the abrahamic storyline has dominated world religious events for the past 2000 years, and came into the mainstream with the advent of first christianity and then islam. as i was raised christian, and have the most knowledge of the christian view of the conclusion of it most of my information comes from Revelation. of course in revelation the word "anti-christ" is never used, but there is the whore of babylon. it is my theory that the scarlet whore is the archetype of inanna ishtar, who was both a virgin and harlot, like the virgin mary, and the aeon sophia of gnosticism who became a prostitute by spawning the material world by having a thought without the permission of the first pure emanation of the Godhead. my question is will there be a reconcilliation with pre-christian (sumero-babylonian, greco-roman, egyptian) western religions with abrahamic religion to synthesize a new religion which will be viewed by christian and islamic fundamentalists as the "religion of the anti-christ". it seems that each historical epoch since the dawn of state civilization has its own belief systems and organized religions. since the enlightenment in the west there has been an increasingly large spiritual vacuum as secularism has been taking predominace over christianity and essentially leaving the responsibility of religious guidiance blank... Robspierre, just after the French revolution attempted to completely resurrect the Ancient religion, but obviously didn't get too far with his Cult of the Supreme Beinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being . In modern times can an ideal like this be resurrected and submitted successfully for the approval of the mainstream? And if the Ancient Religion (the religion of Babylon, Egypt and Rome) can be revived not only would it co-opt abrahamic beliefs (as Jesus is a repetition of the resurrection stories of such dieties as Osiris), but it would also be met with hostilities from abrahamic fundamentalists.
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