r/InternationalNews • u/isawasin • Jul 09 '24

International The Jewish Council of Australia issued a statement that accuses Israel of misappropriating the Star of David.

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u/worldm21 Jul 09 '24

Yes, Judaism when it started appears to have basically been about providing a religious belief system for military nationalism. "God chose us and will grant us victory over the assholes next door." Then they started compiling laws, and life advice, a creation myth, etc., next to it, and lo and behold, 3000 years later, half the world's religious thinking is built around this. It does humanity far more harm than good, to believe these texts are something more than something somebody wrote down a few thousand years ago.

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u/worldm21 Jul 09 '24

Well, back to the original comment from Zosimas - the book doesn't prohibit "sin" in all contexts, it glorifies some of the worst atrocities imaginable. So a more plausible hypothesis is that it was designed to justify that kind of behavior.

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u/urmomaisjabbathehutt Jul 09 '24

IMHO religion is an early intent to rationalize the unknown and the unexplained by our earlier ancestors

Basically because knowing one surroundings and hazards is a survival mechanism so explanations and possible risks for the unexplained were made up since it's more comforting, i .e. it gives us the semantics to explain the reason for lighting to others and ogg dying from it

Once rational philosophy came along religion stayed because it was codified into tradition that contained valuable survival teachings even if embedded between the bull

And once part of the culture is hard to get rid of it despite of the nonsense