>>6060896I think there is a fundamental beauty and timelessness to an abstract god. It jives better with our understanding of nature.
Nobody has any fucking clue what Mithraic religion was even about besides some dude in a clown hat stabbing a bull - that seemed very important.
Since Judaism is a literary religion it persisted. It always was heavily literary. Even during the Second Temple period copies of the Torah where placed all over the temple in absence of idols to the Hebrew God. If there was no Torah there would be no Christianity and no Islam either. Nobody would even know that Judaism even existed. It left no artifacts that were not textual except for one weird sketch of a face monster.
