Science and Religion Need to Take Each Other Seriously

[RainDog]

155. Some other religions viewed this god as a lesser god in the pantheon

because he was, as ascribed to him in the bible - a jealous god.

one view of the sacrifice of Abraham is that it illustrates the patriarchal structure: submission.

...which is a view shared by the offspring religions.

An anthropomorphized god, imo, is just too small - too backward looking and thinking - yet lacking a full view of the history of humankind because the stories about the development of that religion were meant to sell it - this is the one true belief - and that has always been about political and cultural power as much as anything else.

I just cannot view those stories as anything more than relics of the past, in the same way that Hathor was the goddess of the sky - the abstract - life and death - the creator of the stars and the milky way because of her fertility and life-giving, life-bringing attributes.

Instead - the god of western culture starts out with demanding a murder of an innocent to prove how much someone is willing to submit to his authority?

Sounds abusive to me.