I think his point is that enough is lost you won't be able to as much as you try. It will be mostly Modernist axioms and outlook with aFuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:03 am BTW, clearspira, there aren't many of this but I'm far from alone in that respect. If you're interested in finding out more here's a 101 article: http://www.religionfacts.com/hellenic-reconstructionism
It's the similar position to Wicca with Medieval witches. Witches of the Middle Ages have almost nothing in common with what people think of them today and certainly weren't pagan holdovers, they were heretical Christians trying to appeal to mostly God through Mary and the Saint's in their prayers and magic than anyone else.
An interesting insight in how society has gone in ways lately. There is less desire for demand and a more apathetic interchange. The jealousy of God is tied to the marriage aspect in the Ten Commandments and the wedding of God to His people into a relationship of exclusivity. The jealousy is in that way more akin to the justifiable position someone has towards their spouse flirting a bit too much with someone else rather than ideas of control.I stopped praying to jealous gods when I left Christianity.
No, but the perspective on diety-hood of Moderns comes from Christianity. That is that deity is the highest being possible. Anything greater than what you think is God is God, and what you thought was God was false. It is from this that Stargate gets it view, whereas to actual pagans of millennia past, the Goa'uld wouldn't stand out at all as anything special of false, and not simply because they have tech to pass for magic.After all, you wouldn't turn your back on Christianity and worship Ahura Mazda just because some Zoriastrian mystic performed miracles more impressive than those attributed to the prophets, would you?
Genesis points a way. It's interesting that it's obvious that the Fall is tied in some way of the dawn of human consciousness, and it wasn't a happy event.clearspira wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:01 amEspecially as perfection is impossible as it is an ideal that everyone has a different opinion of. To put it bluntly: a Ku Klux Klan member is going to have a different idea of a perfect being and a perfect world than Florence Nightingale.
And what even is perfection when relating to the Christian god anyway? Because i'm looking around and I cannot see an awful lot that this perfect being has created that is actually all that perfect.
"Not a lot being perfect" to people today usually boils down to suffering existing. For me, someone greatly suffering suffering from chronic pain issues, I can at least recognize that suffering has its place. If only for the fact that I understand pain all too well and can do my best to convey understanding and sympathy even if I can't help resolve the pain.
Knowing too many free from pain, I know that tends to make people cold and callous to suffering, as if it was a choice one can snap out of instantly (and often it is a choice, just one that doesn't change over night).
