"What do you an?" ryl gave a bewildered look at Arthur.
"Do you think that the entire world could be enslaved to one perspective or have one similar opinion on a specific matter?"
"I'm not sure why you're asking that."
"Because it's necessary. The world has always followed a general perspective and lives according to the philosophies of an era. In fact, we've had many of those in our history and right now, we live in the Supra-Modern era. And along with it, cos a common perspective in things."
"I really don't get why we are talking about ideologies. What's that have to do with war and an alien race trying to take over this planet?"
"Everything. You see, it is in the present ideology of this world that can determine the success of the Aragarians plan. Depending on the worldviews that hold this world, nations may or may not ally with the Aragarians."
"Ideologies and worldviews can do that?"
Arthur pointed to the huge walls that towered over New Birth City.
"If the Aragarians revealed themselves now, would Australia join or oppose the Aragarians?"
"Of course they would oppose it! It's an alien race after all! Humanity would unite to fight that!"
"Really? Look around you. The power that Australia has, ca from the Aragarians. You sure they would give this up?"
ryl was shocked at Arthur's statent. She stood silently and gazed at the towering heights.
She recalled all the horrible actions that the Aragarians were doing in this place and rembered that they were still being protected by the police and the military.
"But that won't make this country fight for an alien race! Why would anyone want to exterminate their own kind?" ryl argued.
"The benefits of the majority outweigh the survival of the minority. Isn't this the main thought in our Supra-modern society? If this was the Post-Modern era, we would have because that era brought was a desire for equality and acceptance. But now, our current ideology would drive nations to prioritize themselves rather than their neighbors."
ryl remained silent. This has been the state of the world after the Continental War. Nations like Australia, the Aricas, and the South-States have always had a xenophobic treatnt of any other humans which isn't from their own race. And then it dawned on ryl.
"Wait! Then that ans that Continental Wars and the Minority Uprising-"
"Were probably being controlled by the Aragarians from the background. They are very cautious. They manipulated the world to be so wary of each other and broke the unity that once held that. Soon, they'll instigate another World War which will drive this world to its knees. And before we could even recover, they appear. And to top it all off, they will use the ideologies of this Earth to make nations pursue their own safety and join the Aragarians."
"If that's true, then in Zeek's future, who would oppose them? Why didn't the world just give up?"
"The world probably did give up. But sothing must have changed the minds of so countries. I'm not sure what made these countries fight back. I have a guess as to what, but I'm not too sure yet."
"So… Seeker wants to use the Jews to change this future?"
"You'll need to rember your history to understand," Arthur smirked as he took out his mobile device.
Arthur searched and opened a link which revealed pictures of ancient wars.
"Changes in ideologies always happened during great events in the history of the world. Way back since the Ancient period all the way to the dieval period, Theism was the main ideology. Everyone believed there was a god. And through that era, do you know which nation stood out?"
"I don't know. Greek? Ro? Assyria? Babylon?"
"Those were the most powerful nations. But no. Assyria and Babylon are gone, Ro and Greece have fallen from its original power. I'm talking about the Jews. They continued to exist regardless of the fact that all of those nations you ntioned waged war against them."
Arthur showed ryl several websites online detailing the exile of the Jews to Babylon and other events that threatened their existence.
"So what's so special about them that the Aragarians got all flustered?"
"Their existence. Their survival. But most importantly the religion that they brought in. Rember, Theism was the thing during that era. And soon almost all of the known world at that ti adopted different forms of this religion especially during the rise of Constantinople."
"You an Christianity? Why is this important? Is Jesus really the answer to everything?" ryl gave a sarcastic remark.
"It's important because that's not how the world views things anymore. Theism had its run and peaked during that ti but then, the Renaissance happened. And it shifted the focus from gods to n. What beca important was the good of man and not a belief in god."
ryl had a slightly impatient expression.
"First you tell that the Jews are important because of religion and now it's important because religion beca outdated?"
Arthur unusually gave a light smile.
"I didn't expect that explaining things to soone would be this fun... I guess that's why I fell for you… Humanism, which ca out of the Renaissance introduced a new ideology. Rationalism. With the pursuit of man's greatest good, they found that technology could be the answer. The good of man achieved through science. In fact, we still carry remnants of that belief today. And the pursuit to Rationalize eventually led to Atheism. The very opposite of Theism."
"Ok? So what? People stopped believing in the God which the Jews introduced. So how can that help us in an intergalactic showdown?" ryl ignored Arthur's candid statent and hid her blush with an impatient face.
"Let finish. Rationalism instilled the idea that newer is better. Science made life easy. And this pursuit of the new gave birth to a world of new possibilities. Out with the old and in with the new. Anything for progress. And you know what that progress brought?"
"People got smarter?" ryl hazard a guess.
Arthur shook his head and presented yet another series of images on his mobile phone. This ti it displayed primitive tanks, guns, and other weapons.
"Modernism. Which brought revolutions and more wars. Because n continued to progress, the old system was deed obsolete. Revolutions such as the French and Arican revolutions occurred. Communism ca and various progressive solutions to governance were also invented. This search for progress led to the first two World Wars. The aftermath of those wars led to the abandoning of Modernism and embracing the Post-Modern era."
"I rember that in class. Because people were sick of war and the idea brought by the Nazis in being a superior race, we decided that every system and culture had to be too respected."
"Exactly. Hitler's control over n on being the master race gave the world a terrible shock. And so, we stopped pursuing progress on the opinion of each nation and embraced every other views, race, and culture. The idea of a master race was deed evil. So racial, cultural and sexual discriminations were scorned upon. People who were racist, and who did not value equality for all, beca hated. Everyone wanted everyone to accept each other."
"But those all ended when…"
"Right. The Minority Uprising. That rebellious ti led to Supra-modern era. The Aragarians manipulated the world to adopt this new ideology. Lastly, they need to display their power. Make a powerful nation for all to see and offer the choice of joining to a few nations."
"Why only a few?"
"The goal of the Aragarians is to make room in this planet for their people right? So they must push this Earth into a state of war. Offer the alliance to so nations and make them fight the rest."
"If you can't beat them… join them…" ryl unconsciously quoted.
"Then how can the Jews help us?"
"Because of their religion."
"I'm confused… Didn't you just explain that religion is an outdated thing?" ryl's frown resurfaced.
"Yes. That's why I think Seeker intends to take things back to the era when Theism was the thing. Seeker wants to use the acceptance of a worldwide religion to give Earth a better shot at winning."
"How can Religion help?"
"Because it has the capability to create fanatics and instill indomitable zeal to the masses of the Earth. Religion, if used properly can turn the tide and perception of this world. It has in the past, and it can in the future."
"Then why the Jews? I an, there are a lot of religions out there!"
"Of all world religions, Christianity and Judaism arguably had the most evidence as grounds for their faith. We tie their faith to actual history, preserved literature and even to the accurate prophecies fulfilled in their teachings. I just explained that the Romans, Assyrians, and Babylonians took them into captivity and all the actions of those nations were sohow prophesized forty to a hundred years before it actually happened."
"I didn't know that!"
"That's because there was a lot of skepticism regarding those prophecies and so, most don't believe it. But what if sothing that could endanger the whole world would co and these sketchy prophecies suddenly beco a glimr of hope?"
"Like an evil alien race! The Aragarians!"
"Yes. What if the God of the Jews is real? And what if God will help the Jews and Christians? Wouldn't humans cling to whatever hope they could find? That's what Seeker is planning. Turning this small string of hope into a grand rope that will unite this world against the Aragarians."
"Then that ans! The Aragarians had already noticed this!"
"Yes. They probably studied our history intensively and probably deed that these two religions had to go because it could be used against them."
"But why the Jews and not the Christians?"
"There are too many Christians all over the world and too many countries holding on to that belief. However, Christianity has its roots in Judaism. Their faith both believed in many similar things and so branches of Christianity still hold the Jews as important evidence of their God's power. After all, the Jews continued to live on despite the many massacres they faced throughout history. So if the Jews are wiped out, the strongest evidence of Christian faith vanishes as well."
"So if you kill the Jews, you kill Christianity as well." ryl summarized.
"Yes. That's one way to put it. The Book of Revelation holds the strangest prophecies about the Apocalypse. A desperate mind could easily cling to that for hope. However, the book also ntions 144,000 Jews. And since the Aragarians don't want people to tie an alien invasion as so sort of heavenly prophecy, they take away the Jews. No 144,000, then that book isn't true."
"They are going that far to remove hope?" ryl was horrified at the thought that the Aragarians killed an entire race to simply stop the possibility of religious fanaticism in the future.
"That far? No. It makes perfect sense. Morale and hope should be extinguished to win a war. And that's why we need the Jews."
"So that's why they used human trafficking operations! Israel fell in 2063 and they were all over the world again!"
"They already were dispersed even before that. The Jews had always been all over the world due to the many tis their country was broken apart and sent into exile. So the Aragarians set up their base of operations all over the Earth to accomplish this. All the other benefits, like the experints, sex trade, were all secondary. The primary purpose had been the extinction of this race."
ryl was silent. She couldn't believe the plans that they were involved in. But the more she thought about it, the more it made sense.
"The Jews may have been extinct in Seeker's future. I'm guessing the surviving humans probably clung to the remnants of Christian faith. But that brought no allies. Seeker knew that if he could change things, it would bring more allies."
Arthur gazed at the dark skies above. Arthur gave a deep sigh.
"It's about ti for us to move. Once we start this mission, the war will officially begin."
ryl took a deep breath and displayed a serious expression.
"The Jews can wait. For now, we kill these traitors." ryl spoke softly.
The ti was 11:32 pm AEST.
Twenty minutes from that ti, a battle which shook the world began.
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