Right Wing Authoritarianism and the Judeo-Christian scriptures

[Universalist Catholic]

To me, it seemed like the Scriptures and the Teachings of Jesus were way ahead of their time. 

However Right Wing Authoritarianism is a social ideology and personality where there is a strong force of submission to any percieved authority, heavy emphasis on conventionalism, and aggressiveness towards those who are not within that authority group.  Basically it states that "I make the rules, and you dont question and just obey", which does lead to this ideology that they are superior to other groups. 

Most ancient civilizations had governments and religions that had a strong authoritarian force discriminating against outsiders.  Yet the Hebrew Scriptures attest to a different position.  If Im correct, Genesis 12 was the first time in the history of the world that a declaration of blessing to all people, not just a small group, when God declared that through Abraham, all families on earth would be blessed.  Plus the Jews were the first to teach that everyone had the same afterlife, regaurdless of what group you belonged to.  The Prophets made many declarations of forgivness and restoration to their enemies, such as Egypt. 

Yet when the Israelites had no prophets between the end of the Old Testament Period till Jesus preaching, they went into the same ingroup authoritarianism that the worldly authorities had gotten involved with.  Many of the Fundamentalist Jews were offended by Jesus preaching a message that went against the nationalistic Jewish egotism, along with threatening their authoritarian hold. 

Yet for the first several centuries of the Church, the Christians were a persecuted group who believed in the salvation of all.  They were only being persecuted by Rome and the Jews for rejection of their autoritarian religion.

Eventually the Church gave into this Right Wing autoritarianism, and after that, the Church was never the same. 

So the interesting matter is that the Early Church was very Universalist, but such views were never heard of before, let alone a religious movement that emphasized freedom from nationalism and religious rigidity. 

Yet this Christian Fundamentalism which have been occurring for most of Church History is not something new that has unique Judeo-Christian culture.  So we can point out that Fundamentalism has its roots in traditional authoritarian systems. 

Most of the humanitarian movements, even if there are anti-Christian movements have roots in Jesus teaching.