Quote:LionIRC wrote:Are you advocating deference to the bible or to mammon?
Money - Mammon
Sex - Aphrodite
War/Power - Mars
The ancient Greco-Romans would have no trouble recognizing the gods we worship in our post-modern secular Western culture.
Can't say I've run across any pagans recently. I have, however, become very well acquainted with plenty of money-grubbing, power hungry Xtians in my time. Hmmmm.....

“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin