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by skulk 1064 days ago
> Three millennia ago, man once again struggled to find reality between the proliferation of false idols. Every city in Mesopotamia, then the richest and most developed center of civilization, had its own cults and gods. For a camp of nomadic herdsmen like Terah and his son Abram, it all looked very suspicious.

This seems to be the main thrust. Abraham : Mesopotamia :: Trad values : Modern society's values. A flimsy argument that comes from an extremely shallow understanding of what little we know of ancient history.