Yeah, but unlike islam, Judaism isn't a super strict religion. To the casual observer it is. But most rules are not enforced anymore if at all. Like keeping kosher is seen as just a remnant of the very old religion that Judaism is. The hardest part of the religion is just learning to speak hebrew. Something after your bar mitzvah you really don't need any longer.

hebrew is cool though. they're offering hebrew classes at my university. i'm thinking about signing up after i'm done with persian and then turkish maybe. but yeah theres a lot of similar vocabulary with hebrew and arabic.

The people? No. One of my two best friends is a Jew, and all the Jewish people I have known have basically been atheists in all but name. But I think that's because the world has ****ed them over so ridiculously that they treat everything, including their religion, with a certain detached, humorous nihilism.

This of course does not apply to the kind of uber-Jews that steal Palestinian land because they believe that the Torah grants them the indisputable right to own anything granted to them in their little book. But most Jews in the Western world are far more secular than this.

But the religion itself is totally xenophobic. Thank god it doesn't dominate the world.

That's me. Lol

well yeah i agree with all you said basically

but at the same time all religions are to some degree xenophobic, no? christians and muslims both believe that if you're not part of their religion you will go to hell? i mean i guess there are exceptions (in islam, at least) but you get what i'm saying.

Aren't they both derivatives of the same language?

That's ok, that still makes them less annoying.

yeah arabic and hebrew are both semantic languages and also the only 2 semantic languages that are still spoken today

That's what I thought. Ok.

Yes, but Judaism is based in a time period far earlier than Christianity or Islam, when tribalism was even more prevalent. The Jewish faith is less horrific to the world merely because it does not proselytize, but its tenets are quite possibly more primitive and barbaric.

So far as I know, there isn't a New Testament Biblical or Quranic tenet that says that a woman who has been raped in a city is to be stoned to death, since she consented to the sex, otherwise she would have been heard crying out and been saved, whereas a woman raped in the countryside is not to be stoned to death, since there aren't people around to hear her scream.

The Torah may not be warlike (or it might be, I don't know), but it is certainly barbaric.