The woman who shot Andy Warhol shares more in common with Christ's views than anybody would want to admit
The SCUM Manifesto, man-hate, and Christ
I’m not going to give you the take you expect. You might expect a Christian to say that if she only accepted Christ into her heart, that she wouldn’t have tried to kill a guy. I think her manifesto makes some great points, and there are more parallels between her understanding of the world and Christ’s.
I reviewed her manifesto already, but this post is going to be focused on Christianity.
She says the male is “not ethically entitled to live”. But to Christ, you should not call anyone on earth your father or mother. And Christ—the perfect man—came into this world specifically to be killed.
Her manifesto says men are incapable of love, and are therefore incomplete women, and the future we want is one where women rule.
When the Pharisees ask which commandment is the most important, Jesus points to love. Christ calls his church his bride (a woman). And this initially feels like some regurgitation of conservative values, but then he dies. And so he becomes an invisible husband, leaving earth to female control.
This means both Solanas and Christ agree that earth will ultimately yield to the feminine. You could say they both subscribe to the idea: “the future is female”.
In her manifesto:
"Traditionalists say the basic unit of ‘society’ is the family; ‘hippies’ say the tribe; no one says the individual."
Christ sort of agrees, but unexpectedly. He says that to live you must die to yourself. He says your enemies are the religious instructors, and that your allies are the sex workers, tax collectors, the outsiders, and the outcasts.
Christ also says he did not come to bring peace, but a sword to divide father and son, etc. But his alternative is not to create a tribe per se, but to inclusively bring in those on the outside.
"Should a certain percentage of men be set aside by force to serve as brood mares for the species? Obviously this will not do. The answer is laboratory reproduction of babies."
Jesus says that in heaven, people will not marry or be given in marriage, and he’s also in favor of eternal life. But his eternal life is spiritual. Now, if we wanted to reconcile the two views further, we could play with what “spiritual” means. She might render it as the spirit of revolution.
In short, Christ and Solanas have a lot in common. In a future post I’ll focus on the future she wants to bring about, the role of entropy, Adam Smith’s invisible hand, and accelerationism.