The Kaaba and its originsMuslims hold the Kaaba to an extremely high regard; calling it the house of god (beitallah), and many of them go there every year to preform tawaf, an extremely pagan-looking ritual which entails going around the Kaaba seven times while chanting. We shall explore the alleged and true origins of the Kaaba, both according to Islam and factual history
Islam's view
The Quran claims that Abraham built the Kaaba as an alter to Allah; moreover, his son Ishmael helped him build it. This is the sole major role of Abraham in Islam, which claims to have the same god as Christianity and Judaism, even though it claims that their holy books have been corrupted. After the Kaaba was built, many people settled around it and around Mekkah's well. The people who lived there put up their idols and "false gods", which later became the sole purpose of the Kaaba, pagan worship. Muhammad destroyed the idols in the Kaaba when he returned to it, but think about that for a second. Why is that fine at all? What if i were to go to the Kaaba now, destroy it, then build something else on top of it, what kind of outrage would that inspire? Anyhow, the Kaaba has remained strictly Muslim ever since, and that may be the only true thing that Muslims know about it.
Actual history
Now, dating Abraham can be quite hard, seeing as to how he never really existed, but most scholars put him somewhere between 2000 to 1300 BCE. That range had many literate civilizations thriving, so a plethora (mind you not as much as we'd like) is available from more then one source, accordingly, records of Abraham's bible journeys can be found in both Jewish and Christian scripture, where he traveled from Ur in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) to Egypt then to Israel. This makes more sense then to go from Ur to Egypt to the middle of the desert with no provisions and children around. Muslims will then claim that the bible has been corrupted, and yes it surely has; but where on Earth did anyone see all Jews and all Christians agreeing on something? They never do and they never will. With that in mind, the Kaaba has NO references in any Jewish or Christian scripture AT ALL. Christians disagree on every small bit of Jesus' life but they all managed to agree that the Kaaba doesn't exist? All of them? Since when? A Roman account claimed that Arabs worshiped stones, a statement that holds credibility when you look at how people treat the black stone; and how they used to treat it in Ancient Arabia.
Conclusion
There are even more ways to refute the Kaaba's Abrahamic construction, but I have better uses of my time. Muslim practices and beliefs with the Kaaba are what they are, a semetic, pagan belief that appeared in Mesopotamia and have stuck ever since. So much for the house of god that allegedly got destroyed a few times.
Further Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia_Felix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba
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