There's No Such Thing As An Original System Of Religious Faith
In response to this:
One random person replied with this:
"Most orthodox Jews are God fearing and follow the original gods commandments. It is the unfortunate amalgamation of Zionism latching on and intertwining its identity to the same identity which sees those who genuinely follow Judaism in it's purest form. They were those who had the covenant with God and their descendants of them from that place and time onwards. This is nothing to do with most Israeli's that originated from Europe and follow a convoluted version of the original faith, or are agnostic and/ or secular"
- Hugo Pasha
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In reply, I offer this:
Taking these in order:
1. "Most orthodox Jews are God fearing"
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I think that's very unfortunate.
But, of course, I'm pretty sure you are correct;
most of them feel that way about their deity.
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3. "(they) follow the original gods commandments. "
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Just so we're clear about this, the "God of Abraham" was invented in the minds of various ancient cultists.
It was a community project which spanned for many centuries as it developed.
It was not among the earliest gods that humans mentally created.
Nor is it really in its final form.
It will continue to change over time, until that project is replaced by something (or "someone") else.
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4.
"those who genuinely follow Judaism in it's purest form."
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There's no such thing as any religion "in its purest form".
There is no such thing as an objectively true religion.
Nor was there ever a time when a Hebrew religion just popped into existence.
Thus, there was no "original" version we can look to, as a thing which all later versions should be measured against.
The (polytheistic) "Biblical" Hebrews was a religious 'theme' which ancient cultists invented.
While they were creating their religious system, they were borrowing and adapting other/older religions concepts.
It was a slow, messy, and ever-changing religious project.
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5.
" They were those who had the covenant with God"
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but not in reality.
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6. "This is nothing to do with most Israeli's that originated from Europe"
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There's no such thing as a version of "Israel" that literally began independently from an older version.
All versions are a limb from the same tree.
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7. "(they) follow a convoluted version of the original faith"
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All versions of every religious theme are non-original and convoluted.
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8.
"or are agnostic and/ or secular"
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When someone is not a member of a specified religion,
we don't get to count them as part of that religion. There's no such thing as an agnostic or secular version of any Abrahamic religion. Although, of course, many ethnically-Jewish citizens of modern "Israel" do participate in their local religious culture; just not in any religion itself.
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