You Shall Be As Gods by Erich Fromm

Author:Erich Fromm [Fromm, Erich]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-0192-1
Publisher: Firebrand Technologies
Published: 2013-01-15T00:19:00+00:00

So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people why were asking a king from him. (1 Samuel 8:4-9)

He describes how a king will exploit them: will use the men as soldiers and the women as servants: how he will take one-tenth of all their property; how the people then “will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day’’ (1 Sam. 8:18).

“But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, ‘No! but we will have a king over us, that we also may he like all the nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.’ And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel, ‘hearken to their voice, and make them a king.’ Samuel then said to the men of Israel, ‘Go every man to his city’” (1 Sam. 8:19-22). All that Samuel can do is to “hearken to their voice” after having protested and pointed out to them the consequences of their action. If, in spite of this, the people decide for a kingdom, it is their decision and their responsibility. To put it differently: history has its own laws, and God does not interfere with them. They are at the same time God’s laws. Man, in understanding the laws of history, understands God. Political action is religious action. The spiritual leader is a political leader.14

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