Yahweh is a repurposed Canaanite war god, so it all sadly tracks.
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It just clicked for me why Marx called religion "the opiate of the masses."
...a salve to pain while not changing any behavior that causes the pain in the first place
As a recovered addict/alcoholic, this rings true, because it's exactly why I used alcohol and opioids on a personal level. I'm convinced it's this same addict's logic that religious people use to handwave not just war, but climate change, bigotry, abuse, slavery, poverty, and a host of other things that are killing us all, and that we could potentially fix if we actually addressed the problems rather than hiding in religion.