And for the other people here, the pagans of today have nothing to do with the pagans of the past. These new pagans have beliefs which are infinitely more childish. After all, we live in a modern world, and they still believe in their pantheon of gods?
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Projection. What a wonderful thing for fooling oneself.
Two tobacco users get into a fight in a bar.
Tobacco chewer tells smoker: Smoking is bad for you. You smell. You look like a fool. You're going to get cancer. It's gross.
Smoker tells tobacco chewer: Your teeth are yellow. Your breath smells. You're going to get cancer. You smell.
Who smells? Who is likely to get cancer? Who's teeth are going to turn yellow?
Fight it out until it makes sense.
Their pantheon of gods is less foolish than your trinity, which nobody can make sense of.
Yes it's a modern world. Why don't you join us?
"After all, we live in a modern world, and they still believe in their pantheon of gods? "
I'm sorry, how many gods do you believe in? 1? 3? I keep getting confused.
And why do the pagans of today have nothing to do with the past if they still believe in the same pantheon of gods?
And they're Childish? They're not the ones screaming persecution because they're not allowed to do rituals in public schools.
I'd bet dollars to dead snails that you don't have any idea what ancient pagans believed. You probably don't know what modern pagans believe either.
Why is a pantheon of imaginary gods any more childish than one big imaginary god?
On its own, that quote is not fundie. But then later in the thread Katana says:
In this world, there is only one God that makes sense. That is Jesus Christ. Out of all the history I have seen, out of all the science I have come to understand, out of all the "truths" I have examined, it is the only rational religion that can possibly have any substance in reality. If Jesus is not God, there are no other gods worth believing in. If Jesus is not real, then there is nothing real and there is no meaning in this world.
Shiny mirror!
HIndus - ie, most of the population of India are childish? Fastest growing economy? Are you aware of the world in which you live, or does your horizon stop at the local church/pastor?
Probably yes. Fundies tend to be remarkably unaware that theyir world is very tightly constrained, and there is a wider world out there that is worth at least being aware of.
After all, we live in a modern world, and they still believe in their pantheon of gods?
Yes, yes they do. And it's no more foolish than you believing in a monotheistic system.
Pantheon of gawds? You mean like Sky Daddy, Holy Spirit (sexless, not female--no girls allowed!), Boy Jeebus, Lucifer/Satan/Serpent/Adversary, Lilith, Michael, Gabriel, Legion, infinite ranks of angels and demons, the "Living Creatures," the "Elders?" And don't forget the Old Testament adversaries that gave Sky Daddy Yaweh a hard time: Chemosh, Ba'al, and Dagon.
This fundy's right: His monotheism is infinitely less silly than pagan polytheism.
This one isn't that bad.
Modern paganism is childish (and I would add petulent) becuase it insists onthings that it does not undertand and which are badly taken out of context.
But yes, I must agree with some other commenters, that the post in and of itself is deeply ridiculous since Christian fundamentalism is jsut as childish and just as decontextualized.
If this were posted anywhere but on Christian Forums, I would completely, totally agree with it.
On Christian Forums, however, such a post is just an irony meter waiting to explode.
Look everyone! A level 30 consumer Christian whore! Goddamn you. There HAS to be a pantheon, you baka! Can one man - or woman, hopefully woman, - rule the world? No. Then how can one god, a 'father', make the world? Men do nothing but destroy. Mostly. There are some good ones, but there are really, really bad ones.
You’re right, stories about Hades and Demeter arguing over Persephone’s disposition, and then we get summer and winter, those ARE childish.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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