Should a monotheistic God ever be considered good or great?

Aug 9, 2018 19:58:38 GMT Aj_June said:

Aug 9, 2018 17:23:14 GMT CoolJGS☺ said:

This is the weird thing about skepticism.It isn't really about doubting something and proving it wrong or true, it's largely about creating a fiction to justify the view of something being wrong.

There is no reason at all to think that God of the Bible (Both Judaism and Christianity since they are the same) was either an original concept or the one others copied or, since monotheism isn't an unusual concept, that they developed on their own.By pretending there is a link across all of them, this creates the OP need to create parameters that do not actually exist.

I think religions do influence in areas where adherents of two faiths live together. Pakistani Muslims are often very different from Arabs. One of the reasons for that would be Hindu influence on Pakistani or Indian Muslims. Buddhism in Bhutan may have influenced the customs of Hindus. Not just customs but even religious beliefs. I don't think there is anything wrong with attempting to study influences of one religion on another. Yeah, I do agree we have to be careful that we do not overstate the influence or create complete fictions.

Which is fine as long as there is basis. There is no basis for the hypotheticals tossed out in the thread.

Further, there is never going to be an expansive difference between two Muslim groups or else one of the groups is no longer Muslim.

Timeline and paper trail wires we know a few things. Patriarchal times had both monotheistic gods and polytheistic gods. The people were not so stupid as to not be able to either come up with their own religions or have verification of the religion they followed depending on one's belief on the matter.

From patriarchal time we see that the Israelites were around Egyptians for hundreds of years and yet never adopted their beliefs. now we are to believe that some lone weird pharaoh would be responsible for the advent of Judaism despite both of them co-existing for centuries and developing 2 completely different and contrasting religions ? Why?

This goes back to what I said. Skeptics in particular simply MUST create a problem where one does not exist or MUST provide a solution to a problem we create solely to solve.