Why should (You) be a Christian?

[DonutHole]

 

[Nihilma]

Yeah but the sacrifices were kino and artful.

It's only character-driven developmental, slowburning soulful Magnum Opus kino when it's the subhuman nigger who makes animalistic sacrifice out of a pure and innocent virgin white woman and the aryan white muscular chud rescues her by battling fiercly and overcoming the hoards of subhuman blacks before raping the white woman while the credits scroll though.

 

[Xiuhcoyotl]

1) Far from all sacrifices were willing. Some were, far from all though, so murder it is

i said excluding criminals and pows, which we mexica did sacrifice.

2) Well I consider suicide to be le hecking bad too so yeah

ok

 

[Nihilma]

i said excluding criminals and pows, which we mexica did sacrifice.

ok

What is pows ? My reading tells me your hecking ancestors put some useless villages under a taxation of young healthy men to be sacrificed every fortnight or so

 

[DonutHole]

What is pows ? My reading tells me your hecking ancestors put some useless villages under a taxation of young healthy men to be sacrificed every fortnight or so

Yeah but that's kino. Like the Flower Wars where a big group of noble blood warriors from both sides would meet at a preselected place, do a ritual and fight with only melee clubs.

 

[Xiuhcoyotl]

What is pows ? My reading tells me your hecking ancestors put some useless villages under a taxation of young healthy men to be sacrificed every fortnight or so

prisoners of war.

our tribute system collected

• Cotton textiles
• • Precious stones like jade and turquoise
  • Feather shields
  • Obsidian blades
  • Cacao beans
  • Jewelry
  • Iridescent feathers
  • Gold works

 

[Nihilma]

Yeah but that's kino. Like the Flower Wars where a big group of noble blood warriors from both sides would meet at a preselected place, do a ritual and fight with only melee clubs.

Yeah but that still exists in the modern world though you're just not looking in the right place

Vid shows India & China’s medieval-style clash using sticks & rocks

SHOCKING footage shows India and China’s medieval-style border clash with troops using sticks and stones to batter the enemy. Soldiers from the two Asian powers – both nuclear-armed …

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Nihilma]

prisoners of war.

our tribute system collected

• Cotton textiles
• • Precious stones like jade and turquoise
  • Feather shields
  • Obsidian blades
  • Cacao beans
  • Jewelry
  • Iridescent feathers
  • Gold works

Ight but as said my online reading from trustworthy sources like snopes tells me this wasn't just prisoners of wars and rapists n shiet it was also random ass peasants as taxation

 

[Xiuhcoyotl]

Ight but as said my online reading from trustworthy sources like snopes tells me this wasn't just prisoners of wars and rapists n shiet it was also random ass peasants as taxation

we never sacrificed random people

 

[Dr Frumpus Croid]

>The creation... but prioritized over the creator because I personally like God's creation more than God
This will always be one of the dumbest statements I'll ever hear.

I’m not religious so I don’t see it that way.

 

[istanbul]

we

rlly nigga

 

[Xiuhcoyotl]

rlly nigga

gotta be dedicated to the art

 

[DonutHole]

So kino... The noble warrior so well versed in Aztec morality that he chooses an honorable death over betrayal..... Powerful muscles laid bare, drenched in blood. Tied to the gladiator's stone... Defiant.... Cutting down 8 warriors of Anahuac... Kino....

 

[DonutHole]

Orozco's murals are so kino...

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[MoonMetropolis]

If Christianity is the one true religion, why should we believe you?

There are thousands and thousands of religions in the world, all of which claim to be the one true religion. They can't all be right, but they can definitely all be wrong.

 

[DonutHole]

 

[Lism]

That's my own personal opinion, but a God who claims to be universal needs the number to prove his universality. A universal God who claims salvation through Him alone, if his followers are a grand total of 2, lacks credibility.

The characteristics of the Christian God which make this a source of credibility (or lack thereof) are not relevant to Pagan religions

Now that's not the problem of pagans, who claim that all pagan gods more or less mirror each other, with exceptions. But pagans have another problem : They believe that human worship directly correlates with the existence and might, in both directions. Some pagans have in their theology the concept of collective unconscious in them, but not all. However, all pagans believe that their gods are real real, and not just symbolically speaking real, and that they can punish humans for not worshiping them, and act on societies by showing themselves and bending everyone's knee to them.

The gods are real, but do not derive any power from sacrifice. The will of the gods is also nebulous. The pagan demand for sacrifice is similar to the Abrahamic demand that you don't commit idolatry. God isn't jealous in the sense that he is envious of other existent deities, he is angered that humans acting unjustly by dulling out his prayers to idols. Likewise, the gods are entitled sacrifice, but they do not *need* sacrifices. They do not need to punish humans who have never known of sacrifices, but they also do not need to reveal themselves to humanity. They are present to anyone who looks. The Greeks, Romans, Germans, and Indo-Iranians all predicted a low age of religious impiety, of forgetfulness, and did not consider this contradictory to their view of the gods. It's quite possible that the prophecized tribulation of the Bible is influenced by this. One day, there will be a rejuvenation. It is not unreasonable to say that the gods *did* punish the apostates, through the collapse of the Roman civilization.

You'd think that such gods would not allow for their worship to completely vanish without extraordinary showcasing of anger, violence, cataclysm, until everyone worships them again. Yet their cult have been dead and gone for centuries, and have only been recently revived in what used to be long ago pagan states due to association to nationalism and a rejection of either Christianity, Islam, or Atheism.

Therefore, in that sense, numbers matter, because of the claims about these gods the pagans make. If ritualistic sacrifice was a common practice to keep the god happy and to keep him from unleashing xyr rage on earth and devastate everyone, yet that the second these rituals stop, nothing happens, it kinda makes you wonder yknow.

The purpose of ritual is not to satiate the gods, it is to bring someone into a state of union with the gods through a shared feast. The festival was essentially a reenactment of a cosmogonic event.

 

[jimbo]

The characteristics of the Christian God which make this a source of credibility (or lack thereof) are not relevant to Pagan religions

The gods are real, but do not derive any power from sacrifice. The will of the gods is also nebulous. The pagan demand for sacrifice is similar to the Abrahamic demand that you don't commit idolatry. God isn't jealous in the sense that he is envious of other existent deities, he is angered that humans acting unjustly by dulling out his prayers to idols. Likewise, the gods are entitled sacrifice, but they do not *need* sacrifices. They do not need to punish humans who have never known of sacrifices, but they also do not need to reveal themselves to humanity. They are present to anyone who looks. The Greeks, Romans, Germans, and Indo-Iranians all predicted a low age of religious impiety, of forgetfulness, and did not consider this contradictory to their view of the gods. It's quite possible that the prophecized tribulation of the Bible is influenced by this. One day, there will be a rejuvenation. It is not unreasonable to say that the gods *did* punish the apostates, through the collapse of the Roman civilization.

The purpose of ritual is not to satiate the gods, it is to bring someone into a state of union with the gods through a shared feast. The festival was essentially a reenactment of a cosmogonic event.

wordswordswords

 

[Lism]

Aztec religion is true. Our current age was began because all the of the powerful gods were too cowardly to sacrifice themselves and become the sun. Thus a weak and sickly god, Nanahuatzin (meaning "full of sores") is our current sun. His weakness means that we are forced to sacrifice our own kin. All because of the cowardice of the gods. This world will come to an end, just as the previous one came to it's end by a great flood that destroyed the Fourth World governed by the merciful Goddess goddess Chalchiuthlicue.

The world will come to an end as this sickly sun is destroyed, it shall swallow up the whole world in hunger after being denied sacrifices for so long (Nuclear Weapons detonating from WW3). Mictlantecuhtli will take pity on the Mexica, sparing them by allowing the tribe that worshipped the old war god enter the Underworld to take refuge (this references that South America will be mostly untouched in the event of nuclear armageddon).

Then, Mictlantecuhtli, the god of the underworld will become the new sun. Ushering in the Sixth world.

This shows the moral superiority of the German religion to the Aztec religion. The Germanic gods are willing to sacrifice themselves in order to rejuvenate the world.

 

[DonutHole]

This shows the moral superiority of the German religion to the Aztec religion. The Germanic gods are willing to sacrifice themselves in order to rejuvenate the world.

I made most of that up kek