The Abrahamics cause so much suffering based on the sole fact that they all believe their scriptures absolutely tell them what God wants, yet few of the sects and divisions agree with each other. Buddhism at its core recognizes the indeterminacy of all speech and our interpretations of all of it. Clinging to speech as an absolute is a recipe for moral, intellectual, and spiritual failure. When speech is deemed absolute, the mind and spirit are blocked from full realization. This is why Buddhism often suggests rather than states and why the Buddha himself refused to answer questions on subjects that lead to clinging to absolutist ideas. From a Buddhist POV, to say the Jews are the only people especially beloved by God is ridiculous. I was raised as a Christian and do my best to remain respectful of Christianity and strongly believe a good Christian is better than a bad Buddhist. Given that background, I think it’s proper for me to speak this way about Christianity. Whatever spirituality people get from it is good, very good. Clinging to the absoluteness of the words is the mistake. ABN
Because of statements like this that supposedly came directly from God and other statements that again came from God, like God telling his chosen people to slaughter every man, woman, and child, and even the sheep and goats, you have to wonder just who is this “God” that told them that? “God” tells them to slaughter every man, woman, and child? What kind of “God” is that?
You have to wonder whether “the chosen people” went off the rails somewhere along the line and were worshipping an entity they believed was God, but in truth was something else. Satan maybe? Satan masquerading as God? That would be the most clever trick Satan could pull on “God’s chosen people” to get them convinced that he, Satan, is actually God, and that “God” is telling them slaughter everyone. I bet he had a good long laugh as he pulled that one off.