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[–]plato911 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In the words of Werner Herzog, this sounds like New Age Bullshit with weird strains of Judeo-Christianity (eg. acknowledging Satan).

To be fair, new age bullshit does have some truth to it which is why people are attracted to it. Nature is horrific yet beautiful at the same time, creating a kind of meta-beauty.

[–]yellowsnow2[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

this sounds like New Age Bullshit with weird strains of Judeo-Christianity (eg. acknowledging Satan).

All I did was point out a couple glaring and obvious historical contradictions to the old Roman Empire's state mandated religion and the facts that all these old empirical cults state they will kill/remove all dissenters and make their royal bloodline king of the planet. If stating that if you desire to know and understand God all that is needed is to look at nature and God's work instead of looking to an empire's old state doctrine and the words of man is "new age", then I guess I am new age..

Who created Satan?

The concept of Satan and a dueling good vs evil "god beings" was derived by Judaism/Christians from the earlier Zoroastrian concepts of Ahura Mazda as its supreme being and Angra Mainyu the adversary(later English speaking version is "Ahriman" from the later middle Persian). But what many don't understand is these concepts themselves, even in Zoroastrianism, were influenced by the later Judaism/Christians who created the devil/satan as an actual being concept.

Originally in Zoroastrianism Ahura Mazda was the god/personification of wisdom and Angra Mainyu was not a being at all but a personification of wrong thought. The bad guy's name "Mainyu" translates ("mind", "spirit" or otherwise an abstract energy etc.) and "angra" translates to ("destructive", "chaotic", "disorderly", "inhibitive", "malign" etc.,) and is known to be used as a concept and not a proper name. .

Wrong thought is the contagious cause of all murder and most suffering whether it be from greed, hate, lust for power, ignorance, or misunderstanding exc.. Even though in Hebrew Satan just translates to adversary, empires and control systems love to use division as a tool. Judaism/Christianity created the concepts of the beings of Satan and the devil which did influence all other philosophies over time. It's strange the Lucifer, Latin for phosphorous(means basically shining or bright and was an old Greek god), is the planet Venus but if you do some digging the descriptive name "shining/bright" used to be a name for the planet Saturn. And the "devil" is "lived" backwards. While "evil" is "live" backwards but also "evil" is a combination of "eve" like Adam and Eve, so essentially a word for"female", and "EL" is an old Hebrew name for "god/deity" the plural being "Elohim". So the word "evil" in Hebrew technically mean "female god". The Biblical Jews didn't seem to like women much while almost all prior non-monotheist religions had a goddess at the top of their pantheons,.

edit: I'm find this subject interesting and decided I wanted to make a post out of it to see what kind of feedback it generates.