>>The question deserves years, decades, centuries of study. I commend you for starting the search. \
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>Thanks, Randy.
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>Particularly, I'm wondering if anyone from a non-Christian perspective has a comment or, more interesting, a criticism of what I believe.
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>I would suggest that my original post is a modern and scientific re-telling of the Hebrew Bible.
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>So I'm most interested in what atheists and Jews would think about the new version.
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Ok I'll bite. As an atheist (aka, realist) "God is absolute reality" won't fly with me, but the principles seem alright. Religon evolves as the human race does - and eventually (assuming humans don't kill each other off first) I think this perception of the existance of some supreme being will diminish over time, and someday instead of having a bunch of humans all suffering from this mass delusion we'll be wise enough to figure out our own moral standards instead of trying to establish our values based on 2000 year old work of fiction.