Unless you or your players have real-world sensitivities, I wouldn't worry about it too much. There are already real-world religions incorporated into the setting. Even current ones.
I'd say you should talk with your players and ask them what they feel comfortable with.
You're more likely offend someone if you post your real world-to-rpg writeups on a forum than if you simply use it at your own table. There have been threads on stuff like this before. You might be able to find some if you use the search function.
...In fairness, Necromancy is in the Bible and it's never specifically called out as fake. And I'm not talking about Lazarus. But your general point stands.
(If you really wanted to implement it, you could position the Christian God as a kind of over-deity for the setting. Maybe He decided, for some reason, that lesser divine entities weren't to interfere on Earth any longer. It's not canon to the faith, but then, the same could be said about most pantheons if you have two that are 'real'. It probably is best to talk with your group and see what they think, though. Maybe they really care, maybe they don't care at all - either way, they should probably be consulted about this bit of world flavoring.)
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The only real world religion that isn't, in some way, already handled by the game in SOME fashion is general Christianity. And, frankly, if you have a character that is a hard-line Christian, they're going to have problems coping with the reality of other intelligent races. Nevermind magic and dimension hopping, that's pretty much nixed by the bible.
As a monotheist, I disagree. In fact many of the basic principles of the game come directly from Judeo-Christian and Islamic lore and holy books. Moses was a strong direct influence for the Cleric Class for instance. Paizo has kind of gone out of their way to exclude those religions in the setting and system, but it's not really at all hard to reintroduce them.
In Official Golarion material, there is at least one published reference to Christianity existing in Artifacts and Legends, although it doesn't specifically call out Christianity or Earth.
You're more likely offend someone if you post your real world-to-rpg writeups on a forum than if you simply use it at your own table. There have been threads on stuff like this before. You might be able to find some if you use the search function.
Realistically, particularly for Judaism/Christianity/Islam, but also for many faiths that are still currently commonly practiced likely the one thing that might really offend (and rightfully so) would be either trying to enforce that a particular deity is absolutely one particular Alignment or irreverence to the subject matter.
Otherwise, I doubt most rational folks would really have an issue, if we assume that there is no alternative favoritism or political message on the DM's part involved for including specific deities.
As for why these different religions and deities might have given up on, left, forgotten about, or simply not ever really been a part of Golarion-verse, there could be any number of reasons.
Maybe Thor found it far too boring, or, knowing that they already had their own end game going on and that Prophecy DID work, decided to turn their back on some small mudball that's just a prison for a second rate Ferir.
Perhaps when the Egyptian pantheon came into conflict with "Yahweh", the Egyptian pantheon beginning to go into decline went to ancient Golrion, (as per a connection in Mummy's Mask) but decided it wasn't such a great idea and sealed that gate. Yahweh's followers had a quest of their own and never went there as a whole, though individuals may have throughout history independently or by accident.
Maybe you could instead focus on the odd question as to why the Golarion pantheon, at least the vast majority of them where exiled to Golarion-verse only and have not ever come to Earth like most other faiths.
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No, but it IS called out as evil. Technically a gift from god (Satan can't create ANYTHING), and ANY magic, fortune telling, etc, is marked out as pure evil....In fairness, Necromancy is in the Bible and it's never specifically called out as fake. And I'm not talking about Lazarus. But your general point stands.
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Well, keep in mind that necromancy <which actually means summoning up and speaking to the spirits of the dead>, and similar practices <such as killing the soul or making Undead>, are generally considered evil by most folks.
