Deity as a Projection of Tribal Self

"Subvert the dominant paradigm" was something I used to enjoy doing. If the paradigm is one of collective suicide then it is good work to subvert it. What we have though, today, is a collapse of liberalism (the ethos of human equality and empirical reasonability applied to governance) and total war of "all against all" as its replacement. So what I was subverting—a corrupt industrial capitalist liberalism—subverted itself without my assistance being needed.

I used to enjoy, also, the prospect of the disintegration of the industrial capitalist epistemology, the system of knowledge and value that accompanies its infrastructure,, because as a liberal (who believes mistakes such as racism, misogyny, genocide, planetary poisoning, habitat destruction etc can be predicted, prevented and corrected) I believed that the disintegration was part of a process of creation, or renaissance.

What we are experiencing in our global war of everybody against everybody is not a renaissance; it is an imaginary return, led by Trump and Netanyahu, to a tribal/racist past dated about 3000 years ago wherein might is right, and that's that. The Enlightenment is rejected, while the weaponry of mass destruction (produced by "empirical reasonability" ie "Enlightenment scientific culture") is embraced because it drives the industrial capitalistic economy.

What I am contemplating now is the basic difference between a deity worshipped by a cosmopolitan versus a tribal self. A tribal deity will protect the tribe, or it vanishes; whereas a cosmopolitan deity will protect all of humanity, or it vanishes, too.

The crisis of cosmopolitanism is the conflict, writ large, between cosmopolitan and tribal identity, between globalists and ethnonationalists, between multiculturalism and nationalism, between the UN and nations, between international law and national law. And between peace and war.

I am contemplating how deity is invoked to excuse criminal and genocidal violence, and am returning to the Moses myth. As I explained, it presents a tribal deity that demands Jews commit genocide against Canaanites; the reward is the covenant, the absolute bonding of deity and tribe. The covenant is revealed by the success of mass murder, and the "blessings" of Canaanite property.

Given what is happening to us today, I am also contemplating the fact that this deity requires genocide to materialize. I get the insight partially from Richard Slotkin who detailed how, while they committed genocide against Native Americans, Puritans re-enacted the Moses myth. They were Calvinists, Christians who believed that Jesus established the covenant with the Jewish deity, after the Jews broke the covenant and the deity abandoned them. They called themselves the New Israelites, and said they establishing the New Jerusalem. As Hawthorne obsessively relates, they considered every human damned to hell except an elite elect of Living Saints, and they considered themselves that.

Slotkin invoked Durheim's notion of mechanical solidarity, wherein social cohesion is accomplished by sharing a common enemy, and organizing structures and rituals around the threat. Very much like today, where MSM glues our culture with endless narratives of threatening "colored people," foreigners and democratic socialists. Regeneration Through Violence is the title of his opus, and it'deeply influenced my understanding of US history,. Read it.

In Palestine, Zionists are re-enacting the Moses myth. What I leave you with is this question—

What do you call a deity that demands its worshipers commit genocide, then smiles upon the mass murder while it's being done, and then rewards them with stolen property?

I don't know its name because I was brought as Episcopalian, and this deity reminds me of everything that was attributed to the devil also known as Satan.

But who would ever worship that?

Except people who need a way to escape culpability for committing genocide?

A deity that only appears during genocide, then drifts away and vanishes—what do we call it?