Christianity as the Spirit of Indo-European Conquering by Appropriating Hebrew Scripture

  

"Life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of what is alien and weaker; suppression, hardness, imposition of one’s own forms, incorporation and at least, at its mildest, exploitation.… If it is a living and not a dying body…it will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant—not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power. But there is no point on which the ordinary consciousness of Europeans resists instruction as on this: everywhere people are now raving, even under scientific disguises, about coming conditions of society in which “the exploitative aspect” will be removed—which sounds to me as if they promised to invent a way of life that would dispense with all organic functions. “Exploitation” does not belong to a corrupt or imperfect and primitive society: it belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will of life."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Some people of Indo-European descent want to move away from Christianity because they consider it to be not part of their ethnic history and want to go back to the Indo-European gods. The way I see it, my Indo-European ancestors chose to make Christianity their civilizing religion. For example, the Scandinavian kings choosing to utilize Christianity for better ease of trade and consolidation of power through its monotheistic structure. 

I also see Christianity as a religion that basically conqured Zealot-style Judaism of the first century with the New Testament as basically Roman propaganda to explain why the Israelite Zealots who tried to conquer Rome lost in 70 AD, and their own Israelite god chose to instead make Gentiles his focal point. The hellenized Greek speaking New Testament author exploited or utilized Judaism and it's monotheism, in order to merge the best of Hellenic culture with Philo-style forms of Judaism. So I see Christianity as a collaboration between Indo-European peoples and Hellenized Jewish people. 

This collaboration began with the Apostle Paul basically appropriating the Hebrew Bible to his own ends, in that even though he himself was a hebrew of hebrews, he utilized the Old Testament texts by changing  the meaning of passages as a midrashic artist, in order to graft Indo-European peoples into Israel. This beginning stage of reworking the meaning of Old Testament scriptures to fit an Indo-European paradigm, was continued on with the later Indo-European Christian Church Fathers who combined Greek Philosophy with the New Testament.

Considering Nietzsche's legitimate criticisms of the apostle Paul, I began to realize that the Apostle Paul is not the end all be all of Christianity. Paul simply got the ball rolling so to speak, but his version of Christianity (voluntary martydom, literal spirit-possession, healing handkerchiefs, etc.) is no longer believed in or practiced by most Christians.

Paul himself represents a form of Nietzschean will to power in that his big ego led him to believe that he was called to graft the Gentiles into Israel before the end of days. So basically you have Paul exercising creative will to power in order to get one over on his opponents (the "super apostles") as he utilized the authority of the Old Testament to cleverly graft Gentiles into Israel. In the end the Pauline Gentile churches won out over and against the more Torah-observant Jesus-based sects. 

You have to remember that what was powerful and authoritative in the Greek speaking world of the first century was ancient religions, whether it was Egypt or the ancient texts of the Old Testament. So what Christianity was is a synchronistic religion that appropriated the ancient authority of the ancient texts of the Old Testament with the Indo-European religious concepts and Greek Philosophy and culture in order to make Gentiles center stage.

You see further Will To Power with the forged writings of Paul (writers pretending to be Paul) where instead of saying things like Paul said like it is better to be celibate and radically egalitarian, the forgers appropriated "Paul's name" in order to promote Roman hierarchy and marriage (see Ephesians 5:25). The more martyr-centric strands of Pauline Christianity are replaced with the likely Gentile author of Luke-Acts: as I argue in this blog post, Luke defends soldiers having swords for self-defense so it's not only about pacifism. Then of course Constantine and the later germanization of Christianity generated the warrior knight, chivalry, and the just war. So that I see Christianity as a development toward a wholly Indo-European religion, especially in its American-Christian form. 

So from the perspective of the cultural evolution of Christianity, you can see that it's evolving away from being a strictly ethinically Jewish sect and toward a hellenized Indo-European religion. From this perspective, Christ becomes an avatar for the marriage between the best of hellenized Judaism and later germanization. To the point that I don't think you can call Christianity strictly a Jewish offshoot sect but is a hybrid, a collaboration between Roman elites and Hellenic thinkers and Jewish writers (who themselves were heavily influenced by Hellenic culture and the Greek language).