Why is this 'wrong'?
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Why is this 'wrong'?
Any crank can publish stuff on academia.edu. There is no peer review. (I know of at least one perennial crank that habitually uses it.)The history of religion is not available because it is the history of religion which proves that religion is but a colossal fraud.
To know the history of religion, one has to research himself. The following are the results of my own research:
The peoples of the ancient Near East did not believe in heavenly, supernatural, immaterial beings! There was the term “lord”, which when applied to the social rank of the lord it could mean up to “king”, and when to the superior status of the king it meant “god”. Those belonging to the tribe, clan, or race of the king were all called gods.
The kings were augmenting their population (producing slaves at the same time) by having their noblemen, the lords-gods, raping confined foreign women, mostly prisoners of war (in fact, they were operating human breeding grounds). The unexpected aftermath of that practice was that some of the infants were recognized as “sons of lords-gods”, thus making the women mothers of gods, i.e., goddesses!
The women who turned goddesses, caused the public harems, where they were confined, to evolve into temples (The Egyptian name of the temple at Luxor is /ipt rst/ meaning “Harem of the South”, and of the temple at Karnak is /ipt swt/ meaning “Harem districts”).
What is more, however, was that since the lords-gods had to pay to rape the women so that the expenses of the human breeding grounds would not burden the king’s treasury, the custom of the remuneration was passed on to the temples thus creating the well-known practice of Temple Prostitution.
Scholars cannot confirm the practice of temple prostitution in the ancient Near East. Low-quality translations of the Egyptian texts prevent them from tracking the origins of the practice.
The Origins of Temple Prostitution
The lords-gods were transformed into heavenly immaterial Gods when someone made a joke saying that the ‘gods’ climbed ladders and went to live up in the sky (they were already at the top of the mountains: Olympus to Greeks, The Cedar Forest to Sumerians, i.e., halfway up, but that is another story). The above information we get from the oldest religious texts, the ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts.
The relevant passages, in the original hieroglyphic text translated word-for-word, can be found in the following article:
Occurrence of heavenly gods: When, where, and how.
In this way, the heavenly gods were created out of the lords called gods, and out of them, theologians produced the one and only God.
The Origins of Theology
The most interesting part of the whole story of the gods/Gods, however, is the introduction to the story which goes back by more than 40,000 years:
The Head Covering Veil
This is, quite frankly, an absurd claim. We have thousands upon thousands of years of religious history going all the way back to the origin or written text, and in some cases before.The history of religion is not available because it is the history of religion which proves that religion is but a colossal fraud.
Again, this doesn't match up with what we actually do have. For example, we have the Gobekli Tepe temple, which shows an animistic mentality. So religious definitely goes back before written history.The peoples of the ancient Near East did not believe in heavenly, supernatural, immaterial beings!
You wrote: “Are you suggesting that if Judaism were true we would, for example, find a Torah from the 3rd c. bc the same as the Torah we have now, rather than, as we think, as a collection of sources (that we haven't found piecemeal either?)?”Why is this 'wrong'?
On what evidence do you connect Gobekli Tepe to animism?This is, quite frankly, an absurd claim. We have thousands upon thousands of years of religious history going all the way back to the origin or written text, and in some cases before.
Again, this doesn't match up with what we actually do have. For example, we have the Gobekli Tepe temple, which shows an animistic mentality. So religious definitely goes back before written history.
Your level of education is simply too low for a decent conversation. If you don't understand that animism is a form of religion, I don't really know where to even begin with you.Animism has nothing to do with religion.
Who is we? Do you have a mouse in your pocket?By religion, we mean belief in gods.
Kesh Temple HymnThe oldest religious texts are the ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, which i
Genesis 6:4 is an account of the creation of humans. What exactly do you make out of this passage?Your level of education is simply too low for a decent conversation. If you don't understand that animism is a form of religion, I don't really know where to even begin with you.
an·i·mism
/ˈanəˌmizəm/
noun
1.
the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
2.
the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret that most of us already know...If you want a decent conversation as you say, you have first to respect the person you are conversing with...
Religion is what people believed in various time periods.Who is we? Do you have a mouse in your pocket?
It's sad that you can make such a claim as in the OP in complete ignorance of what religion is.
There are several religions that have no god. Buddhism, Jainism, Christian Atheism, Confucianism, and even sects of Hinduism to name a few.
Then it would appear you need to study further, because you clearly missed the non-theistic religions.Religion is what people believed in various time periods.
Religions are philosopho-theological ideas that theologians brainwashed people with.
So, by religion, we (we who have been studying the subject of religion) mean belief in gods.
By religion we mean belief in gods OR OTHER SUPERNATURAL STUFF. Belief that a rock has a spirit, or that the universe is pervaded by a supernatural manna, is of course a kind of religion.By religion, we mean belief in gods.
It's just not. the Genesis 6 passage starts off with creation already in existence. This is not rocket science here.Genesis 6:4 is an account of the creation of humans. What exactly do you make out of this passage?
Or other stuff that is not supernatural.By religion we mean belief in gods OR OTHER SUPERNATURAL STUFF. Belief that a rock has a spirit, or that the universe is pervaded by a supernatural manna, is of course a kind of religion.
Please, be polite or you get no more replies from me.
True! The primitive women whom the sons of Elohim raped, and they gave birth to us, the modern men of renown, already existed.It's just not. the Genesis 6 passage starts off with creation already in existence. This is not rocket science here.
The supernatural stuff is the work of theologians.By religion we mean belief in gods OR OTHER SUPERNATURAL STUFF. Belief that a rock has a spirit, or that the universe is pervaded by a supernatural manna, is of course a kind of religion.
can you give an example of something that is religious but has no element of the supernatural?Or other stuff that is not supernatural.