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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
yes, you are right. the "fear of God", being judged by others etc "makes those laws work". It's an effective legal and moral framework that is so successful, it continues to thrive today and guides BILLIONS of people in their behavior. Ancient Egypt had a very good legal system and yet, religion worked much better as it requires no policing and people on the whole, act better with no oversight.
People love to say "religion is about control" but never define who was controlling who and why,... nor do they have any plausible story to explain that claim . Ancient Pharaohs did not create monotheistic religions as they themselves promoted themselves as Gods and had very different specific beliefs, all very different than the Jewish people. Nor is it ever explained how every culture everywhere throughout the history of man, has had religion and spirituality. I mean, thats quite a coincidence that every society ever had the exact same concept and idea of how to "control" the "masses"... from the worlds largest European and Middle Eastern cities to the tiniest inhabited Pacific islands.
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Actually the Pharaohs were considered the "equals" of gods. They still worshiped imaginary gods it's just the Pharaohs were the gods on Earth or gods among men.
As for the Bible it was very much written by the Jews. It's not called the "Hebrew Bible" (ie the old testament) for nothing. Hence my original statement the Jews wrote it and somewhere along the line someone put together the various books into one and used it to further push along Christianity as book of law if you will.
I mean lets get real, many of the stories are just stories rehashed from religious beliefs which even pre dated the Hebrew scrolls. Then of course every major player just happened to be "Jewish" in their modern rehash of old stories.. not to mention the Jews were the chosen ones.. all from the old testament mind you..
