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“You cannot serve both God and money” (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The first commandment being "I am thy God and though shalt have no other gods before me" (which implies the existence of other gods quite directly) before "thou shalt not kill" is pretty indicative or the actual attitude of the religion.

"The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine."

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism