callisto
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Religion: Dodekatheism
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Post by callisto on Jun 1, 2015 14:38:38 GMT -6
Thanks Kalen. I think it's necessary to look at things both academically and spiritually. Science hasn't answered everything yet, nor necessarily proven ancient beliefs to have been just superstition or fabrication. Sometimes a fossil might be the origin of something OR it might have been wrongly thought by ancients to be proof of a long established belief E.g., the hard evidence of a fossil isn't evidence after all, it proves nothing about the Titans' existence. Rather, through further advanced scientific analysis, that it belonged to an animal with which the ancients were unfamiliar.
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yellowdog
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Religion: universalism
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Post by yellowdog on Aug 10, 2016 0:12:09 GMT -6
I read the vast majority of myths figuratively. I believe in one divine spirit expressing himself through various religions and beliefs. In the case of the pantheons, the children gods of Zeus are his interests. IE, love (Aphrodite), art (Apollon), wisdom (Athene), agriculture and feeding (Demeter), an afterlife (Hades), crafting (Hephaistos), and so on. Plus, the spirit of God is "colored" depending on the religion and on the area where the god is believed in. Yahweh feels like Zeus in Greece and like Odin in Germany or Scandinavia. In a way monotheism is right and in a way polytheism is right. The point of the matter is that we become children of God who are very acquainted with the divine. That is Jesus' will for me as I identify as a christian polytheist and universalist who recognizes all genuine gods (except mere idol deities that only express demon spirits).
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aneczyk
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Religion: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but mostly Hellenic revivalist
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Post by aneczyk on Jan 25, 2017 12:41:14 GMT -6
I don't take myths literally, but I do think they answer some important questions about humanity and the gods.
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