God In The Bible
One of the more ludicrous facets involving the God Hypothesis is that during the era where all those Biblical events were allegedly unfolding, Australia was populated; Africa (south of the equator) was populated; the Americas were populated; Asia was populated; Northern Europe was populated and Russia was populated. Yet, an alleged omni-present God [and later on, Jesus] totally ignored these regions and their populations. So the obvious conclusion is that God was just a mythological invention by the Near East and Middle East locals, albeit slightly evolved in concept from the local theological mythologies that preceded the God Hypothesis. Nothing new there. Every populated region on the globe during Biblical times (and often before) developed their own non-Biblical brand of theology and associated deities and no specific region can logically claim to state that they have absolute claim to theological truth and that all else that originates from other regions is mythological by comparison. And just to add insult to injury, neither Father, Son nor Holy Ghost has been sighted now for thousands of years - oops.
Hey we had our own perfectly good gods over here in northern EU.
@johnprytz From everything I have read on the subject, my understanding is that Christianity especially molded itself around the original old gods. So for example 25th dec was always a pagan celebration, same with Easter and other celebrations. I believe especially in Western EU, they watered down the message a bit as it was a very 'hard sell' to the tough living, heavy partying pagans and Celts (I know that term is wildly refuted these days). This is probably why this part of the world easily accepted atheism and the loss of the hard nosed fundmentalists is why North America didn't.
@johnprytz Yeah we are over all that. I read a book that described powerful men who had converted to Christianity (as a political move, I have no doubt) had to give up their non-converted wives and children as they were no longer 'married in Christ'. This meant that lots of previously children of nobility were now considered illegitimate. This appears to be the source of a lot of the early EU wars. Christianity messed with a lot of people's lives and traditions.