The old testament makes a lot more sense and is considerably more palatable if you read just the text separated into their sources. Basically all of the crazy and deplorable shit comes from the "Priestly Source" that was added in to justify the priesthood and their existence or Deuteronomist Source that was added during the exile
While true, what I don't like about this quote is that it's self evident to atheists and incomprehensible or just wrong to believers, changing no minds at all.
Afawk, every known religion in the world is some variation of the ancient Sumerian religion. Yhwh* was a storm god and supposedly the Elohim were more peaceful, hence the Jekyll -Hyde personality of the OT god, trying to reconcile the two into one, although it's been suggested "Elohim" are plural.
*I didn't think there was a more horrible autocorrect than iOS until I returned to Android.
I think you're referring to Abrahamic religions. The mythology of, say, Japan is distinctly their own. But yes, to my understanding, Islam is derived from Christianity, and Christianity is derived from Judaism, and Judaism is derived from Yahwism.
Yahweh was a warrior-storm god, which is why apparently a lot of his curses are carried out via storms or floods. And also why he was very warlike. Then Yahweh eventually got merged with El over time, who was the kind, wise father god of the pantheon. Apparently you can still figure out which parts of the Bible came from which god by looking at if the Biblical god was referred to as Yahweh or Elohim. Apparently there was another storm god from a nearby mythology named Baal, and instead of merging into 1 god, they ended up becoming rival ideologies, which is why the devil ended up being named after Baal (Beelzebub).
Anyways, Yahwism is kinda wild. Yahweh had a goddess wife at some point and then people just kinda forgot about her
There are plenty of known religions that share no significant similarity with Sumerian beliefs, ie basically every First Nation/Native American religious system. People have been in the Americas longer than Sumer existed.
And thats just stuff I'm even vaugely familiar with. I'd wager 0% of Subsaharan African religions, aborigional, and probably most Asian religious beliefs don't have any Sumerian influence.
"And then Jesus stood up to speak before his disciples but Alas he realized that he had not worn pants to school, and his teacher was Will Smith for some reason."
A few generations? I think you're massively underestimating the combined effort required to get us to where we are now. Our society is built upon thousands of years of discoveries and progress.
I had this gf that I thought was smart until she told me she hadn’t read any of the books in her library and would just sleep with them under her pillow to get the information needed.
If we destroy in an irreversible way and a new one appears, we will have no way to compare it. If we save a hash of the content, will it still respawn ?
If we have a hash that can verify if the text is the same, would it even be irreversible since we can generate random text until we have a match ?
Also, what if we erased a page ? will a dude dream with it, or will it only reaper on total destruction ? If it doesn't respawn, can we keep only a page and keep it from respawning ?
If we throw the last copy into space, will it respawn ? The copy still exists, but it's unlikely anyone will be able to read it.
If we rewrite it, adding more text between the words, we will still have the same text, but we won't be able to distinguish between the original words or the added ones, rendering it unusable ?