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If anything in the 'old testament' justifies fundamentalism for jews than it does as well for christians, does it not?
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Yes. When it suits them.
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and if the oldest remaining book in the world 'isn't that old' then.....well i don't have a witty enough metaphor. i'm not going to argue I know when it actually first appeared, but reasonable historians wouldn't either.
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Some of the books are older than the first century BC, they'vr just been compiled together in a way that matches up disperate groups of people to seem as one - with a few interpolations to cement them being brought together. The Isrealites, The Hebrews and the Judeans aren't necessarily all the same people, but have been prestented as such in the OT. El, Yahweh and a few others names given to "God" - shows this.
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im a jew theres nothing i can do about that...but the old testament is some scary, serious, unsettling shXXX. but I'm finding it very difficult to think of a modern cultural or religeous society that accurately reflects their own scripture in the slightest.
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It's those cultures attempting to do so who cause the bother.
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everything taken serious about religeon seems to be there strictly to justify different things for people, but its like that for all people, so i wouldn't see this as a jewish problem.
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It's not it's a Muslim problem and a Christian problem as well - e.g. Islam's claim on Jersusalem stems from a story in the Koran in which Muhammed flies to that City on a winged horse to commune with Allah - it's really a political fairy story to allow the Muslims a claim to a strategic city, based on faith in a book.
sorry i'm not an expert on anthropology, but i thought you might appreciate my perspective.
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