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In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ said, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5). The flip side to this promise is that the non-meek must disappear. Advances in genetics and biotechnology suggest the possibility that aggressive humans can be relegated to the dustbin of history.

We know that genetics plays a large part in behavior. For example, people with the “warrior gene” display higher levels of aggression when provoked. This gene, the low-activity form of MAOA (monoamine oxidase A) is found in about a third of people in Western populations but in nearly two-thirds of some populations that had a history of warfare. (Brown University, January 23, 2009, “Warrior Gene' Predicts Aggressive Behavior After Provocation”) There are several papers documenting a relationship between the level of monoamine oxidase activity and Epstein-Barr, herpes, dengue virus and rous sarcoma viruses. That finding offers the possibility that a virus could be engineered to exploit the low activity form of MAOA.

The inheritance of male aggression is not only rewarded by many societies but is also abetted by women who would rather reproduce with an abusive “bad boy” than be mated to a dull but decent “stick in the mud.”

Aggressive individuals are unlikely to be receptive to voluntary constraints on reproduction. The problem is more likely to be resolved by covert research in an academic environment or possibly by an individual biologist who has access to enough equipment to tailor-make a virus that sterilizes or terminates persons with a genetic disposition toward aggression, or leaves them with permanent scars that make them undesirable as mating partners.

Off the grid

According to an AP story from December 2008, “biohackers” are already trying to create new life forms using homemade lab equipment and a wealth of scientific information available online. An electron microscope, essential to virology, can be purchased used for as little as $5,000 on e-Bay. Many of these amateurs are not working in the biotechnology field or pursuing advanced degrees. They are “off the grid” and largely invisible to Homeland Security. A geek living in his mother’s basement may be doing the Work of the Lord.

Jesus did not know of the potential of biochemistry to literally make the world the exclusive province of the meek. However, as God the Father supposedly knows all things past and present, he probably put the “meek” prediction in his son’s head in anticipation of how this prophecy could be fulfilled in the 21st century.
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It was a fanciful way to tell people to submit to authority and obey. Religion is a tool to control.
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An interesting subject, I went through a Teilhard de Chardin phase for a time. Perhaps natural evolution has many diverse inputs, both demonic and angelic. There is a nucleus of something good that is trying to be born into this world by entering through mediums like culture and technology and social and personal development, but its strength is not fully understood and our civilization's ability to bring ideas down from heaven is coming to an end.

Godstud wrote:It was a fanciful way to tell people to submit to authority and obey. Religion is a tool to control.


More than likely the idea was rooted in Ressentiment toward social hierarchy, particularly the one imposed on the world by the Romans. Religion is always first a tool for revolution before it becomes a tool for control.
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Donna wrote:More than likely the idea was rooted in Ressentiment toward social hierarchy, particularly the one imposed on the world by the Romans. Religion is always first a tool for revolution before it becomes a tool for control.

This can be said of almost everything in human culture, including capitalism, socialism, religion and philosophy. As Dostoyevsky once prophesied: "The revolution will begin in infinite freedom, and will end in infinite slavery." After all, every revolution must eventually be conserved, and that attempted act of conservation ossified and kills what it seeks to preserve.
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Donna wrote:An interesting subject, I went through a Teilhard de Chardin phase for a time. Perhaps natural evolution has many diverse inputs, both demonic and angelic. There is a nucleus of something good that is trying to be born into this world by entering through mediums like culture and technology and social and personal development, but its strength is not fully understood and our civilization's ability to bring ideas down from heaven is coming to an end.



More than likely the idea was rooted in Ressentiment toward social hierarchy, particularly the one imposed on the world by the Romans. Religion is always first a tool for revolution before it becomes a tool for control.


..and then Jesus broke this cycle by refusing to become a revolutionary and accepted torture and death, Arguably there was no real opportunity to become the figure of the 'romantic revolutionary' in those days, there was only the route of the Warlord, and there we might make comparisons with Mohammed's path.

It was a very long time before Christianity had the whiphand again, whereas Islam took to this straightaway with Mohammed's return to Mecca. So it seems the Christian approach worked and at least gave humanity a window on an alterntive way to the cycle of violence.
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Strong's Concordance
praus: mild, gentle
Original Word: πραΰς, πραεῖα, πραΰ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: praus
Phonetic Spelling: (prah-ooce')
Definition: meekness
Usage: mild, gentle.

Cognate: 4239 praýs (also listed as 4239a/praupathia in NAS dictionary) – meek. See 4236 (praótēs).

This difficult-to-translate root (pra-) means more than "meek." Biblical meekness is not weakness but rather refers to exercising God's strength under His control – i.e. demonstrating power without undue harshness.

[The English term "meek" often lacks this blend – i.e. of gentleness (reserve) and strength.]

https://biblehub.com/greek/4239.htm
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Sivad wrote:Strong's Concordance
praus: mild, gentle
Original Word: πραΰς, πραεῖα, πραΰ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: praus
Phonetic Spelling: (prah-ooce')
Definition: meekness
Usage: mild, gentle.

Cognate: 4239 praýs (also listed as 4239a/praupathia in NAS dictionary) – meek. See 4236 (praótēs).

This difficult-to-translate root (pra-) means more than "meek." Biblical meekness is not weakness but rather refers to exercising God's strength under His control – i.e. demonstrating power without undue harshness.

[The English term "meek" often lacks this blend – i.e. of gentleness (reserve) and strength.]

https://biblehub.com/greek/4239.htm


Or perhaps God, in planting this idea in his Son's head, already anticipated how the meaning of the word would change in the modern world.
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Robert Urbanek wrote:Or perhaps God, in planting this idea in his Son's head, already anticipated how the meaning of the word would change in the modern world.


the meaning of the word has never changed, it was just mistranslated. If the mistranslation was intentional it probably has less to do with divine providence and more to do with old King James and the boys thinking meekness as a virtue better served their interests.

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