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ThruTheWire
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it gives you life and energy everything around, why dont people think that the Sun is the God? What criteria is missing? discuss
good point. many poeple thought the Sun WAS god for a long time.
Then someone came up with the great idea that another GOD created the Sun!
Now just wait until someone comes up with a religion that has yet another God creating that god.
Oh wait, that religion was smart enough to say there would be no other gods except me!
Then someone came up with the great idea that another GOD created the Sun!
Now just wait until someone comes up with a religion that has yet another God creating that god.
Oh wait, that religion was smart enough to say there would be no other gods except me!
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I worship the Son
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ThruTheWire
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Lestat said:
Thats exactly right, the energy of the sun's rays made it all possible, else we'd be a ball of ice.
The sun warms, grows trees and plants for us. Seems likes people got their own interpretations in the way and wrote them down to convince others to do things. Because god said so.
Trippy
Sun god worship was generally associated with a military dictatorship, and usually established in direct opposition to the Goddess (who is associated with the Moon). It's happened at many times and many places throughout the world (going as far back as Ra usurping Isis in Egyptian culture and probably even before that but I'm drawing a blank right now).ThruTheWire said:
The America's version was the Aztec sun god (and probably one most people have heard of). The Aztec priests actually believed/preached that the sun needed food to survive, specifically human blood, and it was declared that the whole purpose of the Aztec empire was to provide that blood to the sun. They engaged in contuous war specifically with the intention of providing victims to be sacrificed to the sun (chest sliced open, beating heart torn out).
This wasn't that long ago, by the way, the mid 1300s actually.
But anyway, it could be said that the new sun god is the one humans can control, specifically the nuclear bomb.
History lesson ... Sunday worship has never had anything to do with the sun:pdaddy said:
Anyway, I pulled this from Wikipedia, it explains it easier:
The name "Sunday" (Day of the Sun) apparently originated in pre-Christian Egyptian culture. In Egyptian astrology, the seven planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon, each had an hour of the day assigned to them, and the planet which was "regent" during the first hour of any day of the week gave its name to that day. The Egyptian form of the seven-day week spread from Egypt to Rome during the first and second century, when the Roman names of the planets were given to each successive day. Germanic-speaking nations apparently adopted the seven-day week from the Romans, so that the dies Solis became Sunday.
In ancient Jewish tradition Saturday is the Sabbath, a day of worship on which abstinence from work is required. The first Christians were Jews and maintained the observance of the Jewish Sabbath rest, but by the first half of the second century most Christians no longer observed the Sabbath, instead gathering for worship on Sunday (although for some time the Sabbath continued to be held in a special regard even among Christians who observed Sunday).
