Why do people claim Judaism (and by extension Christianity) are Middle Eastern desert religions, when both Judaism and Christianity as we know them today clearly come from the Hellenistic branch of pre-Talmud Jewish tradition? Judaism as we know it today is more Mediterranean than Middle Eastern
>>18723730you may be right, but unless you're Greek the Mediterranean isn't your ancestral homeland either and the Greeks are closer to Middle Easterners than a German or Swede
It's just cynical rhetoric; the guys saying this would never criticize the Japanese for being a basically Buddhist culture historically, or the Greeks for borrowing so much of their religion from Asiatics.>>18723735And don't forget half of the posters here are just browns like this guy who have nothing better to do than try spread anti-white propaganda all day.
>>18723730Identity is complex and makes little sense. People just say, think, and do things. It's mostly instinctual. Most of the average everyday people you see while buying groceries know basically nothing of their own history, why they believe what they believe, or what they believe in.
I guess one could argue that Christianity IS Hellenized Judaism, as otherwise a Jew born in Europe, raised in a European culture and does European things, is just going to be accused of subversion or whatever anyways, which is why many of them either became Christian or compromised and became Karaite
>>18723730>Judaism and Christianity as we know them today clearly come from the Hellenistic branch of pre-Talmud Jewish traditionNot quite. Talmudic Judaism is derived from the Pharisee branch of Second Temple Judaism. Those guys were ardent adversaries of the Hellenic influence on Jews. Modern Judaism does have some Hellenic elements (for example, in Kabbalah), but those were adapted during the Middle Ages.As for Christianity, it seems originally some groups were more Hellenised, some others less so. But the destruction of the Temple, and, perhaps, the Marcion crisis, forced those communities to blend into something more or less uniform, having both Hellenistic and Judaic elements. After that, Christianity would continue to absorb more Hellenic elements: pseudo-Dionysius, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas... The Reformation was, among other things, an attempt to purify Christianity from Hellenic elements. Indeed, Protestants are Christian Wahhabis.
>>18723730Still Judaism. Monotheism is inherently degenerate and the bible is ahistorical
>>18723893Early Judaism was less monotheistic and more monolatric, as they acknowledged the other Gods but only consistently worshiped Yahweh as he was their patron deity
>>18723730A datum about that situation is that there are chaparral and desert regions all around the Mediterranean
