What you are saying is consistent with something I read recently (can’t remember where!). The writer said that of course the Jews were polytheistic. That’s why you have that one commandment that says “Thou shalt have no other god before me.” It’s interpreted today to mean that there were many different (false) religions, and the Jews had the one true religion with the one true god. This guy was saying that no, there were a bunch of supernatural god-like beings, and everybody accepted that as fact. It’s just that this one temperamental crybaby god was the one that was superior to the others.

If you look at the Hebrew, the reason ‘God’ refers to ‘himself’ in the second person inclusive is that the Hebrew “elohim” is actually a plural word. You see, /-im/ is the plural suffix in many Semitic languages.

Fun, isn’t it?

I’m actually currently writing a paper for one of my courses about the linguistic evidence for the polytheistic roots of monotheism, specifically the link between the ancient Sumerian pantheon and the Jewish god.

Basically the punch line is that the Jewish religion evolved out of a religion which recognized many gods but thought one superior (yahweh, who evolved from the Sumerian Enki), and the other gods (the elohim -sons of El, the Sumerian equivalent of Zeus) were later conflated as a single god by the Jewish priests.

It’s really quite clever what they did.

That’s where the Christian/Jewish tradition of reading Hebrew scriptures as having “many names” for “God” came from - multiple gods!

So maybe Hitler did read some Darwin, and come up with the idea that he could enact a little “natural selection” himself. Well, that’s terrible, but so what? Doesn’t make it any less true. Not one tiny iota.

Darwinism would be simply killing the physically/mentally disabled, the moderately weak and allowing only the strongest to survive (regardless of race, ethnicity, etc).

Incorrect. So-called “Darwinism” is simply another way of saying “natural selection.” There is nothing natural about killing the weak or retarded simply because they are weak or retarded. Left to nature, this hypothetical sample group may very well procreate before dying.

“Doctor” my ass. I sent him an email, called him “rev.”

He said God was science. “Science” comes from the Latin “scientia”, which means knowledge. God is omniscient; therefore, God is science!

Just awful. I don’t know how you can listen to that crap!

A bit off topic, but I like the title/alt text of the MPD link! Nice job.