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:rolleyes: Me thinks it's more like a metaphor for the division between polytheistic and monotheistic thinking. Neither Jesus or Moses have any evidence of their writings, both could very well be mythological characters in a huge monotheistic play written by a bunch of authors and edited by...

Ramadan Mubarak to you too Amica. What is a nasheed? I listened to the music video and I noticed it didn't contain any Middle Eastern nuances that its music is known for (possibly a little at the intro with the ney). The piano cannot deliver the subtle shadings of a Rast and none of the Maqams...

Personally, it isn't for me. How could it be? Oppressing someone's Will is the Sin here.

Again, I'll say that the Abrahamic and some other Belief systems twisted the concept of Hell into a tool for intimidation, fear, and oppression. Many earlier and some of today's Belief systems never approached the Underworld from this Dante-esque angle. The Underworld was a place of Initiation...

The majority of non-theistic Satanists fall into this category then

Yet another -ism to try and explain the inexplicable? Well. which is it? It can't be both ;) I can't see how everything could NOT change if deities were proven or unproven. Here I am a non-theistic Luciferian with an agnostic stance, if I were to find out one way or the other whether deities...

Our True/Higher Self is our non-dualistic essence, the singularity of our essence. Upon the desire to reflect upon itself, we are immediately separated into Subjective & Objective universes. The Objective universe continues its descent into the material world and incarnates into matter. What...

No, I mean you are considered Jewish if you are born from a Jewish mother, as if it was like DNA. I've argued this with Jews before (yes, I like to argue) and I can't understand it. There is NO Jewish race, it is a religion.

Oddly enough if your mother is Jewish you are automatically Jewish . . . how does that work? LOL

New Thought (100%) Theravada Buddhism (92%) Scientology (91%) Reform Judaism (87%) Mahayana Buddhism (86%) Unitarian Universalism (83%) Neo-Pagan (82%) Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (79%) Sikhism (77%) New Age (76%) Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%) Secular...

Why can't they?

No, I was stating that we all use Hate in different degrees, that it is useful, and that if you (not you specifically:D) say that you don't experience hate then that's a fib . . . and I HATE fibbers! :rolleyes: All in all this discussion is getting worn out!

Hasn't the term really come to mean "any belief system that is not monotheistic"?

It "IS" necessary, just not desirable. What does any of this have to do with an emotion that is a part of our being human? I don't believe for a moment that anyone here hasn't at least once found their emotion of Hate to be beneficial in a certain situation. Denying and suppressing this emotion...

Pagan comes from Latin paganus, an adjective originally meaning "rural", "rustic" or "of the country." As a noun, paganus was used to mean "country dweller, villager. As Christianity spread into Antioch, Alexandria, Carthage, Corinth, and Rome the word for "country dweller" became synonymous...

I don't need any help from any religion, why would you?

It's always been the case that whatever religion moves into a seat of power the old god(s) must be killed.

That is hardly a rebuttal, much less a loving one :rolleyes:

And you know this how? (since there exists NO records of the Nazarene's existence and NO writings from Him either.

Now we're deciding on eras? How about this minute, is it any less or more violent than . . . this minute? What about last week? Bunch of kids got murdered in NYC, that week was a violent time, but it's over now . . . thank god :rolleyes: