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dimbear

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5. Surely there is room in the OP for a nod to the enormous wave of destruction which announced the

Reply to rug (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2013, 04:45 PM

Oct 2013

final supremacy of Christianity in the west. One can see its traces today, with many Christian churches still standing on the ruins of churches originally dedicated to Mithras or Isis or the like, and pagan statues daubed with enough paint (and crudely chiseled) to resemble Mary or some saint.
The bonfires of Christianity have swallowed a great deal of competing iconography and literature, including practically every word written by the native cultures of America. I don't think they (the Christians) could repeat that outrage today in the digital age.

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Religious beliefs on the Internet: Between ignorance and censorship [View all] rug Oct 2013 OP

The Golden age of Iconoclasm, if such a thing could exist, was in Byzantium (8th and 9th century) Agnosticsherbet Oct 2013 #1

It never left. rug Oct 2013 #4

Ho-ly Shit! UK Pagan Groups have been screaming about this - I guess the UK gov't is waving their Hestia Oct 2013 #2

Be my guest. The more it's known, the better. rug Oct 2013 #3

Surely there is room in the OP for a nod to the enormous wave of destruction which announced the dimbear Oct 2013 #5

Do you approve the on iconclasm? rug Oct 2013 #6

In general I wish folk would let the past survive, but realize that doing so would make history dimbear Oct 2013 #7

Humans are messy and history should be too. In trying to make us homogeneous history shows Hestia Oct 2013 #9

I fear the Roman Mithras has as little to do with the Persian original as the Roman Jesus has to do dimbear Oct 2013 #10

Hell, the Daily Mail is demanding 'strict age checks' before *anyone* is allowed to access stuff muriel_volestrangler Oct 2013 #8