The most baffling thing is once subjugated peoples now being the most ardent in their beliefs.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
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Thankfully this is changing with the new generation. Atheism is on the rise throughout Latin America. From 1996 to 2019 it went from 4% to 16%. I've been back to my birth country recently and it was like a whole other place from when I left in the 90s. The fact that so many young people have tattoos now, when growing up that was completely unacceptable.
That's actually a great thought. Of all things, worshipping the sun has merit. But you can't control people with that concept, because you can't control the sun. People who want to find solitude in the things that actually matter, and are available to anyone, must be converted into sheep. And they literally call themselves that, as their Lord is their shepherd.
WTF
But you can't control people with that concept, because you can't control the sun.
Oh, so Akhenaten couldn't control people?
Didnt they mostly just pay the workers?
Well, Michelangelo got paid for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel as well. Who's "they" and what's your point?
That people weren't tricked into work. They were paid for it and likely held great pride in it.
I reacted to, paraphrased: "you can't control people with sun worship".
During his reign, Akhenaten instated monotheistic worship of Aten - the sun disc - and did away with all other gods worshipped in Egypt at that time. Whether or not the workers who built his monuments were paid well I do not know - I suspect you have the Diary of Merer in mind, but remember that Khufu's and Akhenaten's respective reigns were more than a thousand years apart - as a pharaoh, Akhenaten could most certainly control people. And if you believe religion can be used as a means to control people, this is definitely a historic example of sun worship being used to this end, wouldn't you agree?
Jokes on the white dude, Jesus is a reskinned sun god.
Reskinned cultic Persian diety known as Mithras. Mithras was not related in any way to the Abrahamic god and it's not known how the historical Jesus borrowed large elements from the Mithras legend other than plagiarism.
El is the name of an abrahamic storm god believed to be God. He was once a member of a Canaanite (and probably before then) pantheon but its clerics overthrew the old order and installed El as the sole god. Hilariously the clerics didn't remove all references to El's divine wife, Asherah, from the bible and you can still see references to her even today. Although most references are to the symbols of Ashera and not the goddess.
Religious scholars do backflips to try and explain why a pagan god exists in the bible and they can't get around the most obvious answer that it's a error and the name had been partially edited out of older versions of the bible.
I never understood the disdain for sun worshipping religions. Seems just as valid as any other.
Seems more valid given that which they worship exists.
no it doesn't
First time seeing a sun denialist in the wild.
How does it make us hot when space is a vacuum. It doesn't make any sense.