What separates your god from mine?

[CrvenaParsa]

Because he is bigger than your god:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRwXrcz-F9M

[Neanderthaland]

Because he is bigger than your god:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRwXrcz-F9M

I don't know man. Mine is pretty big.

[Salus Maior]

I have devised my own theory.

I believe there is a higher power manipulating events to their desire, and that all monotheistic gods are merely interpretations of the same high being. Polytheistic gods also interpret the same higher power, but interpret as multiple beings and this divide it into different personalities.

I haven’t thought of a name for my church yet. I’m open for suggestions.

Firstly, lol.

And secondly, that's already been thought of.

[Salus Maior]

What separates my god from all the others is that I get to see and physically interact with him daily.

Isn't that technically according to your philosophy, you?

[Salus Maior]

Speak for yourself, I never felt shit when I was a Christian and it always seemed fake to me. I can't say the same since I became one of them filthy pagans.

You know, if you really stretch it, the Abrahamic god may be loosely based off the Caananite/Mesopotamian pantheon

Hell, I remember reading one day on Wikipedia that "Yahweh" literally translates to War God, which implies other gods.

Do not quote me on this though.

Well, even Biblically speaking the Hebrews often worshipped other gods. That was an ongoing struggle in the Old Testament stories, like with Gideon.

[Big Jim P]

What separates my god from all the others is that I get to see and physically interact with him daily.

Isn't that technically according to your philosophy, you?

Yes indeed.

[Sapientia Et Bellum]

Nothing because they don't exist

[The Feylands]

My God is one with nature. Not... say... a violence-inciting tyrant mercilessly bending it to suit his whims.

...or that’s what makes the Dharma superior to my past religion at least. As for the Gods... Freyja and the Morrigan are archetypes close to my heart. Though so is Ceres. And many others...

I vaguely recall something about Poseidon and Lord Shiva... I guess they’re both related to Thor as well. Shiva is the Raha of Storms after all. Entertained myself with dedicating the prayers to him instead of YHWH when I had to take part in a Church ceremony sometime ago. Aum Namah Shivaya.

[Salus Maior]

My God is one with nature. Not... say... a violence-inciting tyrant mercilessly bending it to suit his whims.

...or that’s what makes the Dharma superior to my past religion at least. As for the Gods... Freyja and the Morrigan are archetypes close to my heart. Though so is Ceres. And many others...

I vaguely recall something about Poseidon and Lord Shiva... I guess they’re both related to Thor as well. Shiva is the Raha of Storms after all. Entertained myself with dedicating the prayers to him instead of YHWH when I had to take part in a Church ceremony sometime ago. Aum Namah Shivaya.

Can you literally make any post without pointing out the fact that you don't like Christianity? Or are you not quite secure in your own beliefs or yourself yet?

And there is a great appreciation of nature in Christianity. Check out St. Francis of Assisi sometime.

[Sapientia Et Bellum]

My God is one with nature. Not... say... a violence-inciting tyrant mercilessly bending it to suit his whims.

...or that’s what makes the Dharma superior to my past religion at least. As for the Gods... Freyja and the Morrigan are archetypes close to my heart. Though so is Ceres. And many others...

I vaguely recall something about Poseidon and Lord Shiva... I guess they’re both related to Thor as well. Shiva is the Raha of Storms after all. Entertained myself with dedicating the prayers to him instead of YHWH when I had to take part in a Church ceremony sometime ago. Aum Namah Shivaya.

What kinda of pick n choose religion do you believe in that involves Norse, Greek, and Hindu Gods

[Korhal IVV]

My God is one with nature. Not... say... a violence-inciting tyrant mercilessly bending it to suit his whims.

...or that’s what makes the Dharma superior to my past religion at least. As for the Gods... Freyja and the Morrigan are archetypes close to my heart. Though so is Ceres. And many others...

I vaguely recall something about Poseidon and Lord Shiva... I guess they’re both related to Thor as well. Shiva is the Raha of Storms after all. Entertained myself with dedicating the prayers to him instead of YHWH when I had to take part in a Church ceremony sometime ago. Aum Namah Shivaya.

Can you literally make any post without pointing out the fact that you don't like Christianity? Or are you not quite secure in your own beliefs or yourself yet?

And there is a great appreciation of nature in Christianity. Check out St. Francis of Assisi sometime.

From what I am seeing, Feyland does not just dislike it.

They despise it with all their heart, if such a thing exists.

[Korhal IVV]

My God is one with nature. Not... say... a violence-inciting tyrant mercilessly bending it to suit his whims.

...or that’s what makes the Dharma superior to my past religion at least. As for the Gods... Freyja and the Morrigan are archetypes close to my heart. Though so is Ceres. And many others...

I vaguely recall something about Poseidon and Lord Shiva... I guess they’re both related to Thor as well. Shiva is the Raha of Storms after all. Entertained myself with dedicating the prayers to him instead of YHWH when I had to take part in a Church ceremony sometime ago. Aum Namah Shivaya.

What kinda of pick n choose religion do you believe in that involves Norse, Greek, and Hindu Gods

A religion that an edgy Chaos fanboy makes when making his own warband in his own garage.

[The Feylands]

A religion that an edgy Chaos fanboy makes when making his own warband in his own garage.

Or simply a high elf fangirl with a pantheistic and animistic religion, who believes that gods are archetypes of the forces of nature/God (dharma) and that there is thus no contradiction between various indigenous religions (or Buddhism and other dharmic philosophies), which is what non-abrahamic countries usually believe. And that spirituality cannot be exactly defined and arranged into little boxes or into some spreadsheet..

Or as the Hindu Rig Veda puts it: "one truth the sages know by many names".

[Cameroi]

they are the same, they are unknown, and no one knows their will, but if they are good, they wish neither to be feared, nor for us to cause harm.

if we cannot judge what is not known, and we cannot, still we can open our eyes to what is in front of them.
whatever mighty things a god CAN do, we make our heavens and hells ourselves and by how we act.

[Australian rePublic]

The core texts of Hellenic peganism state that the gods live on top of Mt. Olymous, right? Okay, let's fly to Greece then charter a helicopter...
Actually, that's sounds about lovely right now. Why don't we do this despite proving a point **checks bank account**. Oh right, that's why...
**sigh**

[The New California Republic]

The core texts of Hellenic peganism state that the gods live on top of Mt. Olymous, right? Okay, let's fly to Greece then charter a helicopter...

Even in ancient times it was understood that the physical Olympus and the divine Olympus were separate places. I have a book somewhere around here that deals with that subject if you'd like the name but it's pretty spendy nowadays.

[Indo-Malaysia]

I have devised my own theory.

I believe there is a higher power manipulating events to their desire, and that all monotheistic gods are merely interpretations of the same high being. Polytheistic gods also interpret the same higher power, but interpret as multiple beings and this divide it into different personalities.

I haven’t thought of a name for my church yet. I’m open for suggestions.

Firstly, lol.

And secondly, that's already been thought of.

At least that makes me sound less crazy.

[Hanafuridake]

There is much debate over whether the Buddha can be considered God, I think that it would be best to say that the Buddhas are their own class of religious being which overlaps in some areas with the Western notion of Godhood, but differs in others. A major difference between the Buddha and the Christian God (and why the two religions are incompatible) is that the Buddha is not a Creator God and specifically rejects the concept of a being creating this universe. Another major difference is that in Christian theology, God exists, while notions such as exists, doesn't exist, neither exists nor doesn't exist, don't apply to the Tathāgata.

[Katganistan]

What separates your God from mine?

Your thread title, affirming that there is a separation.

[Hammer Britannia]

The core texts of Hellenic peganism state that the gods live on top of Mt. Olymous, right? Okay, let's fly to Greece then charter a helicopter...

Doesn't the bible proclaim Yahweh lives in the sky?

[The New California Republic]

There is much debate over whether the Buddha can be considered God, I think that it would be best to say that the Buddhas are their own class of religious being which overlaps in some areas with the Western notion of Godhood, but differs in others. A major difference between the Buddha and the Christian God (and why the two religions are incompatible) is that the Buddha is not a Creator God and specifically rejects the concept of a being creating this universe. Another major difference is that in Christian theology, God exists, while notions such as exists, doesn't exist, neither exists nor doesn't exist, don't apply to the Tathāgata.

Having attained nirvāṇa and before he ultimately attained parinirvāṇa, Buddha refers to himself as Tathāgata as you said, so "beyond the transitory"; but what that exactly means in relation to whether he continues to exist after parinirvāṇa, and the precise "form" of that existence, is unclear.

[Australian rePublic]

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[Australian rePublic]

The core texts of Hellenic peganism state that the gods live on top of Mt. Olymous, right? Okay, let's fly to Greece then charter a helicopter...

Doesn't the bible proclaim Yahweh lives in the sky?

Where does it say that? Also, the writters of the Bible (at least the NT) knew that the Earth were round, so I don't see how that would have been possible

[Australian rePublic]

The core texts of Hellenic peganism state that the gods live on top of Mt. Olymous, right? Okay, let's fly to Greece then charter a helicopter...

Even in ancient times it was understood that the physical Olympus and the divine Olympus were separate places. I have a book somewhere around here that deals with that subject if you'd like the name but it's pretty spendy nowadays.

Evidence?

[Hammer Britannia]

Doesn't the bible proclaim Yahweh lives in the sky?

Where does it say that? Also, the writters of the Bible knew that the Earth were round, so I don't see how that would have been possible

It doesn't, I was strawmanning your religion just like you were ours.

Also, 1 Chronicles 16:30, Psalm 93:1, Psalm 96:10, Psalm 104:5. While it doesn't prove that they thought the Earth is flat, it does show that the bronze-aged barbarians of the Middle East weren't expert cosmologists either