According to the book, it literally is part of their religion 😅 thankfully, like most other religions, they don’t usually follow their own book literally (which would be impossible anyway since it contradicts itself in places)
This is what happens when you gut your pantheon to worship your god of war exclusively, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
Never forget that Yahweh subsumed the roles of both hero and villain when his cult enforced monotheism on a polytheistic religion.
It’s like if we remembered Odin as the only god of the Norse, but in the new Sagas he did literally everything the other gods did and most moral commentary beyond “obey or die” was lost as a result.
According to the book, it literally is part of their religion 😅 thankfully, like most other religions, they don’t usually follow their own book literally (which would be impossible anyway since it contradicts itself in places)
This is what happens when you gut your pantheon to worship your god of war exclusively, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
It’s in all the Abrahmic texts…
Never forget that Yahweh subsumed the roles of both hero and villain when his cult enforced monotheism on a polytheistic religion.
It’s like if we remembered Odin as the only god of the Norse, but in the new Sagas he did literally everything the other gods did and most moral commentary beyond “obey or die” was lost as a result.