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While archeology and anthropology unearth the polytheism of primitive man and much of ancient history. A new archeology began, that would change the assumption of polytheism being first. This was the advent of Biblical archeology. As places of Christian and Old Testement importance were uncovered, in among the Roman ruins, an understanding of monotheism emerged that was parallel to polytheism. The monotheism, viewed by western thought was through the Greek philosophers and much later the philosopher Buddha. Both of whom believed in a single unknown god. The reason for the difference between Buddha and the Greek philosophers, is that the west claims the Greek philosophers as their origin, but refused the philosophers of the east until much later. Western thought is just that, thought (reason and science) from the western (white) European point of view. A view of superiority over all others. For those who don't understand what western thought is, it's the base of everything from schools, the justice system, psychology, science, the political system, and much more.
Current history was built from the western point of view, along most universities and their academic standards. Further, they were built in opposition to religion. Not suprisingly, then, they have significantly omitted the monotheistic impact on theirown history. Neglecting to mention theirown monotheistic roots. Consider, that the European university were once schools of theology, or that Freud was of Yiddish (European Judaism - typcially considered orthodox or a proper Jew) heritage, yet he is considered the father of secular humanism (western thought). While there were other thinkers before Freud, but it was Freud who introduced the world to psychoanalysis and "rational" though. He and many other wrote off monotheism as mythical. The went as far as to show polytheisn as predating monotheism. Primative man was associated with polytheism - so monotheism was (commonly) viewed as a development of polytheism. However, a study of early (traditional) Christianity, will show a very close (and integrated) connection to the Hebrew community. Jews, specifically (and biblically) referred to a specific (legalistic) group called the Pharisees. Archeology has confirmed much of the Bible, pushing monotheism back to the dawn of man. Further, with the advent of computers, and specifically computer graphic (based in visual computational mathematics), a Biblically based icon (from the last period of Christian Rome ~1200) of the creation, showed the newly evolved geometry of fractal geometry (as stated by a book on fractal geometry).
However, as a study history will show, monotheism is not exactly uniform. The Jews of Judaism, are not the Herbews of the Old Testement, they are a producted of the post-Chirst Jewish wars. Islam, is also a later creation (based on Judaism of the Jewish wars) applied to Arab tribes of the Middle East. Around the same time as the advent of Islam (700AD), also begean the roots of the Roman Catholic church, which would emerge in 1054AD and begin its establishment by 1066AD (by force). Each of the new monotheism was an adaption of the legalistic chapters of God's Law in Leviticus (the old monotheism). It's basic foundation was built on authoritative stuctures to enforce the law. Each believes in divine retribution and the mechanisms of state-divine authority. In otherwords, polytheism is replaced with monotheism. The many gods, replaced with one.
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