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Originally Posted by pansy gayboy 69
well yeah i agree with all you said basically
but at the same time all religions are to some degree xenophobic, no? christians and muslims both believe that if you're not part of their religion you will go to hell? i mean i guess there are exceptions (in islam, at least) but you get what i'm saying.
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Yes, but Judaism is based in a time period far earlier than Christianity or Islam, when tribalism was even more prevalent. The Jewish faith is less horrific to the world merely because it does not proselytize, but its tenets are quite possibly more primitive and barbaric.
So far as I know, there isn't a New Testament Biblical or Quranic tenet that says that a woman who has been raped in a city is to be stoned to death, since she consented to the sex, otherwise she would have been heard crying out and been saved, whereas a woman raped in the countryside is not to be stoned to death, since there aren't people around to hear her scream.
The Torah may not be warlike (or it might be, I don't know), but it is certainly barbaric.