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Early American religions as pseudo deity worship

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:07 pm
by tedstruk
If you look at all of the early religions, they were primarily deity based. If you look at all the Asias, Egypts, Europes, they all found deity worship compelling and the base for all their beliefs.

What if the American Indians, are not capable of understanding this form of religion because of their species? It would seem necro religious to me to not treat them fairly in a religious aspect.

Personally I believe religious persecutions are inevitable and we must face them. (Typical Jesus syndrome) So maybe its time to revamp the science of religion.... Starting with the beliefs of each seperate species, following the generations of the original sons of man i.e. Hercules and all his decendents were to be declared gods if they could keep Vesuvius from destroying Heculaneum and Troy....
So much for the sons of man.
Hercules packed up his family and friends and deserted Herculaneum, Troy and all the Kings who would have him as their god.

Hooray for the system!

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:56 pm
by Kurieuo
It might be just me, but I have no idea what you are saying let alone what point you are trying to make?

Kurieuo.

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:42 pm
by Felgar
It's not just you Kurieuo. :) I'll just shoot off into the dark here and see if I hit anything.

With respect to the Native Americans though, it may interest tedstruck to know that some Native groups have preserved the entire story of Jesus (crucifixion, died for our sins, etc) from before they were ever met by Europeans. Upon hearing it they were like "Oh, so His name was Jesus." If anyone has a link to that please post it.

Additionally you'll find nature runnign very deep in Native culture and worship, which stands to reason. The Lord is "understood from what has been made" (Romans 1:20) so without the text to fill the backstory it's not suprising that this is how their beliefs and understanding of God was typically manifest.

directives and alliance

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:20 pm
by tedstruk
The art of war(Sun Tsu-Confucious' brother) tells me that the religious heritage of the asian populous was very questionable. At the finding of CharChan man in the xiangxi province, the evidence of necro religions showed up in the form of a witches hat, along with witch. The idea that this mummy was an antient mummy was snuffed by my impression that the age of "felt" determines it is only a thousand or so years old, rather than being of an antient type. Could this mummy be Genghis Khan, the notoriuos self proclaimed mongol king of 1252 that invented the terroristic style of warfare? Could be. And another religious affinity I have...well maybe not an affinity......The American Natives never claimed to be anything other than Navaho....It was the white interpretation that changed them back into a conflicting nation of tribal democracys...When the Whites arrived, all the conflicts were over and the Navaho were the religious faction.