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The only religion that does not have a future end of the world/cosmos myth/legend prophesy is the Greek pantheon (and so the Roman one). It speaks of previous disasters like the great flood but the world doesn't end. Unlike the nordic pantheon with Ragnarok.
So i guess the greek pantheon is the way then? Cause we all saw how Rome ended up with it before Christianity took over didn't we @thefinn
RT: https://poa.st/objects/d274c1ba-ebad-459c-822b-8cafc8c3bc10
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@thefinn @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @Appalachian_Crusader @mjdigspigs Looks like he was raised Orthodox.
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@Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @Appalachian_Crusader @mjdigspigs lol - pretty sure he's a Jew, I could be wrong, but he was born in Israel - big surprise right?
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@Appalachian_Crusader @mjdigspigs @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta Once someone has you "Feeling Hope" you'll believe anything they say. That's the whole point to the cult of personality.
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@thefinn @Appalachian_Crusader @mjdigspigs Well. At least its a white man beating a nigger. Silver lining and all....
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@mjdigspigs @Appalachian_Crusader @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta Ever have an argument with a 10 year old? That's what arguing with a protestant is like.
They cannot and will not understand and you just hope one day they will grow up and see it for what it is. I can't think of another analogy.
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@thefinn @mjdigspigs @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta It's feelings-based, though it's described as piety-based. The only way to self measure piety though is to do what "feels" pious. Puritanical Protestantism was measured by outward success; if you were blessed and truly pious (and truly saved by a Calvinistic god), you would have lands and goods and so on.
That model didn't catch on with the many waves of poor immigrants over the next hundred or so years, so it became more Quaker and Methodist influenced; how close do you "feel" to God?
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@Appalachian_Crusader @mjdigspigs @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta If you take a look at Martin Luther's synod, one of the most basic things they changed was the "meaning of hope"
"Hope is a feeling" is a completely protestant point of view. This is simply because they aren't offering hope, only the placebo of human feelings.
Watch a movie, it'll make you feel hope too.
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@thefinn @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta This reminds me that we in the West (US specifically) have a really bad idea of the "pantheon" concept in general and tend to picture some Cosmic Justice League thing where everyone was worshipped instead of the gods having localized entities each with their own traditions of worship in different city centers
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@Appalachian_Crusader @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta Yeah exactly. It's part of the utter heresy of the whole break starting with Luther. Which in turn led to throwing down the kings, overthrowing the church, and fomenting both liberalism and communism.
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@thefinn @Appalachian_Crusader @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta My Dad is Catholic and Mom was Protestant. She converted when they got married. I've always found it interesting the absolute hatred between the 2 denominations.
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@Appalachian_Crusader @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta The greek was a different religion to the roman.
The romans definitely fucked it all up in ways the greeks hadn't previously.
The romans did things like paying priests to deify their children who died young. That kind of thing. Gods were popping up everywhere.
They did the same with their gods as they did with their currency.
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@Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @thefinn Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the whole pantheon concept also already on its way out in Greece/Rome by the time Christianity arrived on the doorstep? Plato's Forms, the Stoic's Logos Spermatikos and such
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