Originally posted by hopscotch"He" didnt -
How did God get from Zeus and Posiedon and stuff all the way through to being Jesus and Mohammed and eventually Haile Selassie I?
IMAGINE READING GOD'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY!
(reader's digest condensed version pls)
"He" was a totally separate belief path than Zeus and Poseidon.
The Romans invaded and conquered Greece (the nation not the movie) then saw that all of the Greek gods were so much cooler than their own so they stole them and re-named them, then along came Mr J. Chreezie and he had groovy thoughts inspired by eating some little kids old fish and this made other people do the same, so the romans and Jews ganged up and killed him, and then the Roman's (Constantine the Great's era: Fun fact: he was a pagan, and only became christian on his death bed through guile by the new church he started who wanted all his monies and powers) started its big exit from our history books so they started a new religion and used it to conquer the world, because its easier to blame killing a lot of people and stealing all their monies on "god" than it is to recruit people for the classic "because I said so" cause.
Back to Constantine: he was a clever man, who saw that the nations he was ruling were constantly fighting and mainly because of religion. Paganism was still strong and not everyone was happy to convert to the new church he started, so he being a pagan himself, he used elements from his religion and worked it into this new fangled christianity, in the hopes that it would unify his war torn kingdom.... He birthed the beast, and it stabbed him in the back in the end.
Now go get some work done. Slackers.