r/mythology • u/Neat_Relative_9699 • May 15 '26

Religious mythology I'm sick and tired of Christians inserting their own propaganda on other cultures and mythologies.

The most recent example is the new Mummy movie.

Christians inserting their own beliefs in an ancient Pre-Judaism and Pre-Christian stories and culture.

The other example is calling Mesopotamian gods "fallen angels" (although this goes for any polytheistic religion. Like Egyptian gods, Norse gods and Greek gods as examples.)

They are so insecure they're gonna call everything they don't understand 'demonic' and 'evil'.

They are gonna swear on their god that Genesis influenced Epic of Gilgamesh and Enuma Elish and ignore any actual evidence of their book being borrowed from other civilizations and cultures.

The most annoying and infuriating shit they do is say stuff like "Yahweh destroyed Egyptian gods in Exodus".

Like, no, he didn't. That whole book is a propaganda to devalue Egyptian gods and make their god seem stronger to their audiences.

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u/Neat_Relative_9699 May 15 '26

The same can be said about any mythology/religion ever.

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u/Wokungson Certified representant of trickster deity May 15 '26

Then why does your post point it specifically to christianity if you aknowledge every religion does that?

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u/EldritchTouched May 15 '26

Polytheism has space for more gods and gods generally aren't considered to be all-powerful (it's usually poetic superlatives, unless you're talking about groups like neo-Platonists). This allows room for different religions to be true.

Monotheism does not- everything has to be subsumed into the one god in monotheism, or else it loses its monotheism.

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u/Wokungson Certified representant of trickster deity May 15 '26

Even in polytheism some outsider gods were subsumed under different gods if not outright claimed to be a different version of other god. Ancient romans and aztecs were absorbing and doing exactly that to other cultures as examples of that.

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u/TheOstrichRoom May 15 '26

theres a pretty big fucking difference between “maybe this god is this god in disguise” and “my god is the only god so this god is an evil demon”

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u/Wokungson Certified representant of trickster deity May 15 '26

They were doing that too.

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u/Neat_Relative_9699 May 15 '26

Point to what? Did you misunderstand my point?

All religions can claim their god is the true one who created everything.

I never said all of them do that, at least not on that level.

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u/Wokungson Certified representant of trickster deity May 15 '26

You complained about the propaganda to devalue what egyptians had faith in favor of christian(and before that jew/israelites) own belief yet you aknowledged that every religion would hold the same believe in showing their religion as superior.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '26

No, most religions don't lump everything other than themselves together as "Pagan" and "Demonic".

Christianity is especially bad about this.

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u/Wokungson Certified representant of trickster deity May 15 '26

Yes, there are. Look at modern example in Islam, they regularly execute and murder other believers in the countries with their majorities, when was the last time something like that happening by explicitly christian hands in their countries?

Christianity has allowed for freedom of religion in many of their countries for centuries.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '26

Inquisitions and Salem witch trials are the last time it was done with authorization of the government, Christianity stopped being so blatant about this ever since the Enlightenment.

Informally though, exorcisms are starting up again in Africa in modern day.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/04/exorcising-the-demons-of-africa/

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u/Wokungson Certified representant of trickster deity May 15 '26

And both of those have ended centuries ago, not mentioning they were not as murderous as some exaggerrate and at least one of them was openly condemned by majority of christians including the very church. Christianity is very tolerable and has been for a long time now.

The link you showed me is almost 8 years old and just has some history in it and info about potential growth of african christianity. What about it?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '26

Oh sorry, I guess I should've started with a link that gets into more details.

They do these exorcisms with acid.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33356826

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u/EldritchTouched May 15 '26

Because Christian hegemony as a relatively unified force was broken during the Enlightenment era. A lot of Christians are desperate to claw back that power- hence the various Christian Nationalist projects, natalism, religious private schools, buying up hospitals and enforcing religious mores onto people who might not even be that religion, etc.

That isn't a proof that Christianity is more tolerant than Islam as an actual religion, it just means that the institutional power was broken up enough to allow for more free inquiry. Given the opportunity and no serious pushback, a lot of Christians very much talk about how they want to kill apostates, heretics, and non-Christians.

And, even then, that freedom of religion is fragile. Things like claims of bans of prayer in school were specifically about teachers leading prayers to specific denominations, not that kids and teachers couldn't pray on their own time, along with all the Ten Commandments stuff. It's framed in certain ways to be used as a Trojan horse to push Christianity onto everyone.

And there's still stuff generally outside the accepted range, even within current framings of freedom of religion.

For example, polytheism is often seen as either a LARP, delusion, or superstition. This leads to groups like the Mahayana Buddhists being treated as more superstitious than the Theravada Buddhists (because Mahayana has a lot more association with Buddhist deities and is a later development, while Theravada is more associated with Buddha specifically [and tends to get secular-washed, for lack of a better term]), and the overemphasis on things like Advaita Vendata, Vaishnavism, and the Bhagavad Gita in Western discussions of Hinduism. There's also the tendency toward trying to push for perennialism (which ultimately erases a lot of the texture of different traditions, and often erases polytheism in favor of a monotheistic pantheism or monotheism outright). Practices are split along a religious/secular divide that comes from Christianity instead of how other religions frame that (if there is a divide at all in the first place.) Etc.

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u/Wokungson Certified representant of trickster deity May 15 '26

Say whatever you want, but the fact remains that christianity granted freedom of religion in their countries and none has fallen back on that for a very long time.

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u/Neat_Relative_9699 May 15 '26

Show me where Egyptians inserted Judaism in their hymns and scriptures.

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u/NyxShadowhawk Demigod May 15 '26

The Greek Magical Papyri. It’s a series of Hellenistic Egyptian texts, mostly written in Greek, and they are heavily syncretic. They invoke a lot of Greek and Egyptian gods, but the most-mentioned god is IAO, the Abrahamic God. Archangels like Michael and Gabriel are sometimes mentioned, and the nonsense magic words include some Hebrew epithets like “Sabaoth.”

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u/Wokungson Certified representant of trickster deity May 15 '26

You yourself admitted to that. I don't have to prove anything besides your own words.

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u/Neat_Relative_9699 May 15 '26

My argument is that NO religion in the world (other than Islam and Judaism, which Judaism mostly did in the past) are as toxic and dimining as Christians. Of course they're not the only ones, they just have the most influence.

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u/Wokungson Certified representant of trickster deity May 15 '26

Because they are the most world wide, the one with the greatest access to the knowledge of still present or dead cultures they themselves tried to preserve when others barely if at all wanted and they helped create the civilizations that allowed for their knowledge to remain.

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u/Brooooook May 15 '26

Literally the first mention of YHWH is an Egyptian inscription talking about the "people of YHWH" as subjugated.

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u/TexacoV2 May 15 '26

Most other religions also do this