“Ah! Unfathomable void!”
“Ahhh! Bottomless pit! I’m coming”
Do they yell “Oh Darwin” if they haven’t come out of the ‘religious’ closet and can’t control the primal urge to deify?
Or do they satisfy the vocalizing urge with “My ..Natural Selection. That was great!”
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Saint Augustine, one of the most influential figures of Christianity, with lots and lots of experience of screaming lust, was honest in his prayers to God. 'Grant me chastity and continence, only not yet.”
If we look at all of known and recorded human history, we see that peoples, cultures and religions are always a tight fit. When you bring in a religion from outside and ‘convert’ a people, the religion also adapts by adopting indigenous worldview, aspects of culture and facets of the collective experience of the people into it. Any religion, which totally disregards what the people are used to, usually doesn’t succeed as Akhenaton, the eighteenth dynasty pharaoh of ancient Egypt (1353 BC – 1336 BC) learnt.
Black Jesus and White Saints
In many churches and cathedrals in South America and Africa, where white Europeans brought Christianity, Jesus is often black, but most of the saints were white.
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Is this just an oversight or was there a covert message? “Well, you can satisfy your deifying urge by looking at a black Jesus, but don’t even think of ever becoming a Saint! Sainthood is reserved for whites only. You get the point? It is divine will that we, whites rule over you!”
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Religion can have political, commercial and domination agendas, possibly more than any other sphere of human activity. Often religion gets corrupted and becomes a mechanism to satisfy ego trips rather than bring salvation, happiness and liberation to people as countless cults have shown to do.
Very often God is portrayed as a bearded male figure. With one notable exception, Islam, where idolatry of images is forbidden, many religions and religious art have portrayed God or the supreme deity as an older bearded male.
Should God always be seen as Male? More in this article.
p.s. Apologies to people who enjoy their sex silently.
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“Ahhh! Bottomless pit! I’m coming”
Do they yell “Oh Darwin” if they haven’t come out of the ‘religious’ closet and can’t control the primal urge to deify?
Or do they satisfy the vocalizing urge with “My ..Natural Selection. That was great!”
Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons
Saint Augustine, one of the most influential figures of Christianity, with lots and lots of experience of screaming lust, was honest in his prayers to God. 'Grant me chastity and continence, only not yet.”
If we look at all of known and recorded human history, we see that peoples, cultures and religions are always a tight fit. When you bring in a religion from outside and ‘convert’ a people, the religion also adapts by adopting indigenous worldview, aspects of culture and facets of the collective experience of the people into it. Any religion, which totally disregards what the people are used to, usually doesn’t succeed as Akhenaton, the eighteenth dynasty pharaoh of ancient Egypt (1353 BC – 1336 BC) learnt.
Black Jesus and White Saints
In many churches and cathedrals in South America and Africa, where white Europeans brought Christianity, Jesus is often black, but most of the saints were white.
Photos source: Wikimedia commons
Is this just an oversight or was there a covert message? “Well, you can satisfy your deifying urge by looking at a black Jesus, but don’t even think of ever becoming a Saint! Sainthood is reserved for whites only. You get the point? It is divine will that we, whites rule over you!”
Photo source: Wikimedia commonsReligion can have political, commercial and domination agendas, possibly more than any other sphere of human activity. Often religion gets corrupted and becomes a mechanism to satisfy ego trips rather than bring salvation, happiness and liberation to people as countless cults have shown to do.
Very often God is portrayed as a bearded male figure. With one notable exception, Islam, where idolatry of images is forbidden, many religions and religious art have portrayed God or the supreme deity as an older bearded male.
Should God always be seen as Male? More in this article.
p.s. Apologies to people who enjoy their sex silently.
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7 comments:
loved the post. i didnt know abt the black Jesus. cool!
cool post. There is alwayws politics and business behind religion.
very cool. Wonder if we ever had a female God with a beard.
@goddess:
Yes. just check out some images from the Hindu religion.
I wouldn't say many religions portray God as a bearded male. Christianity/Catholocism is pretty much the only religion that does that. Judaism, like Islam, has no images of God. Buddhism has no God, and Hinduism, as I said, has bearded ladies and millions of other dieties in many shapes & forms.
Unless you count the ancient Egyptian religion, where they had a couple bearded men as gods. Or, heck, pick out a few of the ancient mesopotamian religions, they probably had a couple of bearded guys. But as for modern religions, christianity is pretty much it- unless I missed one.
You just think it's everywhere because you unintentionally think the West is everywhere. We white folk are a minority in the world.
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never really thot of that for the atheists but a good one anyway
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