I'm bored, and i just wrote this, which I think is quite interesting. This is the **** I do in my spare time lol.
What does the book Animal Farm and Christians have in common? More than meets the common eye.
In a nutshell, Christians are very similar to the pigs in Animal Farm; They start off very repressed, start a movement. The movement gains traction, sweeps up everyone in it’s path.
First let’s start with the very obvious. The bible had 10 commandments,
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness
of any thing that
is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the earth:
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me;
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day
is the sabbath of the Lord thy God:
in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that
is within thy gates:
For
in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that
is thy neighbour's.
Animal Farm had 7 commandments
- Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
- Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
- No animal shall wear clothes.
- No animal shall sleep in a bed.
- No animal shall drink alcohol.
- No animal shall kill any other animal.
- All animals are equal.
Both are similar in the sense, that the were supposed to bring on, as a politician today would put It, “real change” that you can see. The original purpose of the 10 commandments were designed to be a rule book if you will, for the Israelites to live while in exile. The book animal farm, Old Major’s ideas of change and how things should be once the human beings were gone.
AS time goes on, in the book Animal Farm, every last law is broken, multiple times, to the point where the laws were later rationalized such as “no animal shall kill any other animal “without cause” (the same can be said for King David and countless others looking at the bible for justification to commit mass genocide, see Deuteronomy chapter 13)
As time went on, Christians, and by time I am talking now in the dark ages, hundreds of years later, Christians would go on and start to use Christianity as a crux to take over villages, towns and city states. A lot of time raping and killing young innocent women and children, putting the flame to entire towns, in the name of god. Like the christens, the pigs, started to take liberties with their absolute power which was given to them because they were the smartest of the animals on the farm. They used their power to take advantage of all the other animals on the farm (poor boxer).
Napoleon the pig, who because he drove Snowball off the farm, had absolute power, gains his power by convincing the people of the utopian dream that all the animals on the farm had, but kept his power by the use of his attack dogs, which kept everyone in the farm “in line”. This is no different than Christianity coming to a head by convincing everyone that Jesus Christ died for everyone’s sins, but keeping power by threats, inquisitions, and when need be, death. The religious platform / all farm animals are created equal platform is nothing more than a tool used to keep everyone in line.
In the book, once people, err pigs start to question Napoleons takeover, basically saying “hey, this isn’t what we were promised” they are quickly killed. Anyone who questioned the absolute authority of the christen church was a heretic, and burned.
Boxer the horse is basically a representation of all Christians who refuse to question the absolutism of the church. They will always do what is told because they were told to do so and that’s that.
The most significant however, is the liking of the execution of Joan d’arc, and the end of the book Animal farm where Napoleon eventually comes 100% full circle and changes the law to All animals are equal,
but some animals are more equal than others". Both instances represent a 100% full circle in their history.
Jesus was, a believer in the word of god (obviously), who practiced the word of god, preached the word of god and was killed, and right now I’m talking from a purely earthy standpoint, because he was seen as a threat to the rabbis and other Jewish leaders. They were afraid of him. He had done nothing wrong. The new religious sect, who called themselves Christians, used this death of their leader as a rallying cry, selling point to say that Jesus died for their sins so that they can go to heaven. Even the most critical, if you can even call them that, of Jesus, will admit Jesus really didn’t deserve to die. He died for the sins of man so to speak.
Fast forward 1400 years later, an illiterate peasant girl named Joan D’arc, one day as her city was being burned to the ground, heard the voice of god. The voice told her, Even though you have no military experience, even though you are a woman, hell even though you are a girl, you, are going to save France. This is why you were put on earth (to save the people, same as Jesus).. She vowed a life of chastity (like Jesus, Romans 6:13), she left the house/city only place she knew her entire life, at the direction of god (like Jesus), she preformed a miracle by ending the 100 years war in 8 months (As did Jesus perform miracles).
Like Jesus, Joan D’arc had become to “big for her britches” by the accounts of some. She helped put, not even helped, hell she basically crowned the king of France, King Edward the 4th I believe, and when she was arrested, he didn’t lift a finger to help her out. This is very similar to Peter Denying Jesus 3 times even though he “saved” his life by showing him the way of the true god. Joan, was like Jesus, was tortured(for about a year give or take), then eventually raped and beaten (keep in mind, she had vowed a life of chastity) for no reason other than to humiliate her. She was burned at the stake not that much longer after that, a few weeks or so, similar to the way Jesus was hung at the cross. For doing gods work, the significance of the event being that with the catholic church being the ones who burned Joan d’arc at the stake, had brought Christianity 100% full circle to when they were persecuted for trying to do what they felt were gods work. The persecuted had now become the persecutor, or better yet, the inquisitor.
This is very similar to [FONT="]Napoleon basically coming full circle, in the beginning of the book, he along with snowball, Old major, and the other pigs, are repressed. They say that Humans are bad, they all drink and are alcoholics (their farm owner was one) and alcohol is bad, we are going to take over the farm and do everything better than this.And for a while, they do. But, power corrupts, and eventually [FONT="]Napoleon[/FONT] runs the other "leader" off the farm (Snowball), and once he has absolute power, starts to put his grip on the farm. He starts drinking like the old boss did. He starts trading with humans even though they say that "2 legs bad 4 legs good", he starts sleeping in the same bed, eating the same foods that the original owner used to, even though the 7 commandments say that he is not to. At the end of the book [FONT="]Napoleon[/FONT] gets up from the kitchen table and is walking on 2 legs, which represents the 100% full circle point in the book.[/FONT]
What is my point? I don't really know. I haven't figured that out yet. I think it's that all power eventually will corrupt, no matter what the original intentions are.
