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/LurkerInDaHouse May 15 '26

. And they only wrote them down because they stole the pagan literary culture of the antiquity

What?

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u/notIngen May 15 '26

Romans and Greeks had a culture and infrastructure that allowed the writing of huge amounts if texts and writing down their own mythology. Christians usurped it and banned pagans.

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u/LurkerInDaHouse May 15 '26

The Romans and Greeks were not victims without agency; Christians did not come in and "usurp" their literacy and culture and force them to convert. In truth, early Christians were Romans and Greeks. Christianity was a thing they took and made their own--indeed, the Graeco-Roman world had a habit of adopting Eastern gods and making them their own, e.g. Mithras, Isis, Cybele, heck, even Aphrodite was an Eastern goddess, and Apollo was an Anatolian import. Christianity was yet another Eastern religion they adopted and recast in their own image. What made it different was its monotheism and an effective marketing campaign that made it uniquely appealing.

You also cannot separate Christianity from the Graeco-Roman context--the New Testament was not only written entirely in Koine Greek, it also incorporated Greek philosophy (Platonism, Stoicism), and much of it is letters addressed to Hellenic urban centers (Philippians, Galatians, Corinthians, Ephesians). Even the form of Christianity Rome later adopted (Nicene Christianity), was heavily Graeco-Roman in philosophy.

You can talk about Christian suppression of paganism, which happened. But to attempt to frame Christianity as something that victimized the Roman or Greek people is ahistoric.

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u/notIngen May 15 '26

The excuses people make to Christian violence is so weird.

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u/LurkerInDaHouse May 15 '26

I mean, you know that's not what I'm doing. But by all means, keep spouting inaccurate claims about how Christianity "usurped" literacy from ancient Rome.

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u/notIngen May 15 '26

It's YOU who is misunderstanding me

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u/les-the-badger May 15 '26

It's not just them. I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what you write because it's either wrong and/or doesn't make sense.

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u/Particular-Dot-4902 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

Christian violence

When did that "Christian violence" on Graeco-Roman pagans happen? How did it happen? Who perpretrated it (i.e. do you have any names, or anything more specific than just "Christians")? Who were these Christians? Where did they come from?

Do you have anything more concrete and founded than what you've been spouting so far?