Polytheistwitch

Nope. Being friends in with someone in a religion doesn't mean you get to just do whatever you want with the concepts in that religion. Any believingEvery religion is somehow related doesn't make them all related.

Rape is justifiable to a lot of people. Monotheists, in general, seem to not have a problem with it. And obviously there are plenty of polytheists that don't either. Just say, oh, that's not really what the myths are talking about.It's some sort of allegory. Well, I'm not sure what kind of point one is trying to make. When it say Zeus rapes women, but he doesn't actually rape women. Sounds like saying they asked for it. Imagine that.

I am a Christian. I believe in karma, which really is just the belief that we, individually, control our destiny, but I know it by another moniker: free will

I love how you just steal another religion's concept, completely change the definition and use it however, you feel like. That is definitely Christian. Considering, in Wicca, a Book of Shadows is a personal spell journal, unless you don't understand what ingredients are listed, there's not much to not get.

To say the gods never engaged in bad behavior because their gods and their behavior can never be bad, is evangelical. Rape, whether done by a god or not is a bad thing. And there is nothing poetic about it. I will not excuse behavior like that from any being just because they might be a deity or they might be more powerful astraly than me.

BS. You excusing bad behavior is your view.

Zeus does rape people. Hes pretty proud of it. Your opinion the gods are one does not have to be shared.

If you think Zeus is good because he rapes women, you have a serious problem. And which creation god are you giving credit of the Earth to? What makes something immoral, is that it violates another. You can't do that without a body.

Because the gods are rarely moral themselves. And let's be honest, prison doesn't deter criminals and gods don't deter immorality. If the god's truly controlled morality, then there would be examples of people's suffering at the hands of the gods for not following that morality. The other thing is, is that once you lose your body, morality is no longer a thing. So once you're on the same plane of existence is the gods, morality isn't even a factor.

Gods have little to do with morality. Most behavior that listed as acceptable in myths is more to explain tabboos and appropiate offerings in that religion.

Nope. You can't even tell what someone's religion is unless they're wearing an icon or dressed a certain way. And we could get into a whole discussion about how pagans/polytheists, don't even have groups to practice with.

Why would human beings who lived closer to nature think their children dying was any more special than any other animals young dying? It would have simply been viewed as a part of life. I can't think of any pagan religion that has a special afterlife for children. They die the same as adults. It's not any different.

I've often read of how a number of intellectuals and nobles in ancient societies, would not actually 'believe in the Gods that their people worshiped. Even though the nobles often acted as priests, or the intellectuals used the Gods as useful 'concepts or ideals.

Says a lot about atheists. Religion in society today continues for more reasons than power tripping. It's sad people can't see that and continue to feel superior to people with spirituality in their life.

People argue the weirdest things to try to justify their religious belief or lack thereof. What it comes down to or should come down to is you've had some type of experience that leads you to believe that there is something more than yourself out in the universe. That's it. Nothing else matters. Nothing about your life matters. How how you die doesn't matters. It's all irrelevant.

There is a difference in religious leaders and voters and government endorsing and forcing religion. That's language not woke.

How does Einstein being an a atheist or science effect personal experience? That's like saying I can't love my kids cause math.

Again, not sure what any of that means to anybody. Science and religion are completely unrelated, and you could list every single scientist on the planet and tell me they're atheists, and it means nothing. Just like someone could list every theist on the planet that's done good works and it means absolutely nothing.

Believing the gods are powerful beings, and they can do things for you, especially when it comes to making sure you have food to feed your family and village, is a lot different than just assuming their good or overlooking their evil behavior. Let's say you have a professor in college who's excellent in his field and you're getting a lot of great education from him. But you find out he sleeps with his students. You have a choice. You can continue to keep your mouth shut and learn from him. Or you can turn him in. Working with certain deities would require you to do the first. There's a reason that there are deities today that people don't worship at all. There's way more choice in polytheism in what you do and don't do, because society no longer looks at the gods as controlling the natural world as much as they did then.

Not sure what listing the name of other atheists does for anybody. The fact that Einstein or Hawking were atheists, or not, doesn't mean anything. Just like listing, Martin Luther King, Jr was Christian doesn't mean anything to anybody either.

Well, you can lie to yourself all you want to, but you're not gonna push that off on anyone else.

Deities are beings and as such have failures. Some are even evil. Zeus comes to mind. Most polytheists know the worlds work on chaos and order. Chaos disrupts which is sometimes necessary. The order tends to bring peace and complacency. You need both to keep things moving forward. Good and evil exists in both states.

There's no such thing as a benevolent god. Even the God of Abraham killed everybody in a flood.If that doesn't say i'm not benevolent, I don't know what does.

Why?

Why do prople think that the gods have nothing to do all day but make sure we arr happy and safe? They have things to do too.

You know exactly what's meant by separation of church and state. You wanting to look cool to Christians doesn't impress anyone.

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It's weird that Satan, who I don't think is even a demon, would have a Trident. Since Tridents are associated with Poseidon and forks are associated with Hades.So technically, devils should carry forjs.

I believe all deitied exists and Im a secularist. Secularism has nothing to do with religious belief.It has to do with keeping religion and the government separate.

No, but it sounds interesting I'll check it out.