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Originally Posted by SeanL
The Talmud has as much validity as the Wall Street Journal editorial page. Nay, it has even less, because at least the opinion columns will occasionally cite a scientifically performed study.
The Talmud comes to its opinions purely based on anecdotal evidence. And anyone who is familiar with science knows that anecdotal evidence is not evidence of anything. The Talmud is useless.
And the only reason why the vast majority of individuals are any religion is because they were taught that from birth. Including Judaism.
Your faith is almost entirely a function of what family you were born into. Not because you arrived at some logical conclusion.
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Here is a video that does a great job explaining this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2VjdpVonY