For all Protestants bang on about hell and the devil, they are well on their way to paganism too.
Religion
Submitted 4 months ago by dragonfucker@lemmy.nz to [deleted]
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vzq@lemmy.world 4 months ago
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We all just want cool lore
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Too bad it was stolen from Greek lore
samus12345@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Not just Catholics. Father, son, holy spirit, Satan, but just one god, amirite?
mholiv@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m guessing you don’t come from a region that has been historically Abrahamic. I’m secular myself but it’s interesting that you would throw Satan in there with the rest.
samus12345@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I do, and I’m not sure why what I said would make you think otherwise… The way Satan is popularly depicted today makes him indistinguishable from the “evil gods” of other religions.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
American Christianity has very little to do with the Bible.
kandoh@reddthat.com 4 months ago
American christianity is basically zoroastrianism
Rakonat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
One god, multiple personalities. They didn’t have schizophrenia medication back then.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 months ago
And Trump if you’re a conservative American
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Maybe that one god is just plural
TomAwsm@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Imagine religious people realizing God’s pronouns are actually they/them
deaf_fish@lemm.ee 4 months ago
The way I look at it is basically the Bible is up for interpretation. Because if you read it literally it uh… Well it’s not good.
So if you think about it, there are actually several. Christian gods. Each one slightly different based on which verses of the Bible you interpret literally versus figuratively.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
And a few dotzen tin gods.
4oreman@lemy.lol 4 months ago
no ; its just satan
lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Hinduism is a very diverse religion. There are polytheistic, monotheistic, pantheism and many more under that umbrella
cypherix93@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Choose your own deity kinda situation
lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Not exactly. For some yes but that’s the polytheistic part. Different from (early) Judaism, monotheistic Hinduism isn’t “my God is the only one” but more like “the god we already agreed to be one of the main gods is actually the only one and the others are expressions of this one or lesser beings”. There are 2 or 3 candidates for that but all are very canonically important in all of Hinduism. There is still a lot of diversity and it’s more about which school you belong to. I think some have a more abstract way where it’s not a specific god but more the dualistic idea of a Big Other if that makes sense. There are also non dualistic schools which fit more into pantheism (god=universe). I simply a lot and I’m already no expert. Let’s Talk Religion has a good series on YouTube about Hinduism.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
But if you choose wrong you get beaten. Religion is cool like that.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Can someone with knowledge on Hinduism explain a bit?
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hindus believe in a universal consciousness, of which there are many facets which manifest deities such as Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva, but there are dozens, and their wives. People pray to one for financial matters, another for health, and another for happiness.
Ultimately though, the peak of divinity is not asking for anything, but contemplating the divine spirit, the universal consciousness and accepting that he is within uus, and we are within him, and that our lives are karma-bound, and benevolence towards others regardless of our station in life is the only goal and the only way to move up the karmic ladder towards eventual oneness with the UC. Yogis believe they can speedrun the karmic ladder, for want of a better term.
Full disclosure, I’m a hon-hindu white boy
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
The way that someone explained it to be once is that if we think about the typical monotheistic, omnipotent, omniscient God — surely a God would be far more than what humans can comprehend at all, right? So any single characterisation of God is going to seem weirdly limited, because it’ll be grounded in our human perspective. So the idea is sort of like God™ is like a diamond, and each of the Hindu Gods is like a facet of that gem. The problem is that our human perspectives can’t understand the diamond (similar to how visualising 4D shapes like a tesseract is trippy and hard) so we have to try to understand the diamond by looking at each of its facets and trying to imagine an entity that can be all of those things at once.
As someone who is neither Hindu or Christian, it reminds me of the Holy Trinity: that God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hindu lore hosts many characters, but in actuality they believe in only one god, the godhead that you are i.e. the universe, man, life, existence is all one thing and you’re it.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t see the history of Hinduism with Christianity. Back in the day when Christians went to just and set up missions in Hindu regions they were successful. They built missions and the Hindus started attending churches of Catholics.
With some time passing the Catholics noticed that the Hindus still went to their own mosques AND went to churches. So they asked why. The Hindus response was “It’s all good. You are all part of Hindu.”
I learned about this in World Religions in college. Loved the high road troll. The one thing that I find interesting about most Christian sects is that they take the teachings literally. Whereas most other philosophies are fully aware of the fables they teach their young is to convey morality.
They do believe in their deities. But they acknowledge that most stories are not historically factual. At least this is what I was taught. I’m not an expert on any of it.
vin@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Hinduism is a mish mash of beliefs with no standardisation. Hindus commonly pray and offer puja to many deities but many consider them to be manifestations of a single higher power.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You don’t need pretense to be no thrust toward
Deme@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I’m not catholic, but I do like the fact that artillery has its own patron saint.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ll tell you the same thing I told a friend that was too deep into W40K: you can enjoy the characters without making the lore a central part of your life!
Siegfried@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Let your friend have fun
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
I want you to know that I’m screenshotting this comment (and the one you’re replying to) to send to a friend, who will find it very funny.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Saint Barbara, patron of artillery men and military engineers.
In the hispanosphere, we used to call “santa barbara” to the ammunition storage of sailing ships. Know i know why
Ozymandias1688@feddit.org 4 months ago
Fun fact of the day: That is why the little columns on which gun turrets are mounted are called ‘barbettes’ (little barbara)
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 months ago
And miners