Well i consider myself ignorant compared to our great fathers and old testaments.
Religions are changing syncroniously with society. The modern christianity went far away from its 2000 years old origins. I don't see a reason why should we think that priest class is smarter than scientists or healthcare workers...
I agree, i dont follow all the selfish priests, i follow the basic principles. i read the old books, not the modern over-adapted preaches. It is a whole, not some parts to interpret in your advantage.
I believe in some collective amnesia when previous civilisations went down (for example the one that build pyramids from the middle east to asia or south america,
gobekli tepe, the easter island, or even the atlantid myth or noa's arch, etc..).
If you wish to get rid of the people then physical elimination isn't enough. You need to erase all traces of their culture from existance, otherwise it could be resurrected and come to get a revenge. See Inca Empire for example, it was destroyed by spanish conquistadors in the same manner. We even have no idea about structure of their government or phylosophy... Because the most of evidences were destroyed to prevent the people from resurrecting their empire.
You miss my point, from Abraham to Noa or even the Atlandis, i believe there was another very advanced civilization by that time and that probably some global (biblical) cataclysme has whipped it out from our memory. The only thing left is our good old myths and texts, but it is not because we dont have physical proofs that they were nonetheless real. This is what i call over-rationalization. Seeking proofs for everything, even when it naturally fades away as time passes by on our beloved planet could be misleading in that way.
and i just dont want to fall in the trap of over rationalization and loosing what makes us human: our souls.
Our intelligence and logic are, in fact, foundation of our soul. Animals have no soul because they're not capable of making the difficult conclusions. They're simply reacting without estimation of the consequences.
We are inteligent but i dont believe that it is all what we are. Come on, i mean, possibilities are infinite, even the big bang theory has suggested that there was
something else. What about the biogenesis regarding the theory of evolution, what made the very first living cell possible? Are we alone in the universe? Lets stop fooling ourselves with our over-confindence thinking we understand everything and that what we dont is pure fantasy. We are all too much self orientated, with our little disputes, killing each other in the names of politicians, or even god, but this is just BS. Have some faith.