Indiana dad arrested for allegedly biting 'ungrateful' newborn after nurses overheard him call baby 'evil'

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's not true. There were abstract deities all over the middle east. And in Europe Jupiter literally means sky father.

[–]dicknipples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Polytheistic religions have had sky gods, but generally their gods were on Earth, at mountaintops &c. Abrahamic tradition put their only god in the heavens, and the spaceman said: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth." Hence Christians, Muslims and Jews have not had a habit of worthipping Nature or the earth. Christians were previously more interested in Mother Nature before the removal of the Marian worship tradition in the late 15th century.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The matrix "Mother Nature" is obviously evil, of course you shouldn't worship it. But if anything today's Christians worship it far above God, and anyone who doesn't is immediately labeled "gnostic" and dismissed as a hopeless heretic.

I learned about Plato's cave recently. It accurately portrays the unbelievable cognitive dissonance and denial people have regarding this subject.

[–]dicknipples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Mother Nature" is obviously evil, of course you shouldn't worship it. But if anything today's Christians worship it far above God,

Thanks for your thoughts on this. We don't agree, though perhaps because there are so many interpretations of Christianity. And - before the 18th century - mother nature was God for many Christians. We agree on Plato.