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Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Your own links don't support such a strong claim. At best the strongest claim you can make is that the name might have some correspondence with the name of Canaanite Gods, but you have zero information on the direction of the influence. Your own links make no claim at all that the religion itself has any relationship with the Canaanite religions. Regarding the direction, do not forget that Abraham was very active in…

That article has been restructured quite a bit after it was made part of the Judaism portal, compared to when I first found it and then looked into the subject a couple of years ago. Just because one wikipedia article is incomplete doesn't mean it's not an accepted fact.

No, it's not an accepted fact.

I understand that you are simply repeating what you learned, but you learned inaccurate information.

It's possible your mistake is because there are some that believe that the Canaanite religions and Judaism were practiced in parallel by the same peoples, but one is not descended from other.

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your own links don't support such a strong claim. At best the strongest claim you can make is that the name might have some correspondence with the name of Canaanite Gods, but you have zero information on the direction of the influence. Your own links make no claim at all that the religion itself has any relationship with the Canaanite religions. Regarding the direction, do not forget that Abraham was very active in…

That article has been restructured quite a bit after it was made part of the Judaism portal, compared to when I first found it and then looked into the subject a couple of years ago. Just because one wikipedia article is incomplete doesn't mean it's not an accepted fact.

> Accepted fact

Whoah. Be careful slinging around the F-bomb, bro.

When talking about causation of events where there is no data, much less reproducible data, you certainly have room to disagree with some evidence and prefer others, but it goes too far to claim "Judaism is actually derived from ancient Babylonian polytheism" is unassailable fact.

That may your belief--and you may interpret some evidence to support your belief--but as you'll be quick to point out to others, having a belief doesn't mean it's true.

The bar for something being a fact is higher than that.

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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The Ethiopian Jews do not observe Hanukkah, which would indicate that they split of from the rest of the Jews earlier than 167 BC.

Also "Ancient Isrealite Religion" should probably be "Ancient Caananite Religion". And a lot of things happened there before 500 BC - such as Yahweh becoming the dominant deity and King Hezekiah forbidding the worship of any other gods.

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