International Airport and seaport, but they also agreed to remain demilitarized. Things were going well for them until they elected Hamas. In no time tunnels were built from within private homes first toward Egypt. Through these tunnels weapons were smuggled as well as on board of ships and perhaps even cargo planes. Then tunnels toward Israel were also build; with greater sophistication; as money from oil-rich Arab states kept pouring in.
Hamas was preparing to hit Israel, but got impatient and that's their typical nature (read the Bible about the sons of impatience). Inner hatred cannot boil for too long. Like a pressure cooker it must give vent.
The true nature of a terrorist is to terrorize and that's what they started to do. This indiscriminate shooting of rockets into populated areas of Israel looks to me like a rabid biting dog. Rationality and tactic plays no role, but only sentiments of hatred. Psychologically speaking, this sort of a mindset goes no further than an immediate gratification. It is as addictive as heroin to an addict. A terrorist gets an instant high, and in this weird way appeases the inner turmoil… until the next time.
HAMAS
Today Hamas amassed between 10,000 to 15,000 rockets and some of them are long-range missiles. God forbid they should have chemical or biological weapons, which can always backfire when winds shift their way.
ANTISEMITISM
The sleeping anti-Semitism has awakened and goes out to the streets of Europe and the US spewing its vehement hatred. “Allahu Akbar” chants heating up Islamic religious fervor ridiculing the authors of the Bible saying that the 'Jews will drown in the sea and Moses will not be there to part it for them.' What else can they do? This kind of sickness is like the methane gas; if it is not let out it will poison the swelled up with hate balloon.
Allah and Elohim are at war? Is Satan behind it?
THE BIBLE
We see that in the Bible where the self-loving Egyptians had to be fought. Human self-loving gods were introduced to the Almighty God, whom they did not know nor did they want; what they wanted were His people they kept as slaves. Egyptians did not know that Israelites were God’s chosen. Even the choosing of people (for the world) was too much to bear; and supremacy seeks to invalidate God’s choices by proving to those ‘chosen’ that it is not them who are chosen. Usually, self imagines grandiose things and falls prey to at the same time.
In ancient times the competition was over gods, and in this case it was: our gods versus your ‘imaginary’ God. And this ‘imaginary’ God can only be proven so by defeat on a battleground. Gods’ victory over others (like infidels) was accompanied with sacrifices, etc. These sentiments helped shaping Greek mythology: vicariously, gods fighting their heavenly wars through humans. To a certain extent it was the Israelite mentality also. But the battle was not among gods of air, fire, wind or the sea, but between the Creator and His creature the Homo sapiens.
SUPREMACY
All supremacists’ sentiments are always combative and nothing has changed. A tag of war continues.
In USA this addiction to supremacy is also evident, from KKK to skinheads to white power. These people just let their evil sentiments out publicizing them.
There are countless many who keep it all bottled up inside, but let it out occasionally, particularly in politics.
Wisdom is never superior for it works on the principle of sharing and hence education. It does not mean that only one is wise, while others must sit quietly and listen.
THE CHARACTER OF JESUS
[John 13:12-16] Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.
(Speaking of God the Father who sent His Son.)
Correlate it with [John 14:28] I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
Jesus was very humble and He wanted us to have His glory and the same oneness with the Father (John 17).
He wanted us to do even greater works than He had done (John 14:12).
And finally He said this: [Luke 6:40] a blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit? A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.
So there comes an arrival and one can even become greater than his or her teacher.
SELF-CRITICISM
When one is actually willing to tear down the old structures and is ready to build new; then that would be indeed a great achievement. However, that can only happen when one recognizes the self-made prison.
Humility is nothing more than making oneself into a hollow empty vessel and in so-doing one prepares to be filled with something better and higher than what one had before.
Correlate it with [John 14:28] I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
Jesus was very humble and He wanted us to have His glory and the same oneness with the Father (John 17).He wanted us to do even greater works than He had done (John 14:12).
And finally He said this: [Luke 6:40] a blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit? A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.
So there comes an arrival and one can even become greater than his or her teacher.
SELF-CRITICISM
When one is actually willing to tear down the old structures and is ready to build new; then that would be indeed a great achievement. However, that can only happen when one recognizes the self-made prison.
Humility is nothing more than making oneself into a hollow empty vessel and in so-doing one prepares to be filled with something better and higher than what one had before.
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