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Ancient civilizations didn’t exist in isolation — their beliefs, stories, and philosophies influenced one another for centuries. Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/SJkXNNtwHQg #austinandmattpodcast #austinandmatt #podcastclips #podcast #History #AncientWorld #Civilizations #Culture #Philosophy #Origins #Education
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[music] Jews already had a pagan daddy. >> Yeah. >> Centuries prior to Christianity, the Jews were already hugging Dianisis. >> That's the big That's the big red pill is when you find out that you first you think the question is, is the New Testament drawing from pure Jewish or is it drawing from Greek and Jewish? Then you find out that there is no pure Jewish. That the Jewish writers of the time period were already going to the Greeks, borrowing from the Greeks, borrowing from the Hittites, borrowing from [music] the Egyptians, borrowing from the Romans, borrowing from whoever, and they're all kind of borrowing from each other. It's >> fear is in acknowledging uh let's say that you guys are right [music] and that they did borrow from pagan and the Jews were helenized. What is wrong with that? because it takes away the sacredness of the story that Moses was handed these from God.