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Why are abrahamic religions so deeply opposed to coexistence and Syncretism? 02/02/26(Mon)20:34:38 No.18325767
Why are abrahamic religions so deeply opposed to coexistence and Syncretism? 02/02/26(Mon)20:34:38 No.18325767
Why are abrahamic religions so deeply opposed to coexistence and Syncretism? Anonymous 02/02/26(Mon)20:34:38 No.18325767 [Reply]▶
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I have been studying the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom recently and absolutely fell in love with the diverse mix of cultures, religions and peoples that coexisted harmoniously on that ancient Post-Alexandrian succesor state, one of the most fascinating aspects of it was how Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and the Greek religion blended together and the same temples worshipped Zeus-Ahura Mazda with statues of Herakles and Jason as bodhisattvas.
Why are abrahamists so opposed to this? Seems like absolutely the formula for harmonious religious coexistence and building of a joint pan-religious identity, why have abrahamic faiths to be so dogmatic and impose themselves when pre abrahamic faiths can so seamlessly and harmoniously blend?
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>>18325767
They are political religions? Judaism arose out of a power vacuum in Persian Yehud. The priests made laws in the name of Yahweh and the religion quickly became about one's placement within a caste system and their obedience to the Temple priests. This is the reason for the push for monolatry and aniconism. Worshiping Yahweh alone meant obeying the priests and not listening to the prophets of other gods giving contradictory commands. Christianity takes the concept of the Messiah and the High Priest and unifies them in Jesus, leaving behind the Apostles and bishops as successors in government. Islam calls Muhammad a prophet, and due to his position as the King of Yathrib and leadership among the tribes, his position solidifies as the Caliph and believers are told to obey him because God wills it.
Any man who had a place in such systems would not want opposing religions to cut in on their access to wealth and power.
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>>18325767
>Why are abrahamic religions so deeply opposed to coexistence and Syncretism?
Because they claim to have the fullness of the truth, and not only that, but that denouncing lies is a requirement to avoid eternal punishment in the hereafter.
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>>18325767
>opposed to syncretism
Christianity only became the predominant religion through the synchretization of the already established bloodline gods into its cosmology, recasting them as the angels which came to earth and took wives in order to create upon the earth people endowed with spirit.
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>>18326223
The Egyptians associated the Sinai Peninsula with Set—god of chaos, rebellion, deserts, and foreigners.
And this is precisely where the Hebrews went during the Exodus—where Moses received his Ten Commandments.
Yahweh is Set—god of chaos, rebellion, deserts, and foreigners.
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>>18326223
Egyptian religion associated Sinai with Set because it lay beyond the ordered Nile world—arid, dangerous, inhabited by thieves and shepherds. In Egyptian geography, such borderlands belonged to Set’s domain, standing outside Maʿat, the principle of cosmic and political order.
It is precisely this region that the Book of Exodus places at the center of Yahweh’s cult. Yahweh appears not in a city or temple civilization, but in the wilderness, on the lawless Sinai Peninsula, to a fugitive murderer (Moses), from a burning bush, amid smoke, storms, and earthquakes. From an Egyptian perspective, a storm-god emerging from the eastern desert and acting violently against Egypt would have been understood as a foreign desert god, operating within the chaotic sphere of Set.
When Greek authors later encountered Egyptian theology, they equated Set with Typhon, the cosmic adversary of Zeus. Typhon was imagined as buried beneath unstable landscapes—volcanoes, deserts, marshes, frontier zones—where the earth “breathed” suppressed chaos. At the northern coast of Sinai sits a marshland Plutarch called “Typhon’s Breathing Hole” reflecting the chaos and rebellion on the eastern margins of Egypt—a treacherous ecosystem adjacent to the Sea of Reeds (later mistranslated as the Red Sea) which Yahweh "parts" to let the Israelites pass through, then releases, crushing the Egyptian army in the deluge.
The Sinai Peninsula was a region of outcasts and criminals, the region where Hebrew tradition arises, with Yahweh handing down his laws of jealousy and rebellion to a herd of runaway Hebrew slaves. To understand modern politics, one must first understand ancient religion, for the physical world is but manifestation of the immortal forces of nature, of the eternal conflict between order and chaos, law and lawlessness, creation and destruction. To worship Yahweh is to worship destruction; for Yahweh is Set is Typhon, the god of chaos and destruction.
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>>18325767
The irony of your post is that Zoroastrians under Xerxes destroyed the temples of Athens and the Greeks under Alexander destroyed all Persian temples and every single Avesta they could get their hand on, leading to the Zoroastrian sacred text to be missing most of its books to this day.
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I once read this old missionary account of southeast asia where they condemned the natives for saying something like "there are many paths to heaven, some are short and some are long, but they all lead to the same place," and I initially had the same reaction as OP where I thought the missionaries were ridiculous bigots and the native attitude was obviously much healthier. But then I read a Dutch account of Siam from the same period (keep in mind that the Dutch were not interested in missionary work and had no reason to lie about this) describing how pregnant women used to be rounded up in the streets and thrown under the foundation pillars of palaces, city gates and even Buddhist temples, so that they would become guardian spirits to protect the structures. This was obviously not a Buddhist tradition, but the Buddhist clergy had no issue with it.
That's the downside of tolerance; you end up tolerating evil. Llook at the mass infanticide in China and Japan. Buddhism and Confucianism both revile the practice, but there was no concerted effort to end the practice. It was only fanatical bigoted Christians and (to a much lesser extend) Muslims who actually had any interest in policing and reforming the morals of society at every level, and however much they seem like assholes, they're the reason we don't accept that stuff anymore.
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>>18327140
Fanatical Christians and Muslims did horrors of that scale on a nearly daily basis in their colonies/empires.
This entire idea that abrahamics are uniquely moral is hilarious. While they were doing that you savages were creating forests of impaled people in Europe and letting dogs rip people to shreds in the new world. That's without even getting into the hundreds of thousands killed by the Atlantic slave trade.
The Dutch said shit like that for the same reason the Spanish did, it's white men's burden crap and when it was true see above Christians were also acting like animals
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>>18327693
>That's without even getting into the hundreds of thousands killed by the Atlantic slave trade.
Left: Ferghane Azihari, french Comorien
Right: Sibeth Ndiaye, french Senegalese
Only people who are angry about Slavery are Europeans liberal humanists. Niggers don't give a fuck about Slavery they only use it for points against the Whites. Left pic guy is being called racist by all niggers in France for questioning the Trans Sahara slave trade, right sheboon has no problem with the Muslim slave trade her people did she's only angry about the Trans Atlantic slave trade her people also did but now she's pushing it onto the Europeans because of Colonialism. Again Niggers from America to Africa be the Christian or Muslim don't give a fuck about slavery they only use it to spite the Whites.
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>>18327829
Once you understand both Islamist & Christian Niggers(Dave Chappelle, Dieudonne) love Islam more than Western liberal leftist you understand it ain't about morality for them it's about spitting the secular West and vindicating the Sharia Death Cult at all cost.
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>>18325767
Because their main purpose is totalitarian control for a king. That's how judaism was formed. Middle Eastern religions from that region tended to be very henotheistic like the Marduk worship. Ekhnaten tried the same thing with his Aten worship for absolute control over Egypt and to make the priest class weaker. Then jewish scribes or the king decided to make the religion monotheistic to give more controle for the king and also perhaps the priest class. Later the roman empire adopted christianity as a way to unify the empire and make the ruler of the empire more control and a better justification for his rule.
European and other monarchs like the armenians and ethiopians also converted to christianity for that reason and nobles converted for the power they gained from feudalism. The same is true for islam it gave the arab rulers a justification for their rule but arabs tend to be very clanish and this resulted into the shia-sunni split. Steppe warriors like the turks were happy with islam because it justified their rape and pillage lifestyle and their khans had more control over their tribe through it.
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>>18327829
>Again Niggers from America to Africa be the Christian or Muslim don't give a fuck about slavery they only use it to spite the Whites.
Not just niggers. The same is true for arabs or any other muslims.
Christians were not the only ones who tried to stop slavery. Several chinese emperors throughout history tried to do that. Christianity isn't opposed to slavery. It is only opposed to christians being enslaved. The same is true for islam. Christians enslaved pagans and muslims, muslims enslaved christians and pagans and both of them traded pagan slaves with each other. The anti-slavery thing in the West came out of the enlightenment not christianity.
You also defended muslims in your previous comment.>>18327140
I consider islam to be the most evil religion. I consider even the most savage tribesman to be less evil than muslims are.
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>>18325767
Because the entire point of Judaism eventually became that they were different than all the other pagan religions. They would only worship one single god and they were his chosen people. Worshipping other gods were forbidden. This since evolved into only one god existing in most modern versions of Abrahamic faiths.
There is still some syncretism in these religions though. Islam blended Arab religion with Judaism and Christianity has recontextualized pagan customs to fit in their mythology (Christmas being the obvious example).