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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as a religion having objective "teachings."

It's always been subjective.

Normal people are Jews and Muslims, and extremists like the genocidal Israeli colonizers, and the similarly genocidal Wahhabist/Salafi terrorists are still Jews and Muslims.

There is no "true" understanding of these religions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

There is no such thing as a religion having objective “teachings.”

So what is the Bible? Or the Qur'an?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Aggregations of objective teachings which contradict each other (within the same book).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The Bible is an assembled collection of curated religious stories and traditions. I can't speak to the history of all of it but the first books of the OT were drawn from religious stories and traditions of north and south Judah and adapted to create religious (and thus political) unity by the king at the time in the face of the threat of rival, neighboring countries. Of the many gods worshipped at the time the OT books essentially retcon two of them to be one god, denounce polytheism, and create a mythical historical narrative of the country's population. Mythical because archaeological evidence contradicts a great deal of the stories.

The NT is a collection of Epistles, gospels, etc., chosen from a large pool of similar sorts of writings and assembled into what we have today. I don't know a great deal about what drove those selections and only vaguely know that some of the other writings were quite different theologically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago