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The most baffling thing is once subjugated peoples now being the most ardent in their beliefs.
Many of those people were intentionally replaced or mixed with settlers.
Yes, how many centuries ago?
Makes sense. The smart disobedient ones were murdered.
That’s actually a great thought. Of all things, worshipping the sun has merit. But you can’t control people with that concept, because you can’t control the sun. People who want to find solitude in the things that actually matter, and are available to anyone, must be converted into sheep. And they literally call themselves that, as their Lord is their shepherd.
WTF
But think of all the things that puritans offer! Like working! And… Um. Uhh…
Working, and hating fun. What a fantastic religion!
Jokes on the white dude, Jesus is a reskinned sun god.
Reskinned cultic Persian diety known as Mithras. Mithras was not related in any way to the Abrahamic god and it’s not known how the historical Jesus borrowed large elements from the Mithras legend other than plagiarism.
El is the name of an abrahamic storm god believed to be God. He was once a member of a Canaanite (and probably before then) pantheon but its clerics overthrew the old order and installed El as the sole god. Hilariously the clerics didn’t remove all references to El’s divine wife, Asherah, from the bible and you can still see references to her even today. Although most references are to the symbols of Ashera and not the goddess.
Religious scholars do backflips to try and explain why a pagan god exists in the bible and they can’t get around the most obvious answer that it’s a error and the name had been partially edited out of older versions of the bible.
I never understood the disdain for sun worshipping religions. Seems just as valid as any other.
As the source of all energy in the solar system, I’d say it’s the only valid deity.
Seems more valid given that which they worship exists.
