Material serve the people, people don't serve the material.
On religions (1)
People say Judaism, Islam and Christianity are peaceful religions, but I don't agree with it. They was never peaceful ideas, and it shouldn't be peaceful. Because they were the revolutionary ideas against the ruling class back in the old day —– the priests of fetishist religion.
Back in the old days, most of the religions are fetishism to something. People worship the sky and the ground, because the thunder and storm are scary, the rain can cause flood. People worship fire, because fire bring light in the darkness, warm from the cold, and safety from attack of wildlife. People worship the cows, because cows represent the power.
Each group of people worship different things, it has become their “identity”, to divide who is friend and who is alien. The heroic part of leadership class —– the kings, use the identity to unite his people, and attack the other group for their “glory, blood and soil”. The religious part of leadership class —– the Priests, use the religion to control people's mind, if they want your girl, they just need to make up an excuse “we need a virgin girl to sacrifice”. Two different part of the leadership class use fetishism from different approach to maintain their ruling.
Abrahamic religions were revolutionist ideas. Without calling for public violence to raise up, the reactionary priests wouldn't let you go. The Abrahamic religions are single god religions, “everything was created by god”, it was a declaration that “all good belongs to God, all bad belongs to Satan”, and it leads to the deconstruct of fetishism —– “everything was created for the people, people don't need to worship to things”. Because there is only 1 god and everything created by the god, so everyone is equal in front of the god. No one needs to be fear from each other, not even the material things.
Moses was a revolutionist. When people were worshiping the golden calf, he destroyed it. I believe there are some “good traditional values” in the nature-worshiping religion. It teaches people to be humble in front of the nature. For years and years, the people lived in that area believes “Anu is in charge of the sky, Enki controls the water and wisdom...”, But really? Calf should serve the people, not the people worship the calf! Sky serves the people, not people serve the sky! Water serves the people, not people serve the water! Religion should be used for enlightening the people, not people worship the religion!
Single god system was the initiative of liberation on thoughts. God creates everything, and god can be anything. “Wait, why can't god become the golden calf?”. Maybe, but god can be other things too, worship the things is putting god into the “jail”, so “the god has to be like this”. Why can't god become a golden calf but with three ears? The cult image worshipers will be triggered immediately, “we worship the golden calf, all calf has 2 ears!”. In the cult image worshipers' opinion, god “has to be like that”, but god is all knowing and all powerful, when god “has to be looked like that”, the god is no longer “all powerful” anymore. God can be a golden calf, but god DOES NOT have to be a golden calf in the “tradition and heritage” way. Same with our life, enjoy the material life and wealth is something, but “be humble and bow” to worship material is bullshit, it is a sin.
That's why god was so angry, and that's why Moses destroyed the golden calf. The only way to stop the idol worshiping, is to break the idol —– “you call this piece of shit 'god'? It can't even protect itself!” No one should “feel humble and fear” and bend their spine to anyone or anything, because everyone is equal in front of the god, and everything gods create is to serve the people, people should not worship the things. But to build a new world, we need to destroy the old world that is full of the sin.