I composed a lengthy post about "Why Judaism Isn't Football" inspired by your arguments in your first comment.
As to your latest: Athens and Sparta probably had a worse slave situation than the Jews, but probably treated women & gays better, and definitely treated adherents of non-state religions better. I don't know that I'd call either them or ancient IsraelĀ a clear winner.
Re: Judaism not having an "objective, modern or socially just" notion of right and wrong, that isn't to say it's either irrational or purely historical, but simply that it is its own thing, and that the degree to which it adheres to those other categories is coincidental.
The evolutionary psychologist argues that Jews have evolved to outcompete gentiles. Joey Kurtzman and John Derbyshire discuss whether he's America's most dangerous antisemite or an insightful scholar.
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I composed a lengthy post about "Why Judaism Isn't Football" inspired by your arguments in your first comment.
As to your latest: Athens and Sparta probably had a worse slave situation than the Jews, but probably treated women & gays better, and definitely treated adherents of non-state religions better. I don't know that I'd call either them or ancient IsraelĀ a clear winner.
Re: Judaism not having an "objective, modern or socially just" notion of right and wrong, that isn't to say it's either irrational or purely historical, but simply that it is its own thing, and that the degree to which it adheres to those other categories is coincidental.