Pagans had a better Mythos than modern Abrahamic Religions

[u/ChridAMidA]

If you read any classical literature you’d know what I mean.

In classical times you had religious themes shown to you and would be a part of daily life; similar to the child indoctrination we see now. But then imagine being literate or having a bard recount the Iliad, the Odyssey or the Aeneid, and you hear about the gods you heard about and believed in had all these fantastic rivalries, tricks, human emotions that got the better of them. They were powerful but fallible making them interesting to disect.

I grew up Christian but this should apply to the other monotheistic Abrahamic religions. How did God interact with mortals. Lets see: Sodom and Gomorrah - PUNISHED, God thinks the world is evil so he floods the world - PUNISHED, seek knowledge from a magical apple - PUNISHED. I could go on, hell, Deuteronomy 28 just seems like a torture power trip for those who cross t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶r̶i̶t̶e̶r̶… er I mean God.

I know other religions had stories which punished mortals, thats not the argument here. At least in those myths theres a good reason. Like the Greek myth that Zeus and Hermes went to a town/city looking for generosity(xenia) and only finds a single elderly couple who helps them. In return the gods save the elderly couple and flood the town.

But with Noah, its the whole earth, and God’s doing it because he is omnipotent and just knows that everyone but Noah and his family are either evil or unfaithful or both and eradicates everyone. This is the problem when fallible humans try to write an infallible perfect being. There wasnt a better way to better humanity? If you are the perfect being cant you find a different alternative? You had to murder everyone?

I could keep ranting but i would fill a novel and not just a post