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Anonymous wrote:A lot of the laws also made sense for prosperity and for health. We didn't have the machines we had back then so having children was a priority to prosperity. The dietary laws in many ways were common sense for cleanliness back then. There weren't condoms. The alternative to pagan sex with anyone was marriage with one to a few partners which limited the spread of disease and increased the time the male was with the family. The Bible was a means of inspiration for how to live more peacefully and happily while also putting restraints on yourself for your own health and for the community in a way that could be governed. For the jews, it was the law they lived by in their government as well. A lot of fairy tales and Greek religion do this through story outcomes such as narcissus rather than specific lessons and rules but they have the same purpose to teach how to live a more productive, healthier, and peaceful life while also maintaining power to keep enemies away and take resources as needed.

This all makes sense.

Then there are all the Asian cultures, with their myriad religions, unrelated to Christianity or Judaism

Anonymous wrote:Thousands of years ago, we didn't have science and history and literature and law as separate fields of study and practice. Religion was all of that combined.

I learned this from the preface of my copy of the Bible.

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Anonymous wrote:I have secondhand embarrassment from this question.

Maybe OP is very young.

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the laws also made sense for prosperity and for health. We didn't have the machines we had back then so having children was a priority to prosperity. The dietary laws in many ways were common sense for cleanliness back then. There weren't condoms. The alternative to pagan sex with anyone was marriage with one to a few partners which limited the spread of disease and increased the time the male was with the family. The Bible was a means of inspiration for how to live more peacefully and happily while also putting restraints on yourself for your own health and for the community in a way that could be governed. For the jews, it was the law they lived by in their government as well. A lot of fairy tales and Greek religion do this through story outcomes such as narcissus rather than specific lessons and rules but they have the same purpose to teach how to live a more productive, healthier, and peaceful life while also maintaining power to keep enemies away and take resources as needed.

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Anonymous wrote:So a bunch of bored people just wrote the entire document and convinced.people to believe it? Or what about Christianity becoming the official religion of the Romans? Did the Emperor one day say, "this sounds good" and decide to make it official?

If you are a nonbeliever, I respect you. But how do you answer this?

The Bible was written by a bunch of Jews, of course.

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Anonymous wrote:The answer is, I just don’t care. I don’t think the Bible is really worth thinking about, to be honest.

I agree. I never think about it and I was raised in the church. Not relevant to how I live. I'm an honest good person. One of the most hateful, homophobic and racist person I know goes to church ever Sunday. She also love to quote the scripture.

But the scary part is that some Church goers believe that homophobia IS being good, and they also believe that NO ONE can be good because we are all wretched sinners. It’s mind blowing but also evidence of how easy it is to convince people of something even if it is ultimately harmful to humanity

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Anonymous wrote:It didn’t take Hitler that much time to write Mien Kampf nor for Mao to write his little Red Book. They were able to convince millions of people to worship them. Heck, you don’t even need to be literate to get people worship you, look at what the Pol Pot did with the Khmer Rouge.

So the idea that someone or a small group of people started to write down historical events and beliefs, that were built on by others over hundreds of years so that they can command power over them, doesn’t seem that far fetched.

Mao and Pol Pot had guns to do the talking. People did not worship them willingly.

Anonymous wrote:I have secondhand embarrassment from this question.

Anonymous wrote:It didn’t take Hitler that much time to write Mien Kampf nor for Mao to write his little Red Book. They were able to convince millions of people to worship them. Heck, you don’t even need to be literate to get people worship you, look at what the Pol Pot did with the Khmer Rouge.

So the idea that someone or a small group of people started to write down historical events and beliefs, that were built on by others over hundreds of years so that they can command power over them, doesn’t seem that far fetched.