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Real0ne -> RE: Does Multiculturalism work? (8/5/2017 8:17:20 AM)
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and you have simply dodged responding to any of the counter issues I made.
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ORIGINAL: Real0ne
Really? Prove they are all false gods vince, LMAO, more like you are throwing shit at the wall hoping you can get something to stick. [8|]
Oh look vince what a surprise! you misrepresented reality once again! imagine that:
Religion in the Ancient World
Definition
by Joshua J. Mark
published on 02 September 2009
Book of the Dead of Aaneru ()
Religion (from the Latin Religio, meaning 'restraint,' or Relegere, according to Cicero, meaning 'to repeat, to read again,' or, most likely, Religionem, 'to show respect for what is sacred') is an organized system of beliefs and practices revolving around, or leading to, a transcendent spiritual experience. There is no culture recorded in human history which has not practiced some form of religion.
In ancient times, religion was indistinguishable from what is known as 'mythology' in the present day and consisted of regular rituals based on a belief in higher supernatural entities who created and continued to maintain the world and surrounding cosmos. Theses entities were anthropomorphic and behaved in ways which mirrored the values of the culture closely (as in Egypt) or sometimes engaged in acts antithetical to those values (as one sees with the gods of Greece). Religion, then and now, concerns itself with the spiritual aspect of the human condition, gods and goddesses (or a single personal god or goddess), the creation of the world, a human being's place in the world, life after death, eternity, and how to escape from suffering in this world or in the next; and every nation has created its own god in its own image and resemblance. The Greek philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570-478 BCE) once wrote:
Mortals suppose that the gods are born and have clothes and voices and shapes like their own. But if oxen, horses and lions had hands or could paint with their hands and fashion works as men do, horses would paint horse-like images of gods and oxen oxen-like ones, and each would fashion bodies like their own. The Ethiopians consider the gods flat-nosed and black; the Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired.
Xenophanes believed there was "one god, among gods and men the greatest, not at all like mortals in body or mind" but he was in the minority. Monotheism did not make sense to the ancient people aside from the visionaries and prophets of Judaism. Most people, at least as far as can be discerned from the written and archaeological record, believed in many gods, each of whom had a special sphere of influence. In one's personal life there is not just one other person who provides for one's needs; one interacts with many different kinds of people in order to achieve wholeness and maintain a living.
The Atheist twu god
so where is the thou shalt not murder and steal from your atheist philosophers that predate god based religions? Seems nothing has changed, atheists have been hijacking god based religions from the beginning of time all while simultaneously condemning it. nice racket! Seems you like ot fight your battles with an empty gun
seems you managed to have a slight oversight that all these cultures were highly religious, and no where in your atheist diatribe do I see anything to do with morals by God or otherwise.
Why dont you elaborate where your atheist pals got morals if not from believers?
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