All those pagan statues weren’t to one god, it was just a shit ton of pagan gods.
“Multi-faith” was the norm until the Abrahamic religions started insisting everyone follow one God and no other Gods were real. So pretty much every religious site pre-monotheism had some multi faith elements.
So in early cities, they’d have a “city god” but also usually be accepting of earlier rural gods and the gods of friendly neighbly cities
Like, it’s hard to explain how much Abraham fucked shit up when he started the precedent of not tolerating any other god except his personal Sky Daddy.
But it’s still really new on the timescale of human history
I mean…
To make it a Christian church, they first had to remove over 400 pagan statues…
A shit ton of religions have used it as a holy site, seems fucking stupid to argue to roll it back halfway.
So it turns out that christians actually LOVE removing pagan statues.
Well, Republican politicians are known for being extremely fucking stupid.
These Christian Nationalist fucks will be the end of us if we let them.
Your religious beliefs and rules are for you, not everyone else.
Nationalist Christian, or Nat-C for short.
I like the idea — if we are going to undo things, do it 100%. Go back to a pagan worship site.
Reject modernity. Embrace tradition. Make Christmas into Saturnalia again!
Maybe I’m thinking of some other landmark but wasn’t this building explicitly built with the original intent of being multi-faith?
Kind of?
All those pagan statues weren’t to one god, it was just a shit ton of pagan gods.
“Multi-faith” was the norm until the Abrahamic religions started insisting everyone follow one God and no other Gods were real. So pretty much every religious site pre-monotheism had some multi faith elements.
So in early cities, they’d have a “city god” but also usually be accepting of earlier rural gods and the gods of friendly neighbly cities
Like, it’s hard to explain how much Abraham fucked shit up when he started the precedent of not tolerating any other god except his personal Sky Daddy.
But it’s still really new on the timescale of human history