Yahweh was just one deity in the Canaanite pantheon
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sheetsadam1 — 8 months ago(July 07, 2025 03:29 AM)
At this point I would say I'm basically a Christian Taoist, but in a largely secular sense, since I would also consider myself something of a hopeful agnostic.
I've not attended any meetings, but I am sort of intrigued by what I've read of progressive Quakerism. Not only are they the sole group in the U.S. to be on the right side of every social issue since the colonial era, but they're also non-creedal and non-hierarchical. It strikes me as a very eastern form of religion which seemed to somehow emerge in 17th-century England.
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IsraHell — 8 months ago(July 07, 2025 02:03 AM)
The ambiguity was less of an issue for me than the lack of rationality and just knowing where a lot of these beliefs come from. It's wild that people are still believing a version of these ancient ideas. These delusions definitely had to evolve with the times. We're more civilized and we know more. The mental gymnastics people have to go through to still believe is almost impressive… or just really dumb, depending on the person.
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IsraHell — 8 months ago(July 07, 2025 02:35 AM)
Here are a couple
https://books.google.com/books?id=uDijjc_D5P0C&pg=PA110#v=onepage&q&f=false
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IsraHell — 8 months ago(July 07, 2025 04:06 AM)
It's often interpreted to not be literal, and more about human leaders, but given the roots of the Abrahamic religions, a literal reading makes more logical sense.
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sheetsadam1 — 8 months ago(July 07, 2025 04:15 AM)
I'm not sure about that particular psalm, but knowing the book as a whole I would lean towards a poetic interpretation. The Bible is a book comprised of many genres and literalists often miss the broader points being relayed while attempting to "prove" historical accuracy.
But, to your larger point, there is indeed plenty of evidence that they were, at times, polytheistic, and even instances where other gods are shown to have some limited powers (I believe in one of the Books of Kings and Elijah is involved somehow, and definitely in Exodus where Egyptian gods are shown to be able to replicate some of the same miracles Moses performed through Yahweh).
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