The ''Invention'' of the Jewish People

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It was the American historian Carlton Hayes, arguably the first academic
investigator of nationalism, who as early as the 1920s compared its force to
that of the great traditional religions.29
Hayes, who was probably a religious
believer, assumed that nations had existed for a long time, but he also emphasized the inventive aspect and the structure of modern nationalism, and drew a
comprehensive comparison between faith in the supreme deity and passionate
belief in the supremacy of the nation. Although he was chiefly concerned with
the history of ideas, Hayes argued that nationalism was a great deal more than
simply another political philosophy expressive of a socioeconomic historical
process, because its potential for destruction is immense. He wrote his first
book with the images of the First World War, and its millions of new, highly
nationalistic casualties, filling his mind's eye.

for the record Nationalism is a belief system or political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a nation. There are two major perspectives on the origins and basis of nationalism, one is the primordialist perspective that describes nationalism as a reflection of the ancient and perceived evolutionary tendency of humans to organize into distinct grouping based on an affinity of birth; the other is the modernist perspective that describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society, in order to exist.[1] There are various definitions for what constitutes a nation, however, which leads to several different strands of nationalism. It can be a belief that citizenship in a state should be limited to one ethnic, cultural, religious, or identity group, or that multinationality in a single state should necessarily comprise the right to express and exercise national identity even by minorities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism

As Hayes saw it, the decline of Christianity in eighteenth-century Europe
did not reflect a complete disappearance of the ancient and persistent human
belief in transcendental powers. Modernization merely replaced the former
objects of religion. Nature, science, humanism and progress are rational categories, but they also incorporate powerful external factors to which human
beings are subject. The climax of the intellectual and religious transformation
in the late eighteenth century was the advent of nationalism. Arising as it did
from the heart of Christian civilization, it exhibited certain distinctive features
from the start. Just as the church organized the faith during the medieval era in
Europe, the national state regiments it in the modern era. This state sees itselfas performing an eternal mission; it demands to be worshipped, has substituted
strict civil registration for the religious sacraments of baptism and marriage, and
regards those who question their national identity as traitors and heretics.
Hayes's ideas were taken up by many who viewed nationalism as a sort
of modern religion. Benedict Anderson, for example, saw it as a type of faith
that confronts the finality of death in a novel way.30
Others defined nationalism
as a species of religion that succeeds, amid modernity's fracturing upheavals,
in endowing human life with new meaning. Giving meaning to constantly
changing reality was one of the main functions of the new secular religion. Still
other scholars diagnosed nationalism as a modern religion whose function was
to construct a permanent cultic scaffolding for the social order and the class
hierarchy. However, if we accept these or other assumptions about nationalism's
religious nature, we are left with a double question that is yet to be answered:
Does nationalism really provide what may be described as a genuine metaphysics of the soul, and will it last as long as the monotheistic religions?

(Unis), you shall release your cleansing to Atum in [Heliopolis; you shall descend] with him, that you may decide the needs of the undersky and stand up in the places of Nu.

You shall evolve with your father Atum, you shall go high with [your] father [Atum], you shall rise with your father Atum and release needs.

Head to (Nut), the Heliopolitan in the sedan chair; go forth and part your path through Shu’s bones, that the inside of your mother Nut’s arms may encircle you.

You shall become clean in the Akhet and release your cleaning in Shu’s Lakes.

You will go up and go down: you will go down with the Sun, one of the dusk with the One Who Was Cast Down.

You will go up and go down: you will go up with the Sun and rise up with the One of the Great Reedfloat.

You will go up and go down: you will go down with Nephthys, one of the dusk with the Nightboat.

You will go up and go down: you will go up with Isis and rise up with the Dayboat.

You shall gain control of your body, without impediment, having been born to (be) Horus and conceived to (be) Seth, having become clean in the Western nome, having received your cleaning in the Bubastite nome, with your father, with Atum.

You have developed, you have gone high, you have become effective, it has become cool for you, inside your father’s arms, inside Atum’s arms.

Atum, elevate him to you, encircle him inside your arms: he is your son of your body, forever.

The Pyramid Texts of Unis

the monotheistic religions here is a list see if your is in there ,,,
http://religions.findthedata.org/d/d/Monot...

,,what does it mean you might ask ,,,monotheistic religions
Single God Religions (Monotheism)

Most monotheistic religions have a god that has certain common characteristics, and it is this type of religion and this type of god that this website is largely about. The typical monotheistic god is:

Omnipotent - infinitely powerful.
Omniscient - all-knowing.
The supreme creator and first cause.
Benevolent - purely good-natured.
Personal - it cares about, and communicates with, individual people.
More about the assumed character-traits of the monotheistic god: "The Assumptions about God and Creation, of Both Theists and Atheists" by Vexen Crabtree (2002)

Monotheism is Ancient

Monotheism is an ancient idea, and it appears in various religions and cultures for thousands of years before the emergence of modern-day monotheistic religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The idea was codified most clearly in ancient Greece amongst the pagan sages, but long before then it had already appeared in Egypt, 3400 years ago and perhaps as long as 4000 years ago.

“Monotheism owes its origins to ancient Egypt.

nationalism is a worldwide concept, born of the sociocultural process
of modernization and serving as a leading answer to the psychological and
political needs of the immense human masses rushing into the labyrinth of a
new world. Nationalism might not have literally invented nations, as Gellner
asserted, but neither was it invented by them, or by the "peoples" who preceded
them. Without nationalism and its political and intellectual instruments,
nations would not have come into being, and nation-states would certainly not
have arisen. Every step in defining the outline of the nation and determining
its cultural profile was taken deliberately, creating and managing the apparatus
for its implementation. The national project was, therefore, a fully conscious
one, and the national consciousness took shape as it progressed. It was a simultaneous process of imagination, invention, and actual self-creation.31
The forms of imagination and invention varied from place to place, hence
also the boundaries of the new human divisions. Like all ideological and
political phenomena, they depended on their particular histories.

The first cause might be the most important concept. In the Pyramid Texts Atum is the first cause.

Atum (jtmw “finished, complete”). Primordial source of all the elements and forces of the world; also seen, because of his age, as the sun at sunset. First god of the Ennead.

The books of Moses also speak of many other gods besides "the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob".

Nationalism wants us all to believe things like, Feinstein's Gun Bill is what every American does/should want.

As far as revelation, my view is it is anything that contributes to:

religio,

conscientiousness, sense of right, moral obligation, duty.

My view of the Bible (can't say for the Quran) is that it is to a large extent allegory, and allegory expands our conscientiousness, sense of right, moral obligation, duty, regardless of historical accuracy.

I do believe that Judaism and Christianity evolved from Egyptian religion. I would not go so far as to call it plagiarism; it was a reworking, and not always for a noble purpose. And these religions have departed from the reverence for nature that the Egyptians had. And the Christian man/god Jesus came millennia after the Egyptian man/god Unis.