A question on religion.

[Bouncer]

Why would an all powerful god use a book as medium to get his message across during a time when the majority of the world was illiterate?

It's hard to really know why and when it really started dying out. All the religions you listed (Catholics are all Christians but all Christians are not Catholic) are all sects, like sub divisions, of the Abrahamic religion. Just as Christains have, babtist, methodist, catholics... Jews have Reform, Orthodox, and Conservative... and Islam has sunni, Shi'a... It's all a matter of taste. Richard Dawkins refers to faith as an emotional placebo. Some (more like majority) people can't cope with simply not knowing and waiting to find out.

would you like to join my church?

[Shibby]

thanks shib, well then if those kind of gods died from popular belief because of science, how come there are still Christians, Catholics, Islam, Jews, etc.. ?

Why would an all powerful god use a book as medium to get his message across during a time when the majority of the world was illiterate?

It's hard to really know why and when it really started dying out. All the religions you listed (Catholics are all Christians but all Christians are not Catholic) are all sects, like sub divisions, of the Abrahamic religion. Just as Christains have, babtist, methodist, catholics... Jews have Reform, Orthodox, and Conservative... and Islam has sunni, Shi'a... It's all a matter of taste. Richard Dawkins refers to faith as an emotional placebo. Some (more like majority) people can't cope with simply not knowing and waiting to find out.

[Bouncer]

Thanks Mindstar, I stand corrected.

Bouncer,

As you may know, the gods were the owners of things like fire, sun, love, thunder... This was how they explained thing until science taught us more. I feel one of it's downfalls was there were to many to hold a cohesive system, so as science showed how the unexplained happened it was easy to chip away at the gods.

thanks shib, well then if those kind of gods died from popular belief because of science, how come there are still Christians, Catholics, Islam, Jews, etc.. ?

because if they can believe in that stuff then i can be a zeuslic. :)

[Shibby]

Thanks Mindstar, I stand corrected.

Bouncer,

As you may know, the gods were the owners of things like fire, sun, love, thunder... This was how they explained thing until science taught us more. I feel one of it's downfalls was there were to many to hold a cohesive system, so as science showed how the unexplained happened it was easy to chip away at the gods.

[dna9488]

its settled then, i am now a zeuslic.

You're a FAG!!!

[Bouncer]

I say pick a main Greek god and give yourself a name based on him/her as your primary.

its settled then, i am now a zeuslic.

[Bouncer]

It is EXACTLY the same thing. The Bible is nothing but a bunch of "stories", just like the Greek mythology. Only they had far cooler names, like Zeus and Perseus instead of Matthew and Paul.

they did cooler stuff too. :P

[mindstar]

A Norse polytheist.

No, that would lead him to believe in Odin and his crew, not Zeus.

I say pick a main Greek god and give yourself a name based on him/her as your primary. Which will piss off the other gods and have them begin a war with your followers. Sweet.


And Jesus never referred to anyone as Christian. They were all jews during his life...they were renamed Christians by later theologians.

[FitnessBrat]

How come nobody believes in greek gods anymore? Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Poseidon, etc..

These gods are far older then jesus and they seem so much cooler.


I think I will become religious now. What do I call myself? Is there a name that I call myself like Christians and Catholics call themselves?


Thanks for the help and support. :)

It is EXACTLY the same thing. The Bible is nothing but a bunch of "stories", just like the Greek mythology. Only they had far cooler names, like Zeus and Perseus instead of Matthew and Paul.

[Shibby]

How come nobody believes in greek gods anymore? Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Poseidon, etc..

These gods are far older then jesus and they seem so much cooler.


I think I will become religious now. What do I call myself? Is there a name that I call myself like Christians and Catholics call themselves?


Thanks for the help and support. :)

A Norse polytheist.

[Bouncer]

no, no. you're not. you're just a weirdo trying to revive the religion of the Greeks. i give you props for trying.

:retard:

[ROCKETW19]

seems just as goofy as the stuff Catholics and Christians believe in.

I agree 100% but it takes someone with common sence to figure it out.

[mofo]

so i am now greek. sweet!

no, no. you're not. you're just a weirdo trying to revive the religion of the Greeks. i give you props for trying.

[Bouncer]

hahaha. nice. i think there isn't name for people that followed the greek gods other than the Greeks. the gods apparently spoke to them as "The Greeks" (kinda like how Jesus would refer to his followers as Christians).

so i am now greek. sweet!

[Bouncer]

I personaly belive that no one belives in thoes gods anymore cuzz they were to far fetched and people figured out that it was made up shit.

seems just as goofy as the stuff Catholics and Christians believe in.