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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] Y'know what the other problem is, besides the fact that most people don't "choose" their religion? They also don't tend to know anything about it. I was raised Catholic. Catholic grade school, Catholic high school, mass every Sunday... The whole nine yards. I'm now a freshman in college. It was not until now that I'm taking an ancient history course in a non-religious school, that I've finally been taught the real origins of the religion I was so immersed in. In grade school and high school, we were basically taught what the Bible, at first glance, seems to purport: ou old friend "I Am" has been talking to people since the beginning of time, and the belief in him has been around for as long as you can imagine. How many of you who belong to religons rooted in Judaism (Jews, Christians, Moslems, whatever) are aware that that religion didn't even exist until the time of the Exodus? "Yahweh" was a local god of the Sinai, whose worship the Egyptian Hebrews picked up on their trek between Egypt and Canaan. Back then, there was barely even a hint of monotheism. Ever noticed how, in those early writings, you get things like "your god" and "the god of Abraham", etc.? That's because early Judaism was completely polytheistic. They all believed in the Egyptian gods, the Mesopotamian gods, etc. They thought Yahweh was superior to the others, but they had no doubt that the others were just as real as their own. The only thing that made the early Hebrew religion any different than the Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Roman, etc. theologies was that they associated their god w/ themselves as a people, rather than associating him w/ a place, like most other cultures did. I was incredibly surprised to learn that Christianity (and the others) evolved from something that started out as nothing different than the other ancient pantheonic religions. Not only was I shocked, but I was apalled that I had spent thirteen years in Catholic schools, and never once had they even touched upon this fact. The religion was presented as being perfectly adherent to modern beliefs as far back as anyone could think. This is the sort of lying and manipulation (and matbe even self-delusion) that I find completely intolerable in religions. Maybe if more people actually knew what is was they were putting their faith in, they wouldn't be so quick to jump to it... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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