by B. R. GOWANI
Jan van Eyck (c.?before 1390 – 9 July 1441). Wikipedia has the whole painting:
“Detail of the Christ in Majesty. This area is considered to have been painted more broadly and with less skill than the other sections of the panels, and is thus thought by some to have been painted by members of van Eyck’s workshop.” IMAGE/Wikipedia
Jan van Eyck (c.?before 1390 – 9 July 1441). Wikipedia has the whole painting:
“Saint Michael the Archangel bestrides the damned, while behind him the resurrected emerge from their graves before a burning city.” IMAGE/Wikipedia
Jan van Eyck (c.?before 1390 – 9 July 1441). Wikipedia has the whole painting:
“A personification of death spreads its skeletal wings over the fallen and damned, a number of whom can be identified by their headdress as members of the clergy.” IMAGE/Wikipedia
planting fear in people is a profitable business
religious leaders, corporations, governments, and others use it as a tool
religious leaders plant the fear of hell in the afterlife if …
you don’t follow their dictates
you don’t donate money to them
you don’t carry out the assigned work
you don’t see people of other religions as lesser beings then you
and so on
the hellish people have the nerve to threaten people with hell
corporations instill the fear of repossession and law & prosecution if …
you don’t pay the rent on time
you don’t pay the debt on time
you don’t pay the mortgage on time
you don’t pay the installment on time
and so on
the robber barons with most wealth who evade taxes, etc., talk about law
governments <1> plant the fear in the name of “national security” if …
you don’t pay the taxes
you don’t resist publishing its domestic & war crimes <2>
you don’t toe the line by accepting its dubbing of victims as “terrorists”
you don’t stop condoling with people it has wrongly labelled as “enemy”
and so on
the terrorist entity which commits most violence designates others as such
Notes
<1> US author Mark Twain once said:
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
Twain though used the term “criminal class” for the politicians in the US Congress, it is equally applicable to most politicians inside the government and also who are not part of it.
<2> Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, and many others have been persecuted, humiliated, and mentally tortured in the US for daring to publish US government criminal acts. It’s a worldwide phenomenon and many journalists and common people too suffer, sometime by paying with their lives.
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com