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Bob X, that explanation does make sense to me from what history I have read. Thanks. Still, I think that it had an overall negative effect on the Christian Kingdoms of Europe during the Dark Ages. The Bible would have been better without the Apocalypse. Amergin

Thanks for the great lesson in history and the Greek lanuage. It seems to me that the great and wise Jewish philosopher and prophet Yeshua has little to do with the Jesus Christ (Sun god) of the Romans and Greeks. The Gospel Jesus bears no resemblance to the fierce genocidal god of Apocalypse...

Why do those who do not know how the universe was created assume it was created by a conscious human like cosmic being? The honest answer is that we do not know. I see no evidence for a god. I know a canoe is built by humans, termite mounds built by termites, and coral reefs by tiny animals...

I think that Nature is all that exists in multiple forms following properties or physics. All natural science is based on physics. We intuitively recognised the interrelationships that constitute nature. Primitive humans knowing only other humans personified the laws of nature into human-like...

Spiritual is a vague and undefined word. It is vastly overused. It means nothing. I am not ashamed of not being spiritual. Spirits are not real. There is no proof that spirits exist or that spiritualism is anything more than a 19th Century Cult movement and at the least superstition. I think...

Actually Non-Theist is the same as Atheist. The Greek prefix A- means without or Non- and both Non-theist and Atheist both mean not having a belief in gods. Again, Atheism in the Greek context means "without belief." Use of Atheism to identify those who deny the possibility of some kind of...

I agree. I just thought about Mormonism which has been called a cult. And I agree that it fits your definition of a cult as well. The Catholic Church is a cult in that it theoretically is tightly controlled by one man who claims to speak for God with infallibility despite being wrong most of...

I thought you meant Pi, the mathematical constant for circle radius and circumference, π. I brings up a famous error in the Bible. “And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did...

I am an Atheist in the true literal sense of the word. It means not having belief in gods. It does not claim that gods do not exist. Americans are largely ignorant of the true meaning. Agnostic means having no evidence with which to claim the existence or non-existence of gods. Americans...

I thought the difference between a cult and a faith was that a cult was based on following, worshipping, and obeying a human being or group of humans. By that, Christianity is a Cult because it is based on a hypothetical Jewish religious rebel 2000 years ago whom Romans later deified. Jesus was...

There was no Fall. What was remembered was "the good old days" of hunter gathering. Good old days typically edits out the bad parts and exaggerates the few good parts. Adam and Eve were like ignorant children if they represented early hunter gatherer people (H. sapiens idaltu and H. sapiens...

Tradition does change even though religious people often deny that. History shows that Traditional faith does evolve and change. In some cases, religion may amend the myth so that it fits with real scientific findings or the literary mythology is regarded as allegorical or metaphorical. Some...

I think a discussion form on any subject should welcome critics. If a belief system or claim of knowledge is afraid of rhetorical challenges, it means that it contains serious self doubt. If Christians are confident in their beliefs, they should welcome challenges and offer counter-points. If...

God does not make mistakes. He is a mental concept invented by humans. He is the alter-ego of the savage tribal war lord. And in many religions the god or gods represent the bigotry, ignorance, and superstition of the ancient war lord or chief. We need to stop blaming God for disasters and stop...

That was an interesting post, Mo. It seems quite plausible to me. I have no idea what the World Egg is or originates. I will do some searches. Mardi Gras seems to have come from ancient Romans Their mid-February festival known as Lupercalia honored the god Lupercus, alternately known as the...

I know they make that claim. But in my experience during my year in America (about 30 years ago) fundamentalists made up the vast majority of US haters, bigots, magical thinkers, and demonising of dissenters. It is the fact that despite the kind and wise words of Jesus in the Gospels...

Without Zoroastrianism, what would Christianity be like? There would be no Christianity or nothing resembling post 5th century Christianity. There likely would be little or no memory of an itinerant Jewish preacher named Yeshua. Without Zoroastrianism in the Roman Mithraic form, Jesus would be...

No, the reason is that the many Jesus Cults attracted a motly band of pagan converts who mixed with Hellenised Jews. These pagan converts were exposed to Jewish scriptures. When Jesus was deified by the Pagan converts to a secondary subordinate God, Jewish scripture was edited and selected out...

-os is a common ending for many Greek names. Examples include the family names of two imperial dynasties of the Byzantine Empire. They were Kantacusenos, Palaeologos, and the Roman Emperor Constantine was called Konstantinos in Greek speaking lands. A recent Greek President was named...

H meaning Helios would make sense because the historical Jesus when deified into the Christ God was identified by the Romans and Greeks with the Sun God (Mithra, Sol, and Helios in the Roman Empire.) Helios means the Sun. That is why Sunday is the first day of the week and named in honour of the...