Criticism of religion developed from the 17th century onwards. For example, in Asia, no one before the 19th century self-identified as a "Hindu" or other similar identities. With the existence of diverse modern categories of religion such as monotheism, polytheism, pantheism, nontheism and diverse specific religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism and many others, it is not always clear to whom the criticisms are aimed at or to what extent they are applicable to other religions. Some criticisms of monotheistic religions have been: Dennett and Harris have asserted that theist religions and their scriptures are not divinely inspired, but man made
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures a former professor in Semitic languages, notes that a literal translation that follows the sentence structure of the source language rather than target language must be somewhat wooden and unidiomatic. Furuli adds that Rowley's assessment based on his own preference for idiomatic translations ignores the NWT's stated objective of being as literal as possible. Samuel Haas, in his 1955 review of the 1953 first volume of the "New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures", in the "Journal of Biblical Literature", states: "this work indicates a great deal of effort and thought as well as considerable scholarship, it is to be