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What did the hebrews do right?

Acolyte Of Pan 666

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If we go back 3000 years, everyone had an ethnoreligion, and God/the Gods were adapted to each people's culture. This was the norm back then. Today it's more so the exception. Christianity and Islam played a massive role in all this of course. These two religions managed to outcompete all other religions in the Western Hemisphere and every land they conquered destroyed the Pagan ehtno-religions there, with the notable exception of India, perhaps due to the sheer population of Hindus there, nonethless Islam did establish a strong prescence there albeit not a supreme one. Interestingly, the hebrews survived all this and never truly suffered significant damage from christianity or islam. Even before the rise of Christianity and Islam, other nations, powerful ones such as Egypt and Babylon lost to other Pagan empires and their identities dissolved over time, with what's left today being a shadow of what once was. Hebrews even brag about this, that they survived as an ancient people while others lost their identities and adopted newer, husk versions of what they had.

Why did the priesthoods and sages of Rome, Greece, Egypt, Babylon, ect all fail so miserably to preserve the ethno-religious identity of their people, but hebrews succeeded, despite not having an army, their temple destroyed, their people massacred and scattered several times, yet they survived all of this for over 2000 years under the rule of 2 religions which if you read their texts hated them. Supremacy and distrusts of outsiders can't be the reasons since everyone had those ideas. All nations strongly promoted they were "the best", that alone doesn't explain it.

Nothing that hebrews have whether surface-level theology or deep mysticism is either original or in any way superior than what the Greek and Egyptian sages had. And yet, the hebrew sages were the ones who survived meanwhile we're in the process of ressurecting a corpse of Western Pagan mysticism from dusty texts that were lucky enough to survive both the erosion of time and xian/muslim vandalism. Their line of sages is essentially unbroken for the last three millenia, meanwhile even our High Priest was raised a Christian.

Despite all the powerful rituals against Izfet that the Egyptian priesthood had, Egypt fell to Izfet anyway, and yet the hebrews did not.


Older ideas from here which may still be true was that Christians and Muslims through worship empowered the Hebrew "God" which indirectly kept the hebrews existing as a people, however this explanation seems rather shallow to me. Christianity and Islam's relationship towards to Judaism has been fundamenally antagonistic from the start. Hebrews were always strongly villified and associated with the deepest evils in both of these religions. Logically speaking they should have dissappeared or at least have strongly diminished under Christianity and Islam by now, and yet they didn't, even when it was materially advantageous to convert to either religion and just assimilate.

It makes me wonder what exactly did the rabbis do right that the Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Babylonian sages were not able to do themselves? When the hebrews lost their kindgom, priesthood and temple, they got stronger as an in-group, while the other cultures simply dissolved, despite what I believe must have been the best spiritual effort of the respectful sages of these Pagan nations to prevent this cultural erosion.

It could definently help us perservere and thrive by doing in an ethical, Zevist fashion whatever the rabbis did to preserve our spiritual nation, although I'm certain that our Clergy already know what that is, but a deeper explanation into all this would be educational and appreciated.
 
I am not impressed that Izfet, when collectively mismanagement at various times and places, temporarily succeeded against the dwindling Olympian Imposition within Man.

All the Yehubor did was use the eternal substrate of chaos, which takes no effort to maintain, and weaponized it for mass infection.

MA'AT must be continuously maintained and cultivated, and that wasn't something that ordinary people cared about 2500 years ago, not dissimilar to today.

Thankfully, the Temple of Zeus is the first religion, perhaps maybe ever, to promote all that is True and Good to the world in a rate unseen before thanks to the web.

Have faith and don't be too impressed by those who can open a jar of disease that is airborne.
 

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