RE: Science of Atheism
September 21, 2023 at 9:52 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2023 at 10:07 pm by Bucky Ball.)
The Judean priests who assembled / wrote / made up the Bible, wrote in the law about "molten" images, (usually gold).
In the story in Exodus where Moses comes down from the mountain and finds the people worshipping the "golden calf) it's molten.
Too much like "idol worship". When the Northern tribes seceded, they set up a worship site and instead of the gold plated sphynxes on the (supposed) site in Jerusalem
In the South, the presence of Yahweh in the temple was thought to "sit" on the two (gold-plated sphynxes ... the concept for which came from Babylon. They were not "angels".
The priests in the North put in place two golden bulls. The Judean priests (in writing Exodus that way) were slamming their rival priests in the North who had set up a molten image.
A great deal of the OT is not religions, but simply political. Priests slamming rival priest groups. The story above is a tiny part of a long story.
Some day I'll edit it, and post it.
The centers of his (Jeroboam's new sect in the North were at Dan up in the far North, and Beth-el, which is not far from Jerusalem. He creates new holidays, appoints new priests, and creates new symbols.
Jeroboam's new national holiday was also in the Fall, but a month later than Judah's holiday.
In the story in Exodus where Moses comes down from the mountain and finds the people worshipping the "golden calf) it's molten.
Too much like "idol worship". When the Northern tribes seceded, they set up a worship site and instead of the gold plated sphynxes on the (supposed) site in Jerusalem
In the South, the presence of Yahweh in the temple was thought to "sit" on the two (gold-plated sphynxes ... the concept for which came from Babylon. They were not "angels".
The priests in the North put in place two golden bulls. The Judean priests (in writing Exodus that way) were slamming their rival priests in the North who had set up a molten image.
A great deal of the OT is not religions, but simply political. Priests slamming rival priest groups. The story above is a tiny part of a long story.
Some day I'll edit it, and post it.
The centers of his (Jeroboam's new sect in the North were at Dan up in the far North, and Beth-el, which is not far from Jerusalem. He creates new holidays, appoints new priests, and creates new symbols.
Jeroboam's new national holiday was also in the Fall, but a month later than Judah's holiday.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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