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Bit inaccurate, isn't it..? No such thing as Greek gods and Roman gods... “Roman” gods are just your plain old Greek gods with fake beards, speaking Latin in a Greek accent, and wearing their togas in the Roman style... Should have used Greco -Roman gods for one door and something else (Egyptian, Babylonian, Norse... take your pick) for the other...
Greek gods were just Egyptian gods. Egyptian gods were just Babylonian gods. Ba ylonian gods etc.
And Roman Catholic church "borrowed" multiple holidays from the Roman empire
[insert the meme with astronauts and guns]
Sure but they didn't borrow their god
Wasn't Zoroastrianism the first monotheistic religion?
Early christians in Rome were a lot more polytheistic. Many of the saints are borrowed from Roman gods and today they still provide a polytheistic feel to some christian churches.
No evidence of that claim.
Proto-Judaism, which took its belief from several religions, was polytheism until they had spent time with Zoroastrianists.
I like the term monogamoustheist. There are a lot of gods but they only prayed to one.
Polylatrism or Polylatry is the term you're looking for.
We were literally taught that in catholic school. Just like Jesus was almost certainly not born in 0 AD. It’s just not important to his teachings, but rather important during the spread of catholicism.
Plenty of good reasons to be critical of Catholic Church, but “They claimed saturnalia as their year end celebration because no one actually wrote down proper dates 2000 years ago and the Romans still wanted a festival in mid-December” is not a great one.
Technically there is no 0AD. It goes from 1 BC to 1 AD
Christian gods are just Judaic gods, and Judaic gods were just levantine gods.
Sort of. Romans borrowed gods from all over the place and created their own gods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_deities#Alphabetical_list
Not on that list are all the emperors who were worshipped as gods.
It is the syncretist of the pagan. You can still see it in many places of the world. They treat religion basically how Westerners treat tropes in entertainment. Oh you like that show? Check out this show that is almost the same! I have seen shrines that had crucifixes hanging next to a Buddha.