Well yeah languages are full of names of gods and thing related to gods. Take names of the week:
Tuesday - Tīw's Day (god of single combat, victory and heroic glory in Norse mythology)
Thursday - day of Woden (Odin)
Thursday - Thor's day
Friday - day of Frige (old English godess of love)
Saturday - Saturn's day
Sunday - Sun's day
Monday - Moon's day
Even in French Tuesday is "mardi" (Marsday), Wednesday is "mercredi" (Mercuiy-day), Thursday is "jeudi" (Jove-day), and Friday is "vendredi" (Venus-day).
Do I even have to mention name of the months?
January - named for two faced roman god Janus. One face looks to old year, other to upcoming year.
February - named for old roman ritual of purification
March - Mars!
April - Aphrodite
and so on and on....
Tuesday - Tīw's Day (god of single combat, victory and heroic glory in Norse mythology)
Thursday - day of Woden (Odin)
Thursday - Thor's day
Friday - day of Frige (old English godess of love)
Saturday - Saturn's day
Sunday - Sun's day
Monday - Moon's day
Even in French Tuesday is "mardi" (Marsday), Wednesday is "mercredi" (Mercuiy-day), Thursday is "jeudi" (Jove-day), and Friday is "vendredi" (Venus-day).
Do I even have to mention name of the months?
January - named for two faced roman god Janus. One face looks to old year, other to upcoming year.
February - named for old roman ritual of purification
March - Mars!
April - Aphrodite
and so on and on....
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
