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Until the advent of the first monotheist religion, humanity had
undergone various forms of unorganized, mostly mythological
‘religious experiences. The most representative version of it was
related to some female dieties such as Rhea, Kybele, Lato, Artemis,
Isis etc. who constitute the cult of Mother Goddess under different
names The discovery of the transcendental, immanent and
omnipotent God by the patriarchs or His descending upon the
Jewish people has gradually repressed these maternal religions
into the unconscious. They did not disappear, but remain there
dormant. Sometimes reactivated, they pass through the psychic
censures in disguised forms and recapture the soul. This
phenomenon happens when human beings, individually or as a
group regress under stress. Psychoanalytically, regression means a
flight backward to the earlier stages of our life cycle from the
dangers and difficulties of life. The earliest stage is called ‘primitive
narcissism’ in which human beings feel that they are at one with
the surrounding universe, and each individual feels himself to be
organically the whole as though he was God in a pantheistic sense.
Thus the childish paradise of total happines is in the final analysis
that of the preconscious life in the womb, before the “fall” into the
world. The term fusion with pre-oedipal mother mostly represents
the negative aspects of the so-called paradise.
This regression may also happen without stress when people
abandon the God of monotheism, as in the case of the crude
scientism of the Enlightenment. Attempting to break the shackles
of the medieval religious fanaticism, humanity has ended up
regressed to older, more archaic and primitive levels of psychic
organisation corresponding to maternal religions with all
impending violence, instead of becoming freer, more mature and
rational. Regression to a fusion with pre-oedipal mother for adult
is deeply guilt-ridden, because it unconsciously entails incest with
mother. Projection mechanism is then massively resorted to in
order to attribute this grave sin to the target group which is then
burned, killed etc.
After this brief theoretical reference, I will dwell on Christianity
in order to see why racism is mainly encountered in Christian
societies. In the Bible and in Christian faith and doctrine there is
no trace of racism. On the contrary, racism is an anathema to a
religion based on a profound love of God and on love between
human beings. Indeed, from the religious point of view, it is an
enigma that racism has developed in Christian societies.
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