Beyond Chosen Peoples: Can Humanity Outgrow Religious Supremacy?

Part 1: Why Do We Keep Killing in God's Name?

The Pattern We Keep Repeating

July 12, 1562. Bishop Diego de Landa stands before a pile of Mayan codices in the town square of Maní, Yucatán. These bark-paper books hold centuries of astronomical precision, medicinal wisdom, historical records and spiritual insight. Landa has deemed them works of the devil. He orders them burned.

Decades later, he will write with evident satisfaction that the books “contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil.” The Maya wept openly. Landa felt no remorse. He was serving God. He was saving souls.

This is not an isolated incident. The Crusaders slaughtered Muslims and Jews crying “Deus vult—God wills it.” North American and Australian residential schools operated under the motto “Kill the Indian, save the man.” Buddhist temples fell to Hindu rulers. Sufi shrines burned at the hands of Sunni extremists. The details change. The technology evolves. The structure never does.

When a tradition claims exclusive access to ultimate truth AND gains the power to enforce that claim, atrocity follows. This is not a spirituality problem. It is a supremacy problem.

The Thesis: Supremacy Is the Disease, Not Faith

This series does not argue against spiritual seeking. It argues that the monopolistic structure of organized religion—the demand that one tradition’s truth cancel all others—is a design flaw with a documented body count. Every major tradition contains both supremacist and universalist strands. The question is not which tradition is the worst. That is the wrong question and it replicates the very framework we need to escape.

The right question is this: Can humanity mature beyond religious supremacy while deepening genuine spiritual practice?

I believe…I hope, the answer is yes. Not through vague tolerance or shallow pluralism, but through what we will call the occult alternative: magic, mysticism and parapsychology—fields structured around experimentation, skill acquisition, data and metaphorical interpretation rather than dogma and divine bloodlines. These traditions do not ask who is chosen. They ask what works. That shift alone changes everything.

The Four Fallacies of Organized Supremacy

Fallacy #1: My Path Is THE Path

There are 2.4 billion Christians, 1.9 billion Muslims, 1.2 billion Hindus and 500 million Buddhists in the world. The geographic and cultural circumstances of your birth overwhelmingly determine which tradition you were raised in. If God arranged birth as a cosmic lottery, condemning billions for landing in the wrong longitude, we need to interrogate the theology that produces that conclusion.

Each tradition has produced profound mystics, ethical exemplars and realized practitioners. The Christian contemplative experiencing union. The Sufi master dissolving into love. The Buddhist monk achieving states neuroscientists are only beginning to map. The Indigenous elder maintaining sacred relationship with land for millennia. Are we to believe that only one of these paths reaches the real destination?

The occult framework refuses this premise. The practitioner of Solomonic magic, Kabbalistic working or Mayan calendar divination is not asking which prophet was the final one. They are asking: Does this operation produce verifiable results? Does this symbol system unlock something in consciousness? The empirical orientation dissolves the chosen-people architecture entirely. Or, atleast it should when egos are put aside.

Fallacy #2: Sacred Texts Provide Unambiguous Truth

Christianity has splintered into over 45,000 denominations, all reading the same Bible. Sunni and Shia Muslims read the same Quran and arrive at fundamentally different understandings of law, authority and practice. The same scriptures have been quoted to defend slavery and to abolish it, to oppress women and to liberate them, to launch wars and to justify peace.

When someone says “The Bible clearly says…” what they mean is: “My interpretation is definitive and I am claiming authority (in some ways divine authority) to close the conversation.” Mystical and magical traditions treat texts differently. A grimoire is a technical manual, not an inerrant revelation. The Zohar is a map of consciousness, not a legislative decree. When the Book of the Law is approached as poetic provocation rather than literal command, the whole relationship to text changes. You work with it. You test it. You revise your understanding.

Fallacy #3: My Ethics Must Govern Everyone

Every religious tradition developed within a specific cultural and historical context. The ethical frameworks that emerged bear the marks of the worlds that produced them. Ancient Near Eastern pastoral societies developed certain dietary and property laws. Indian civilization grappling with impermanence developed karma and liberation paths. These frameworks often contain profound wisdom. The problem is when one tradition demands that its culturally specific ethics become universally binding through state power.

Magical and mystical traditions when reviewed with a 21st century live-art mentality, have no crusade apparatus. No Inquisition. No residential schools funded by grimoire publishers. Because these traditions are decentralized, lineage-based and results-oriented, they generate no theological justification for forcing their ethics on unwilling populations. You cannot legislate into law a moral code derived from your horoscope.

Fallacy #4: Questioning Is Dangerous or Evil

This is the most insidious fallacy because it creates a closed loop immune to evidence. When doubt is framed as sin, when questioning is the devil’s work, when leaving is apostasy, the tradition becomes unfalsifiable. Abuse flourishes. Corruption goes unchallenged. Leaders are shielded from accountability by appeals to divine authority. And a common fun fact is when these religions say they encourage questioning…that is until the questioning arrives on the doorstep of an uncomfortable answer.

Authentic magical and mystical practice is structurally incompatible with this. You cannot practice Enochian magic without testing whether the operations work (and boy will you get some mixed messages with this one). You cannot do serious psi research without submitting findings to scrutiny. You cannot develop as a diviner without honestly evaluating your track record. While the epistemology of the occult is not science, it is closer to science than to fundamentalism—provisional, experimental, revised by results.

Next: Part Two — “What Has Supremacy Cost Us?”

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