>>42263251
there are none

When you break away from it, you're still left with the concepts of virtue, goodness, benevolence.
Those can still be embodied all the same.
It's just a shift of the framework to see that anyone who's good can be god. God and good have the same root word in etymology.
They meant the same thing before the church restrained it and personified it.
The whole of abrahamic faith comes from Akhenaten and Nefertiti who created Atenism to deify themselves and dominate Egypt.
It's why they were expelled with force by the Amunists.
They and their followers took the region of Judea and were known as Hebrews, which stems from Habiru, the Canaanite word for "Foreigners" which ought to tell you why their descendants look a bit Egyptian.

>>42263337
Well, that's kind of the idea expressed by Gmirkin. It's Plato's noble lie actually applied. Hidden right in plain sight. It creates a citizenry who are more rational, lawful, healthy, and productive.

>>42263251
I think this is certainly possible. But I don't think the stories of the old testament were just pulled put of thin air to create a law book. Genesis itself and the flood myth are far older than the rest of the old testament. It goes all the way back to Gilgamesh, which is the oldest human written story we have. And I know christain apologists will argue it's different, and point those out, obviously it's different a story is going to adapt and change after thousands of years l. But the core elements are there. A god warns a single man about a coming flood. He tells him to build an arc. He does and it rains for an extended and specific period of time flooding the earth. The a arc lands on a mountain as the flood subsides. The man then offers a burnt sacrifice to the gods.
That dame story woth those same elements is also retold in the Greek myths BTW. Prometheus is the god that warns the man, because Zeus is going to flood the earth. My point is the story isn't Hebrew, but it's not Greek either.
The New Testeament though is definitely hellenic and influenced by Plato. Monotheism does not exist without Plato. The old testament is not a monothesitc text. It acknowledges openly that other gods exist, but the Hebrews have a blood pact with yahweh because they cut the skin of their dicks off, and he is to be the only god they worship. The first commandment is "Thou shall have no other gods before me" which implies other gods exist.

>>42263337
truth