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Given how a large chunk of the appeal of religion is helping people deal with the horrible stuff that happens in life, I think it's telling that all the major world religions came either out of the Middle East or India.
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That's definitely part of it, but those locations are also notoriously bad places to live.
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@ArdainianRight would it just be because of the early start location for human civilizations?
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@ArdainianRight @cough Sort of. Summertime is awful but the rest of the year is very pleasant, if the American Southwest is anything to go by in comparison. Although the Middle East before the Arab conquests was populated by a significantly different peoples; the behavior of Iraqis are very different from the behavior of ancient Babylonians, etc.
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@wgiwf @cough The Middle East's biggest problems aren't even really about climate. It has more to do with being smack-dab in the middle of everything and getting repeatedly fucked over by every empire which pops up.
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@ArdainianRight I think the reason why they are shitty isn't the religion but more of the fact that they became diluted by being the first big trade centers of the world.
Babylonia fell after their king was no longer Babylonian, the Indus valley civilization fell when their culture dominant culture social structure broke due to influx of other cultures.
Just the curse of being in an between two rivers, good farm lands, and open to trade and influences in and out from all direction.
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@ArdainianRight @cough That was less of an issue back when civilization was first starting there but become a problem when the Bronze Age hit. Egypt was was better situated in that regard, hence their civilization lasting for nearly 3000 years with a handful of interruptions before they finally became subjects of a stronger empire.
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