Ojuice5001

I'd like it to be Rome, but it's not. Rome and Athens are a sort of secondary center, but the primary one is the Middle East. There does seem to be a correlation here: The closer you are to the Middle East, the more interest humans and gods take in each other.

The modern Middle East is populated by highly religious Muslims, Jews, and Christians. Before that, it was populated by pagan religions, many of which saw a very strong connection between their gods and their society. Rome and Greece are close to the Middle East, and consequently they were very religious in pagan times, and are now the headquarters of Catholicism. Outside the Mediterranean, cultures like the Norse and the southern Africans were religious and supernaturalist to an extent. In the New World and Australia, supernatural beings were generally more remote from humans than you find anywhere else. India and Mexico seem to be more religious than you'd expect, but you'll notice they are similar in latitude to the Middle East. And regarding modern secularism, in Europe the most secular cultures (Scandinavian) are farthest from the Middle East, and the most religious part of the US, the South, is the closest to the Middle East.

This doesn't mean that Yahweh or Allah is the one true god, but it helps explain why they could be mistaken for such.

http://catholiceducation.org/article...on/re0008.html Here's something by Peter Kreeft; one of the point that it makes is the one I'm making now.

philechat

This is an ignorant remark of much of world cultures and religions in history. For example, southern Africans are much more religious than most Europeans--but was Southern Africa closer in geography to the middle east than say France in Europe? No.

What about the USA being more religious than the Europeans? The very Catholic South America? The highly religious Aztec civilization of ancient Mexico? The religious Muslims and Hindus in Indonesia?

NOGO

This is a reformulation of an old one.
It was once believed that Jerusalem was the center of the world and that the first human language before the tower of Babel story was Hebrew.

In the nineteenth century believers were hard at work trying to show that all languages were derived from Hebrew. We now know that all European languages come from Sanskrit and that Hebrew comes from Cuneiform.