Why are the Abrahamic religions so severely against paganism?

Question

I'm not looking for a "because God said so" answer. I'm looking for a real answer.

Historically, what is the reason? Is it simply an attempt by earlier Jews/Christians/Muslims to replace the older pagan religions by scaring people away from them?

Answer 1

Paganism was the first known religion. So when Christians came around They needed to make Paganism look evil in order to get follower's. Many of your early priest practiced Christianity and Paganism at the same time. And in order to stop that they also absorbed many of the Pagan traditions and religious believes. FYI Jews and Muslims were not the religions that destroyed Paganism it was Christianity

Answer 2

Monotheism absorbed the virtuous qualities ( and power qualities) of polytheism 's gods . The Abrahamic Monotheisms ( esp Christian and Muslim)grew unable to tolerate competition,even of each other ,since "error has no rights" and for many right belief became synonomous with goodness and acceptability by the One God . The Jews were the functionally most tolerant because they were not in positions of top power(except among the Kazars) unlike church or mosque in Christian and Muslim states.

Most forms of Judaism and Christianity today accept the need for real tolerance of other religions and philosophies, including polytheistic groups like Wiccans, Pagans, etc but how many forms of Islam do?

Answer 3

Ok folks, saying paganism came first, or God offered Abraham a good deal is ludicrous. Paganism was man's way of denying God and trying to give themselves a "better" deal, an"easier softer way" if you will. Paganism came AFTER God, created by man. GOD however, created man and existed before man. Remember our "free will". It isn't love if it isn't of our own free will. Think about it can we "live" without God? Well yes, we can we can procreate like the animals, dominate our environment, over come adversity, eat, drink, have sex, build shelter, on and on,.As long as we have the resources of the earth available to us we can do these things without GOD. But can we "save" ourselves.? Can we "love" ourselves? Can we experience perfection of our own devices?
I don't think so.

Answer 4

Abrahamic religions borrowed many elements from pagan religions and repackaged it in a monotheistic frame. Paganism has always been seen as a threat to Abrahamic faiths.

Answer 5

in no way. that's maximum frequently in accordance with what Pagan way of existence, and Gods call to you. there continues to be morality notwithstanding it inspired out of being in cohesion with the Universe, and the Gods, quite than worry of Hell. yet there are various varieties of Paganism, with many distinctive approaches. the two communities i'm in touch with Hercules Invictus, and PAS-Meriti are very socially concious, cutting-edge communities, that are created from polytheist pagans. And the two are greater mainstream than many different pagan traditions.

Answer 6

Perhaps you are right.....there are an awful lot of similarities between the older religions and the Abrahamic......perhaps learning/worshipping other earlier gods might have led them to see those similarities and, thus, make them revert back to the old faith.
Further, we are talking about a people who were frequent nomads, frequent outsiders......they wanted something that was their own. They wanted a god that championed their own causes and wept when they wept.

Answer 7

According to the Bible, Abraham chose to worship One God because God offered him a good deal.

Not that I'm saying God bribed him, but the idea that a Deity would select you from the masses and bless you for following Him only seems like a major impetus to reject polytheism.

Answer 8

Well, speaking from an islamic point of view, we believe in one true creator, and not...6-12 diffrent gods (Think logically, wont they fight over control??) but ONLY ONE GOD, the belief in one all-knowing,All-wise is very critical in our religion, which is implemented in our creed, the shahadah, which is :"I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH, AND MOHAMMAD IS HIS MESSENGER"

Another rumour spread around by earlier abbots and popes of the Islamic Age's Golden Times were that Mohammad scared people away and massacred them, if these "knowledgable" preachers were able to read, it has been stated even by the CHRISTIAN KING of Chad during those times that "Islam is a religion of peace" seeing that mohammad's first few followers (now up to 1.8 Billion followers) immigrated to today's chad because of PROSECUTION FROM THE PAEGANS IN MAKKAH!!!!! this led to battles against the paegans after the prophet AND his people were tortured severely, and Allah, the All-Knowing, The All-Wise, the Exalted commanded the prophet at the correct timing to "Counter" their irrational attacks, and if these battles were studied in detail, it shows that these battles were first instigated by the opposing force (they started an attack) and the muslims were only attacking by their god given right and of DEFENCE, which result in continous victories to Allah's followers against the sinning paegans.

Answer 9

Because many are not sensitive the the spiritual nature of paganism and the evil spirits involved.

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Answer 10

Because there is only one God and God wants to guide the humanity to right path so He doesn't have to burn all of them in hell fire. He is Merciful and wants to save them if they believe in God and obey Him too. God says in Quran

"I have only created Jlnns and men, that they may worship me"(Soorah Zaareeyaat 51:56)

God created Jinns before He created Adam. Satan is from Jinns. He did worship God a lot and was most obedient to God until God created Adam from dust. He was not Angel. Most Christians believe he was Angel. That is wrong.

Whom Christians call Holy Ghost is Angel Gabriel. He is not ghost. In most religions ghost is meant to be a Jinn. Some of the bad jinns often over power humans and control their lives. Religious men known as Exorcists force jinn to leave human body with the use of their knowledge of Divine Scriptures.

Angels are created from Light
Jinns are created from Fire
Adam was created from the extracts of earth dust. That is why his energy to replenish himself comes out of dust.