Nishmat Chayyim vs. The Feed This anchor references Genesis 2:7, where God breathes the Nishmat Chayyim (Breath of Life) into dust. This act transforms biological matter into a Nephesh Chayah (Living Soul).

In the Kingdom, the "Breath" is the sacred, animating force of God. It is Autotelic—it exists for its own divine purpose, not to be instrumentalised. The Empire, however, views humans as "Livestock"—mere biomass to be converted into data and ad revenue. This is the spiritual crime of Idolatry inverted: instead of you sacrificing to a false god, the false god (The Algorithm) sacrifices you to itself. To "wake up" is to reclaim the Ruach (Spirit) and refuse to let the Holy of Holies (your attention) be turned into a marketplace (John 2:16).

Really? Judaism and Christianity, both, embraced slavery and idolatry, despite claiming otherwise.

On the Homebrewed Christianity podcast, Tripp Fuller quotes Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead in a conversation with Brian McLaren (22:20).

When the Western world accepted Christianity, Caesar conquered; and the received text of Western theology was edited by his lawyers. The code of Justinian and the theology of Justinian are two volumes expressing one movement of the human spirit. The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly. In the official formulation of the religion it has assumed the trivial form of the mere attribution to the Jews that they cherished a misconception about their Messiah. But the deeper idolatry, of the fashioning of God in the image of the Egyptian, Persian, and Roman imperial rulers, was retained. The Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar.

Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28) (p. 342). Free Press. Kindle Edition.

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Christianity vs. greek philosophy. This states the point about the need for sports, competition, and games in our new secular world.