The Definition of Verified

A census is the definition of verified.

Which is more absurd:

1) 603,550 heads of household (established by census) and their families, numbering in the millions, communally experienced a singular, supernatural event, and passed this knowledge down from father to son.

or..

2) 603,550 heads of household (established by census) and their families, numbering in the millions, communally came up with the concept of G-d and an elaborate story to go with it. Not just the Written Torah - the 5 books of Moses - but the Oral Torah that came with the Written Torah - another 30 odd volumes of oral Torah encapsulated in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud.

If you actually read the written Torah, much less the oral Torah, you would know that every argument and disagreement, every stumble and sin the Jews went through is exposed and documented, in detail.

Perhaps you are not familiar with the old adage of what happens when you lock two Jews up in a room, you get three opinions.

To think that millions of people would not have said, "wait a minute, what the fuck are we doing making up a crazy lie to tell our kids, and their kids", is absolutely absurd.

In 3000 years of history, Jews have quarreled over every letter of Torah. Every argument, including the accepted opinion and the minority opinion, has been preserved. Sects have broken off, including the Karaites (who only accept the Written Law - the Pentateuch, the 5 books of Moses) and Samaritans, who do weird things like ">engrave their mezuzas above their doors, instead of on the door frame.

Yet not a single sect - all of which are minor and anomalous in themselves - rejected Mattan Torah, the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people.

In 3000 years of Jewish history, not a single letter of Torah has been misplaced or rewritten. We know this because when they found the Dead Sea Scrolls, preserved for 2000 years, they were identical, letter for letter, to the Torahs we use in a synagogue today. This is a massive document with no vowels and no punctuation, yet every single letter was preserved!

Yes, I think it's more likely that millions of Jews experienced a communal revelation of G-d, instead of embarking on a massive, comprehensive conspiracy to lie to themselves and their children.