• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I mean, they invented a religion that places them as God’s chosen people

    Can you name a single religion whose creators didn’t?

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      3 hours ago

      Buddhism. Gnostic Christianity. Hinduism. Probably a whole bunch more, I’m no theologian.

      The hideousflaw in the post you’re replying to isn’t that, though. It’s the idea that Israel invented Judaism, that Judaism is a monolith, that Israel is run on Jewish lines, and that Jews everywhere look to Israel for leadership.

      That’s some fucked-up thinking there. That thinking sucks.

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        2 hours ago

        Buddhism

        The ones who believe the only way to reach Nirvana is to follow the rigid steps of the Budda and no one else can enter?

        A little bit of a stretch, and they have a different idea for “god” but it’s the same general idea, just no personification

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          1 hour ago

          If you meet the Buddha on the road to enlightenment, kill him.

          Does that sound like following the rigid steps of the Buddha is a tenet of Buddhism?

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      18 hours ago

      I think most don’t, and even in Judaism it’s the more ethno-nationalist (i.e. Zionist) adherents that believe it. Christian nationalists and evangelicals do, but I don’t think Protestants or Catholics do. And outside of Abrahamic religions, like Hinduism, at most it’s kind of a “we’re right you’re wrong but idgaf”, unless again you’re getting into Hindu ethno-nationalism, but then the religion is just an excuse for facism and genocide, which brings us back around again.