re: #202 pdc_lgf

What is it you consider “foundational” for Judaism? Specifically, what material phenomena?

As for the Biblical texts, Judaism moved beyond literalism a long time ago.

I think a better way to look at it is this. We can start with the contradictions within everything preceding Moses. What evidence do we have that the ancients were immune to these contradictions? Is there evidence that humans were stupider, say 2500 years ago, than they are today? I think the burden of proof would be to show that folks a long time ago took the Jwish Bible literally. (I mean stupider, not more ignorant. Of course, time having a preferred direction, and human memory being cumulative, they were more ignorant.)

Certainly, the Catholic Church didn’t and hasn’t. They were careful - and I think this is a good & wise thing - to say that they were the final arbiters - not the Jewish Bible.

Of course Judaism moved beyond literalism a long time ago, especially when they saw how problematic the texts were. So, the target gets moved, and that fixes everything? No, that just add fuel to my fire.

It doesn’t matter how the biblical text have been reexamine and reinterpreted over the last 2500 years, it’s the fact itself that they have been.

Why, because they are faulty. And you glow over the fact that the way Judaism and Christianity looks at those text have changed, as if that fixes everything. No, it’s a vain attempt to fit a square peg into a round hole, a square peg that has been proven to be made of rotten wood.