RE: Important questions...
August 2, 2009 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2009 at 11:51 am by Rhizomorph13.)
Anto,
What you wrote about the sun:
My distillation:
This bit refers to sun cults only. Yes there were moon cults too, but that doesn't refute sun cults. Your bit just adds texture to what I said about people evolving and therefore religion became more complex. At no point did I say there were ONLY sun cults. Did I mention that you are wicked smaht?
We can work together on this one.
Not everything has to be an argument. 
Rhizo
What you wrote about the sun:
(August 2, 2009 at 9:57 am)Anto Kennedy Wrote:Quote:They tied religious significance to the sun for the obvious reasons that life on the planet requires the sun.
Not really.
They used the sun's annual, and daily, cycle of day/night, summer/winter, to show how life goes through periods of growth, life and joy, and periods of stagnation, inertia, decay and death. But everyday as the sun rises, life returns. Every year, on the winter solstice, in springtime, on Easter, the sun is revived, life begins anew.
Using what we know (the Sun) to communicate what we don't know (Resurrection).
My distillation:
Quote:They tied religious significance to the sun for the obvious reasons that life on the planet requires the sun.
This bit refers to sun cults only. Yes there were moon cults too, but that doesn't refute sun cults. Your bit just adds texture to what I said about people evolving and therefore religion became more complex. At no point did I say there were ONLY sun cults. Did I mention that you are wicked smaht?
We can work together on this one.
Not everything has to be an argument. Rhizo
