I agree to some extent, but you could also consider the fact that 2000 years+ back many more things couldn't be scientifically explained and were more or less automatically attributed to divine intervention. Natural disasters being one of them. It was all much more believable at the time than the new faiths spaceship crap is now.

Then there are the centuries of passing on the myths and legends from one civilization to another, with all the political influences in the interpretations, the lost and deformed information, etc... And today, most believers of the main religions, and even the Vatican when it comes to Christianism, read the holy writings as metaphores, when scientologists take their founding story as facts.


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