RE: Open Origin Religions?
April 2, 2015 at 6:20 am
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2015 at 6:51 am by Brian37.)
The Hebrew religion was a splinter sect of Canaanite polytheism. El, Elohim and Yahweh were all characters in a "divine family". Yahweh started out as a lesser god in that family. The splinter Hebrews simply stole that character and elevated it to a monotheistic god.
There is not one single original religion in our species history. It always gets started by someone taking motifs and concepts from surrounding and or prior things around them, changing the characters and details and marketing it as the patent holder of good and morality.
No religion on the face of the planet own's a patent on human morality, our species behavior is in our evolution, not in the labels we assign ourselves or others. Religion is poison because it tries to do that, it may create group evolutionary survival, but that is a placebo and the poison is that it creates mythological reasons for morality claims and turns our morality into a comic book with the deadly result of setting up "in group vs out group".
Um no, that is patent bullshit tactic, and it still does not matter if it was.. Humans started writing long before the Hebrews, and regardless had religious beliefs still at the earliest known written language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform 4,000 years BCE are the first known human writing. Those earliest humans still had religious beliefs regardless of organizing them.
Even the Egyptian Polytheism is much older.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs
Also older. AND NOTICE the list of gods "El" (God most high) and Down to the bottom of the list "Yahweh".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion
Jewish historians do what every religion does, retrofit after the fact. They take their polytheist roots which are much older then claim it was the Hebrew god's plan and the fact that it has those characters in it proves their religion is true. The opposite is true. They created a new religion from older polytheism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet
The article above says 10th century BCE, but dishonestly paints like all religions do, that they are original. The people of that time were NOT monotheists, but polytheists, monotheism followed so the truth is Hebrews are simply a splinter sect of polytheism.
It is a common tactic for someone, or a group of people to start a new group by competing with ideas of morality and hero claims and use the ideas and names and characters of surrounding and or prior groups.
There is not one single original religion in our species history. It always gets started by someone taking motifs and concepts from surrounding and or prior things around them, changing the characters and details and marketing it as the patent holder of good and morality.
No religion on the face of the planet own's a patent on human morality, our species behavior is in our evolution, not in the labels we assign ourselves or others. Religion is poison because it tries to do that, it may create group evolutionary survival, but that is a placebo and the poison is that it creates mythological reasons for morality claims and turns our morality into a comic book with the deadly result of setting up "in group vs out group".
(April 2, 2015 at 4:57 am)Aractus Wrote: Also, Judaism was the first religion we know of to be based on a written text.
Um no, that is patent bullshit tactic, and it still does not matter if it was.. Humans started writing long before the Hebrews, and regardless had religious beliefs still at the earliest known written language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform 4,000 years BCE are the first known human writing. Those earliest humans still had religious beliefs regardless of organizing them.
Even the Egyptian Polytheism is much older.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs
Also older. AND NOTICE the list of gods "El" (God most high) and Down to the bottom of the list "Yahweh".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion
Jewish historians do what every religion does, retrofit after the fact. They take their polytheist roots which are much older then claim it was the Hebrew god's plan and the fact that it has those characters in it proves their religion is true. The opposite is true. They created a new religion from older polytheism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet
The article above says 10th century BCE, but dishonestly paints like all religions do, that they are original. The people of that time were NOT monotheists, but polytheists, monotheism followed so the truth is Hebrews are simply a splinter sect of polytheism.
It is a common tactic for someone, or a group of people to start a new group by competing with ideas of morality and hero claims and use the ideas and names and characters of surrounding and or prior groups.
