...and the people of religion here are no different. The reasons why the first day of the week is Sunday and the last day of the week is Saturday are all pagan. Christmas and Easter are pagan festivals and Christians are warmed-over sun worshipers. And they all deny it, of course.
A good number of Jews consider Muslims to be exact opposites on the Abrahamic measuring stick, but Muslims are more Jewish than Christians when you consider that Christians are solar Abrahamics while both Jews and Muslims are lunar. The calendars that each use are testimonials to that fact.
And all three purvey discreditable articles of faith and their own customized versions of history which are at odds at what's been actually recorded and unearthed by archaeologists.
Of particular interest regarding the region of the Levant (Abrahamic "Holy Lands") is the Roman-defeated Kingdom of Pontus, coinage of which displayed, on some denominations, the star-and-crescent familiar today as an Islamic symbol. All three will proclaim that thou shalt not Sin, while Sin was the Pontus term for the Moon god.
Around the Internet you'll find one site proclaiming that Christianity has Egyptian parallels; another will proclaim it's based on Mithraism, and yet another will proclaim that it has both Celtic and Teutonic elements....and they're ALL correct; just partly correct. Ever since Rome was a city state founded by a couple of boys that were a twinkle in some she-wolf's eye, Romans conquered and then adopted the religion of the people they conquered into a mix that the conquered people could believe in while asserting that a Roman had the divine right to rule.
As the Romans eventually established a republic, and then an empire, they did this with consistency. The only reason we have "Greco-Roman" anything, and parallels between Roman gods and Greek gods, was on account of the Romans ruling the Greeks.
But let's get back to the Kingdom of Pontus, sandwiched between the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire. At its largest, most glorious peak, it included "Saint" Paul's hometown of Tarsus. And Rome was also working out accords with Egypt. Enter the Horus mythology and Ptolemy (Greco-Egyptian era) set of sciences into Roman mythology and technology respectively.
The Kingdom of Pontus had federated itself with Syria and various mini-kingdoms including the area of what we now know as Armenia, and this federation proclaimed as state religions a spin-off of the Persian state religion (mixture of Zoroasterism and Magism) known as Mithraism because unlike its progenitor religions, this one was solar based, with Mithras = Sun and Sin = Moon gods....which fit in nicely with Egyptian mythology. 12 apostles, virgin birth, god of light, the whole works.
And "saint" Paul's folks were Mithraists, as were every Hebrew claiming to be Jewish in that area. You see, there was no Jewish rule in that area since Alexander the Great despite claims to the contrary. There was a Jewish religion, but no legitimate claim to own any property. People of that religion were Alexandrian citizens, Pontan or Syrian citizens, or Roman citizens, and the land was the property of the Empire that conquered it regardless of what religion its citizens believed in. Romans were always tolerant of various religions as long as Roman divine right to rule was recognized.
And yet Jews claim that this was always Jewish land when it was not, and Christians back up that claim without legal secular foundation for any of that nonsense. Nor do today's Abrahamics, whether Jewish or Christian or Muslim, acknowledge that their religions are just re-warmed versions of pagan religions that have been politically re-engineered for political convenience.
But that's the record, and that's the truth.