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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]God created Earth. He was Jewish.

His son Jesus acted up and sent his 12 Apostles out to start Catholic Church.

But what’s up with all the other religions? Did people just make them up and folks blindly followed?

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God wasn't Jewish.  He formed a covenant with Abraham and some of his progeny, but lot's of other peoples around at that time had their own gods.
And yes, almost certainly "people [did] just make up [these other religions.]"
Most religions pre-dating Judaism were polytheistic [/quote]

[b]There is a good argument that Judaism was polytheistic prior to the Babylonian Captivity and the writing of the Torah. [/b][/quote]

really? I'd like to hear the rationale for that[/quote]

Here is a basic explanation

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1097/ancient-israelite--judean-religion/

and here is a more scholarly one

https://books.google.com/books?id=IEYhAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false[/quote]

From the first link:

"Additionally, attentive readers may notice that there was no discussion of Judaism. Generally speaking, the scholarly consensus is that the religion of Judaism was distinct from ancient Israelite and Judean religion."

That seems to say pretty clearly that Judaism came after the polytheism, not that Judaism was polytheistic.

Jews, like Christians, adopted traditions from older traditions.  Calling the Israelites who first practiced those traditions "Jewish" makes about as much sense as calling ancient Roman traditions "Christians" because the people who followed them were the ancestors of Christians, and because some ancient Roman traditions such as decorating with evergreens for winter holidays were later adopted by Christians.  [/quote]

Sure, but that means that a lot of Biblical figures that Jews regard as Jews are not actually Jews. To the extent that there is a way to delineate when the change in Judaism occurred, scholars argue between the Babylonian exile and shortly after the return. If you want to call any thing prior not Judaism, then you are left with the absurdity that the Jewish exile did not involve Jews being exiled, in fact, none of the events that most Jews would say are central to Jewish history prior to monotheism involved Jews. Personally, I view it as a religion evolving. Catholicism is vastly different because it was a religion founded in an outlier province with roots entirely outside of Roman tradition. It incorporated some beliefs, but it is ultimately based on Judaism not the classical Roman pantheon or later Roman versions of monotheism [/quote]

DP and I agree that Judaism, as we recognize it today, didn't emerge until the Babylonian exile.[/quote]

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