Polytheism the way to go!

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Despite the fact that the Egyptians and Olmecs never having met, the Gods they worshipped were remarkably similar:

http://www.crystalinks.com/olmec.html
Ancient Mexicans and Egyptians who never met and lived centuries and thousands of miles apart both worshiped feathered-serpent deities,
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In the arts, Mexico's earliest civilization, the Olmecs, echo Egypt's finest sculptures. Olmec artists carved large man-jaguar warriors that are similar to the Egyptian sphinxes on display showing lions with the heads of gods or kings. The seated statue of an Egyptian scribe carved between 2465 and 2323 BC shows stonework and attention to detail that parallels a seated stone sculpture of an Olmec lord. There is no evidence the Olmecs and Egyptians ever met.
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So while the Abrahamic God didn't see fit to generate prophets outside of the Middle East, it's quite clear that the polytheistic jaguar-man and feathered-serpent Gods made their existence known to more than just one area of the globe (Egypt and the Americas). I wouldn't be surprised if feathered serpents also made an appearance in European Paganism.

I just don't know how anyone can believe in monotheism , when similar polytheistic Gods are worshipped on opposite ends of the globe. That's too uncanny to be coincidence, surely?
 
That's too uncanny to be coincidence, surely?
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Perhaps some followers got into a boat and moved to a new location and developed their own "religion" from what they had before.
 
So while the Abrahamic God didn't see fit to generate prophets outside of the Middle East ...

Actually, Prophets were, in fact, sent throughout the world by this so-called "Abrahamic" God you refer to. Many of the Prophets in India and China, for example, had their messages metamorphosed into a strange "religion" incorporating both the Prophets' teachings, and the persistent culture within the region. Concrete examples? Buddha and Confucius were both Prophets. Prophets were sent to the Americas, too, although it is unlikely for us to have any evidence of their arrival, based simply on the fact that the people in the Americas had different lifestyles than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The Native Americans had an "oral history", meaning the teachings and knowledge of one generation was passed on through stories to the next - not written or recorded. After centuries of such a system, the Prophets' messages were changed and eventually forgotten.

Kadark the Sagacious
 
religions all over the world have similarities because advanced (highly evolved) human beings ('gods') taught primitive people the same things.
 
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