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marylandblue

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11. Old gods retire

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Sun Apr 1, 2018, 05:08 PM

Apr 2018

and go to the Old Gods Home where the spend the rest of eternity swapping myths about their glory days. Much like people.

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What do Dead Religions and Their Forgotten Gods Tell Us? [View all] MineralMan Apr 2018 OP

That humans are often innately stupid IMO. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2018 #1

I don't know. Gods are useful for explaining stuff MineralMan Apr 2018 #3

Quite true. Times have often been so hard to live I think many needed a higher power to believe in RKP5637 Apr 2018 #12

Deity, Deities thbobby Apr 2018 #2

I have an Iranian friend ... left-of-center2012 Apr 2018 #4

Yes. There are a few of those. I didn't mention that religion MineralMan Apr 2018 #5

When I visited Iran my guide was resentful of the government because they did not dhol82 Apr 2018 #27

Is Christianity a monotheistic religion? safeinOhio Apr 2018 #6

Back in the early days the Council of Nicaea and the Lateran Councils had to figure out The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #7

Unitarianism figures it out. safeinOhio Apr 2018 #8

Not exactly. They believe Jesus was divinely inspired but not actually divine. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #9

I personally know a few atheists who are Unitarians. guillaumeb Apr 2018 #15

At my father's Unitarian church, we had an atheist who would occassionally conduct the Sunday sermon Major Nikon Apr 2018 #17

I think you mean the Unitarian Universalist Church. safeinOhio Apr 2018 #19

Here is a web site with UU humor safeinOhio Apr 2018 #20

I did. guillaumeb Apr 2018 #25

Not really Major Nikon Apr 2018 #18

The Exiles Club Cartoonist Apr 2018 #10

Marvelous. First time I've read that. MineralMan Apr 2018 #22

Old gods retire marylandblue Apr 2018 #11

48 out of 80 guillaumeb Apr 2018 #13

You count marvelously well. MineralMan Apr 2018 #23

That religion has always been a part of human existence. guillaumeb Apr 2018 #14

To varying degrees and in varying ways, sometimes without gods at all marylandblue Apr 2018 #16

Yes, as I said in the first paragraph. MineralMan Apr 2018 #24

No, you don't know that. trotsky Apr 2018 #32

A number of the 'Dead' Religions you list are not Really Dead. arthurgoodwin Apr 2018 #21

Religions are created by humans and like everything human all religions come and go. democratisphere Apr 2018 #26

Religion and politics use each other to gain wealth and power keithbvadu2 Apr 2018 #28

See Franco's fascist Spain and the RCC for a textbook 20th Century example. Pope George Ringo II Apr 2018 #33

Mineral Man! If you have never read PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2018 #29

That there's something else beyond our present understanding. n/t mia Apr 2018 #30

Yes, and there always will be. MineralMan Apr 2018 #31

"Acceptance of ignorance is not a worthy goal", I agree. mia Apr 2018 #34