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Unlike God the Father and the son of God in the divine person
of Christ, the Holy Spirit seems to be a greatly sublimated form of
the maternal deity, as Jung also points out. The cult of Virgin Mary
which bridged this gap left by this sublimation, reached the point
of Mariolatry under some circumstances. Mariolatry, as the
extension of the Great Mother cult, practically amounted to a
fusion with pre-oedipal mother which aroused incest anxiety and
triggered the projection and violence cycle. This was the way how
Christians have slided back into (or regressing to) the previous
religious levels of humanity.
In this context, one can venture another speculation. At a time
when Christianity spread in Anatolia, the then religious mind-set
of Anatolia which was based on Kybele and his son Attis or Adonis
might have influenced it. According to this mythology, Attis having
incestual intercourse with Kybele dies and falls to earth which he
fertilizes with his blood. In Mariolatry, was this the pattern which
has re-emerged though in a radically spiritualized form, and served
as a model for regressed Christians who disinvested their faith
from God the Father and reinvested in Mother Goddess, nature,
universe, humanity etc Perhaps, one can understand the strict
sexual abstinence of St. Paul and Church fathers as a defence
mechanism against this mythology.
But this general assessment does not explain why Protestants
are more pre-disposed to racism than Catholics.
Protestantism has flourished mainly among Germanic peoples.
German humanists believed that the German tribes had been
living in their homeland from time immemorial, that they had not
immigrated there. This implied that Germans have been selfbegotten
in the bosom of the land-mother, without father. The
observation of Tacitus in ‘Germania’ which was discovered at that
time confirmed this regressive incestuous belief (that ‘Germans
were natives, neither the settlement of other peoples, nor their
hospitability has brought about a mixture in them’).
Luther, in one of his books, identified the Pope, with whom he
has engaged in a deadly struggle, with Antichrist and repeated the
same views in his ‘The Papacy at Rome, instituted by Satan’. He
also praised the noble nature of Germans while despising Romans.
These invincible Germans who had knocked out the Roman Giant
could not accept now their religious rule. As a result, historical
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