Sanders' Religion Thread, Begun @ LC Forum Options

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e-Dog and I have decided to re-constitute this from LC. It is a thread about the 3 major religions of the world. The goal was to follow the path of each from their common origins to the present day. We (a number of LC posters and I) got as far as the begining of the First Crusade while the thread was active.

What becomes of this thread when all the copying is done is not clear. It may be just a read-only thread for the Religion topic. Or it may be left open to posting, so we can finish the journey.

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Posted by: pr0mythius Jul 31 2006, 10:50 AM

Yes indeed, but was replacing the Pagan gods= Our European gods, our European culture, with the Abrahamic= totally alien semitic god, that got nothing to do with European culture.

A good thing?

It was the biggest disaster in the European history. When they got in power they burnt and slaughtered everything Pagan=European. The pagan culture (so much higher than the xtian) was completly destoyed. They burnt every library.

Europe descended inte the dark ages it lasted to the renaissance.


9/11 was certainly a pretext for war, not a religious war. But they are using the tremendous power of religion. They are deliberatly spreading hatred among xtians towards Muslims.


Aren't you too wise to view the bible as book of historiography? It is a book of myths. Take the myth that the Jews were slaves in Egypt. There is no evidence for this. It is pure fantasie, or rather a myth. With no basis in the historical reality.

well ... acctually christianity does have a bit to do with paganism. you could classify me as a pagan i suppose .. most of thier teaching seem to make more sense than more organized religions. but anywayz ... christianity did take a lot of thier holidays from paganism. for instance:

christmas .. jesus birthday id celebrated on december 25th when most scholars say from the story that jesus was more than likely born in august. but the christian church made december 25th the holiday to celebrate his birth to overshadow the Yule holiday. and early christians actually used to celebrate jesus's birthday on january 6th. by the way .. yule holiday celebrates the rebirth of the God. coincidence? HA!

easter .. christians celebrate this holiday to remember the crucifixion of christ .. so where did all the bunnies and eggs come from? pagans celebrate Ostara around the same time .. the spring equinox .. the return of spring .. and also with this came the birthing of farm animals.

Samhain/Halloween .. celebrated by pagans to remember thier loved ones that have passed on .. it symbolized the death of the God and the Goddess mourning him til the coming of Yule and his rebirth. Christians then created All-Saint day to counter this holiday.

interesting eh?

baptism is another one
the last supper

the imagery of the crucifixion, two theievs on each side of jesus .. in paganism Mithras had two torchbearers, one on each side .. one torch pointed up .. other down .. symbolizing ascent to heaven and hell.

and the ways people in the old testament would attone for thier sins matched that of pagan ritual.

ok i guess i'll stop now .. should be enough to convince i hope. (IMG:http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/5052/smokeoq4.jpg)