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0 pointsdanans4y ago0 comments

> Organized religions are some of the very few institutions that survived for thousands of years with little change.

Which organized religion are you referring to here? All the big ones have changed immensely.

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wizzwizz44y ago· 2 in thread

At least, the Torah has survived with minimal change.

Well we don’t have the autographs for any holy text past a certain point, so I’m not sure that’s true. But with faith it doesn’t matter.

wizzwizz44y ago

We have physical copies of older versions. Just because it's religion, doesn't mean it's made up.

RustyConsul4y ago

Just because religions go through major institutional changes, since they are in fact very human at their core, you have to give some credit to the fact we are still talking about Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad.

bombcar4y ago

The Dead Sea scrolls can be compared to the “oral” tradition (mostly actually written) to see how far it shifted.

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