(April 9, 2017 at 11:36 am)chimp3 Wrote:(April 9, 2017 at 11:16 am)Brian37 Wrote: Nor is the Christian or Jewish God, all three started out in the same region, all have tribal motifs based on state rivalries and divine entitlement.The christian god is the god of the Coptics. Still not great.
What they all miss, is that was the case in all of antiquity. Humans lived under a ruling family and those families were the top of the chain, then came the warrior class, then the subjects. Even the polytheism of Rome and Greece, we stupidly think those reflect modern democracy and they don't. Even with them you had Caesars which is simply another name for king. It can be argued that both in polytheism and monotheism that you had more tolerant or more brutal leaders, but everyone back then lived under a ruling class.
I watch the news I am very familiar with the term "Coptic Christians" but still does not change that Islam and Jews and Christians still stem from the God of Abraham Yahweh who was a stolen character from the tribal polytheism of the Canaanites when Yahweh was a lesser deity under the head God El.
