Friday, October 10, 2008
The Law of Moses
Instead of stoning everybody who has transgressed against the ten commandments (and that would be everybody old enough to covet other kids toys etc) we have fortunately changed as a society since the times of Egyptian and other Northern African and Central Asian rulers and we can now understand the...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Going beyond Sunworship
What do we know that the ancients who worshipped the Sun didn't know? This may be debatable, but I can hardly believe that those who placed the Sun at the apex of their religious activities had a good idea about what the rest of space contained besides the obvious to the naked eye objects. I...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Wat's this about Sun worship in older religions?
Many of the older religions are centered around the Sun. One traditional approach to these believes is to attribute this adoration of the Sun to a kind of human projection of human attributes onto the Sun. What is the Sun and what role does it play in life? By now this should be fairly common...
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Growing up in "Satans' church"
Following some links from another blog I ended up at a site that declares the kind of church I grew up in as Satanic. I have heard this all before, as a kid. In the "dark age" others have not just heard this but they also got burned and killed by various other means because of the "heresies" they...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
The Sacrificial Lamb's continued persecution
In most of the religions that existed around 2000 to 2500 years ago, sacrifice was deemed the appropriate means of atonement for sin or for asking favors from God/s. In India the Buddha refuted the usefulness of this practice around 500BC. There is not much debate about that today. The sticky debate...
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Star Wars NOW
George Lucas has given us a modern myth that underpins the basic nature of religious life that does not differ that much from ancient views as exemplified by various religious texts from all over the world since long ago in this very galaxy were we find ourselves in today. A belief in one source of...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Communication beyond the grasp of science at present
I have previously indicated that I am convinced there are means of communication that lie outside the boundaries of the means and mediums of communication as accepted as scientific fact. I grew up in a Christian tradition that emphasized prophesy and I have also said that this tradition was...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Agnostic Anomaly
Agnosticism has mostly seemed a tad silly to me. My own lack of understanding of this position has contributed somewhat to this view of mine. Combine this with the derogatory remarks made towards people of other religious stances by some agnostics this has made me predisposed to delegating this view...
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Genesis, myths of Origin and the Eternal struggle
Although I find the misinterpretation and out of context analysis of the various myths of origin funny, intriguing and sad, depending on the myth and angle of approach, they will keep on adding value to our lives as guidance to some, views to be contended by others and stimulating to further...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
The pendulum of Love and Hate
It appears as if we as humans are swinging on a pendulum. We apparently started off as brutes that lived lives full of malice and if we look at recorded History there is certainly a lot of stories that underline such a view. Now we seem to be moving in the opposite direction, which is good, if it is...
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