A great deal of intelligence must have gone to the making up of a Greek polytheism, the expenditure of intelligence is much less lavish when people have only one god.
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I like Roman and Greek mythology. And that’s just it, is it not? Mythology. Who is to say what is myth and what is real? For one religion to decry other religions as untrue or mythical is the height of intolerance. I have a fine book about mythology, roman, Greek, Egyptian you name it, but nowhere are the big three mentioned.
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History is most times written by the victors. When the Christians conquered antiquity they became intolerant of the sources of their religion. They sought to separate themselves as much as possible from the gods of antiquity. It is all myth, and that is why I like my copy of the bible. In its introduction it says the bible or at least the OT is a Hebrew story of how they saw themselves and that is how it should be. It is a story of a people.
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And invariably by men too, hence the raw deal women get in religious works…
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I think if religions were authored by women it would not be too bad though given the example of Mary Baker Eddy and first scientist church, let there be no religion
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My ancestors were very imaginative when creating their deities. However, they didn’t invent them to be infallible. They knew when to stop. Good morning, my Nairobi brother (afternoon, to you, there). 🙂
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Hey brother. Yes your ancestors were the most imaginative of men. I don’t think they have competition.
have a pleasant day
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And the same to you, my brother and friend!
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Should have not accessed your website from a work computer! LOL
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I hope you didn’t scare your boss 🙂
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Polytheism writes itself. Just watch three weeks of any Brazilian soap opera and you pretty much have an excellent god-family story line. Dress the characters in diamond-dust cloaks, toss in a miracle or two, and viola!
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South American soaps? Great way to learn a foreign language. Never noticed any violas though.
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Dang! How do you spell it?
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Así ?
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How do you spell Viola… like the magician saying, Viola! Obviously that’s not the right way, but its Monday and i like to learn something new every Monday 🙂
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Voila is the correct way
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Ahhhh, there we go! The O before the I… and a squiggle for effect: voilà 🙂
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And read vwala. It is a good day for you, you learnt something 🙂
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Now back to bed, i’m exhausted 🙂
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Haha. Sleep well 🙂
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South American soaps have the same story line. You watch one you have watched all of them
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Utterly atrocious. They even have the sound effects, telling the audience when something funny has happened. It’s so pathetic, but their ratings are HUGE.
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There are people here addicted to those shows. Everything stops when they are on air
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International soccer matches here have to wait for the soapie to end before they can kick-off. I kid you not. A few years ago a game was delayed by 40 minutes because the Globo soap went waaaaaay over-time. Globo was also the broadcaster for the game, so the game simply didn’t start.
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That is simply insane. I have no other word to describe it
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Haha excellent comparison
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Please tell me you are not an addict of that atrocity of TV programming?
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Haha nope. They are fun to make fun of though. We have the ones from Mexico and of course our own ridiculous soap operas. We even have a whole channel devoted to soaps. Sad lol.
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Soaps start here I think at 9 in the morning and I think they are Mexican. How people get addicted to them is beyond me.
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Gawd I do not have a clue. There were TVs in the Walmart checkout line yesterday, and I was flanked on both sides by shelves of tabloids. Says a lot about my country…
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I guess you are a tabloid nation 🙂
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It gave me an idea to actually do it. Years ago I translated a heap of soapies for dubbing. If I can find those I’ll change some names, tweak a little (not much) here and there, and see what type of creation story comes up. 🙂
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*giddy clapping*
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John this should be interesting. Can we be introduced to these gods.
I will be the treasurer. I promise to be honest with the accounts.
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Sure. Nothing more trustworthy in this world than a religious man with access to the till 🙂
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Ok ok. I will be relatively honest 😀
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I’ve come to the conclusion that the bible is just as “made up” as the pantheon of Greek myths. However, it’s only about one tenth as creative.
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It is difficult to understand the emotional attachment to this made up story. Generation after generation have through fear, fraud and force treated it as special.
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Young children are very creative. I would teach a unit on holidays to my second graders. It was mostly about how their families celebrated and why. Both religious and secular holidays were included. At the end of the study I would ask the children to invent a new holiday. They were to include what it was to be called, when and why it was celebrated etc etc. I remember the funnier ones like Bubble Gum Day and Messy Room Week. Your blog post made me recall that there were some new religious holidays with a combination of holy practices.
So if you are looking to create a new god, I would definitely suggest asking kids.
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This is quite interesting. Maybe I should collect some kids we create gods.
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Yeah! Sit them down with some clay, some tin cans, old newspapers, left over sandwiches and other bits and pieces of junk. Let them create away. 🙂
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Best idea I’ve heard yet. Can I join in, too? Can I, huh? Can I? I’ll be be good! I promise.
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Instead I think the amount of thinking that went into the abrahamic god was much larger because it has so many contradictions. The old gods where neither omnipotent nor omniscient, they had faults etc. In such a pantheon, theology becomes easier (and more entertaining).
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Nannus interesting idea. With a pantheon of gods, contradictions are dealt away with easily.
One god must be open to contradictions. And will be likely confused on what wish to grant.
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Instead of a contradictory god, you have gods with contradicting interests and tendencies, leading to all kinds of interesting stories.
The wish thing is one of the contradictory aspects of this god. The omnipotent creator of the universe will hardly grant people the right to influence him, so what is the point of praying for something? Nevertheless, people try to bend this god into their direction by praying as hard as they can. 🙂
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That is always strange. All of them say they will do god’s will but are always praying to have god change its will. Funny people believers are
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So true… Hence morality and monotheism are related… For further details Check out Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The Genealogy of The Moral”.
Best wishes, dear Makagutu, Aquileana 😀
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Hi good friend been a while since I last saw you.
I hope you dont mean that in the days of polytheism morality was non existent for that would be plain wrong.
I have read the above book and loved it. Nietzsche was and rightly so critical of Christian morality. Slave morality he called. I haven’t read a good book on morals like his, very critical but leaves you with several questions to ask.
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Hi Makagutu. All is fine and hope you are doing well too. Thanks for asking…No I didn’t mean to say that… But morality was more a quality of the soul, it wasn’t straightly linked to Guilt, Fall and Sin… Good point though, I got what you said!, best wishes, Aquileana 😀
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I am doing well, and glad you too are.
Oh yes, that we agree. And thanks for visiting. Don’t disappear too long.
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I won’t… Same applies to you!!!. Good luck then Aquileana 😀
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I know I know. I will not.
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Here are my thoughts on Genealogy of morals
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