• bigfondue@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The religion of the Israelites wasn’t even monotheistic at first. Yahweh was one of many gods.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      And Christianity isn’t technically monotheistic either, as it has the trinity of God, Christ, and the Spooky Spirit… errrm… I mean Holy Ghost.

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              19 hours ago

              Wikipedia is a source of sources. You can scroll down to the bottom of the damn page and view the original sources if you really need the originals. No, you’re just using this as an excuse. Fuck off. Everyone can see right through this.

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                18 hours ago

                Wikipedia is policed by radical jobless atheists like tgeorgescu who deliberately delete Christian sources

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                  16 hours ago

                  Lol. Meanwhile here you are, policing what people provide as evidence because you only accept something that supports your worldview. You should be a wiki moderator apparently… oh wait, they actually have standards.

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                    13 hours ago

                    Wikipedia isn’t a source. A whole Wikipedia article doesn’t back up your claim.

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                2 days ago

                So some guy has an alternative theory

                but no evidence of pre-Israelite Yahweh worship among the peoples of the ancient Levant has surfaced

                That’s because the israelites were the worshippers of Yahweh

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                  Yeah see this is how I know you’re not serious. The author of that article isn’t “some guy”, he’s an incredibly respected and accomplished historian and archaeologist, specializing in ancient near-east civilizations. And you couldn’t be bothered to read past the first paragraph. You don’t want to have an actual discussion about this.

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                    1 day ago

                    I read all there was contained on the list. He admits it is literally just a theory

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            2 days ago

            Then check the sources listed under that wiki article.

            If you couldn’t be bothered to look up something as simple and undisputed as this, then it’s really silly to make a stand with “Wikipedia isn’t a source”, it just makes you look like a bad troll.

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              2 days ago

              What do you mean “undisputed”. The whole pantheon thing is a historical reconstructed theory, not a fact. You’d find millions of people who’d dispute a claim as absurd as pre-messianic Judaism not originally being monotheistic.

              Now yes, the israelites have practiced polytheism several times. The Bible records this. But the Christian religion has always been monotheistic.

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                2 days ago

                Yep, undisputed. Except by religious zealots who resort to bad faith arguments when some of their cultist beliefs are not accepted as fact by non believers, but on those subjects, those people aren’t taken seriously by anyone except others from their cult, so yes, pretty much undisputed.

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                  2 days ago

                  You’re acting as if there’s actually solid evidence for this theory. There really isn’t. We know polytheism existed, that doesn’t mean it was necessarily the origin. Heck, there are even hindus today that claim to worship Jesus. Does that mean that Jesus originated in Hinduism? No.

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                    18 hours ago

                    That isn’t even remotely analogous to this situation.

                    One easy way to know it’s the origin is to recognize that every religion is an evolution of other religions on the area. The others are polytheistic. It would only be reasonable to assume Judaism originated from the same practice, and we can observe similarities between Judaism and local religions of the time and find they share some aspects, implying they have the same origin. That origin being polytheistic.