Those Mesopotamians, hey? Gotta be first for everything. Agriculture, civilisation, rivers flowing in the wrong direction (there's one for the Egyptologists out there), hypocrisy.
I'm not saying Graeco-Roman gods were nice. They were not. But they never pretended to be. The Judeo-Christian god does and yet, if you were to strip out the titles, a naive reader would assume that god in the OT was the bad guy and Satan was the good guy.
Almost like the bad guy won and rewrote history but didn't understand that just saying "I am the LORD thy God" doesn't neutralise the honest reportage of deeds.
Makes you think that maybe god is real and the Bible is a subtle warning. After all, Matthew 7:20 says "Therefore by their fruits you will know them."
Unfortunately, I don't many MAGAts actually read the Bible. If more people did they'd be atheists or rather anti-theist.
I've always said that if I wasnt an atheist id choose to believe in Zeus & the gang, because at least with them in charge it makes sense when bad shit happens. Because they're all a bunch of cunts.
Like "oh no that kid was born without skin, sucks to be him, I'm gonna go turn into a mountain goat and rape this farm girl who's trying to fetch water."
I mean, that's the draw of polytheism. There's no notion of an all-loving benevolent god. They're just embodiments of natural forces or values, and just like those natural forces, they just do stuff, and we attribute good or bad to those acts. It makes sense that Zeus, the embodiment of power and kingship, did what people in power tend to do.
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u/docowen Jul 17 '24
Graeco-Roman paganism doesn't have much room for it. When your gods are absolute scum bags it makes life a bit easier.
That said, the OT god is an absolute scum bag too, but Graeco-Roman gods never pretended to be anything else which is the point