To Anne Julienne

Submitted by Janusz S. Kowalik (United States), Jun 21, 2008 at 01:19

Yes. You are perfectly correct. It is likely that Jews got some ideas about their Yahveh from Egyptians.. Stiil they have succeeded to make their religion a core for the largest monotheistic religions on the planet. Old testament is an elaborate document describing the powerful tyrant god that is behaving like a barbarian king demanding unconfditional obefience and kiliing massively for incomprehensible reasons.

Christians added to the Jewish concept the idae of a god's son and savior. Islam copied most of its "wisdom" from the both religions. and is least original. My main point in the comments was quite simple. One way for avoiding an enormous bloodshed as every civilization clash would create is by the total or nearly total securarization of the planet.

The idea is not fully realistic but we may have to choose unusual ideas to handle unusual global conflicts.Without religions several dangerous spots on the planet woul d be eliminated. No more Palestinian-Jewish wars, a Peaceful Afganistan and Iraq. Billions of dollars wasted for churches and holy representatives of gods on earth would be channeled to charity, hungry people and those who lost their possesions as the resullt of acts of god;,earth quakes, hurricanes ,floods etc.

Now billions are spent to build new mosques, churches and synagogues. What a grandiose waste of money and effort. Yahveh can't be made better for us because of his nonexistence. Besides ,as the Auschwitz massive murders illustrate praying to the All Merciful god is rather useless. How much more blood will have to flow before all faithfull believers could understand tthat every religion is a dangerous mirage poisoning our life ,our mutual human relations and threatening the total elimination of the humna race given modern weapons and the belief in the paradise in the sky.

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