RE: Science =Without A God
April 11, 2011 at 9:36 am
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2011 at 9:43 am by Zenith.)
(April 6, 2011 at 1:30 pm)Chuck Wrote: (April 6, 2011 at 11:47 am)One182 Wrote: Did you know that there is no word for 'Coincidence' in the Hebrew Language? I did
Did you know ancient Hebrew was missing a lot of important things? Like consonants? or a word for "Religion"? I did. But they did have words for "stupid", "confused" and "zeolot".
The ancient hebrew did not miss consonants: they missed vowels. Even today, in normal writing, vowels are not written in hebrew: the reader is supposed to understand how he should read. The vowel signs were added in writing about 1000 years ago to show how words should be spelled (perhaps the number of jews that didn't know hebrew grew and it was a help for them to learn hebrew).
About religion, I guess Islam is the only religion that has in its holy books the word "religion". I guess that's because there was no concept of "religion" back then (2000 years ago and more): the topic could only be "the god/gods you serve and you put your trust in". Pagans (i.e. most people, i.e. except the Jews) didn't have, as far as I know, commandments given by their gods about how to live, how to behave, how to treat people, but instead had different deities that represented their doings (like war, injustice, sex, etc.) so the unjust slaughtering of a man could have been a good thing in the eyes of a god and a bad thing in the eyes of another. Also, when people were going to war, the conquering kingdom was saying that "our gods were stronger than your gods" (as if all gods existed). I don't think in paganism there was a concept like "your gods are false (but mine are true)". So paganism didn't quite stand as a "religion"/"religious system" - they didn't even have firm rules.
So the concept of the ancient Jews was "Our god is the only true god", rather than "Our religion (i.e. religious system) is true".
The point is: they are not 'important things that miss'.
