Just to be clear, I'm not a professional "quote maker". I'm just an atheist teenager who greatly values his intelligence and scientific fact over any silly fiction book written 3,500 years ago. That being said, I am open to any and all criticism.
"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am englightened by my intelligence." - Aalewis
Eh?
And the Christian creation myth is a copy of the Enuma Elish. 7 tablets, 7 days, same things created on the same days, last day celebration and rest, Tiamat (monster of the deep) is defeated by God/Marduke and so on. It's a direct copy, just with the four main gods amalgamated into a single deity. This is because Nebuchadnezzar captured the Hebrews, killed all their scholar and artisans, destroyed all their texts and records and eventually released them after exposing them to their religion for decades. The Hebrews said "Let's rewrite our texts!" And the response was "Great idea, who remembers how it went?" And no one did. That's the super short version anyway.
There's so much more but, yeah, Babylonian texts were created before soap, Christian texts just changed a few things around and said "I made dis." So, before soap.
This is not something most people learn until they're in a religious master's program or study on their own. I wrote a paper on this and it's used in a couple college's religious classes.
Thanks for clarifying, thought maybe you meant Abrahamic religious moral and ethics being presented as direct ideas from a deity. Soap definitely is older than that group but definitely not older than religion as a whole.
The texts themselves, older. The ideas behind the religions (animism, specifically), no.
What do you have to say about the Corpus Hermeticum, Diving Pymander, and the Kybalion?
I really enjoyed these reads, and if I have gathered my information correctly these stories predate all religions and there are resemblances to their themes and motifs all over the world.
They are on my list to read. To be honest, there's so much out there that you could spend a lifetime going through them. Take a spin through the Black Pullet when you get a chance. I think you'll be amused.
That's not true, the Babylonians are credited with inventing soap in 2800 BCE while Judaism didn't start until around 2000 BCE.
Edit: @ScorpioGlitch presents a valid rebuke to my statement. I was looking at just Abrahamic religions presented as original ideas as opposed to religion as a whole with the Abrahamic religions stealing ideas from older polytheistic religions.