Who is that woman on the right? Are we supposed to recognize her or something?

  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Yeah well maybe we shouldn’t based base our modern existence on 2000yo bedtime stories meant to scare children into not being assholes

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      3 months ago

      Yes.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism#Violence_in_monotheism

      The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine.