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VirtuousGuile
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Message 156 of 161 (468353)
05-29-2008 3:18 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Nuggin
04-12-2007 5:29 PM


All Fundamental Christians are Atheists in regards to Zeus, Apollo, Thor, Vishnu, Coyote, the Hero Twins, and many many more Gods.
Satirist John Safran did a series called John Safran vs God. In Short he is Jew that takes the piss out of religions. He takes the piss out of
- Muslims
- Peyote Church (cactus drug)
- Catholics
- The KKK
- Buddhist Monks
- Mormons
- Vikings
- Voodu
- Christians
The interesting thing in this was in the last episode he goes to a Christian Exorcist, he answers a spiritual questionnaire and in short the Exorcist says that he fly paper for demons.
This was the last episode. So like the rest it starts and you expect the piss to be taken and boom he actually starts manifesting demons. It was amazing.
Anyway the basic premise of the Exorcist was that Odin, Voodoo and the rest of it was real and had a demonic under pinning.
This amazed Jew being extremely irreverent to various religions had a genuine religious experience.

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VirtuousGuile
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Message 157 of 161 (468354)
05-29-2008 3:26 AM
Reply to: Message 155 by Libmr2bs
05-22-2008 10:41 PM


Symobolic interpretation
the doors of Hades - a mythical place.
Hades what does it mean? If my memory serves me correctly "it means the underworld" which seems to be a common analogue for hell. Atheists understand that he has gone to the grave. The underworld seems to be a common reference to after death references in cultures that bury their dead.
Please remember that Greek was a common language at the time. It is not very plausible that symbolic references between cultures would not have been the norm.
I'm from New Zealand and Maori is the other national language. They use a term called 'Mana' which means 'Mana' in Maori culture. But When translated into English culture it means dignity, respect, honour, prestige...

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