He was actually in a mental health hospital, rather than an asylum. As I recall, he had been released weeks earlier, went back for a check-up the previous day, and then literally went to the riot. The bag he's holding was shit he got during his checkup. Didn't even tell his girlfriend that he was going down there.
If we are considering ethno-culture than no shit.
It might be different if someone from one ethnicity was raised in a different ethno-culture that wasn't there own. But if we're talking about the Israelites in the Bronze Age, that would be quite rare, or they were a slave to someone in that other ethnic group, or they were a bastard to someone in that other ethnic group.
If you're standing here saying: "the environment you are raised in is the environment you are informed by" then that is just a truism. Why ask me why the Israelites would be choosing Ba'al over Yahweh or vice versa?
That's why the majority of Israelites were worshipers of Yahweh. That's not a choice, they're born into the religion of their ancestors, and raised by their parents in it. If someone never makes a choice to worship Ba'al, and worships Yahweh their whole life, that doesn't address your question of why someone would choose one over another.
If you ask me why a Dane would chose to worship Jesus rather than Mohammed, to tell you that Denmark is Christian isn't an answer.
The whole point, in fact the point of why Ba'al is considered a demon, is because there were plenty of jews that were choosing to worship Ba'al. Including Israelite kings. Your question is addressing why that choice is being made, not what an Israelite would have been pre-disposed to by birthright.
Obviously, it's the bronze age. That's always going to be part of it when each tribe & city has their own primary god. But the point is that Ba'al and Yahweh were competing over recruits. That's why Ba'al is seen as subversive. It's why Yahweh punishes jews that strayed from Yahweh and worshiped Ba'al or built shrines/temples to him.
You asked me why jews chose Yahweh over Ba'al. As in, since jews could make a choice in who to worship, why chose one over another? Simply saying that the Isralites and Cannanites are different ethnocultures doesn't answer your question.
As I understand, the Babylonians predominantly worshiped Bel and Nebo, not Ba'al. That was the Cannanites.
As for why Ba'al and not Yahweh was worshiped by the jews/isralites, that appears to be a difficult theological question that is well outside my knowledge. At the time when they were rival gods, Ba'al and Yahweh were both considered fairly similar, since both were warrior gods, and Ba'al was also a god of sea storms, and Yahweh was a god of thunderstorms.
I guess the way I would look at it is: which god actually helped devotees more? If it's true that Ba'al's rituals involved human sacrifice of children, where as Yahweh had sacrifice of some animals, that might be a good indicator of which cult would have had more pathological tendencies. The modern concept of God is that of a father figure. If any of that goes back to the original Yahweh that was competing with Ba'al, then you have two very similar gods, but one is a fatherly god, where the other sacrifices children. We only need to look around to see how pathological a fatherless society is. So, the society that will have better outcomes for it's people would be a society that worships a father figure, rather than one that demands child sacrifice.
You're misunderstanding me. "Slandering" as in: taking them from the concept of a different god, to a literal metaphysical monster. They aren't just neutrally stating: "here is this other god, and this is what it's rituals are like." They are engaging in an act of character assassination against the god.
Didn't you just hear her? How are we going to be able to find real authentic Somali food like rice and bananas when she's gone?
How could we even combine rice and bananas together without their guidance? You think there's some sort of magical instruction book for cooking food?!!
I may be an atheist but I actually get what the Christians (and originally jews) are talking about.
First: ideologies are still metanarratives and world-views that inform morality; and as such they rival religions to some degree when not taken with the appropriate psychological boundaries that a reasonable person must establish when examining an idea set. If an ideology is unlimited in scope, and asserts a moral order, it is fundamentally indistinguishable from a religion, or more specifically: a cult.
Now, for a second, let's talk about Demonology! All of the named demons in the old testament are not really "demons" as we think of them. They are actually Babylonian gods that are rivals to Yaweh. In fact, the Jews are punished by Yaweh because some Jews are occasionally converted or swayed enough by the followers of these Babylonian gods, when they think Yaweh isn't doing enough for them, or isn't protecting them, etc.
The Old Testament basically slanders them as "demons", spiritual monsters meant to take you away from Yaweh and destroy your soul. HOWEVER THEY HAVE A GOOD POINT:
The followings of these polytheistic Babylonian Gods, are really just cults. In fact, most religions really seem like cults around this time. Even going back to the Assyrian Empire, that Empire was ruled by "The Cult of Ashur". Each God that existed in the Pantheon of the Assyrian religion was actually the god of a city. These city-state-gods were the physical manifestation of the metaphysics of the city (like the culture, aesthetics, attitudes, traditions, etc). These gods inhabited statues in the city center at the primary temple. In one instance, the Assyrians conquered a rival city-state, and then literally removed the statue of the rival god, put it on trial, convicted it, and threw it in a dungeon. They saw that their war was both physical and metaphysical; and the metaphysical gods could be treated physically if they lost to the superior god who won the conflict. It's crazy to think that the Assyrians literally put a god in prison, but that's actually how they saw it. The point is, each god has a literal cult-following.
The Babylonians gods are cults. In fact, each of them are condemned, because each of them try to use different mechanisms to try and recruit the jews. Ba'al is a warrior god with the power of lighting, and he is re-framed as a god of violence and murder. In 40k, you could think of him as Khorne. Asher is a god of fertility, but the cult would "worship" through ritualistic prostitution; re-framed as a false god using sex as a weapon. 40k would think of her as Slanesh. And why are the followers of Yaweh opposed to these gods? Because they will destroy your soul. Well, metaphysically, wouldn't it be true that an obsession with violence (the sin of wrath), or an obsession with sex (the sin of lust), be personally destructive to people who followed it. Wouldn't it cause them to hurt themselves in the long run? Absolutely.
So, if the Babylonian cult gods are re-framed as demons; falling under the power of Satan to tempt people from Yaweh... is there any difference from a modern cult that might still use the same tactics? A cult that tempts recruits with sexual availability is still similar to what the cult of Asher would do. And if Asher is a demon, than isn't this temptation to recruit people into this sin Demonic? If it's Demonic, is it not Satanic by virtue of being a larger effort to tempt people from God?
I think it's fair to say that all of this is logically true. So, from a purely metaphysical perspective, if an ideology were to have no boundary conditions and assert a moral framework, and it were to tempt people into opposing Christianity by recruiting them through the same methods that propped up Babylonian cults... is there any reason to not call it Demonic or Satanic?
How can there be any metaphysical difference between a Leftist who has been so conditioned by propaganda that he's screeching online that he's glad Charlie Kirk got shot in the throat and that more people should die; and saying that this person is possessed by the demonic spirit of Ba'al as an act of Satan?
I don't think there is.
It may not be literally true. It may not be materially true. But an ideology possessing someone like this, and a demon possessing someone like this isn't metaphysically different.
We both know that's a lie. If you want to complain about jews, feel free to cite that video out of upstate New York. That is about Hassidic Judaism. It isn't about Zionism. Zionism is explicitly a Progressive Nationalist & Secular Ideology. It is fundamentally Leftist, and the first thing it did was use jews as a skin suit. The same way Feminists use women as a skin-suit, or the Labor movement use workers as a skin suit.
Why, exactly, do you think you would see a barrel flash? That's literally not supposed to happen on most correctly powered guns.
Here's a Sig P320 going off in a holster. Do you see a flash?
So, the worship of Yahweh is Communism? Doesn't seem like it. Especially since Communism is invented in Christian Western Europe, over a thousand years after the Bronze Age ends, and the concept of Social Justice itself is derived from Catholicism.
Again, Leftism resembles the cult of Ba'al and Asher in it's tactics, not the cult of Yahweh, let alone formal Judaism.
Leftism is an ideology that uses all available skin-suits to rationalize it's existence to whatever population it is attacking. That includes Judaism, Christianity, Atheism, Paganism, and even Taoism. The fact that you said that Jews embraced Atheism to accept Communism, tells you that those jews had to abandon their own ethno-cultural practices to embrace Leftism. You know, like being tempted by Ba'al.