I agree. My patron deity as a pagan is a means of resistance. She’s a reminder that people like me predate the written word. The Sumerian creation story I know involves humans having labor negotiations with the gods.
Drag has a theory about why antitheists attack all gods, despite not having any logical arguments against gods like yours. Drag thinks it’s because they’re Christians. Cultural Christians. No belief in Jesus, but they still celebrate Christmas and Easter and think abortion and divorce are wrong and all the other Christian beliefs. Christians don’t believe in any god but Deus, and white antitheists agree. They believe in Deus enough to make counterarguments, but they don’t even dignify your god with that much respect. They’re doing a Christianity.
Oh absolutely. My wife and I call them as Christian atheists. As the saying goes the god they don’t believe in is Jehova.
And the thing is, I’m trying not to be overly Christian in my paganism, but the anarchist philosophy that I hold dear, while the absolute antithesis of the Christianity of my nation, is close enough to the teachings of a certain rabbi from the early Roman Empire. But by approaching syncretically I don’t have to look at other religion as devoid of truth. Instead I see truth where I find it and keep the truth that helps.
I agree. My patron deity as a pagan is a means of resistance. She’s a reminder that people like me predate the written word. The Sumerian creation story I know involves humans having labor negotiations with the gods.
Drag has a theory about why antitheists attack all gods, despite not having any logical arguments against gods like yours. Drag thinks it’s because they’re Christians. Cultural Christians. No belief in Jesus, but they still celebrate Christmas and Easter and think abortion and divorce are wrong and all the other Christian beliefs. Christians don’t believe in any god but Deus, and white antitheists agree. They believe in Deus enough to make counterarguments, but they don’t even dignify your god with that much respect. They’re doing a Christianity.
Oh absolutely. My wife and I call them as Christian atheists. As the saying goes the god they don’t believe in is Jehova.
And the thing is, I’m trying not to be overly Christian in my paganism, but the anarchist philosophy that I hold dear, while the absolute antithesis of the Christianity of my nation, is close enough to the teachings of a certain rabbi from the early Roman Empire. But by approaching syncretically I don’t have to look at other religion as devoid of truth. Instead I see truth where I find it and keep the truth that helps.