Also re:Abrahamic religions, I do wish people --tumblrers, academics, grad school edgelords-- would just say what they meant instead of Abrahamic or (gag) Judeo-Christian or what have you, which in 98.5 percent of cases is inaccurately broad or narrow or just plain inaccurate. Just SAY the Ottomans and the French mucked around a bunch in Egypt, dash it all! Pretty sure the British didn't steal the Elgin marbles just 'cause Anglicanism; there *may* have been ulterior motives there. Love to know when the Druze and Bahá'i got around to destroying a bunch of sculptures! Curious to understand where Judaism fits into this weird analysis -- obviously you can't have both existed in antiquity making your own art AND been Abrahamic. But totally, religion is all the same and has no sociological complexity at all. Love it.