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Jews were the first Environmentalists E-mail
Friday, 21 January 2011 23:22

 

"I'm so special, I'm very special, because my mommy and daddy had a book that told them how special they were"

 

Really? You think you're so special huh? the first Environmentalist ever? You've gotta be kidding! Jews were not even the first to ever believe that a written text could be words of a deity, let alone be the first humans that worked the land.

 

3330 years ago? The Sumerians were already successful in agriculture at least 7000 years ago, not to mention earlier smaller groups of hominids that had deep spiritual connection with nature around them, say from 10.000 years ago to about 100.000 years ago and maybe even 1 million years ago! First ever?

 

How can you be so dismissive of a significant portion of human history? Is there no ethical standards that religious people have to have in order to address the public? I guess not, being an hypocrite is fine. Isn't that "erasing history" or a revision of history akin to what Jews rightly accuse many Arab leaders like Ahmadinejad?

 

And why do it in the first place? Can't you envision a world where the Jewish culture was one of many other equally important and noble traditions in the history of civilization? Why the need to make some group as more special or better in some way then all others? It's your mind that needs to wrap around reality, not reality that needs to adjust to your delusional sense of worth.

 

<rant>This is why Judaism can be such a powerful discriminatory tool. Not entirely for the content itself (although much of it is), but how it exercises the mind. It's what psychologists call "Priming", a way to interfere in the mental processes of others. By priming a person to see the world as having divisions, religious leaders can influence real world behavior. Remember, people go to leaders for guidance, they are even more open to be primed.</rant>

 
Willian Dembski, Conversion from what? E-mail
Saturday, 08 January 2011 04:00