
Originally Posted by
Oddquine
That would be because if you are not religious.....there is no such thing as a rational reasonable answer to anything in religion.....and Judaism is after all a religion...dreamed up by a warring tribe originally to try and persuade the waverers who still went for multiple gods to get with the programme.
By the time they produced the book of what became the Old Testament....they had the masses in their area buying into their fantasies....so they wrote the fantasies down..and used that to produce the Torah and embellished it with the Talmud..and then they had the control they wanted.......much as Constantine did re Christianity and Mohammed did re Islam.
Without the arrogance of those who invented Judaism, wrote the Old Testament and proclaimed themselves "the Chosen People", the World would be a much better place now, imo..because there would be no Abrahamic religions.
So you were actually there and witnessed what was taking place and therefore have firsthand KNOWledge of the events? Amazing. That would make you older than Methuselah.
So, there were other groups of people around at that time. Did you also witness their birth as a national group of people?
"THOUGHT. The operation of the mind. No one can be punished for his mere thoughts however wicked they may be. Human laws cannot reach them, first, because they are unknown; and, secondly, unless made manifest by some action, they are not injurious to any one; but when they manifest themselves, then the act, which is the consequence, may be punished. Dig. 50 16, 225."
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