"Free men" exist only in imagination. Jesus' death has meaning only if he resurrected after three days, otherwise death is final and his crucifixion is more meaningless than the deaths of the meatbags trampled under the treads of CCP tanks at Tianemen. At least the corpses at Tianamen served to bring the Shanghai clique to power and consolidated CCP central coordination; what did the death of an impovershed, insignificant carpenter accomplish, if he were mere man? If Jesus is not God, he does not even serve as an object lession, since Jesus was not in rebellion against Rome, but mere collateral damage in Jewish factionalism.
In a godless world, there exists only one principle: the strong do what they can, while the weak suffer what they must. Will to power is the only philosophy that matters in a materialist universe. There never existed, and there never will exist, an egalitarian human society of "free" men without sociopolitical control. Institutions and the ruling elite are necessary aspects of human identity and condition that no mere human agency can change. In any human community, there is but one discussion: who holds the power? Everything else is nonsense chatter. There is no reason to live by Jesus' teachings that support the worthless at the expense of the worthy, if he were a mere man.
Do men roll in the muck with the swine? Do our masters deign to even glance at the squalor of their slaves? How much more so with the creator of the universe concerning man, merely one of his creatures? To diminish and dismiss the epiphany of God into human world is unbecoming of a philosopher. Islam rejects the divinity of the Christ precisely because of the ludicrous humiliation of such a concept as God born as Man.
Islam rejects deifying - period. 'La illaha il Allah' - There is no god but God.
This is how the world has always been, and why I say it is your deep understanding of history that blinds you to the paradigm shift that is ongoing presently. The world will change. Lions will lay with lambs, and there will no more be power over men exercised by mere men.
I grant Jesus every bit of meaning in his death as the crushed students at Tianenmen, or the ten millions that starved in the Holodomor - but no more.
It is men who prove we can be more than animals, by their sacrificial example, and Jesus proved men can be sublime, as did The Bab.
I reject the divinity of men, except as we serve a higher purpose, and then reckon us the hands of God.
A further note: while your characterization of human nature discounts altruism, and recorded history supports your thesis, there is an unrecorded history of such beneficence evident only in the incessant increase in felicity of the common man.
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History written by conquerors does not substantially treat with heroes of the vanquished. Thus the native social beneficence inherent in healthy people is suppressed in written history - and discounted by you.
I commend to you the fact of this particular development to consider what it means for society, about common men, and the paucity of will to power in crafting the refulgent future we inherit.
Psychopathic narcissism is toxic. While such malign influence impacts all of us, it uses covert means to do so, and with the discovery of cryptic control mechanisms their competence is rendered void.
Evolution will effect the serendipity of humanity as it extinguishes rapine savagery from our midst through the natural antipathy of society to such influences.
As understanding is increasingly afforded humanity through technological means, the tendency of those you consider lesser folk to be controlled becomes concomitantly mitigated. Only deceit permits malign and covert slavery today, and tomorrow such mechanisms will be negated.
We.Will.Be.Free.