Christopher Hitchens on Monotheism

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Canaan lay right in the centre of the region where writing was first developed, at the time when these thing should have happen, China and Greece was quite backward compared to the Middle East. The Indus Civilisation the only culture at the same "tech level" was collapsing thanks to barbarian invasion and left no literature behind, while a millenium later China saw the destruction of most of their literary tradition (which is why Confucius saw such popularity, because his writings was one of the few which survived). So honestly not only are this a counter productive argument, it's also quite stupid as the oral and written stories and myths which became the Bible are among oldest if not the oldest retold stories in the world. Yes we have older myths, but those are ones found from ruins, not some told and retold for the last 3 milleniums.