So should an intelligent individual within a religion attempt to reform it?
After half a millennium, it should now be clear Christianity is not capable of reformation.
Reform Judaism has also failed to reform Judaism because the answer is not to dilute the principles of Judaism, but simply to adopt the scripture of a later and better revelation from the same Abrahamic God ie the Koran.
Ashkenazi Jews were an intelligent group within Judaism, so why didn't they reform it?
You must have heard of Reform Judaism.
"Judaism, Christianity and Islam all build upon a cosmogonic event that carries no empirical probability."
I have no idea what you mean in this and other similar bombastic sentences.
I'm not surprised by that. You come off as someone who's got special interest in creating posts on this forum, but is of low to average intelligence at best.
"Judaism, Christianity and Islam all build upon a cosmogonic event that carries no empirical probability."
I have no idea what you mean in this and other similar bombastic sentences.
Is that what you're taking from what I wrote? I just claimed that Judaism, Christianity and Islam all build upon a cosmogonic event that carries no empirical probability.
You will find the reference to R.C. Christian by looking up the Georgia Guidestones; hence the tongue in cheek name.
Once again, Christians worship the Creator God who was incarnated as a man. Whether Jesus was a typical Jew or whether Jews of the time bear any relationship to the grabblers of today is debatable, but it doesn't really matter. If you follow the invention and progression of Judaism in the Bible, it is clear that the purpose of the Israelites was to incubate Christianity.
God appears to take material form in parts of the Old Testament and no-one cares what some evil hand-rubbing grabblers think anyway. Modern Judaism is clearly Satanic.
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... secular, so Judaism is dying too except for its most insular forms. But perhaps if a religion arose that did not have the restriction on money-lending, it would economically suffocate the insular forms of Judaism. Maybe the Amish thrive now because land is cheap, but if the dominant religion of the West...
... Christian Reformation was. And so it doesn't work.
Ashkenazi Jews were an intelligent group within Judaism, so why didn't they reform it? The problem here is that the Ashkenazi Jews benefited from the eugenic pressures coming from Christianity, not from any internal eugenic authority within Judaism...
... group that only marry each other, so they also are an ethnicity. The issue here is that religion totally dominates, unlike for Jews where a Jew doesn't have to follow Judaism. Why does this matter? One could argue in favor of the Anabaptist approach by saying that this preserves values. But the...
The decline in Jewish intellect in recent years is obvious. This is even discussed on a Jewish website . What caused this?
Judaism begins with Ezra in the Old Testament. I wrote a post about this some time ago, but my views have changed since then. At that time I didn't think in terms of...