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Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What's the evidence of the name being scrubbed? Is it just that the Jews still use Yahweh and Christians don't usually? I'm curious and would like to have backing if I repeat that at some point.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Yahweh is used to describe God like 7,000 times in the Old testament (written before Christianity by Jews) and used 0 times in the New Testament written by Christians.

Depending bible, all the Yahweh's may be replaced by the all caps "LORD" because they literally went back and scrubbed the name out to obey "don't use my name in vain".

Not sure how good of a source this is but I mean you can literally compare the Old Testament to the Torah and see that it changed:

In actuality, God’s personal name is in your Bible . . . sort of. The editors have chosen not to transliterate God’s name, like they do every other proper name in the Bible, and have instead chosen to replace God’s name, Yahweh, with the upper-case LORD or GOD. That’s right, all 6,828 times God’s personal name Yahweh is written in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament have been replaced with the English LORD or GOD in your English Bible. Let’s look at Psalm 117 as an example.

“Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!”

PSALM 117

The word “LORD” in all upper-case letters is God’s personal name, Yahweh. God’s personal name is used three times in Psalm 117. So, in a way, God’s personal name is in all modern English Bibles; the translators and editors have simply chosen not to transliterate it, but to use the word LORD or GOD instead. Most Bibles explicitly state what they are doing in the preface, but let’s be honest, most people do not read the preface to their Bible.

https://biblicalculture.com/why-is-gods-name-not-in-the-bible/

To be clear I don't believe any of this stuff, it's just always bugged me that the biggest modern religious conflict is three groups all praying to the same God they all swear is peaceful, and just constantly killing Innocents over minor details without even realizing it.

So I've looked into how they different they really are. And most of the conflict is semantics that no one fighting over actually understands.