re: #461 Obdicut

I’m sorry, but that makes no sense. Why on earth is it irrelevant to your claim that it’s the starting point for these faiths if it is not, in fact, the starting point?

It’s a relatively arbitrary place to put your thumb down and say “it started here”.

And aside from believing that Judaism was directly divinely inspired— a belief shared by every other religion— it definitely was an amalgam of faiths, as seen by the editing and the progression of the monotheistic tenets inside it.

It’s not my fault you might be confused by the use of a fairly common lit-crit term in the context of a discussion of written revelations and the faiths that are ordered around them.

As for putting down my thumb - Christianity and Islam look no further back than to the beginning of Hebrew scripture. Lecture Christian prophets and Mohammed about where they put their thumbs.