Ancient Religions

Name
Email
Subject
Comment *
File	Select/drop/paste files here
* = required field	[▶ Show post options & limits] Confused? See the FAQ.

Flag
Embed	(replaces files and can be used instead)
Options	Do not bump (you can also write sage in the email field) Spoiler images (this replaces the thumbnails of your images with question marks)
Password	(For file and post deletion.)
Allowed file types:jpg, jpeg, gif, png, webm, mp4, swf, pdf Max filesize is 8 MB. Max image dimensions are 10000 x 10000. You may upload 5 per post.

File: 1442077311732.jpg (87.13 KB, 600x337, 600:337, Gilgamesh.jpg)

Ancient Religions Anonymous 09/12/15 (Sat) 17:01:51 No.6206

How do you feel about religions that, in some way shape or form, predate your own (Christianity) and are no longer around?

The religion of the Babylonians, the Romans, the Greeks, Sumerians, the Aztec and Incas, etc. All these people had their ancient traditions and their Gods, full of ritual and mysticism and magnificent Temples. All we have left are ruins now.

How does that make you feel about your own faith, and how can one reconcile the apparent influence some of the Ancient Middle Eastern Religions may have had on Christianity? (Thinking of Babylonians and Egyptians primarily, but others as well).

>Pic related. Gilgamesh, apparently, as he is viewed by the orientals.

Anonymous 09/13/15 (Sun) 10:50:27 No.6211

>>6206

>How do you feel about religions that, in some way shape or form, predate your own (Christianity) and are no longer around?

Those religions are best not called religions at all, they are rather mythology.

Do you think that the ancient Greeks literally believed that there deities lived on the mount Olymp, a mountain about 2000m high, and no one ever took the effort to take a walk up there and tell them it's all a hoax?

No, it was metaphor, it was an advanced form of story telling and poetry. There was of course worship of natural forces and sacrifice, but that is what is different from today. While they worshipped something that is part of the creation, we worship the creator.

Islam does that too kinda, except for them praying to their magical stone of course ;^)

>>6206

>How does that make you feel about your own faith, and how can one reconcile the apparent influence some of the Ancient Middle Eastern Religions may have had on Christianity?

I do not really see any similarities in fact, nor do I believe that we will share the same fate.

Anonymous 09/13/15 (Sun) 11:30:41 No.6213

File: 1442143841841.jpg (119.64 KB, 800x600, 4:3, image.jpg)

Zoroastrianism is a lot of fun to study.

Egyptian Mythology is interesting; the Babylonian Gods are less so, but probably more important to understanding the evolution of religion.

You can trace how the earlier religions influenced later ones, and catch glimpses of the way people used to view the world. Fate/Stay Night's description of angra manyu made me think about Satan in a whole new way.

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/professorscissors/media/LP3/fate3901.png.html