Claims to special status based on descent from some fictitious character or divine favour lack legitimate foundation. They are mythology, not evidence, yet have been weaponized to justify unequal rights and territorial claims on others.
The Abrahamic narrative, central to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is structurally built on absolute submission to authority and divine hierarchy. This core logic has been repeatedly deployed throughout history to justify domination, conquest, and exclusion: the Crusades, colonisation of the Americas, genocide of indigenous populations, and antisemitism among many others.
Abraham appears in a context of creation mythology that has been thoroughly debunked by science. The narrative that grounds claims of special status rests on cosmological claims already discredited by geology, biology, and physics. Yet these same mythological frameworks continue to be invoked to justify real territorial and political dominance.
Naive or sanitized readings of scripture obscure its actual content, which includes genocide, ethnic cleansing, slavery, misogyny, infanticide commanded by God, and profound internal contradictions. These elements are not aberrations but embedded in the foundational texts themselves.
This narrative should not be treated as an unqualified moral authority. Instead, it deserves deep skepticism precisely because its logic, modeling obedience to absolute power as virtue, is particularly suited to justifying hierarchy, tyranny and domination. History and contemporary politics provide abundant evidence of this pattern.
The solution is not to accept these narratives uncritically as positive cultural inheritance, but to recognize them with a generous pinch of salt. Understanding their structural tendency to enable oppression and their documented role in some of humanity’s worst atrocities is essential.