"Summary of Religions"

There's so much wtf in that post, it hurts to look like. The section on Christianity alone is painful. Particularly this part:

He made sure to tell us that the covenant wasn't only for the Jews, but that God has made a covenant with us all, he made sure that we knew that we are all children of God. This would make the Jews loose their position of power and influence and that's why they killed Jesus

How does that even work? The Roman's were already in charge there. There was no need for the Jews to worry about their power being threatened, that went out the door when they invited Rome in to mediate their conflict. And I don't recall the Romans ever caring that much about the Jews having a covenant with their own God. I feel like that would be a given.

Also, for the billionth time, the Jews did NOT kill Jesus. Jesus was killed by the Romans, using a roman execution method, after being judged by the Romans and found guilty. IIRC, the Jews wouldn't have even had the power to execute a political prisoner at the time (this could be wrong, if so correct me because I can't look it up at work).

Then there's this:

Most of the Catholic holidays are celebrated on dates which were originally designated to holidays of those indigenous religions.

Okay, first of all, what are we talking about when we say Holiday, because that can mean a lot of things. If they are talking about the days of Obligation? Saints' days? Working Holy days? If they mean days of Obligation, those have changed over the years. There were, like, 30+ at one point (there are 8 now if I'm remembering my Confirmation classes correctly), but even then the observation of those holy days varied on where you were because some bishops had petitioned the Holy See to decrease the number of non-sunday days of Obligation.

If we are talking about Saints' days, then that makes a bit more sense imo, but it also brings up a whole new set of issues, such as which saints, what about more modern saints, or saints that have been removed (I'll never give up St, Christopher the giant werewolf, I don't care what the church says!). What about noncatholic groups that also have saints and saint days?

Also, how can a religion be "completed", especially one that is still being practiced today? Religions are changing and adapting all the time. New thoughts, philosophies, and interpretations pop up all the time. Even just talking about Catholicism, it's been changing a lot over the years, especially recently. The biggest example, imo, would be Vatican II, which drastically changed some things in the church.

There's also this line, which really grabbed my attention:

Problem is that it began involving politics with religion, just like all the aforementioned religions with Buddhism and the Egyptians being the exceptions.

This line is just a mess. 1. In Egypt, the Pharaoh was literally an incarnation of a god on Earth, I don't think it's possible for religion to be anymore involved in politics than that? 2. Once again, correct me if I'm wrong, but Buddhism, while not as strongly involved in politics as, say, Christianity, did become involved in the sense that it moved in an out of favor with different dynasties, and was targeted by different rebellions (or that could just be the Taiping rebellion).

So this was the origin of Buddhism and why it replaced Hinduism as the nr 1, religion in East-Asia, luckily, unlike in the Middle- East, the Aryan descendants did not invented or instated a new religion even tough they lost power.

I'm confused by what they mean here. If they are taking about "east-asia" meaning India, then Buddhism never replaced Hinduism. Hinduism is still going very strong in that part of the world. If they mean "east asia" as in China, Japan, Korea, Laos, and those areas, then they are wrong because Hinduism wasn't a main religion in those areas. They had a mix of things, like Confucianism, Taoism, traditional folk religions, Shinto, and so on, and Buddhism didn't even replace those, it was practiced along side of them.

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