JCM morality

I've been an idiot.
I've occasionally talked about "judeo-christian morality". In doing so, i've been both misleading and divisive. That phrase muddies the world around us, instead of making things more clear. Forthwith, i will say "judeo-christian-muslim morality", because it's more accurate, and it knocks away one more version of the "us vs. them" bullshit mentality that cripples human consciousness.
Historically, two of the most conspicuous sub-groups of human society are those who live in rain forests, and those who live in deserts. These groups have very pronounced and dissimilar ideologies. Rain forests produce polytheistic animists, and deserts produce monotheists. Desert life is hard, and it produces big, singular ideas. The loss of a single food or water source in a forest is no big deal, but in a desert it can be calamitous. Accustomed to horrible loss, desert-dwellers have a God who is prone to meddling in human affairs, often cruelly or capriciously. The many gods of balanced forest life tend to keep to themselves.
Desert leaders are reflections of desert Gods. The hardness of desert life spawns a dominant warrior class, slavery, and a pronounced stratification of society. Rain forest societies have none of these.
And if you're a woman born into a desert society, god help you (sorry). Women are usually chattel passed from father to husband, commodities to be denigrated and used as such. Rain forest societies are typically matrilocal - related women form the core of the community.
And to top it all off, desert societies are far more likely to have repressive taboos dealing with nudity and sex.
Now, are you ready for the kicker, which you hopefully saw coming? We live in a desert society. In fact, desert ideology dominates the majority of the world. The desert dwellers and ideas which historically poured out of the Middle East left a defining mark on Eurasian cultures, which in turn subjugated the populations of Africa, the Americas, and Australia. Rain forest ideologies just don't seem to expand as well. This may be partly because of historical happenstance, but also of course because of the more aggressive tendencies of desert society.
So...as you sip your latte in climate-controlled comfort, take a moment to look inward at your desert heart. Take time to examine the general precepts in the sacred texts of Jews and Muslims and Christians (who do lip service to the New Testament, but whose basic behavior reflects older models...in point of fact, "judeo-christian-muslim morality" could be shortened to "judeo-muslim morality"). At the core, these three ideologies are one and the same. Seen in that light, our current conflicts with the Middle East (and the unending ones within that world) are entirely understandable and natural. If we're going to have any hope of evolving beyond our origins, it must start with understanding. We may be desert rats, but we're getting better...we did, after all, produce Switzerland, Sufis, and the Spice Girls.
Now i get to go back over all my writings, and revise every "judeo-christian" reference.
I love you all.
(this piece owes a huge debt to "Monkeyluv", by Robert Sapolsky)