The Tall Man
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You are looking at this from a Christian perspective, in which laws are absolute and not to be broken, or historically, one would face torture until death by the Inquisition. For Christians, it’s an ancient, dead book from a mystical, foreign land.
From the Jewish perspective, it’s their book, written by their own people, a conversation with their tribal God, a back-and-forth dialogue. Around 270 BC, the rich Israelis came up with their own spin-off religion with the purpose to create a strong, separate identity. Judaism’s goal is to create a lot of outgroup hatred and distrust in its followers and give them a fake history to make them feel like their tribal identity is ancient and meaningful (textbook cult teachings). These early Jews were not knowledgeable enough to know the name of the pharaoh that would correspond with the Moses story, so they just called the guy “the pharaoh.” Jew is a made-up identity; they are just regular Arabs in blood.
Christianity is basically Judeo-Platonism; it takes a few fundamental concepts from Judaism and mixes them with Platonism. Platonism is universalism. The idea of Plato was to brainwash people into becoming the perfect servants of the state. Ideas like family, ancestry, and heroism are things Plato despised. He wanted a country directed by philosophers like himself, and everyone else would have a neatly assigned role to follow as laid out by those philosopher-kings. This is why you find a lot of verses in the Bible that tell you to disavow your family and only trust in Christ or not to seek earthly possessions but follow the rules and be rewarded after death. The concept of a soul being placed into a body came from Plato too. He was a dysgenic fella, and he liked this idea of actually not being his body but a perfect mind trapped in a body, and he came to believe that everyone is just a mind sucked into a body by random chance. This is the foundation of all modern universalist ideologies like communism, transgenderism, etc. It is all rooted in Plato’s dysgenic idea of identity. If you are not your body but just your mind, then who is to say you are not in the wrong body? Christianity replaced the state with Christ, but it’s fundamentally the same universalist, proto-communist teaching of Plato.
Plato has been proven to be nothing but a dysgenic freak in body and mind.
Most of his ideas have been thoroughly dismantled through later, superior, and more rational philosophers. The reason he became this famous is because under Christianity, he was one of the few ancient thinkers who was mostly compatible with the Church’s views, so he kept being taught.
Judaism only seeks to create a group that hates everyone not of their group for the purpose of having a separate nation. So Yahweh is like a father to them, an ultimate patriarch.
In Christianity Yahweh is a bunch of perfect rules set in stone and if you follow those rules you will be rewarded for eternity after death, if you break them you will be punished for eternity after death. Very much a construct taken straight from Plato, the noble lie. The goal is to make Christians servants of the religion instead of the state.
