(December 3, 2018 at 12:41 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Why, why is it a mistake, lol? Much of the semetic religions -are- pagan mythologies. Those kings and prophets you just mentioned are legendary..at best. That significant mythmaking has occurred in the case of their persons is also true, even if those characters are legendary rather than mythical in the first place.
I suppose you think the Assyrian captivity of the northern kingdom of Israel in the mid 8th century BCE under the historic Assyrian rulers Sargon II and then Sennacherib was a legend too?
And then the Babylonian captivity of the Jews in the late 6th century BCE under the historic Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzer was a legend?
And then the conquest of Babylon by the Persians under Cyrus the Great, and the subsequent return of the Jewish exiles to their homeland?
And then the rise of the Seleucids and Antiochus Epiphanes, then the Jewish revolt of the Maccabees which freed their country and restored the Jewish monarchy?
All of this was mythology and never happened?