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This joke got me thinking...
"I have no idea why any real Aussie would believe that Jesus will ever return. He was nailed to a cross, not a freaking boomerang!"
How does location alter religious dogma? Think of some cultural adaptations religions incorporated to sell their beliefs to the people they were converting.
Example: Christianity adopted many Pagan symbols in order to better sell their belief system to the Barbarians, most notably transforming the crucifixion stake into a cross.
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-teach/origin-cross-symbol-pagan/
"I have no idea why any real Aussie would believe that Jesus will ever return. He was nailed to a cross, not a freaking boomerang!"
How does location alter religious dogma? Think of some cultural adaptations religions incorporated to sell their beliefs to the people they were converting.
Example: Christianity adopted many Pagan symbols in order to better sell their belief system to the Barbarians, most notably transforming the crucifixion stake into a cross.
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-teach/origin-cross-symbol-pagan/