Why wasn't prophetry a thing in Europe like it was in the Middle East, i.e. for example some Viking claiming divine inspiration from a new god and cursing Odin as a dirty idol?
Why wasn't prophetry a thing in Europe like it was in the Middle East, i.e...
Wyatt Moore
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Jayden Hall
No psychedelic mushrooms?
Carter Allen
The particular concept of prophet we have today as a monotheist iconoclast champion and moral reformer comes from the Middle East. You had plenty of holy men in Europe, just not ones that followed jealous and social engineering gods.
Jace Jones
Because Arabs are goat race. Have you seen Tariqs big dick on XNXX fucking that Swedish chick from behind?
Elijah Kelly
Zamolxes?
Though he didn't exactly reject the previous faith.
Xavier Diaz
You get a lot of hallucinations when you are in the desert and have no water to drink.
Landon Myers
true, but both pagans, Jews and christians had a practice of depriving themselves of food and water so that they would have visions of the gods
Isaac Adams
Because Europeans aren't gullible enough to believe some shyster when he says "you should do what I say because God totes talks to me".
Nicholas James
Orpheus.
Gavin Lopez
They eagerly followed the ones from the Middle East
Luis Collins
The European polytheistic deities told you what to do directly they didnt need a human prophet to get their message across.
Brandon Edwards
because their gods werent one monolithic singular authority figure screaming orders from the heavens, so they didnt need prophets in the old testament sense
their gods spoke to them in mysteries and secrets and bizzare revelations, and declared themselves in the patterns people observed in reality, but so often terrifying, absurd and cruel and incomperhensible, as if the gods are laughing at you half the time and dont realy care, or as if there realy is only chaos, or the observed patterns could be made sense of somehow if observed trough some magical system, and for this they needed a different kind of prophet, like a seer or a mage or a astrologist, or the kind of propheteses they had at delfi, that practicaly spoke in riddles, or you had priests and shamans routinely cut animals open and interpret the flight of birds and clouds and stuff, or peole consulting spirits and summoning this and that, this was routine
Isaac Davis
eating shrooms is actually a proposed theory for viking "berserker rage"
Joshua King
Because God came to the Jews, not the Norse.
Jonathan Myers
>just not ones that followed jealous and social engineering gods.
So there was no holy men for Greek mythology?
Samuel Stewart
Jesus wasn't a prophet, he was a conma- erm, the "son of god" (tm)
Ian Sanchez
What about the Oracle of Delphi?
There were people who got visions in many of the religions/cults of ancient Europe.
But the idea of a revelation from God (about the past or the future) is a concept of the monotheistic religions.
Aiden White
The lands of the middle east at the time was very urbanized compared to the rest of the planet.
Prophets dont come from hunter gatherer societies
Samuel Davis
Jesus died to prove his religion, Moshe and Muhammad merely LARPED being chosens of God and received the Shekels from their naive followers.
Landon Campbell
Also, these:
Josiah Morgan
tradition
Carter Myers
>died to prove his religion
Except by dying he proved that he wasn't the messiah.
Camden Nelson
Isaiah prophecized he'd die for our transgressions.
Austin Jones
>reading the Bible like a weather forecast, and not like a set of stories with profound messages about the human condition
Liam Wilson
greece was always culturally closer to the middle east than to the rest of europe
Jonathan Wilson
No he didn't.