Sorry, Cthulhu -- you'll always be my number 2
Sorry, Cthulhu -- you'll always be my number 2
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The German translation reads "Du sollst keine anderen Götter neben mir haben" so "[...] no other gods besides me", which explicitly forbids paying homage to other gods.
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100 languages, 100 different translations. Then translated from dead languages. Then changed to suit a tyrant. Then translated back to another language.
If you think any of that original fiction is still there, you're a fucking idiot. If you don't think it's fiction, you're an even bigger idiot.
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This is the point of view that I've had since elementary school after a game of "Telephone".
If you can't put 6 people in a line, whisper something to the first, and have the same thing come from the last, what are the chances any of those books contain any original text? Especially when you have sycophantic rulers like Orange Hitler looking to bilk the masses and trying to rule the world.
Religion is a tool of fear and control to keep the population where you want them. It is broadly and repeatedly used to justify the absolute worst actions in humanity. Religion is the fuel that makes individuals hate entire countries of people they have never met.
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Literally been carrying that all my life, too. It definitely doesn’t seem like most people took that message away from the game.
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The Torah has been preserved in Hebrew, but changed in writing over time. The Quran has been preserved in Arabic and the original text is preserved, which is also why the language is preserved.
Your argument is factually wrong and calling all Jews, Muslims and Christians "fucking idiots" is racist and antisemitic.
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lol, man didn not even mentions jewish ppl expicitly and you threw in antisemite lmaoo
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The Torah is where the ten commandments first are written down. By Jews in Hebrew.
And just not mentioning a group explicitly, does not mean you dont attack them.
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Racist and antisemitic are not the right terms here. Please let us know why you think it is factually wrong to call Muslims and Christians "fucking idiots".
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You seem to be looking for something to be offended by. Sad.
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The joke hinges on misusing an alternate meaning to an English word that is a translation already from ancient Hebrew (likely via Latin). I am pretty sure the artist is well aware of this. Of course, some people will read this comic and think they discovered some profound contradiction...
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"I am the Lord thy God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of slavery and you shall have no other gods before me"
That's not a mistranslation, that's the entire first commandment. The old testament openly acknowledges the "existence" of competing deities.
Remember that when this was written down for the first time, it was super strange to have only one all powerful God. There were hundreds of gods that the Jews would have been at least aware of. Even if the whole Exodus thing is not accurate to Jewish history in particular, which it likely isn't, no one but the Jews had only one God they prayed to. At the time, you prayed to whoever you thought got that particular job done. The first commandment says no, set them all aside and worship me and me alone.
Which is exactly why the second commandment is about not making idols.
Also the whole Egypt thing was probably the Hitites, who got diaspora'd and many of whom probably ended up finding the Jewish people and integrated with them. There's literally 0 physical evidence of large scale Jewish enslavement in ancient Egypt.
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At the time, you prayed to whoever you thought got that particular job done
Then Catholics came along and replaced this with patron saints.
(technically Catholics believe they are asking the patron to intercede and advocate for whatever the devotee is asking for, but it's still funny to me that they still fill the roles of the lesser gods of antiquity)
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Man, imagine being really devout, so devout you become a Saint, then instead of hanging out in Heaven you have to do paperwork for people praying to you.
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"Saint" is just an old word for "Team Leader" is it not?
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A dove drops a feather next to a towering stack of completed requests. St. Anthony picks it up and sighs
"This guy is asking me to find his keys for the tenth time this week! I wish I was the patron saint of memory, because this guy really needs one, ugh."
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no one but the Jews had only one God they prayed to.
Well, there was that one time ancient Egypt suddenly took a turn to monotheism (arguably more correctly monolatrism). Which lead to an alternative theory of Exodus as the story of Atenist priests fleeing Egypt after Akhenaten's death and deciding to have another go at monotheism with the Isrealites...
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You are correct about the meaning being not to have other gods, I didn't say it was a mistranslation. I said they are purposefully taking the alternate and more popular meaning of the word "before". In the scripture it means 'in front of' or 'in my sight'. They take the meaning as 'in line in front of'. Because of the eccentricities of English and many other languages, the meaning could be taken either way if you didn't have context. Also, the joke hinges on ignoring that mentioning other gods doesn't mean they exist or exist in the way they are purported to exist. In that German translation from the post I was replying to, the translation was more specific and didn't lend as much confusion.
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The way it sounds in full is like "I saved you from a tyrant you were forced to serve and worship! Therefore you must serve and worship me!"
I'm not the only one reading it like that, right?
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The old testament is full of kinda fucked up,
borderlineabusive demands.NVM he has you cut the tip of your dick off as an act of devotion it's full on abusive.
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It's not so much an alternative meaning of a translation as one part of the mythos was written a millennia before the other.
Early the-religion-that-would-become-judaism was pretty openly polytheistic.
Over time Yahweh went from being the god of the mountain to the king of the gods, to the only one that mattered to worship, to the only one at all.It's entirely unsurprising that there are bits that allude to different phases of their worship. This isn't even the most blatant. Satan? Holy Trinity? Host of angels?
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