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ORIGINAL: WhipsAndGiggles
I still think that link I sent is worth reading.
I have read it. I am not impressed.
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Of the thousands of religions in human history, only Judaism bases its belief on national revelation ― i.e. God speaking to the entire nation. If God is going to start a religion, it makes sense He'll tell everyone, not just one person.
The Divine is 'outside' our universe. (I see Maimonides agrees with me on that, despite him never having heard of quantum mechanics.) The Divine by definition has no mouth and no voice. Indeed, the Divine by definition is not allowed to interfere of its own volition in our universe. So this part of Jewish religion is asking for an impossibility, and a whining, hubrical attempt to manipulate the Divine: "I will not acknowledge the Divine unless it speaks directly to me".
Unlike a pagan god, who does have a mouth and a voice (and a brain), the only way for the Divine to cognitively communicate with humanity is through a human being - which most often will be an avatar of one of the pagan gods. That will always be one single human being: Jesus, Saint Paul, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin (even though he acknowledged that independently from him the evolution algorithm was discovered earlier and later by two other people) to name a few.
The Divine spoke directly to the Jews (and everybody else) through Jesus and Saint Paul, but they refused to hear.
What do they want? A radio-transmitter in their skull, like the Cybermen and the Borg have, so that the avatar of a pagan god / or the almighty dictator of the USA can address them directly by radio? That is feasible, the technology exists. Good luck with that. I doubt that an avatar of the Creator nor an avatar of the last pagan god of the Jews would bother with that; he would give up the Abrahamic Jews as a lost cause.
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ORIGINAL: WhipsAndGiggles
Here's the thing about "stupid criteria". So? Maybe it is stupid. So? It is their criteria. Have you looked at religions in general much? They are filled with contradictions and subjectively stupid shit.
Please do not give me links. Talk to me directly. I dunno much about religions, but I am an expert at world mythologies. There are even for me still lots of mysteries in world mythologies, but much of it also is as clear as water to me.
Whenever someone perceives a contradiction, I often perceive an inadequate mind.
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ORIGINAL: WhipsAndGiggles
Stupid as in... lacking intelligence. Intelligence as in the ability to learn, reason, and understand. Religion doesn't involve much reasoning. It involves coming into contact with something that resonates within you on a spiritual level. It is typically faith-based and does not contain a strong a level of reasoning and logic.
*shrug* And religions either evolve dynamically, or become stagnant.
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