Post by Admin on Oct 18, 2013 14:42:03 GMT -8
""There are dozens of different gods.... Monotheism was invented in around 1300bce by a Pharoah named Akhenaton, as a political measure.
Yahweh, or jehovah, as some other traditions would have it, is a semitic sky god, whose origins can be traced back to Moses- who elevated Yahweh above all others as a means of keeping an otherwise disparate tribal group united.
To suggest that is the one and only deity is insulting in the extreme to followers of any other tradition.""
Yahweh, or jehovah, as some other traditions would have it, is a semitic sky god, whose origins can be traced back to Moses- who elevated Yahweh above all others as a means of keeping an otherwise disparate tribal group united.
To suggest that is the one and only deity is insulting in the extreme to followers of any other tradition.""