User:Timpo/Religious reason and prohibitions in Right-wing politics

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Note italics are intended to be Proto-Indo-European, Greek Latin and Germanic roots of words of importation into Modern English

This page is a synthesis of notes about the origins of obsolete religiously orthodox opinions currently (at the time of writing) being pedalled as valid (politics) across 21st century Europe which perhaps might fit somewhere but will require extensive academic or reliable source references (compiled by User:Timpo)

Historical etymology

According to the 1st century BC Roman academic Cicero the word religion is derived from re + legere "read and consider repetitively" (as a student progresses from academic lectured to abstractive comprehension).

However, later ancients (the 3rd century royal tutor Lactantius, the 4th century grammarian Servius, and the Manichaean-Christian fornicating bigot Augustine of Hippo) connected religion with with religare "to bind fast or to rely" implying that religion "places a sacred duty on people" or "enforces obligations on mortal humans to bond with eternal divinity" The re- is thus very intensive. Another less dogmatic association may be religiens "careful," as opposed to negligens.

Orthodoxy (eredh- "high"+dek- "to take, accept") and or dogma (dek- "to take, accept" +met "to place or arrange") seek to fix ideas as beyond question as "true" Orthodoxy is the antithesis to technology (tek-"manual skill or expertise" + gno "to know and to understand" Technology is by nature disruptive since manual expertise involves art and evolution, so to better understanding which leads to science (skei- "cut open or expose" + nu "new")

Truth (ita "only or ordinate") is a slippery concept which includes verity (wer- "true, trustworthy visible") accuracy (ad "towards" + cure "careful") correct (co "with"+ reg- "right") and sometimes authentic (auto "self" + sene- "to accomplish, achieve.") in an uncertain world, truth most often means socially subjective (shared belief) rather than scientifically objective (demonstrable & repeatable)

Religion as a successful survival strategy

Religion survives because it is essentially an apparently successful social survival strategy based on an orthodox history of past successful survival activities and dogmatic modern adherence to the reliable continuity of those successful actions which must, perforce be best.

To win (or at least survive) apocalypse (war, famine plague and natural catastrophes) Religion must first define who must be killed, who may be killed as well as who may be spared and those whose lives must be preserved at all costs. This is fundamental to success in warfare.

Persons who must be killed includes any enemy (en+ ami) very likely to attack militarily, and anyone likely to weaken the ability of the society to defend itself. This includes any serious opposition to orthodoxy:

   • Blasphemy: PIE root:blax "slack in body and mind, and thus stupid" + mal "bad or evil" In Old Testament usage the word applied to a specific crime of irreverence for Jehovah as ruler of the Jews, or of the priesthood as His representatives. Any questioning or raising doubt as to the orthodox truth and priestly authority was treason, since to win wars, orders had to be obeyed exactly and promptly.
   • Apostasy  PIE a "negation prefix" +pro "for, in favour" + stā-, "to stand, set down, make or be firm," with derivatives meaning "place or thing that is established" therefore "a defection or revolt or a formal disaffiliation from, or abandonment or renunciation of orthodoxy or dogma

Persons who may be killed include anyone mildly likely to become a danger

   • Enemies (in "not"+ am "love") who fail to submit absolutely to enslavement and the wishes of their conquerors
   • Heretics - (ye- "to throw or impel"+ tek (skill) thus making a wrong choice as to what to believe as true.
   • Sexual deviants who fail to procreate (non-heterosexuals, (DSM-5: paraphiliacs) other than religious office-holders) or those else hypersexuals do procreate without also providing suitable and adequate pregnancy protection and subsequent adequate childhood support to produce healthy adolescents suitable for military training (males) or fertile motherhood (females).  Prostitutes, brothel-keepers, rapists philanderers et al are therefore not to be protected unless also official or religious office holders

Those who may be spared

   • Penitents (paene "almost - with difficulty"+ ten "to stretch") thus: equivocators 
   • Envoys (en "in" + wegh "carry") thus agents, messengers and diplomats

Those who must be protected from harm

   • aristocrats (arc "support"+ cra "solid") thus: nobility
   • rulers (reg "straight"+ leg "collect or gatherer) thus: rightful inducer

Leadership is the ability to inspire confidence and support among a group that needs to use technical competence and wholehearted commitment in order to survive.

A leader is, therefore someone who has the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of broadly defined goals. Certain character traits of individuals make them leaders.

There are essentially two types of powers that leaders can possess: wisdom or brutality.

   • Sapient power is when the leader has knowledge that others need, and others know that they have a strong need or desire for that occult knowledge. 
       ◦ Reward power that comes from the leader's wisdom and ability to deliver rewards, such as salary or bonuses, as well as to commend official recognition and  promotion
       ◦ Referent power is when others like their leader and seek to emulate
   • Coercive power is the power to punish and the willingness to use punishment ruthlessly.
       ◦ Legitimate power is when a leader has power by virtue of their legal position in a coercive hierarchical structure of director, judge, supervisor or subordinate.
   • Democratic power uses a subtle combination of sapient and coercive power
       ◦ Representative power implies that laws and regulations are determined by elected representatives of the whole society, and that interest groups have access to persuasive public media
       ◦ Police power allows for quick and dirty interventions by police or military forces, albeit within a framework of legal checks and balances defined within the ambit of representative power, as developed by political initiatives ratified by parliamentary assent to formal, fixed laws which have widespread acceptance within the whole society.
       ◦ Judicial power is thorough, careful and diligent investigation, usually by a legitimate prosecutor, followed by a public audience under a judge with sapient power, often curtailed by some sort of representative democratic representation in the form of public transparency, open media reporting or a formal jury

Common (religious) sense

Religion is, supposedly sapient, in that an all-wise, omnipotent and immortal deity informs his living (priestly) representatives, who, being the legitimate authorities as to the divine intent, may thereby exert coercive, even lethal power over the majority that is not imbued with divine insight.

SEX

To survive under hostile circumstances have a numerically superior fighting force with adequate supplies. Fight does usually imply warfare, but military discipline is also essential to survive wildfire, flood, pestilence and natural calamities. A fit fighting force, in the time when human and animal muscle-power was all that was available, required high fertility, and thereby an absolute obligation to procreate and the absolute prohibition of any frigidity, contraception, infant abandonment or non reproductive sexual release such as masturbation homosexuality.

FOOD

Before science discovered bacteria and viruses, dietary regulations, such as Kosher or Halal rules necessarily prohibited the consumption of certain foodstuffs such as pork, shellfish and insects because they tend to harbour microorganisms that may cause digestive disorders that could impede a warrior from achieving success in battle. After all, it probably is difficult to launch a spear accurately from a squatting position while suffering bellyache.

MEDICINE

In early-modern and perhaps long before, the work of sorcerers(herbalists/pharmacists), wizards (shamans/medics) and witches (nurses/midwives) were proscribed because the proper preparation of medicine, the precise practice of surgery and the closeness of childbirth were to be kept divinely mysterious. They were mysterious because such skills, if they are to be safely discharged, require a very long apprenticeship and rigorous peer review involving study of mysterious conditions.

Conversely religion avers that prayer and faith is all that is necessary for good health, and any incapacity, disorder or wretchedness (including battlefield injury in a just cause) is the result of a suitable and Godly punishment for some unconfessed sin which pain is therefore justified and to be suffered as life-long penance prior to divine pardon and admission to (post mortem) paradise

The Hippocratic Oath

The Hippocratic Oath specifically requires of physicians (who were required to engage with the three skills above without trespassing on their speciality) to swear an oath on all they held sacred:

   • To honour the sacred and secret healing skills of Apollo the Healer, of Aesculapius, of Hygieia,  of Panacea, and with them and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses
   • To embrace my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood,to consider his family and students as my own
   • To heal the sick, to avoid injury by cutting (surgery)  and wrongdoing (medicine preparation) 
   • To prevent (sexual or tortuous) abuse  to the bodies of any man or woman, regardless of their social status
   • To keep private all that I learn in the course of my healing

See also

• Political philosophy
• Politics of Europe
• Right-wing populism
• Right-wing authoritarianism
• Dictator

References

• This section is still outstanding (any help welcome)