Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "hochelaga"
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@jollygoodgordon5580 All the Abrahamic religions have a political component. A model for tribal survival that's scalable. Arguably, the whole thing was made up by a handful of smart chieftains, who knew that the tribes needed to unite or be destroyed, one by one. I'd like to argue that Mohammed focused more on the political aspect, for a more aggressively expansionist faith with a strong will to nationhood, but the Christian offshoot is no stranger to imperialism by divine right, either. Straight-up Judaism appears to be the least harmful of the three main branches. I think they'd've been quite happy within the confines of what is loosely considered "Israel" in the current day. It was Islam and Christianity that aggressively, by persuasion or force, converted huge swaths of the planet to THEIR belief systems.
Anyway, I take wisdom where I can find it, and I really like the "ideal human" presented by the Christ archetype. People with their eye focused on that "ideal human" are going to make some good decisions they otherwise might not. Same with idealized notions of a Great Prophet, like Mohammed.
The Holy Bible has definitely been filtered and rearranged by church and political hierarchies along the way. The Hebrew Bible (Torah?) is pretty much unchanged, since (according to video) the 3rd Century BC. Lots of latter-day Christians would like to see more books included than came out of Nicea. I can see why they did it and that they mostly meant well, but maybe people would look at the whole thing, differently, with the Book of Thomas included. I'm not a doubter (or a believer), necessarily, but I think the message is a whole lot more ambiguous, and can be taken as far more about better living in THIS world, than the big hook the politicians in the group wanted, which is the promise of everlasting life, which is their #1 recruiting tool (after free potluck dinners).
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