To what extent has nature shaped morality?( eg. Are abrahamic beliefs developed from "desert morality"? )

To what extent has nature shaped morality?( eg. Are abrahamic beliefs developed from "desert morality"? )

secondary question : has there ever been a commonality between the belief system shared by the descendants of PIE people

Bump, this interests me too

People from harsher environments believe in harsh gods

i don't think so. Compare with aztecs who existed in a lush environment but had gods that demanded blood.

the fertile crescent isn't a desert.

so in that case the argument would be how have the mesopotamian (marshlands?) environment influence their pantheon which in turn lead to monotheism.

That's cool but Judaism didn't develop in the Fertile Crescent, it developped in the shithole deserts of Sinai and Judea.

>Are abrahamic beliefs developed from "desert morality"?
Considering that the near east is not a desert, no.
Arabia =/= Middle-East.
no.
>their symbolism was similar
they were looking at the same things
>their gods were similar
all gods are similar by nature of being gods
>native Scandinavians pre-P.I.E. believed in an earth mother and shamanism
Environmental determinism doesn't apply to religions.
>environment influence their pantheon which in turn lead to monotheism.
no.
Look at the Greeks, Indo-Chinese, Steppe peoples, and Native Americans.
They all leaned toward monotheism, this coincides with the development of their societies.
Perhaps monotheism is the result of more intelligent people, it certainly seems to be the case in Greece, the Near East, and Northern Europe.
As for Europeans in general as they developed their pantheons didn't get smaller as much as it was that one god became the favored "father" god over all the others, this is a clear shift towards monotheism via elevating one god to a status greater than the others making him the only "real" god, or at least the only god that need be worshiped often.

look at low IQ places, they descend into polytheism and corrupt monotheism.
Perhaps monotheism is closer to the truth than polytheism.

The Levant isn't a desert, and it certainly wasn't a desert back in 1,000 B.C.
Also Judaism did develop in the fertile crescent Abraham was from the Mesopotamian city of Ur or something like it.

No, the Levant indeed isn't a desert. But Sinai sure as fuck isn't a part of the Levant.

What do you think this is?

something that isn't this.

>Are abrahamic beliefs
You might want to be more specific too. Consider that Judaism resembles the paganism of the times.
Christianity resembles the Greek philosophy of the times.
Islam is literally Arabic paganism but with a centralized father god whom the Arabs claim is also the god of the Jews, Christians, and everyone else.
The Three are radically different in that one was always monotheistic (Mesopotamian Judaism) one is Monotheistic philosophy (Christianity and Gnosticism), and the final one is Arabic paganism. Read the Koran and see if it resembles the Bible or the Talmud in any way.
Perhaps only in its semi-historical claims.

Also Arabs see heaven as an oasis, sounds like it came from desert nomads.
Jews see heaven as a place to go and worship or a material state of being, hence why there are many Jewish atheists.
Christians see heaven as a place of transcendence and Justice, where men reside with God, Jesus, the spirit, family members all debts paid and justice done for all time.

Judaism isn't from the Sinai.
>this means everywhere in the Levant is a desert
get out

Are you retarded? The Aztecs came from the desert and the valley of Mexico sucked

Compare Egyptian mythology with Mesopotamian mythology

The Nile Valley was very comfortable and welcoming, lending itself to the idea of largely benevolent Gods and goddesses.

Mesopotamia was highly treacherous in comparison.

Quiet, Satan. They still kept the practice going though, much to the horror of brutish Spain.

Monotheism is most commonly found among nomadic herding/shepherd peoples

That’s what I just said

Egypt was a nation of emos. Always with the death.

Abraham was a nomad who wandered half the middle east, he's lived in many places but mostly in the desert like Negev, Sinai and around cities around the Dead Sea like Soddom and Gomorrah, so also desert.
Judaism however wasn't created by Abraham, it was created by the wandering tribesmen led by Moses wandering through Shur (desert), Sinai (desert) and Paran (desert). The first city they conquered after Moses died, Jericho, is also in a desert.
Judaism is very much a desert religion and the fact they later annexed fertile areas on the coastline that had fuck all to do with their original patriarchs and conenant parties changes nothing about it.

Emo? Maybe they were effeminate in comparison to European societies at the time, but it wasn’t a CRAWWLLLLLIIIIIIIIINNGGG sort of death idea.

Human cultures tend to model their gods on their own experiences and societal structures

Hence why shepherds just worship the BIG shepherd in the sky

Shepherd cultures are patrician.

ahhh, you've described literally everyone before the agricultural revolution.
So, are all the Muslims, Europeans, and Americans herdsmen?
>Abraham was a nomad
[citation needed]
He was from Ur and only traveled after he founded the religion of Judaism via communing with God.
>created by wandering tribesmen led by Moses
>we have history of the Jews before the time of Moses
...
Do you have any proof those places were deserts during the time of Abraham?
>Jericho in a river valley
>desert
You're doing this on purpose.
We can not say the Levant was a desert at this time, the environment has changed to much, pro-tip it got warmer.

>Human cultures tend to model their gods on their own experiences and societal structures
source on that?
>inb4 correlation causation fallacy

>men worship a big man in the sky
>this is why there are religions who do not have gods as well as religions who do not have material beings
Do Buddhists just not exist to you?

>[citation needed]
Have you read the fucking Bible?

You keep harping about Levant, I'm telling most of the Torah doesn't take place there.

>come from city to go somewhere
>this makes you a nomad
no.
well the places mentioned were in the Levant
>inb4 the Nile Delta is a desert