>>1875344

>>1875344

Was going to mention something about this earlier, but never got round to it. Here's a different take.

There are two factions.

You have to take Abraham and Isaac/Ishmael story in the context of the times. The ruling powers of the time worshipped Moloch/Marduk/Zeus/the Bull, etc. The deity that demanded sacrifice of children.

Abraham was shown that God is other than Moloch. He does not demand sacrifice. It was a test of faith but also a confirmation.

Thereby distinguishing the true God from these pagan deities.

It is recorded that the Roman soldiers who sacked Jerusalem were astonished when they entered the Temple could not understand why the room was empty. No idols, statues, etc. Just an empty room for communion. A prayer hall. A place of meditation. Remember the prohibition against making images of God?

The Romans experienced cognitive dissonance in a big way. >>1875344

>>1908708

The Greeks also were not a monolithic group as history would have it. The understanding of deity among some the philosophers for instance was not what one would expect of a people who built temples and prayed to marble statues in a Pantheon.

Here's Diogenes the Cynic trying to redpill a woman:

One day he saw a woman kneeling before the gods in an ungraceful attitude [exposing here rear end according to a different source], and wishing to free her of superstition, according to Zolus of Perga, he came forward and said, "Are you not afraid, my good woman, that a god may be standing behind you? – for all things are full of his presence – and you may be put to shame?"

God is not the image. Not a thing.

Socrates:

The affidavit in the case, which is still preserved, says Favorinus, in the Metron, ran as follows: "This indictment and affidavit is sworn by Meletus, the son of Meletus of Pitthos, against Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus of Alopece: Socrates is guilty of refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state, and of introducing other new divinities. He is also guilty of corrupting the youth. The penalty demanded is death."

Plato:

And there is one created universe,[74] seeing that it is perceptible to sense, which has been made by God. And it is animate because that which is animate is better than that which is inanimate.[75] And this piece of workmanship is assumed to come from a cause supremely good.[76] It was made one and not unlimited because the pattern from which he made it was one. And it is spherical because such is the shape of its maker. 72. For that maker contains the other living things, and this universe the shapes of them all.[77] It is smooth and has no organ all round because it has no need of organs. Moreover, the universe remains imperishable because it is not dissolved into the Deity.[78] And the creation as a whole is caused by God, because it is the nature of the good to be beneficent,[79] and the creation of the universe has the highest good for its cause. For the most beautiful of created things is due to the best of intelligible causes;[80] so that, as God is of this nature, and the universe resembles the best in its perfect beauty, it will not be in the likeness of anything created, but only of God.

Aristotle:

Like Plato he held that God was incorporeal; that his providence extended to the heavenly bodies, that he is unmoved, and that earthly events are regulated by their affinity with them (the heavenly bodies).

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers

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There are others.

>>1908708

>>1908795

Thales:

Here too are certain current apophthegms assigned to him:

Of all things that are, the most ancient is God, for he is uncreated.

The most beautiful is the universe, for it is God's workmanship.

The greatest is space, for it holds all things.

The swiftest is mind, for it speeds everywhere.

The strongest, necessity, for it masters all.

The wisest, time, for it brings everything to light.

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Pythagoras:

But the first to use the term [philosopher], and to call himself a philosopher or lover of wisdom, was Pythagoras;[8] for, said he, no man is wise, but God alone.

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Xenophanes:

"One god, greatest among gods and humans,

like mortals neither in form nor in thought."[22]

"But mortals think that the gods are born

and have the mortals' own clothes and voice and form."[22]

Regarding Xenophanes' theology five key concepts about God can be formed. God is: beyond human morality, does not resemble human form, cannot die or be born (God is divine thus eternal), no divine hierarchy exists, and God does not intervene in human affairs.[23] While Xenophanes is rejecting Homeric theology, he is not questioning the presence of a divine entity, rather his philosophy is a critique on Ancient Greek writers and their conception of divinity.[24] There is also the concept of God being whole with the universe, essentially controlling it, while at the same time being physically unconnected.

http s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophanes

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Distinctions.

>>1875344

>>1908848

A further distinction re Canaanites/Cannibals. The prohibition against pork.

Jesus casting demons into swine (making clear that swine is not kosher).

Pig farms as a means of erasing human remains.

Podesta.

Pork is human flesh substitute. KURU.

What/who are you eating? Do you know?

>>1908883

LONG PIG THAT SPEAKS?

>>1908889

SLAVES.

Long pigs on long ships.

First as labor, then as food.

Moloch.