If God has a gender, why not a race?

[Sarpedon]

And of course most historians have no problem identifying the place and time of a religion's origin. For example christianity: first century, eastern roman empire. Buddhism, ca 250 BC, Nepal. This is commonplace, and not controversial. Not even most believers will dispute the fact that their religion had an origin.

The only thing that is controversial in my statement is that the God of the religion was invented at the same time. This is of course purely semantic, and I won't really defend it. Since there's no god, I don't see the point in arguing whether or not the god of one religion is the same as the one of another religion. There are people who will argue that the god of Judaism and Christianity are the same, while that of Islam is different. Others will argue all three are the same. I see no point in this. For me, a god is a fictitious construct of a religion, thus each one has its own. That one religion is derived from another one will lead some people to say their 'god' is the same. I honestly don't care enough about the issue to argue. What I will argue is that there is no evidence of god independent of religion, so there's no point in discussing a god as anything other than a fictitious character.

 

[atrib]

Right there you've just admitted that religion comes before skepticism about said religion.
Wanna clarify your claim?

Duh!! Skepticism is a reaction to a theistic claim. The skepticism would not exist if there was no claim to be skeptical about.

Theist: Goddidit
Skeptic: I don't believe you. Do you have any evidence to support your claim?
Theist: You can't prove my god doesn't exist. Therefore goddidit!

 

[Australian_Composer]

For those that believe their saviour (I refer to as jebus) is God & a Jew, then obviously their God belongs to the Race of Jews/Hebrews)

 

[Lion IRC]

Salvation comes from the Jews.
See John 4:22

 

[Lion IRC]

Jebus is the original name of the town that eventually grew into the city now called Jerusalem.
Praise Jebus indeed!

 

[Harry Bosch]

Salvation comes from the Jews.
See John 4:22

It's shocking that Jews writing the bible would claim that they are special!

 

[Jobar]

Jebus is the original name of the town that eventually grew into the city now called Jerusalem.
Praise Jebus indeed!

Smokin' Jebus