A Final Solution to the Problem of Religion

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

We have to rid the world of Judaism. Judaism is based on the stupid notion that some particular god exists. We know that this cannot be the case, because we can detect everything that exists with our senses and/or the various devices we build for detecting things. Also, if the god the Jews made up existed, it would never have allowed Hitler to kill so many of them. As a matter of fact, if there was a god, nobody would ever die—because no real god would have ever allowed any life to end. Ever.

Also, we can appropriately hold Judaism responsible for the emergence of those other two horrific belief-systems: Christianity and Islam. Christianity is responsible for more wars than any other belief-system ever in history. And believing in Islam makes you blow yourself up to get imaginary girls in the next life. So we should nip Judaism in the bud before it creates some other disastrous belief-system—like one that makes you want to get as much money as you can in life no matter how it affects others. If that ever happened, the world would be screwed.

Please understand that I am not advocating the execution of Jews themselves. Instead, I am saying that we should become more diligent and aggressive about making sure everyone knows that Judaism is a delusional and destructive belief-system that no decent, rational person would ever accept. If we can teach this in our schools, if we can get our message out through the media, if we will not be ashamed to state these obvious truths in our daily social conversations, we might be able to eliminate the cancer of Judaism from human discourse within a generation or two.

Now I know there are those of you who are going to claim that Judaism is not entirely bad. After all, Hendrix couldn’t have recorded “All Along the Watchtower” if a Jew hadn’t written it first—and we all have a soft spot for at least one Seinfeld episode. But Judaism, as the root-cause of Western monotheism, must be viewed on balance as perhaps the greatest single evil ever foisted on humanity by a tribe of superstitious, bloodthirsty savages.

So who among you is willing to step up to the plate? Or do you want to go on pretending to be rational people—even as you continue to tolerate this singularly pernicious crime against reason itself?

Comments

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

So you agree tha Judaism has no place in a rational, civilized society.

[mintogrubb.livejournal.com]

Dunno about him /her or them , pastor,
but totally accepting a creed uncritically isn't. Especially one that that was handed down to us in the third person by a group of people living in the Bronze Age.

It is not to say that the Old Testament and the Jewish Faith have nothing to offer us at all, but we should look at it critically and make our own decisions in the light of what is revealed about the texts in question.

It can clearly be shown that the earlier the book, the more miraculous its narrative is and the less it lines up with history and with modern scientific disciplines and discoveries.

For example, Moses talks about his own funeral and what happened after it, if you take the view that he wrote the entire Torah under divine Inspiration. It is more likely that another hand than his wrote the concluding comments, and also more than likely that the Documentary Hypothesis was correct.

Accepting this as true though , does not invalidate the teachings of the later Prophets like Hosea. Indeed, we may trace the first stirrings of Social Justice and Socialism itself to Judaism.

According to the Jewish Scriptures, a Hebrew farmer was not to forbid the poor from gleaning the fields after the farmworkers had passed over it. If you took a fellow Israelite into slavery, you were to let them go at the end of seven years, and if you bought out your neighbour, land, you had to return the land to the family that originally owned it after 50 years at the Jubilee, as well as freeing all your slaves.

There was thus no opportunity for the rich to grow richer and the poor to get poorer indefinitely. And on top of this, the prophets spoke out not only on religious issues like idol worship, but on social issues like the exploitation of the poor.

And all this became incorporated into Christianity, if not Islam. In fact, Harold Wilson, one of Britain's most notable prim Ministers famously stated that the Labour Party that he represented "Owed more to Methodism than Marxism", such was the impact of Christianity on the lives of working people and working class political activists.

i do not doubt that religion has been responsible for a lot of bigotry and injustice when used by powerful people to further their own agenda, but we must not forget that Christianity and Judaism have also furthered the cause of Social Justice on a world scale.

I am even told that in the London Dockers Strike of 1189, the Jewish community in London took in the children of gentile London dock workers, so that their fathers could hold out longer on the little money they had in their strike fund.

This philanthropic attitude to people's outside their own community does them credit, I think you would agree. So while we might point out the fact that much of the Jewish faith was taken from the mythology of earlier pagans, we should acknowledge that the culture itself produced a great deal of good.

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

So are you in favor of stamping out the Jewish religion or not?

[mintogrubb.livejournal.com]

Im am in favour of reading it's literature, principally the bits that we christians call ' the Old Testament' - i believe the Jews themselves call it 'the Tanach', but I can't swear to the correct spelling here.

The Tanach is composed of the Torah, or 'the Law' and the prophets, together with 'the Writings' - and I don't remember the Jewish names for those bits - but these 3 parts comprise what we may term ' The Jewish Bible' , for want of a better phrase.

And no, I don't think we should try to forbid or eradicate any religious creed. I know little about Judaism , but I do know that there are Liberal and Orthodox Jews, and these two broad categories have many subdivisions. each feels that it's way of interpreting Judaism is correct, and this is also true of other faiths I am sure.

We should rather look at what these faiths and the communities within them have to tell us. I will disagree with anyone , Jewish or Christian, who tells me that the world is only about 6,000 years old give or take an extra 5,000 either way.

I will disagree if they tell me that the God who created mankind ordered the destruction of every man woman and child in Ai, or was responsible for flooding the whole earth while telling Noah to build an ark and fill it with animals who rode out the flood.

I feel that such accounts are mythological, and should not be treated as history, but are comparable to the tales of Aesop, in that they possess some elements of spiritual truth , or were used to pass on moral lessons in a previous era.

But the real beauty of the Jewish faith was that it encouraged literacy - even a common working man would learn as a boy to read, and where we see an account of someone who was a mere 'tekton', a builder or carpenter, getting up to read in a Jewish synagogue in Galilee in the first century, we have to realise that such a thing could not have happened in England until nearly 2,000 years later.

This reverence for learning , the bringing together of a whole community to read and discuss a written document that contained ethical standards was truly a great achievement in the history of human civilisation. And we owe much of our present day culture to the legacy of this tiny nation and its religion.

[brockulfsen.livejournal.com]

No religion has a place in a rational society. Religion is arational, and deals with issues that while important to individuals shouldn't take up limited resources enforcing bans on uncrimes like blasphemy and homosexuality.

Religion is a personal matter best attended to in private and hands washed afterwards.

Especially atheism.

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

So you are in favor of the abolition of Judaism?