Thread by @Apotheiite

Much in the world makes sense when you realise that Judaism values a witness' observation of an event more highly than evidence for the event itself. Its judicial system relied on witnesses, the Torah stating two or more witnesses was enough to indict someone of a crime.

This attitude of legitimate truth via witness came to us in Christianity, whereby the whole of Europe observed the truth of Christ not by evidence but by witness, and so we embraced the authenticity of witnessed account over evidence. Hence forgiveness absolves evil by agreement.

This enough was sufficient to build a moral system of witness, a necessary consequence when you observe the most fundamental truth—that Christ was God—as being grounded in witness accounts and not by material evidence or reason. These are rejected, there is only witness truth.

From there then came the cascade of witness-based philosophy, turning the observer into the creator. First it begins within scholasticism, revived then in Kant and the subsequent Germanic idealists, finalising within postmodernism and structuralism today. The destruction of real.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel expressed this Jewish theological sentiment: "In this world God is not God unless we are His witnesses."

And per Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai on YHWH, ‘‘if you are My witnesses, I am the Lord, and if you are not My witnesses, I am not the Lord’’.

Further, Rabbi Heschel declares: "There are no proofs for the existence of the God of Israel. There are only witnesses. You can think of Him only by seeking to be present to Him. You cannot define Him, you can only invoke Him. He is not a notion but a name."

Are we not to see the clear Hebraic consistency between this God-by-witness and Jesus-by-witness? Are they not producing deity by the same sentiment? Do they not say that God is because they say so, not because God is? How could anyone be surprised Atheism spawns from this?

The truth-witness economy is destroying us. It's this which rewrites history. It's this denying reality, lending humanity into the modern state of schizophrenic hysteria whereby the self-evident is denied and the absurd loved and adored. From the beginning, insanity became true.

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