Methinks Abrahamic religions are an insult to the intelligence…
Try saying that in Qatar or in Saudi Arabia and you’ll be lucky if you still have a head on your shoulders to count how many digits the Islamic Court fined you for blasphemy against the Prophet (Peas be upon his name) or his imaginary deity…
If you said that in England or anywhere else in Europe during feudal times it’s ditto as in you’d be very unlikely to still have a head left on your shoulders after a king who just for the record was always placed on their throne by a divine right faithfully carried out the sentence of the church for heresy or blasphemy…
If you did indeed still have a head on your shoulders you’d soon see yourself literally being ‘BURNT AT THE STAKE’ as an act of divine punishment\mercy meant to help others to see that it was better never to stray from Jehovah’s holy doctrine or else, then by the way people would literally eat the choicest pieces of your slowly roasted carcass after you were literally burnt alive at said stake…
If you said such a thing as the Abrahamic religion being an insult to the intelligence in ancient Israel then the method of almighty god’s wrathful divine intervention was usually to have all the faithful stone you and your whole family to death and afterwards, guess what, while some scholars may dispute this it’s a fact that in most cases they’d also roast the corpse then eat the choicest pieces, and tho I’ve never (Yet) heard of Muslim’s doing the ritual kabbalistic cannibalism thing as the punishment for blasphemy against their Hebrew deity it’s a fact that one way or the other simply killing blasphemers is still the most widely prevalent method of instilling fear into the wider community about displaying unbelief about Abram’s angry invisible omnipotent omnipresent deity in public…
The Psychology of Control 