• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I mean, they invented a religion that places them as God’s chosen people, with a history of genocides and claiming regions backed up by that god. They wrote their stories as the victors and somehow still manage to sound like the bad guys.

    Psychopathy was probably rife in the 12’tribes and I wouldn’t be surprised if it started with their dad, Jacob the maid fucker. Actually, probably his granddad, Abraham, the guy willing to kill his son to please god.

    Either way, it’s been like this for centuries and don’t expect the country to suddenly change any time soon. The divine claim to the “land of milk and honey” has been their long-time casus belli for annihilating entire cities and civilisations + now with US protection!

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      I mean, they invented a religion that places them as God’s chosen people

      Can you name a single religion whose creators didn’t?

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        Buddhism. Gnostic Christianity. Hinduism. Probably a whole bunch more, I’m no theologian.

        The hideousflaw in the post you’re replying to isn’t that, though. It’s the idea that Israel invented Judaism, that Judaism is a monolith, that Israel is run on Jewish lines, and that Jews everywhere look to Israel for leadership.

        That’s some fucked-up thinking there. That thinking sucks.

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          Buddhism

          The ones who believe the only way to reach Nirvana is to follow the rigid steps of the Budda and no one else can enter?

          A little bit of a stretch, and they have a different idea for “god” but it’s the same general idea, just no personification

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            If you meet the Buddha on the road to enlightenment, kill him.

            Does that sound like following the rigid steps of the Buddha is a tenet of Buddhism?

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        I think most don’t, and even in Judaism it’s the more ethno-nationalist (i.e. Zionist) adherents that believe it. Christian nationalists and evangelicals do, but I don’t think Protestants or Catholics do. And outside of Abrahamic religions, like Hinduism, at most it’s kind of a “we’re right you’re wrong but idgaf”, unless again you’re getting into Hindu ethno-nationalism, but then the religion is just an excuse for facism and genocide, which brings us back around again.