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[Anonymous No.14485793]

Polytheism:
>For each aspect of life there is an incredibly powerful god with their own character and vision, hence the chaos in the universe
Monotheism:
>Dude theres only one God he's like the best being possible and loves humans and he can do ANYTHING except actually help humanity by destroying evil but that's like part of his super mysterious plan that's not for us to understand lmao

[Anonymous No.14485805]

>>14485793
A thread died for this
In an ideal world, you would die for this too

[Anonymous No.14485810]

>>14485805
FPBP

[Anonymous No.14485830]

>>14485793
"depicted as a frail old man"

lmao, the depiction of God as an old man literally comes from the first Greek converts to Christianity who depicted him as Zeus. So the image literally comes from Paganism.

Checkmate polytheists.

[Anonymous No.14485834]

>>14485793
Why would God use primitive mortal weapons? He IS the weapon.

[Anonymous No.14485860]

>>14485805
>WE'LL JUST MORALISE OUR WAY OUT OF WORLDLINESS!

[Anonymous No.14485869]

>>14485830
>OLD MAN
>frail old man
Nice try christcuck.

[Anonymous No.14485880]

>>14485834
>if you kill your enemies they can't be badgered into fellow miseryguts

[Anonymous No.14485895]

>>14485869
?

[Anonymous No.14485897]

Polytheism is groovy sex and drugs my man! But I'm also a very spiritual person

[Anonymous No.14485906]

>dude the Dawn is *literally* performed by one of Zeus's helpers lmao
the greeks were cringe. Only relevant for anthropological reasons.

[Anonymous No.14485908]

>>14485895
It shouldn't be that difficult for the almighty logos to decipher.

[Anonymous No.14485911]

>>14485805
based

[Anonymous No.14485919]

>>14485906
>spend 2000 years copying them and trying to reach their level
>fails
>only because they were cringe

[Anonymous No.14485921]

>>14485793
God is never even depicted as anything.

[Anonymous No.14485922]

>>14485793
>monotheism/polytheism dichotomy
Only the Hindus got it right

[Anonymous No.14485929]

>>14485919
To be fair, that doesnt like Jupiter.

[Anonymous No.14485933]

>>14485922
Gnostics*

[Anonymous No.14485935]

>>14485922

[Anonymous No.14485949]

If you're going to play make believe polytheism is the way to go. So much more room for nuance when you break the good/evil duality imposed by monotheism. All of our progress stemmed from polytheism. Monotheism's glory days spawned the dark ages. Fuck monotheism and its too rigid structure to describe the complexity of subgroups existing in a society.

[Anonymous No.14485955]

>>14485929
look like*

[Anonymous No.14485957]

>>14485922
You mean Guenon.

[Anonymous No.14485963]

>>14485949
>All of our progress stemmed from polytheism.
It's being dead for thousands of years.
>Fuck monotheism and its too rigid structure to describe the complexity of subgroups existing in a society.
Muh diversity. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.14485971]

Monotheists are the dumbest dimwits to ever exist. Death to all abrahamists.

[Anonymous No.14485991]

>>14485971
Cringe

[Anonymous No.14485992]

>>14485949
>good/evil duality imposed by monotheism
You are so retarded lmao.
Good/evil is imposed on us by freedom which turns us into moral agents, not to mention that a dualism implies that we talk about to equivalent forces, when in fact, good exists regardless of evil, while evil depends on good.

[Anonymous No.14486010]

virgin "odin", "thor", etc vs Chad God/Allah/YHWH

[Anonymous No.14486013]

>>14486010
based

[Anonymous No.14486020]

>>14485992
Imagine typing this shit with a straight face.

[Anonymous No.14486027]

>>14486020
It's pretty standard neoplatonic thought.

[Anonymous No.14486029]

>>14486010
wow you really showed them

[Anonymous No.14486031]

>Allah/Yahweh btfo's every other pagan god from the east to the west
really makes you think

[Anonymous No.14486036]

>>14486010
>>14486031
Baste

[Anonymous No.14486042]

>>14485992
what level of retardation is this

[Anonymous No.14486048]

>>14486027
Imagine actually believing that shit

[Anonymous No.14486066]

Holy fucking Christcuck spam.

[Anonymous No.14486081]

>WHY ISNT LIFE FAIR TO ME BROS
>WHY GOD EXIST IF LIFE SO HARD

[Anonymous No.14486119]

>>14485869
The image is literally the same, regardless of OPs choice of words

[Anonymous No.14486283]

>>14485963
It took the Renaissance and a bunch of rebels covertly inserting polytheism influence into Christianity to jump start progress again. But, by the time the revolution bore fruit, it had fueled progress to the creation of technology.

Subgroups exist regardless of race. If we killed all the niggers we would just focus on hating and killing the white niggers. Just because a culture has a propensity to churn out a high rate of undesirable individuals, doesn't mean every culture is immune from producing undesirable elements. I'm not arguing for cultural parity or against racism, but the problem runs deeper than merely race.

[Anonymous No.14486284]

>>14485949
>good/evil duality
Good and evil are absolute. Ditheism is better than polytheism.

[Anonymous No.14486333]

>>14486283
A modern problem we have is the benefits of the tools created by polytheism, but we discarded the cultural values and knowledge that produced those tools. It's like inventing the calculator and then not teaching children multiplication. For all they care, multiplication is entering inputs into a machine and reading the result. As if monotheism's all encompassing "love" could stand in for a pantheon of motivations. One where love is a respected member, but not a tyrant.

[Anonymous No.14486340]

>>14486081
Job is postironic though. And your criticism is retarded when directed at a pagan since they generally have far more cruel gods.
Your false religion simply exists as an abstraction between faith and knowledge, never attaining either.

[Anonymous No.14486583]

>>14485949
smar and succinct post

[Anonymous No.14487098]

>>14485793
>worshiping women
>strawmen
>cherry picking historical facts

[Anonymous No.14487251]

>>14485949
worst post on lit

[Anonymous No.14487253]

>>14487098
The proper way to critique a virgin vs chad meme is to swap the virgin and chad around not just nitpick.

>They're all strawman with cherry picked facts

[Anonymous No.14487337]

>>14487098
Goddesses are not women, retard.

[Anonymous No.14487430]

>>14487337
Uh, yes they are. They’re “gods” with vaginas

[Anonymous No.14487456]

>>14485949
This guy gets it

[Anonymous No.14487827]

>>14485793
Thesis: Polytheism
Antithesis: Monotheism
Dialectical-Synthesis: all the gods are emanations of the one Supreme Being

[Anonymous No.14487899]

>>14485793
Polytheism is ancient capeshit, prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.14487919]

>>14487899
It’s something between capeshit and celebrity lives, although much more entertaining.

[Anonymous No.14487923]

>>14485897
this is seriously my mentality

[Anonymous No.14487930]

>>14487899
yeah, you're not supposed to take religions seriously

[Anonymous No.14487955]

>>14487930
You’re supposed to take them very seriously, just not literally
retard

[Anonymous No.14488099]

My own reflections on this subject have led me to the following ideas:
>Everything is an expression of will of some kind. A seed becomes an oak tree because the seed wills it, not from a mixture of outside material such as dirt and sun coming together in a purely mechanical process.
>Awareness of being is not the same as being. A rock is. A human is aware that it is, but both are, and exist in some concrete form, and exist due to their own will-to-existence. Spengler described how this same principle applies to nations. Polytheism applies this principle to aspects of reality.
>There is a highest will in the universe, since no one thing could will the entire universe to exist on its own, and any thing is never simply the sum of its parts. This is why any reasonable person must accept the truth of monotheism
>HOWEVER the individual aspects must also exert some kind of will and power on the universe. Giving them an image, a name, invoking them with rituals and so on can be extremely powerful and beneficial if done properly
>putting any one aspect alongside the great and singular one in the universe is a discrace however. Since it takes the lower and places it on the thrown of the higher.
>Christians tend to place aspects, peace, love, truth, etc. In the place of the highest principle, since it makes it more palatable for them. These things are certainly valuable and good, of course, but they are the mere shadows of God/YWAH/Allah at best. Therefore most Christians are engaging in Idol worship and that is why they are constantly disappointed with the material world.
>Prophets and revelations are true, but since God is beyond good and evil, so to speak, I earnest believe that some revealed prophecy could potentially be lies. Heaven and hell in paticular seem like noble lies made to trick naturally resentful and jealous people into acting well
>Athiests think of God as some kind of tyrant because they are naturally tyrants themselves, and cannot imagine or accept anything higher than themselves from the darkness of their minds eye.
>Prayer is done to escape yourself and your ego, and to recognize what is highest. Expecting divine rewards for it is petty and miserly. Job had it right, and most theists are absolutely wrong in this regard.
>Langauge is magic, since it allows for meaning to be imparted into the symbolic. Therefore for ones own sake you should hold your tongue.
>Death is like a tree shedding its leafs, or a changing of clothes. We do not differentiate one fire from another, but we differentiate the divine fire inside peoples because it is given one form or another, and the external varies in shapes and names.
>The cleanest water in the world would be dirtied if poured into a filthy cup. For this reason taking care of yourself, exercise, healthy eating, abstinence from sin, etc. Is a necessity. Expecting reward for this is the expression of resentment and ego.

[Anonymous No.14488675]

>>14487827
Missing the point this hard.

[Anonymous No.14489182]

>>14485805
underrated

[Anonymous No.14489215]

>>14489182
>t. samefag

[Anonymous No.14489503]

>>14485830
Jesus died young and healthy

[Anonymous No.14489543]

>>14485793
>NOOOOOOOO NOT THE MISTLETOERINO!!! LOKI STOPPPPP NOOO PLEAAAAASEEEEE YOU CANT KILL MEEE IM A GOD NOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.14489590]

>>14485793
>Noone mentions Zoroastrarianism
Funny, considering it inspired Abrahamic mythology with its theme of duality