Because the buck stopped with Monotheism, a premise also in alignment with science, math and logic. This was a difference in kind, not degree. Many wars were faught over it, many nations rebelled and then fell, but this concept prevailed.
That's an interesting proposition, care to enlighten India, or for that matter all of Southern and Eastern Asia, which has half the world's population, on how they are essentially all either Jewish, Christian, or Islamic?
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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon
The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza