re: Stunning Admission By Renowned Atheist; Decline of Christianity is Hurting Society

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Religions just didn't pop into existence from nowhere. They were passed down

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That's ridiculous. If a religion can't "pop" into existence then how is there ever anything to "pass down"?

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And anthropologists have all agreed that the source of all things language, culture, farming, domestication of animals, metallurgy, etc all came from somewhere in Turkey. Guess what, so did all the worlds religions

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Multiple cradles of civilization emerged independently of one another. Mesopotamia is one but there's also the Mesoamerican and Andean that developed culture, farming, and domestication independently of any Near East influence.

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Kurgans - founded in the Caucus mountains of Russia, Yeah that's right Buddha descended from the Caucasians, who went on to found a boatload of Christian religions.

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You're using these terms way too loosely. "Kurgans" were not a people but a group of similar cultures that orginated from the Pontic Steppe which spanned many regions other than just the Caucasus and are certainly not known as the "Caucasians".

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So from Abraham, you can get to any religion by following his lineage

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There's no evidence that an actual Abraham even existed, let alone anyone from which he's said to descend.

So, if all religion is from a single progenitor, which is highly unlikely considering the chronology of human migration patterns, language development, written records, and archaeology, it surely isn't anything resembling an Abrahamic one.

As an aside, the existence of a common "ancestor" does not preclude independent development of seperate branches.