We HAVE had threads on CarolC before, Ohh-Ahh, usually launched by people intent on convicting her of anti-semitism or some other form of nastiness like that, and willing to spend several hours a day at it...

Boring as hell. I know her, and those labels simply don't fit. Not even close. These people ought to get a REAL hobby, like collecting nude photos of Liberace or belly button lint or something else like that that reflects their keen grasp of reality in a more appropriate fashion.

I can understand how the 3 monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) bug you...they have been a real pain for humanity and have caused tremendous suffering and ignorance. The Children of Israel, by the way, had their period of kicking ass, invading, pillaging and despoiling too..it was back when they arrived in the Middle East from Sinai...but that was a very long time ago. They have sort of resumed that aggressive role since 1948, after a very lengthy period of being harried from pillar to post by various insane Christian fanatics in Europe...and of course the Christians and Muslims have been having repeated periods of mutual extermination. Only recently have Muslims and Jews been at each other's throats.

I find it ironical that 3 religions which arose out of the same holy books and prophets can't get along with each other. They're worse than the Democrats and Republicans, and that's BAD!

Now, there are some other religions that are actually monotheistic too...

The Bahai religion is.

The Hindu religion is...in that it proposes a single transcendent Godhead, and then breaks that Godhead up into many particular aspects with names like: Rama, Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Radha, Parvati, Hanuman, Ganesh, etc...these may look to you like many gods and goddesses, but they are all aspects of the transcendent One. A diamond can have many facets, but it's still one diamond. You follow?

The North American Indians had a similar way of looking at it: One God, manifesting as many archetypes and powers in Nature. The one God could be called Manitou or Wakan Tanka (Holy Spirit)...but could appear in many aspects.

Most religions, in fact, are monotheistic at their heart. But even the Christians, in the majority, see the One God as a tripartite God...Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then the Catholics add Mary and a whole lot of saints. Now how is that really all that different from the many aspects of the One which the Hindus believe in?

It isn't. It's quite similar. People are wasting their time arguing about nothing, when they actually have a tremendous amount in common. That is the human tragedy.