Gaza and the sky-god cults

Philip Munger on Daily Kos last year:

Watching the world come closer to spinning out of control hour by hour is worse than watching it spin out of control week by week.

I have a few friends who are atheists.

I have many, many, many friends who are Christians. Although baptized and confirmed as a Lutheran, I'm not even close to Christianity anymore. 

I came to a point where I couldn't recite the Apostles' Creed or Nicene Creed anymore, because they are false statements. Jesus did not rise from the dead. There's no such thing as the father, son and Holy Ghost, literally or figuratively.

I have many friends who are Jewish. I'm not even close.

I have several friends who are Muslim. I'm not even close.

I regard all your faiths as cults, pure and simple.

That was okay until your hatreds toward one another spiraled into what we are now witnessing. Your superstitions and weird rituals might have once served to advance civilization. The Aztecs and Mayans also built monuments as awesome as the Notre Dame Cathedral, but they were built as platforms to cut out human hearts.

I call Judaism, Christianity and Islam "The three interconnected Abrahamic Vengeful Male Sky God Cults."

The basis of these cults are myths with no more substance in reality than Jason and the Golden Fleece or King Arthur. King David is a myth, yet every day of the week Christians and Jews venerate him as an epochal empire builder. They call the hymns known as Psalms the Psalms of David, yet nobody has ever shown that to be factual. 

Abraham, the interconnecting tissue of these superstitions, is a myth. However, his supposed home, Hebron, is a bedeviled city of warped hatreds between two cults fighting over what that myth means.

Like the Aztecs of 1500, the Christians of 1500 sacrificed people, mostly women who were midwives or healers. Unlike the Aztecs who quickly killed their victims, the Catholic and Protestant executioners watched their victims slowly roast as they screamed. Like the Aztecs, this was all done in front of large crowds to warn them.

Imagine living in Gaza right now. It has been an open air prison since Hamas took over 17 years ago. Not that it was much less of a prison before that. Hamas, which has become a boil on the flesh of every person in that prison, has picked this particular time to put a collective suicide vest on every person living in that hellhole.

And so another branch of the vengeful male sky god cult (Judaism) has convinced the third branch of the cult (Christianity) to accept what's going to happen over the next several weeks live on TV to warn us all.

I'm not blaming one of these cults more than the other. You are all, if you believe these dangerous superstitions, responsible for enabling this, either by rooting for one of the cults or by idly standing by as thousands of kids die without even understanding why they are offered up on the altar of Moloch.

The reality is that your superstitions are keeping us from preventing the entire planet from becoming unlivable. Own it!

Rob's comment:

I took the liberty of doing a little editing of the mostly outstanding original.