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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Every faith hates every other faith. If worshippers of the Greek and Norse pantheons still survived, and don't give me that neo pagan nonsense they worship made feel good amalgam not the faiths as they were historically practiced, they would hate each other just as much as the Christians hated both.

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Every faith hates every other faith. If worshippers of the Greek and Norse pantheons still survived, and don't give me that neo pagan nonsense they worship made feel good amalgam not the faiths as they were historically practiced, they would hate each other just as much as the Christians hated both.

Why do you feel the need to resort to lies. Now I have no doubt that some faiths hate others, but to claim that they all do is just bullshit.

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Polytheism was famous for accepting other gods. Monotheists are infamous for persecuting others on basis of faith.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Trollism.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Every faith hates every other faith. If worshippers of the Greek and Norse pantheons still survived, and don't give me that neo pagan nonsense they worship made feel good amalgam not the faiths as they were historically practiced, they would hate each other just as much as the Christians hated both.

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http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/a/ancient_egypt_the_roman_perio.aspx
Like the Ptolemies before them, the Romans left the religion and culture of Egypt intact. Several of the temples of Egypt were completed by Roman emperors, who followed the style of their predecessors and had themselves represented in the Egyptian manner. The Temple of Isis at Philae is one such temple, the cult of this goddess having been incorporated into Roman religion as a 'mystery cult'.

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While monotheism makes some sense versus polytheism.

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While monotheism makes some sense versus polytheism.

I think just the opposite is true. In polytheisms where there are numerous gods who don't really give a shit about you battling it out a certain amount of randomness, arbitrariness and meaningless devastation make perfect sense. But if only one god is supposed to be constantly tinkering with our lives the incoherency becomes an issue. The problem of evil is a classic example of this.

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While monotheism makes some sense versus polytheism. Why is it monotheism has such reputation of hatred towards polytheism?

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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Every faith hates every other faith. If worshippers of the Greek and Norse pantheons still survived, and don't give me that neo pagan nonsense they worship made feel good amalgam not the faiths as they were historically practiced, they would hate each other just as much as the Christians hated both.

That seems like an over generalization that history doesn't really support. In cultures that have multiple deities especially ones where families have there own deities where's the harm in one more god? I can certainly cite numerous examples of other religions being tolerated under polytheistic empires.

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While monotheism makes some sense versus polytheism. Why is it monotheism has such reputation of hatred towards polytheism?

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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Every faith hates every other faith. If worshippers of the Greek and Norse pantheons still survived, and don't give me that neo pagan nonsense they worship made feel good amalgam not the faiths as they were historically practiced, they would hate each other just as much as the Christians hated both.

That seems like an over generalization that history doesn't really support. In cultures that have multiple deities especially ones where families have there own deities where's the harm in one more god? I can certainly cite numerous examples of other religions being tolerated under polytheistic empires.

Looks like one.

And even the Romans hated pantheistic faiths they were not well familiar with. They banned the practices of the druids and spread the slander that their rites involved human sacrifice, weird how every one of Rome's enemies sacrifices humans (see Carthage).

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Every faith hates every other faith. If worshippers of the Greek and Norse pantheons still survived, and don't give me that neo pagan nonsense they worship made feel good amalgam not the faiths as they were historically practiced, they would hate each other just as much as the Christians hated both.

That seems like an over generalization that history doesn't really support. In cultures that have multiple deities especially ones where families have there own deities where's the harm in one more god? I can certainly cite numerous examples of other religions being tolerated under polytheistic empires.

Looks like one.

And even the Romans hated pantheistic faiths they were not well familiar with. They banned the practices of the druids and spread the slander that their rites involved human sacrifice, weird how every one of Rome's enemies sacrifices humans (see Carthage).

Druids were a direct threat not because of religion, but the ability to join all northern nations into one.
Carthage was slandered because it was romes greatest enemy and a threat to it's existance.

Only jews and especially christians were persecuted because they were the only ones refusing to pay hommage to roman gods.

Persians left religious freedom

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Hittites did

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Hellenes did

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Alexander did it

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Romans adopted the greek gods

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Alexander did not want to conquer the world for religious but cultural reasons. He translated the bible in greek.