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[–] klongtoey ago 

it's just a different flavor of retardation. know one religion, know them all.

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[–] THR00WAWAY ago 

Long live the devil.

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[–] 7even6ix2wo ago  (edited ago)

Secular Jew, but I heard that the clerics will reject something from the Torah if science ever proves it to be false.

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[–] jw48335 ago 

Basically, if you've researched Christianity, you're close to done. Judaism is the old testament of the Bible, plus the Talmud. All the same arguments apply. To me it's even more crazy than Christianity though, since it doesn't have the new testament to soften the crazy from the old.

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[–] KleanRider 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Why don't you do your own research? I find it ironic that you came from a religion that told you what to believe and here you are asking people to tell you what to believe...

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[–] Vainglorious98 [S] ago  (edited ago)

You're sounding a bit narrow minded.

A: look at context, this is an atheistic group full of apostates and insightful people who have strong opinions on atheism. It's not a bad place to ask about religion.

B: I'm not going to simply believe whatever people tell me without researching it first, if you look carefully a lot of claims made in comments have cited their sources to strengthen credibility.

And C: I've clearly said that I've "researched" Christianity and Islam, and now I've set my sights on Judaism. If I still simply believed everything I heard without question I'd still be a muslim.

Seriously man, don't immediately jump to conclusions. That's what a lot of us did when we first heard of the "higher power", resulting in becoming pious.

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[–] Vainglorious98 [S] ago 

Thanks!

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[–] Blackkcalb 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

So your looking for assistance in building a case for atheism and against all religions? Good luck with your life long quest. http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/sephardic-ashkenazic-mizrahi-jews-jewish-ethnic-diversity/

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[–] corsairio 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Well, most of what is messed up about Christianity comes from the old testament which is the foundation of Judaism while the new testament is the more important to Christianity. So if you know Christianity is bogus you know why Judaism is ridiculous.

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[–] adiposekills 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It is important to note that on average, Christians take a much more literal view of the OT than Jews do. For example: Jews know that Psalms wasn't written by David, and Proverbs wasn't written by Solomon. Judaism is like 3/4 culture 1/4 faith. Any Jew that isn't a zionist will probably tell you straight up that violence in the name of a religious belief is never ok.

Christianity and Islam are both pretty violent when in a position of power. Based on what I've seen of Judaism, I'd put it about on par with something more like Buddhism in terms of how much it has contributed to "the problem" with religions. It's mostly harmless, and on top of that most of its practitioners are rather aware that they're probably just playing a many thousands of years old game of make believe.

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[–] corsairio ago  (edited ago)

Christians also know that the OT has been supercede by the NT and has essentially no bearing upon Christianity other than historical context.

The only reason Jews abandoned violence is because they have been defeated so many times that they have been forced to do so. Their history before that is full of the typical genocide, slavery and rape expected of dogmatic faiths.

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