Maimonides saw the spread of Christianity and Islam as part of divine providence. These two religions flooded the world with monotheistic concepts (Messiah, Torah, mitzvot, one God), eradicated overt paganism and idolatry on a global scale, and thereby straightened the way and prepared the entire world for the eventual universal pure monotheism of the “Messianic era.” It is argued in Sun and Lunar Worship: Adonai, Baal and Moloch in the Mysteries, that the concept of the Jewish Messiah was an ancient royalist construct, absorbed into Jewish monarchy, then repurposed in the construct of “Jesus Christ the King” as monarchism in disguise. It is one hypothesis, that the Messianic concept is Israel’s path back to divine-right monarchy, and it has been used in modern times to justify modern imperial, expansionist and colonial ideology of an accelerationist Zionist project for securing the State of Israel’s borders.
At the basis of this problem is the polemic and truth-claims of Judaism, Christianity and Islam each against outsiders to their religion (i.e., the world), disbelievers, goyim, pagans, non-Jews, “fire-worshippers,” which are not based in facts, but nevertheless have been accepted and inherited by Western civilization.
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