What motives did the inventors of the original Semitic religion have?
>>1021818
To have a religion that is Semetic
>>1021818
How to keep a bunch of desert tribesmen safe, healthy and spiritually fulfilled?
To explain natural phenomena, e.g. what is thunder? It's the voice of Yahweh, rider of clouds, of course.
Wow, so the Bible is actually a trilogy and the book of mormons is return of the jedi? I'm interested.
>>1021882
Join now and we'll also throw in a set of steak knives
>>1021882
>>1021907
Better
Abrahamic monotheism was the result of power hungry priests & King Josiah's nationalist reforms of traditional Jewish religion
>>1021907
>no Kabbalah christmas special
>>1021946
Jeremiah started preaching his doom and gloom during the reign of Josiah and he doesn't say anything positive about him. Josiah in Kings and Chronicles might have been greatly exaggerated. for instance archeology doesn't back up the claim that he conquered parts of Samaria
>>1021907
Godamn it they should have stopped at the second, they're killing it with the cash grab sequels
>>1021907
>No prequel Canaanite legend: Origins
>>1021907
you forgot Zoroastrianism
>>1021992
Persian adventures was panned for being too saturday morning hero cartoon tier
>>1021818
How did Muhammad even learn about the Semitic religions when his ass couldn't even read?
>>1022021
talking to people?
>>1022021
Most literature were transmitted orally back then
>>1022021
Mohammed was a semite himself
Besides, most christfags couldn't read anyway
>>1021818
Original Semitic religion, or any other ancient polytheistic religion didn't have a specific creator/creators like Christianity and Islam did. It was a bunch of legends and traditions that evolved throughout centuries.
>>1024619
>polytheistic
Didn't actually mean to write that, though I believe that original Jewish religion was pretty polytheistic
>>1021818
Probably to unite people to follow someone
>>1021818
Remain united in a world where without a bonding bit of cultural identity, a people could easily disappear as nations rise and fall.
To control the people.
Heh, still happens to this day...
>>1025019
This.
There's a reason why the 1% always forced people to go to church.
>>1021882
Shut up Cunningham
>>1021882
No, the Book of Mormon is the shitty EU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHExlzqWVyM
>>1025019
>>1025027
If you removed religion, the control still would happen, regardless.
Look at the Soviet Union, China and modern-day Singapore. The first one did away with religion and still managed direct control, the second also abolished relugion and took control, and the third controlled religion so that it became subservient to the government.
They still maintained control over their populations and your leaders sing all the praises for Singapore without confronting the PAP (Singapore's leading politucal party who controls every government office) withoyt once confronting them over human rights abuses.
The 1% don't even need religion since they have your leaders in their pockets to begin with.
>>1025043
this is now a book of mormon thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjy3D3YDJ50
>>1021882
The Book of Mormon is the Holiday Special.
What about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
>>1025110
holy kek
>>1025185
Jewish adventures: ideal world
>>1021882
No, NO elder Cunningham!
>>1022021
He was a successful merchant so he was most likely literate to some degree
>>1021818
>Der Juden
To encourage ethnic homogeneity and advance group interests under the guise of divine sanction.
>Christfags
To Greco-Romanize Judaism and create a liberation theology. It just became more Greco-Roman rather Judaic over time.
>Kebab
To morally justify unprecedented conquest and to create a more ethno-centric version of Abrahamic religion to keep the empire unified, and to encourage more conquests. Thus, in nutshell, is why Islam is objectively the worst thing ever.
>>1021874
>To explain natural phenomena
When will this retarded meme end?
Cosmology is a secondary concern in most religions.
Heck, some eastern religions are literally "who cares how the world was made? interesting, but irrelevant and distracting. Go back to getting enlightened!"
But of course, subordinating all human endeavours to some naturalistic victorian quest to understand the Universe.is an easier narrative.
>>1029119
DESERT TRILOGY
>Old testament
Niche film that attracts a small cult following after a limited release.
>New testament
Big budget sequel, many fans of the original felt it was a dumbed down crash grab, but it was enormously successful, eclipsing the original in popularity by far. Fans of the first film bemoan the new fans, proclaiming loudly that they were into the franchise before it was cool.
>Koran
The re-boot made decades later. Many of the fans of this film saw it before seeing either of the originals and are barely aware of them. The film had a strong release that swept many box office records last held by the New Testament, although it is despised by fans of the first two films.
>Book of Mormon
Attempt by mega fans of the originals to make a sequel to the New Testament, ignoring the Quaran as non-canon. Like most fans films it is shoddily made and borderline incoherent. However, people involved in its production defend it fiercely.
>>1021907
the book of mormon is more like hardcore bible fans started writing bible fan fiction
>>1029127
kek, that's a great summation
>>1021818
One god to rule them all
>>1029077
Islam doesnt promote segrigation of the believers, women rights are written, property & divorce rights similar to catho's
>>1021907
It's just like star wars... Everything goes wrong at the 4th one...
>>1028903
>>1022021
>what are audiobooks
cmon nigga apply yourself
>>1030567
This. The ummayads wre just conquering to try to get to China or the US in order to get new iPods, since the ones they'd bought got rekt due to all the sand.
>>1029134
That's paradise lost, m8
>>1029077
>To Greco-Romanize Judaism
This is what atheists actually believe, lel.
1. The Teachings (Old Testament)
2. The Sacrifice (New Testament)
3. Satan's Opus (Koran)
4. The Con (Joe's book)
