Is the West Becoming Pagan Again?

Jack said:
Dutch ... (sigh) probably ANOTHER astroturfer working out of Stalingrad.

"Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants.

Astroturfing - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Astroturfing"
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No just a swollen asshole of hemorrhoids
 
Jack said:
The Discussion is about 'Religion'.
'Religion' had it's Day in History.
Now, 'Science' is the New Religion.
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Science isn't a religion any more than Trump is one.

However, I'll agree there are dumbasses and other assorted psychos running around free claiming all sorts of stupid shit including asserting science or Trump is a religion, should be deified or some other nonsense.
 
Jack said:
Mr Apollyon said:
This is why I have that asshole Dutch on ignore,he likes to attack someone's religion,while he pretends to be holier than thou!
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Dutch ... (sigh) probably ANOTHER astroturfer working out of Stalingrad.

"Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants.

Astroturfing - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Astroturfing"
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It's good that you two get along well. You have so much in common.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Science isn't a religion any more than Trump is one.

However, I'll agree there are dumbasses and other assorted psychos running around free claiming all sorts of stupid shit including asserting science or Trump is a religion, should be deified or some other nonsense.
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Somehow, I knew that would go over your head. See, 'New Religion'. Instead of people believing in the occult (like you and Cypress), people now put their Faith in Science.
Science, always open to new ways of looking at things. Never killing people because of a New Idea. (see the difference?)
 
Matt Dillon said:
Chazzer! OOo dawgy! You can't nothin' about that on the internet. :laugh:

A chazzer is a faggot pig.

I bet nobody has Google skills enough to find definition for chazzer.

Spoken like "Hasa' or real soft on the C

cHasa. Worse than maricon mongolico. (retarded faggot)
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No no i googled it, real short. Cop, partucularly a corrupt cop.
 
BidenPresident said:
This year, at the height of what used to be called the Christmas season, a Pew Research Center poll on religion revealed that only slightly more Americans described themselves as Roman Catholics (21 percent) than as believers in “nothing in particular” (20 percent). The millennial generation, which includes most adult Americans under 40, is the first one in which Christians are a minority.

Ms. Delsol is quite clear that what is ending is not the Christian faith, with its rites and dogmas, but only Christian culture — the way Christian societies are governed and the art, philosophy and lore that have arisen under Christianity’s influence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/opinion/christianity-paganism-woke.html
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Polls are completely meaningless.

Pagan religions never went away.
Christianity is more the Roman Catholics. Indeed, both the Pope and the Catholic church have taught and continue to teach against the gospel of Jesus Christ in many ways.
 
BidenPresident said:
Christians brought what she calls a “normative inversion” to pagan Rome. That is, they prized much that the Romans held in contempt and condemned much that the Romans prized, particularly in matters related to sex and family. Today the Christian overlay on Western cultural life is being removed, revealing a lot of pagan urges that it covered up.

To state Ms. Delsol’s argument crudely, what is happening today is an undoing, but it is also a redoing. We are inverting the normative inversion. We are repaganizing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/opinion/christianity-paganism-woke.html
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There is no such word as 'repaganizing'.
 
Grumpy said:
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Yes ... it is being reported that folks say that humans are being sacrificed to make the sun come up ... anyway ... dats wut i hered.
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Human sacrifices are not necessarily part of a pagan religion.
Examples: Shinto (including indian variants), Erda (Norse myths), sorcery, Buddhism, Hindu, Sikh, Olympian (Greek myths), Spartan (Roman myths), Ra (ancient Egyptian myths).
You are describing the practice of the Aztec and some Polynesian religions, which are actually a form of Shinto. Some of it appeared in Africa, and isolated patches around Europe and in some isolated patches of the United States.

The practice of human sacrifice tended to follow what are known as 'fertility' religions. The sacrifice was often a women or a child for this reason (that and that men are generally able to fight back more effectively!).
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I'm surprised that they used the term "pagan," which would indicate a religious belief other than Christianity. Instead, more and more younger ppl are secular and/or atheist/agnostic. I am pagan; that is a belief system of its own and probably not what the author meant to say.

I should probably read the article before further comment. lol
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The word 'pagan' simply means 'other than Christianity', and has been expanded to mean 'other than my own religion'.

Pagan is not a belief system on it's own. It is a collection of beliefs and religions.

There are very few atheists out there. I have met on all the forums I visit exactly two, and only one on the street (in Las Vegas).
The rest call themselves 'atheists', but instead belong to the Church of No God. That is a fundamentalist style religion.

Since I cannot recall what your belief system is, I will assume you haven't stated it (at least to me and likely others here on this thread).
 
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