>>398876>You familiar with Linux From Scratch? Imagine those other religions are other distros of Linux. That.Okay, but why is that important?
>Cobbled togetherThat's not really pagan then. Just general spirituality/superstition. Pagan faiths are continued practice of traditional religions.
>given abrahamics fucking with / outright destroying documentation at times throughout historyAll religions adopted by powerful empires do this.
>wiccaEw.
>They largely share canonThey share similar Genesis stories, but where they diverge is that the concept of God in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is wildly different, and as such has completely different moral and cultural implications.
To Jews, God is the spirit of their people. Their concept of God is actually pretty basic as far as ethnic religions go, similar to the countless extinct pagan ethnic religions that existed in the region, all of which had their own personal tribal idols who represented their people. One of the earliest depictions of Ywh describes him as "The Divine Warrior who led the Hebrew speaking people into battle". Jew believe that God made the world for them, and that all other races only exist to be conquered by them and be their servants, which compliments their egotistical and self-serving nature. Their concept of "morality" comes from seeing themselves as the chosen "stewards", which drives them to amass power and subvert institutions, which is also what informs their practices of semitism and loxism. This is why Jews believe that they are always in the right, because as far as they are concerned life revolves around them and it's their right and privilege to decide how the world is governed.
The Christian god is similar to the Jewish god in that the Christian God is anthropomorphic, but the similarities begin to waver there. The Christian concept of God actually has a lot of similarities to the Hellenistic concept of gods that was prominent in the Roman empire in the time of Jesus. The idea of a god who takes on mortal form and has a mortal demigod son who incarnates and represents that God, and furthermore ascends to an even greater state of being upon death, was a concept not unfamiliar to Romans, which is part of the reason why the Christian Trinity was readily adopted by the Roman empire. The Christian God is uniquely anthropocentric in this regard. Whereas the Jewish concept of god is the patron of their people, the Christian god is concerned with all of mankind. Christian morality is based on the idea that humans are made in the image of God, and therefore it is important to treat other humans beings with respect and dignity, because doing so is honoring the glory of God's creation.
The Muslim God differs quite a bit in this aspect: the Muslim God is not anthropomorphic at all, and mankind is not made in God's image to Muslims. The Islamic god is more similar to the concept of God in Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Persian Empire. To Muslims, God is a formless, genderless, limitless entity of incalculable cosmic power. Muslims find the idea of an infinity powerful entity taking on mortal form to be preposterous, because something in the form of a human could never truly be God to them, and so Muslims reject the Trinity outright. The idea of God as an infinitely mighty and fearsome entity is the basis of Islam, because Muslims worship the concept of pure power, and the word "Muslim" means "one who submits" to God's power. Like in Zoroastrianism, Muslims believe that God created this world with rules, and that all humans are born in submission to said rules; deviating from those rules is betrayal of God, and is therefore sinful. Muslims differ from Christians in that regard, since unlike Christians who initiate new members via baptism with the knowledge that only a few will be saved, Muslims see their ideology as the natural state of being for all creatures and that in the end all life must be dominated by Islam; this informs their propensity for violence and zealotry, moreso than the other two religion.
So, even though these three religions share some common mythos, the ways in which they deviate are even more important because those aspects dictate their concepts of God and moral outlook. It's not immediately obvious because these traits are actually the unwritten syncretic traits they shared with the dominant religions in the societies they were founded in: ancient Canaanite paganism (Jews), Roman Hellenism (Christianity), and Persian Zoroastrian (Islam).