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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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both judaism and christianity have heavily borrowed and plagiarized their legends and mythologies from other religions.
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the egyptians were the FIRST monotheists although, admittedly, not for very long as it didn't properly assist certain politically ambitious individuals and interests at that time. mainly the priests of the ol' time multi-god religion who had their power base severely undermined (amazing how not much ever changes)
the hebrews were ENSLAVED by the egyptians.
well gee.... i wonder where the hebrews got THEIR idea of monotheism from!! [rolls eyes] and when morale is low after 40 years of nomadic living throw in a little pep talk about "promised lands" and "god's chosen" and bada bing bada boom!.... everyone is pumped and ready to keep moving (until someone says that the next fairly clear piece of dirt is it).
for "reasonable" people to actually accept these, let's face it, complete insane and wacko religious beliefs unquestioningly for centuries, without an interest in the historical context in which they were born -- people such as cowboygrandpa -- is evidence of just how malleable and easily indoctrinated the human mind is and how superficial and lacking "the easily led masses" are in intellectual curiosity.
karl marx was right.
religion is the opiate of the people. mystical propaganda --an easy form of social control-
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Dionys7 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man—state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."
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Perfect for empiric realists, I Suppose.
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