18 If the slave will not give the name of the master, the finder shall bring him to the palace; a further investigation must follow, and the slave shall be returned to his master.
19 If he hold the slaves in his house, and they are caught there, he shall be put to death.
20 If the slave that he caught run away from him, then shall he swear to the owners of the slave, and he is free of all blame.
The Code of the Nesilim (Hittites), circa 1650-1500 BC -Random excerpts.
• If anyone smite a free man or woman and this one die, he shall bring this one and give two persons, he shall let them go to his home.·If anyone smite a male or female slave, he shall bring this one also and give one person, he shall let him or her go to his home.
• If anyone blind a free man or knock out his teeth, formerly they would give one pound of silver, now he shall give twenty half-shekels of silver.
• If anyone blind a male or female slave or knock out their teeth, he shall give ten half- shekels of silver, he shall let it go to his home. If anyone cause a free woman to miscarry, if it be the tenth month, he shall give ten half-shekels of silver, if it be the fifth month, he shall give five half-shekels of silver. If anyone cause a fe fmale slave to miscarry, if it be the tenth month, he shall giveive half-shekels of silver.
• If any man of Hatti steal a Nesian slave and lead him here to the land of Hatti, and his master discover him, he shall give him twelve half-shekels of silver, he shall let it go to his home.
• If anyone steal a slave of a Luwian from the land of Luwia, and lead him here to the land of Hatti, and his master discover him, he shall take his slave only.
• If a male or female slave run away, he at whose hearth his master finds him or her, shall give fifty half-shekels of silver a year.
• If a free man and a female slave be fond of each other and come together and he take her for his wife and they set up house and get children, and afterward they either become hostile or come to close quarters, and they divide the house between them, the man shall take the children, only one child shall the woman take.
• If a slave take a woman as his wife, their case is the same. The majority of the children to the wife and one child to the slave. If a slave take a female slave their case is the same. The majority of children to the female slave and one child to the slave. If a slave convey the bride price to a free son and take him as husband for his daughter, nobody dare surrender him to slavery.
• If a free man set a house ablaze, he shall build the house, again. And whatever is inside the house, be it a man, an ox, or a sheep that perishes, nothing of these he need compensate.
• If a slave set a house ablaze, his master shall compensate for him. The nose of the slave and his ears they shall cut off, and give him back to his master. But if he do not compensate, then he shall give up this one.
• If a free man kill a serpent and speak the name of another, he shall give one pound of silver; if a slave, this one shall die.
• If a free man pick up female slaves, now one, now another, there is no punishment for intercourse. If brothers sleep with a free woman, together, or one after the other, there is no punishment. If father and son sleep with a female slave or harlot, together, or one after the other, there is no punishment.
• If a slave say to his master: “You are not my master,” if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.
No matter how much evidence is presented, many readers will find the truth too terrible to digest. Our human nature has evolved in a way that we simply reject gloomy hypotheses of such magnitude in favour of rosier tales told by historians. In this quest for enlightenment, our biggest enemy is our arrogance. In our inability to face the ‘terrible truth’ about our slave-species ancestry, lies the ironic paradox which may ultimately contribute to our demise. Our misplaced pride may eventually destroy us. Knowledge is power, no matter how old it may be. I suggest that we begin to embrace the knowledge of our distant ancestors, as difficult as it may be, and find a way to understanding the real facts about our origins as the human race and our place on this planet. Unfortunately, every ounce of our human essence screams with the characteristics of a slave species trapped in a cycle of incomprehensible rituals. Enslaved by everything around us, but stubbornly rejecting such suggestions to our graves. We were created as a slave species, we have lived and behaved like a slave species and we are still behaving as such, uncertain of our origins and purpose.
CHAPTER 13
World Religions: The Great Slave Maker
When you visit someone at their home for the first time, it is always fascinating to scan the photographs scattered on the walls and furniture, showing off their close family and friends. Within minutes, one gets a sense of the person’s background, where they were born, where they grew up, how well-off they are and how many brothers and sisters they have. Are the parents still together or divorced? Where do they live now? Baby pictures, school pictures, graduation pictures, pictures of their animals and even pictures of their cars in some instances. It presents a reasonably complete collage of your host’s family and history as well as their social standing. It fills you with a sense of comfort, knowing a little more about your host. Suddenly the expression, ‘the apple never falls far from the tree’ becomes relevant again when trying to analyse your host’s character and personality. Subconsciously you start to calculate whether the first impressions you formulated of the host, before you were exposed to his photographic display, match the evidence presented. We are often surprised to discover something new from the photo gallery, something which takes us by complete surprise. Especially if the host is of another culture or lives in a foreign country. And so we are filled with a sense of comfort as we settle down to a cup of tea or a braai (barbecue) in the back-yard.
Let us imagine for a minute that we as the human family receive a visitor for dinner from another planet. We manage to overcome any fear of conflict because it just so happens that the guest speaks a distant dialect of our own language. As they arrive we display pictures of our human family, our brothers, sisters, cousins and nephews, but for some reason we have no pictures of our parents. The visitor is immediately very intrigued. Are we a bunch of orphans? Do we not know who our parents are? With all this time on Earth, have we not had enough time to find out? We then explain that we have many fathers upon which the visitor bursts out laughing. He realises that we obviously do not know anything about biology and he explains to us that it is impossible to have more than one father. We then present our guest with the evidence of our many fathers, by which time he realises that we are seriously disturbed and uninformed, and we as humans need some serious guidance and a refresher course on the origins of humanity. The visitor asks us if we are not aware of the universal community of beings and whether we know that we all come from one original source. He tells us of the common practice of colonising new planets by the infinite number of evolved intelligent species of beings; the extended practice and the right to populate new planets with our own species if we are the first ones to get there; the practice of creating genetically less advanced beings to perform the tough task of manual labour on newly colonised planets, allowing them to evolve to the highest level; at the same time continuing the cycle of universal evolution and enlightenment of species; and when we reach the highest level of evolution and enlightenment we rejoin the universal community of beings from which we all originate; at which stage we are reunited with our Creator the Universal Being, Creator of all things in the universe.
This story really confuses us and makes us feel a little uneasy because we are all very sure of who our father is, and we make an excuse for our human brothers and sisters who claim that our father may be someone else according to them. We try to convince our visitor that our father is whom we believe he is. Although we have no evidence of it, it has been passed down to us through many generations, so it must be true. Our guest then asks to see a list of our human brothers and their supposed fathers, and t
his is what we show him.
Religions by country:
(To avoid boredom, please use this list as a reference only.)
Country Religions indicated in percentage of adherents.(%)
Afghanistan Sunni Muslim 80%, Shi'a Muslim 19%, other 1%
Albania Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%
Algeria Sunni Muslim (state religion) 99%, Christian and Jewish 1%
American Samoa Christian Congregationalist 50%, Roman Catholic 20%, Protestant and other 30%
Andorra Roman Catholic (predominant)
Angola Indigenous beliefs 47%, Roman Catholic 38%, Protestant 15% (1998 est.)
Anguilla Anglican 40%, Methodist 33%, Seventh-Day Adventist 7%, Baptist 5%, Roman Catholic 3%, other 12%
Antigua and Barbuda Christian, (predominantly Anglican with other Protestant, and some Roman Catholic)
Argentina Nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practising), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%
Armenia Armenian Apostolic 94%, other Christian 4%, Yezidi (Zoroastrian/Animist) 2%
Aruba Roman Catholic 82%, Protestant 8%, Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, Jewish
Australia Anglican 26.1%, Roman Catholic 26%, other Christian 24.3%, non-Christian 11%, other 12.6%
Austria Roman Catholic 73.6%, Protestant 4.7%, Muslim 4.2%, other 0.1%, none 17.4%
Azerbaijan Muslim 93.4%, Russian Orthodox 2.5%, Armenian Orthodox 2.3%, other 1.8% (1995 est.)
Bahamas, The Baptist 32%, Anglican 20%, Roman Catholic 19%, Methodist 6%, Church of God 6%, other Protestant 12%, none or unknown 3%, other 2%
Bahrain Shi'a Muslim 70%, Sunni Muslim 30%
Bangladesh Muslim 83%, Hindu 16%, other 1% (1998)
Barbados Protestant 67% (Anglican 40%, Pentecostal 8%, Methodist 7%, other 12%), Roman Catholic 4%, none 17%, other 12%
Belarus Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.)
Belgium Roman Catholic 75%, Protestant or other 25%
Belize Roman Catholic 49.6%, Protestant 27% (Anglican 5.3%, Methodist 3.5%, Mennonite 4.1%, Seventh-Day Adventist 5.2%, Pentecostal 7.4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.5%), none 9.4%, other 14% (2000)
Benin indigenous beliefs 50%, Christian 30%, Muslim 20%
Bermuda Non-Anglican Protestant 39%, Anglican 27%, Roman Catholic 15%, other 19%
Bhutan Lamaistic Buddhist 75%, Indian- and Nepalese-influenced Hinduism 25%
Bolivia Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist)
Bosnia & Herzegovina Muslim 40%, Orthodox 31%, Roman Catholic 15%, other 14%
Botswana Indigenous beliefs 85%, Christian 15%
Brazil Roman Catholic (nominal) 80%
British Virgin Islands Protestant 86% (Methodist 33%, Anglican 17%, Church of God 9%, Seventh-Day Adventist 6%, Baptist 4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 2%, other 15%), Roman Catholic 10%, none 2%, other 2%
Brunei Muslim (official) 67%, Buddhist 13%, Christian 10%, indigenous beliefs and other 10%
Bulgaria Bulgarian Orthodox 82.6%, Muslim 12.2%, Roman Catholic 1.7%, Jewish 0.1%, Protestant, Gregorian-Armenian, and other 3.4% (1998)
Burkina Faso Indigenous beliefs 40%, Muslim 50%, Christian (mainly Roman Catholic) 10%
Burma Buddhist 89%, Christian 4% (Baptist 3%, Roman Catholic 1%), Muslim 4%, Animist 1%, other 2%
Burundi Christian 67% (Roman Catholic 62%, Protestant 5%), indigenous beliefs 23%, Muslim 10%
Cambodia Theravada Buddhist 95%, other 5%
Cameroon Indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian 40%, Muslim 20%
Canada Roman Catholic 46%, Protestant 36%, other 18%
Note: based on the 1991 census
Cape Verde Roman Catholic (infused with indigenous beliefs); Protestant (mostly Church of the Nazarene)
Cayman Islands United Church (Presbyterian and Congregational), Anglican, Baptist, Church of God, other Protestant, Roman Catholic
Central African Republic Indigenous beliefs 35%, Protestant 25%, Roman Catholic 25%, Muslim 15%
Chad Muslim 51%, Christian 35%, Animist 7%, other 7%
Chile Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 11%, Jewish negligible
China Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 1%-2%, Christian 3%-4%
Note: officially atheist (2002 est.)
Christmas Island Buddhist 36%, Muslim 25%, Christian 18%, other 21% Cocos (Keeling) Islands Sunni Muslim 80%, other 20% (2002 est.)
Colombia Roman Catholic 90%
Comoros Sunni Muslim 98%, Roman Catholic 2%
Congo, DRC Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%,
Kimbanguist 10%, Muslim 10%, other syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs 10%
Congo, Republic of the Christian 50%, Animist 48%, Muslim 2%
Cook Islands Christian (majority of populace are members of the Cook Islands Christian Church)
Costa Rica Roman Catholic 76.3%, Evangelical 13.7%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.3%, other Protestant 0.7%, other 4.8%, none 3.2%
Cote d'Ivoire Christian 20-30%, Muslim 35-40%, indigenous 25-40%
Croatia Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, Muslim 1.3%,Protestant 0.3%, others and unknown 6.2% (2001)
Cuba Nominally 85% Roman Catholic prior to CASTRO assuming power; Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, and Santeria are also represented
Cyprus Greek Orthodox 78%, Muslim 18%, Maronite, Armenian Apostolic, and other 4%
Czech Republic Roman Catholic 39.2%, Protestant 4.6%, Orthodox 3%, other 13.4%, Atheist 39.8%
Denmark Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%
Djibouti Muslim 94%, Christian 6%
Dominica Roman Catholic 77%, Protestant 15% (Methodist 5%, Pentecostal 3%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3%, Baptist 2%, other 2%), none 2%, other 6%
Dominican Republic Roman Catholic 95%
East Timor Roman Catholic 90%, Muslim 4%, Protestant 3%, Hindu 0.5%, Buddhist, Animist (1992 est.)
Ecuador Roman Catholic 95%
Egypt Muslim (mostly Sunni) 94%, Coptic Christian and other 6%
El Salvador Roman Catholic 83%
Note: there is extensive activity by Protestant groups throughout the country; by the end of 1992, there were an estimated 1 million Protestant evangelicals in El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea Nominally Christian and predominantly Roman Catholic, pagan practices
Eritrea Muslim, Coptic Christian, Roman Catholic, Protestant
Estonia Evangelical Lutheran, Russian Orthodox, Estonian Orthodox, Baptist, Methodist, Seventh-Day Adventist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Word of Life, Jewish
Ethiopia Muslim 45%-50%, Ethiopian Orthodox 35%-40%, animist 12%, other 3%-8%
European Union Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish
Falkland Islands Primarily Anglican, Roman Catholic, United (Islas Malvinas) Free Church, Evangelist Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran, Seventh-Day Adventist
Faroe Islands Evangelical Lutheran
Fiji Christian 52% (Methodist 37%, Roman Catholic 9%), Hindu 38%, Muslim 8%, other 2%
Note: Fijians are mainly Christian, Indians are Hindu, and there is a Muslim minority (1986)
Finland Evangelical Lutheran 89%, Russian Orthodox 1%, none 9%, other 1%
France Roman Catholic 83%-88%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 5%-10%, unaffiliated 4%
French Guiana Roman Catholic
French Polynesia Protestant 54%, Roman Catholic 30%, other 10%, no religion 6%
Gabon Christian 55%-75%, Animist, Muslim less than 1%
Gambia, The Muslim 90%, Christian 9%, indigenous beliefs 1%
Gaza Strip Muslim (predominantly Sunni) 98.7%, Christian 0.7%, Jewish 0.6%
Georgia Georgian Orthodox 65%, Muslim 11%, Russian Orthodox 10%, Armenian Apostolic 8%, unknown 6%
Germany Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3%
Ghana Christian 63%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 21%
Gibraltar Roman Catholic 76.9%, Church of England 6.9%, Muslim 6.9%, Jewish 2.3%, none
or other 7% (1991)
Greece Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%
Greenland Evangelical Lutheran
Grenada Roman Catholic 53%, Anglican 13.8%, other Protestant 33.2%
Guadeloupe Roman Catholic 95%, Hindu and pagan African 4%, Protestant 1%
Guam Roman Catholic 85%, other 15% (1999 est.)
Guatemala Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs
Guernsey Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist, Congregational, Methodist
Guinea Muslim 85%, Christian 8%, indigenous beliefs 7%
Guinea-Bissau Indigenous beliefs 50%, Muslim 45%, Christian 5%
Guyana Christian 50%, Hindu 35%, Muslim 10%, other 5%
Haiti Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%, other 1%), none 1%, other 3%
Note: roughly half of the population practices Voodoo
Holy See (Vatican City) Roman Catholic
Honduras Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant minority
Hong Kong Eclectic mixture of local religions 90%, Christian 10%
Hungary Roman Catholic 67.5%, Calvinist 20%, Lutheran 5%, Atheist and other 7.5%
Iceland Evangelical Lutheran 87.1%, other Protestant 4.1%, Roman Catholic 1.7%, other 7.1% (2002)
India Hindu 81.3%, Muslim 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other groups including Buddhist, Jain, Parsi 2.5% (2000)
Indonesia Muslim 88%, Protestant 5%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 2%, Buddhist 1%, other 1% (1998)
Iran Shi'a Muslim 89%, Sunni Muslim 9%, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Baha'i 2%
Iraq Muslim 97% (Shi'a 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%), Christian or other 3%
Ireland Roman Catholic 91.6%, Church of Ireland 2.5%, other 5.9%
Israel Jewish 80.1%, Muslim 14.6% (mostly Sunni Muslim), Christian 2.1%, other 3.2% (1996 est.)
Italy Predominately Roman Catholic with mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community
Jamaica Protestant 61.3% (Church of God 21.2%, Baptist 8.8%, Anglican 5.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 9%, Pentecostal 7.6%, Methodist 2.7%, United Church 2.7%, Brethren 1.1%, Jehovah's Witness 1.6%, Moravian 1.1%), Roman Catholic4%, other including some spiritual cults 34.7%
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