Religion general
HorsesandMuchMOAR
Gallusposting since 2019
Which religious custom did you like the most, or did you enjoy seeing?
Mine include:
Mine include:
- Sufi dances by the dervishes of Turkey
- Ritual dances in Shinto shrines
- Veneration of deities in Thailand
Dex Stewart
Ecto-Phase,Activate!
@HorsesandMuchMOAR
I live in the rural US,so I don’t see many customs. Even the Christian majority don’t do much more publicly than say grace before a meal.
There is a growing population of Muslim and Buddhist though.
I live in the rural US,so I don’t see many customs. Even the Christian majority don’t do much more publicly than say grace before a meal.
There is a growing population of Muslim and Buddhist though.
Flutter_Lover
#WaifuLivesMatter
I love Belief it or Not. It’s like The Enlightenment, but actually talking to you.
NitroFury
Nitro Cat Bad!
You know I find ironic, since some of the Neo-Nazis are Christians and are anti-semitic, they don’t realize Jesus Christ himself was Jewish.
It’s true, Jesus Christ was Jewish, but they won’t because Neo-Nazis don’t know how the Christian faith works.
It’s true, Jesus Christ was Jewish, but they won’t because Neo-Nazis don’t know how the Christian faith works.
HorsesandMuchMOAR
Gallusposting since 2019
@NitroFury
Many of them don’t really care about this because they consider Christianity a part of “Western civilisation”. Some may attempt to claim that Jesus was Aryan or Edomite, while others hate Christianity and Jesus as “foreign and evil”.
Many of them don’t really care about this because they consider Christianity a part of “Western civilisation”. Some may attempt to claim that Jesus was Aryan or Edomite, while others hate Christianity and Jesus as “foreign and evil”.
Kazapsky
Five scoops of ice cream
@HorsesandMuchMOAR
Baldr’s a pretty chill guy, compared to most deities.
Question is, as with most deities, what are the believers using his good name to justify?
Baldr’s a pretty chill guy, compared to most deities.
Question is, as with most deities, what are the believers using his good name to justify?
HorsesandMuchMOAR
Gallusposting since 2019
@Kazapsky
Some Norse heathens see him as a bringer of hope, or a protector. Some admire his courage and how he faced his death.
Some Norse heathens see him as a bringer of hope, or a protector. Some admire his courage and how he faced his death.
HorsesandMuchMOAR
Gallusposting since 2019
It seems odd, but atheism (trying to avert the stereotype and the “militant atheist” trope) inspired one of the factions in my sci-fi world.
The Nandegakkovians (a race of blue-skinned aliens) are one of the only cultures in the Galaxy that are mostly atheist, so they do not worship any gods. Many of their ancestors were exiled from another empire, who banished them there for being atheists. In spite of the refusal to believe in the gods, they love mythology, from saturating themselves in classical art based on their folklore to risking death to collect and preserve all kinds of literature.
In the society they were exiled from, the Igarin Empire, people believed that everyone will be eaten by the gods after they die, whether on a deathbed, stabbed on a sacrificial altar, or on the battlefield. This, along with the widespread cruelty all over the Galaxy, inspired the Nandegakkovians to be more helpful.
After all, if oblivion awaits them in life, after death, and in the future, the best they could do is to protect whatever and whoever that is good in the Galaxy. To make life more bearable, before the coming destruction. The threat of oblivion itself made them braver and more fierce and protective; but because they are outnumbered by three galactic empires, they seek allies from other rebellions that broke out.
Even if it meant defying several secularist alliances by their love of mythology and refusal to attack the devotees of various gods of the Galaxy, they still preferred their love of friends and art. However, although they are willing to make friends with anyone, even their enemies if they change and become good; certain soldiers and leaders are hated more because of their brutality, even compared to demons in war chants.
What do you think of this?
The Nandegakkovians (a race of blue-skinned aliens) are one of the only cultures in the Galaxy that are mostly atheist, so they do not worship any gods. Many of their ancestors were exiled from another empire, who banished them there for being atheists. In spite of the refusal to believe in the gods, they love mythology, from saturating themselves in classical art based on their folklore to risking death to collect and preserve all kinds of literature.
In the society they were exiled from, the Igarin Empire, people believed that everyone will be eaten by the gods after they die, whether on a deathbed, stabbed on a sacrificial altar, or on the battlefield. This, along with the widespread cruelty all over the Galaxy, inspired the Nandegakkovians to be more helpful.
After all, if oblivion awaits them in life, after death, and in the future, the best they could do is to protect whatever and whoever that is good in the Galaxy. To make life more bearable, before the coming destruction. The threat of oblivion itself made them braver and more fierce and protective; but because they are outnumbered by three galactic empires, they seek allies from other rebellions that broke out.
Even if it meant defying several secularist alliances by their love of mythology and refusal to attack the devotees of various gods of the Galaxy, they still preferred their love of friends and art. However, although they are willing to make friends with anyone, even their enemies if they change and become good; certain soldiers and leaders are hated more because of their brutality, even compared to demons in war chants.
What do you think of this?
𝕭𝖆𝖉𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙
I wish science had more answers.
The very fabric of reality, the furthest I’ve learned is everything’s made of quarks. What’s inside of those? And more?
It drives me insane, not knowing the very core of what we are.
The origins of existence, never knowing how we got here, never knowing where we’ll go.
The very fabric of reality, the furthest I’ve learned is everything’s made of quarks. What’s inside of those? And more?
It drives me insane, not knowing the very core of what we are.
The origins of existence, never knowing how we got here, never knowing where we’ll go.
HorsesandMuchMOAR
Gallusposting since 2019
@Hali the Emoji girl
It’s a WIP (still writing it, not yet published), but it’s the sequel to my book Hajogana . You can find out more about this atheist culture in my work here.
Sometimes I think the Nandegakkovians are like Buddhists to some extent: they do not worship or believe in any gods, yet they still make stage plays and fantasy fanfics about them.
They did encounter supernatural beings, but they are considered only as “very powerful beings” or “monsters” (depending on what they are and what they do) and nothing more. Any act of worship or veneration of them is considered unnecessary.
Magic also exists in their world, but Nandegakkovians think of it only as a more dangerous version of mutant powers. While some of their people mutate themselves to have fire or shadow powers to defend their country (like other civilisations), many of them refuse to learn any magic. They mostly avoid it due to deadly incidents, but the few Nandegakkovians with magic powers mostly work in handling lost technology or fighting extraordinary enemies (like possessed Igarin priests or summoned demons). Even then, their magical rites (if they have any) have no offerings or invocations to any deity, so they are more simple and weaker than other civilisations’ spells.
It’s a WIP (still writing it, not yet published), but it’s the sequel to my book Hajogana . You can find out more about this atheist culture in my work here.
Sometimes I think the Nandegakkovians are like Buddhists to some extent: they do not worship or believe in any gods, yet they still make stage plays and fantasy fanfics about them.
They did encounter supernatural beings, but they are considered only as “very powerful beings” or “monsters” (depending on what they are and what they do) and nothing more. Any act of worship or veneration of them is considered unnecessary.
Magic also exists in their world, but Nandegakkovians think of it only as a more dangerous version of mutant powers. While some of their people mutate themselves to have fire or shadow powers to defend their country (like other civilisations), many of them refuse to learn any magic. They mostly avoid it due to deadly incidents, but the few Nandegakkovians with magic powers mostly work in handling lost technology or fighting extraordinary enemies (like possessed Igarin priests or summoned demons). Even then, their magical rites (if they have any) have no offerings or invocations to any deity, so they are more simple and weaker than other civilisations’ spells.
Dex Stewart
Ecto-Phase,Activate!
@ᏰᎯᎠᎻᎬᎯᏒᎿ
It drove me crazy in school. The universe began at the big bang.
Okay,well,what happened before?
There was nothing before.
Then what created the big bang?
Gas bubbles.
From where? What was outside the bubbles? Even now,how far does space expand? If we reached the edge,what would be outside? And beyond that?
It drove me crazy in school. The universe began at the big bang.
Okay,well,what happened before?
There was nothing before.
Then what created the big bang?
Gas bubbles.
From where? What was outside the bubbles? Even now,how far does space expand? If we reached the edge,what would be outside? And beyond that?
tehwatever
Eid Mubarak to the two other guys in here.
And to HorsesandMuchMOAR, if today is public holiday in yus country, then I hope you had a decent day off.
And to HorsesandMuchMOAR, if today is public holiday in yus country, then I hope you had a decent day off.
HorsesandMuchMOAR
Gallusposting since 2019
@tehwatever
Same to you.
It is a public holiday, but since I’ve been laid off, every day is basically a holiday to me. Now I’m looking for some online jobs to raise more money.
Same to you.
It is a public holiday, but since I’ve been laid off, every day is basically a holiday to me. Now I’m looking for some online jobs to raise more money.
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