Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Making God make sense

So suddenly, nothing makes sense. If Yahweh is the creator of the universe, then how can he possibly imagine, and declare from heaven, with knowledge of the entire earth, that the "LAND OF CANAAN " is the prime location for His Chosen people? It just doesn't make sense. And, like I said, nothing else in the subsequent myth makes sense as some sort of quantifiable fact. When you look at the mono myth of the Old Testament, I mean the first five books, in reference to what we've learned through archeology and anthropology, what we know about humans, then none of the OT myth makes sense.

First, what do we know about humans? We know without a doubt that humans have been around for a long time. Now that is an amazing fact. We know that large brained, bipedal, tool making humans have been around for more or less two MILLION years. We know that Homo sapiens-sapiens, the descendants of the first bipedal tool makers, have been around for more or less one-hundred-thousand years. Image making: both painting and sculpting, has been around for more or less twenty to forty thousand years. Writing has been around for five to seven thousand years. The idea of one god above others has only been around, historically,verifiably, about thirty-four or thirty-five hundred years. Beyond that, there is no evidence that anybody ever thought, talked, or wrote about the idea of one great god to the exclusion of all others.
This is what we know. For sure.

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