Religious beliefs on the Internet: Between ignorance and censorship

[Hestia]

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

that we can't all be put into these perfect little boxes. The world is too vast for small thinking.

One of the biggest problems that historians have is 1) The Goddess was supreme for around 30,000 years +/-. On one of the history shows I was watching, the host opened up drawer after drawer full of the Venus of Willendorf sculptures - the oldest known religious icon in the world. 2) Pagan rites are revealed - given to you personally, rather than through scripture. It is subjective to the practitioner. Not to say that there weren't teachers and most definitely a priestess/priesthood but they weren't anywhere close to what those words mean today.

The Rites of Mithras were practiced by the Roman Soldiers who brought it back from Persia. When you slay a bull on December 25th, I don't think they were boring

Look at The Eleusinian Mysteries - if I remember correctly they were practiced every 7 years for around 3,000 years and not one person ever revealed what happened there. Socrates kinda hinted but no one knows because it was never revealed and couldn't be written down. How does one write down a personal epiphany?

Look at Isis/Aset - there has been a devotee honoring Her to this day for thousands of years. Yes, Mary took over her iconography because the people *demanded* a female goddess when christianity bullied its way to the forefront. The priests couldn't really get converts like they wanted and it wasn't until Mary was worshiped that christianity took a foothold.

There is some conjecture that the cathedrals in France were purposefully built over ancient grottos and caves. It was to protect them and assimilate them into the popular culture of the time. You have the cathedral on the surface, but dedicants could and do go down underneath to worship Her - generally the Black Madonna, an aspect of Isis/Aset.

What we see in textbooks and on television ALWAYS assumes that there has been a male supreme deity. It is not until you really start reading ancient history that one finds that is not the truth. It made it easy for Italians and Greeks to grind up thousands of statues for the lime without a thought of what they were destroying.

Look at what the Dominionists are doing to the U.S. They are destroying/trying to destroy our Egregores, who's foundations were laid at the beginning of this country. Ashcroft's veiling of Justice is symbolic gesture to the Dominionists to pray down our other symbols. Truth, Moderation, Beauty, Fair Play, Inclusion - all those symbols we have lost since 2001 - because no one is stopping them and rebuilding them. If no one understands what an Egregore is, how is one rebuilt? What happens on the micro happens on the macro - As Above, So Below.

Do a search and look at all the states iconography that has been stolen, such as state seals and statues. It's on purpose to tear down what the citizens built - put their hearts and minds to. It doesn't have to be a war on just a religious group but a political one too.