(February 16, 2015 at 9:34 am)FlyingSpaghettiMonster Wrote:(February 16, 2015 at 9:28 am)Brian37 Wrote: It is going to continue happening as long as our species allows any religion protection from blasphemy. I am tired of humans thinking that rights constitute freedom from being offended. If you are taught that your religion entitles you to get violent over an insult, your religion deserves to be insulted.
Freedom of religion is not the same as kill whoever you want. They know what they are doing but do it anyways because places like America and the Middle East science isn't too popular so stupidity reigns.
Well Christianity and Hebrew like to hide behind secular law as if they would behave without it. Their own god characters also are not about civility beyond at best, treating outsiders as pets and house guests. The character of this Abraham god is not about western secular common law at all.
This character is a mafia boss, a dictator god, whom at best allows the outsider to exist as long as they know their place in the social pecking order. But most of the time this character is very brutal to the outsider and demands loyalty from his fans.
No this is not how western Christians or Jews or even moderate or liberal Muslims like to view this god. But none of them want to face the reality of why god claims even in polytheism were depicted and written the way they were back then.
Even in polytheistic antiquity you had a social pecking order. You had a ruling class, a warrior class and the surfs who were the paupers. Even in Rome and Greece, we falsely attribute our modern democracy to them. They had kings and the senates of them were still under the ultimate rule of their kings.
The polytheism and monotheism of the past was tribal so the god or gods back then reflected the societies back then. The rulers falsely attributed their fortune and conquests to the divine.
The monotheism of Abraham by the Hebrews wasn't even the first attempt in human religious history at a monotheistic god. There was one Egyptian Pharaoh to made the attempt to turn Ra into the only god. Zoroastirianism also is a much older form of monotheism. The Hebrews simply took a former lesser god Yahweh who was part of the divine family of the Canaanite polytheism and turned him into the one true god.
But the motifs of divinity saving a populous is not an idea invented by the Hebrews. Horus long before was born to save the Egyptian society.
There never was a god or gods saving humans. There are only humans who have created these myths.
