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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Greek gods were just Egyptian gods. Egyptian gods were just Babylonian gods. Ba ylonian gods etc.

[–] repungnant_canary 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And Roman Catholic church "borrowed" multiple holidays from the Roman empire

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[–] Cryophilia 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure but they didn't borrow their god

Wasn't Zoroastrianism the first monotheistic religion?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Early christians in Rome were a lot more polytheistic. Many of the saints are borrowed from Roman gods and today they still provide a polytheistic feel to some christian churches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No evidence of that claim.

Proto-Judaism, which took its belief from several religions, was polytheism until they had spent time with Zoroastrianists.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the term monogamoustheist. There are a lot of gods but they only prayed to one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Polylatrism or Polylatry is the term you're looking for.

[–] kbotc 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We were literally taught that in catholic school. Just like Jesus was almost certainly not born in 0 AD. It’s just not important to his teachings, but rather important during the spread of catholicism.

Plenty of good reasons to be critical of Catholic Church, but “They claimed saturnalia as their year end celebration because no one actually wrote down proper dates 2000 years ago and the Romans still wanted a festival in mid-December” is not a great one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Technically there is no 0AD. It goes from 1 BC to 1 AD

[–] TheEighthDoctor 4 points 1 year ago

Christian gods are just Judaic gods, and Judaic gods were just levantine gods.