Horus (c. 3000 BCE)
Osiris (c. 3000 BCE)
Attis of Phrygia (c.1400 BCE)
Krishna (c. 1400 BCE)
Zoroaster/Zarathustra (c. 1000 BCE)
Mithra of Persia (c. 600 BCE)
Buddha (Siddartha Gautama — c. 563 BCE)
Heracles (c. 800 BCE)
Dionysus (c. 186 BCE)
Tammuz (c. 400 BCE)
Adonis (c. 200 BCE)
Hermes
Bacchus
Prometheus
http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/12/26/other-deities-not-born-on-dec-25/
Friday, December 26, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Do people simply tend to adopt the religion they grew up with?
Various comments on reddit:
I think its just an amazing coincidence that Christian babies are born into Christian families, Muslim babies are born into Muslim families and Hindu babies are born into Hindu families...
What are the odds?
Correct! The coincidence is indeed amazing.
We should totally expect Christian parents to have kids who commonly and spontaneously grow into Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims... based on world statistics. This would make complete sense.
I like how you think. :)
i've got news for you: they simply tend to
adopt the morals they grew up with
adopt the political preference they grew up with
adopt the nationality they grew up with
etc.
Of course they do. This is one of my biggest arguments again religion. My in-laws are fundamentalist Baptists because their parents were and so were all the family, friends, and neighbors. Since these are not people who question authority, how could they be anything except fundamentalist Baptist? If, instead they were born and raised in Salt Lake City to Mormons, they would be Mormon. If they were raised by goat herders in Afghanistan, they would be Muslim. But try and explain this to them, and it goes right over their heads. They still believe that Christianity is the "only way" and all non-believers are going to hell.
So how does it happen that my in-laws are so special that God chose them to be born to the right families so that without any effort on their part they are saved? There is no need for thinking, no need for research, no need to work at being saved. Just get born into the right family, and-- presto! you know all the right answers to get into heaven.
Right, this statistical dependency between religion of parents and children proves that the christian God is very unjust because different people have very different starting positions on the path to the "true faith".
I think its just an amazing coincidence that Christian babies are born into Christian families, Muslim babies are born into Muslim families and Hindu babies are born into Hindu families...
What are the odds?
Correct! The coincidence is indeed amazing.
We should totally expect Christian parents to have kids who commonly and spontaneously grow into Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims... based on world statistics. This would make complete sense.
I like how you think. :)
i've got news for you: they simply tend to
adopt the morals they grew up with
adopt the political preference they grew up with
adopt the nationality they grew up with
etc.
Of course they do. This is one of my biggest arguments again religion. My in-laws are fundamentalist Baptists because their parents were and so were all the family, friends, and neighbors. Since these are not people who question authority, how could they be anything except fundamentalist Baptist? If, instead they were born and raised in Salt Lake City to Mormons, they would be Mormon. If they were raised by goat herders in Afghanistan, they would be Muslim. But try and explain this to them, and it goes right over their heads. They still believe that Christianity is the "only way" and all non-believers are going to hell.
So how does it happen that my in-laws are so special that God chose them to be born to the right families so that without any effort on their part they are saved? There is no need for thinking, no need for research, no need to work at being saved. Just get born into the right family, and-- presto! you know all the right answers to get into heaven.
Right, this statistical dependency between religion of parents and children proves that the christian God is very unjust because different people have very different starting positions on the path to the "true faith".
Monday, December 15, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Man says God ordered him to ram vehicle at 100 mph
SAN ANTONIO – A man who rammed his truck into a woman's vehicle on a highway early Friday told authorities he crashed into her while going more than 100 mph because God told him "she needed to be taken off the road."
The truck rear-ended the car on U.S. Highway 281, both vehicles spun across a median then came to a stop along a barrier in the opposite lanes. Both drivers suffered only minor injuries.
"He just said God said she wasn't driving right, and she needed to be taken off the road," Bexar County Sheriff's Office spokesman Kyle Coleman said in the online edition of the San Antonio Express-News. "God must have been with them, 'cause any other time, the severity of this crash, it would have been a fatal."
The pickup driver did not tell police how the woman was driving. Police could not find alcohol or drugs in either driver.
A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for a man.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_fe_st/odd100_mph_wreck
The truck rear-ended the car on U.S. Highway 281, both vehicles spun across a median then came to a stop along a barrier in the opposite lanes. Both drivers suffered only minor injuries.
"He just said God said she wasn't driving right, and she needed to be taken off the road," Bexar County Sheriff's Office spokesman Kyle Coleman said in the online edition of the San Antonio Express-News. "God must have been with them, 'cause any other time, the severity of this crash, it would have been a fatal."
The pickup driver did not tell police how the woman was driving. Police could not find alcohol or drugs in either driver.
A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for a man.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_fe_st/odd100_mph_wreck
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