It occurred to the grifters centuries ago that most of the rest of their fairy tales were hollow promises of wealth and prosperity if you but gave your wealth and prosperity to the church, temple, whatever.
Unfortunately though Mother Nature has a tendency to not care about the plans of sheep and wolves.
When plagues, earthquakes, etc occurred I imagine a lot of people were like βso, about that success the lord promised usβ¦β
So the religious authorities invented convenient descriptions of the apocalypse that just happened to match the disasters most commonly afflicting the areas in question.
Now when the sheep are slaughtered by an uncaring shepherd (nature) the sheep think itβs actually a higher power preparing to end all of existence. Now instead of realizing nobody up there cares the sheep flock back to their houses of worship thinking that this is their last chance to make right.
Itβs very convenient.
Is it just a hot item right now or what? Also should I get the Commonwealth edition or the NA one. Iβve heard that the North American version has some pretty big errors.
Edit: I realize this might be more suited for r/AnglicanOrdinariate but I thought I might find some prayer book sleuths here who could point me in the right direction.
Everywhere I check is sold out and has been for some time. The missal would be really helpful for my wife and I when we attend the Ordinariate Mass.
Does anyone know of where I can find a new or used copy? I canβt find any of the blue fellows anywhere.
So I started practicing folk magic / mysticism primarily inspired by paganism a few years ago and my personal practice has been meaningful and supportive of my mental health. I like following other mystics, especially on Instagram and YouTube, but most all of them keep leaning into the βgender polarityβ thing about divine masculine and feminine energies and none of that stuff feels true to me (as you can imagine) and feels so invalidating of my experiences as a human and a mystic.
Was wondering if any of you here also practice some form of witchcraft or spirituality and if youβve found any accounts to follow that donβt use so much gendered language?
TIA! Hope all you enbies are having a chill day!
Please God, I want to impregnate Rowley-sama so bad. I want him to bear my children with those beautiful child-bearing hips. That beautiful, radiant angel. Like a god, having come down to Earth to cleanse us of our sins.
Rowley-sama is beyond divine. I canβt help but drop to my knees in worship whenever I see his beautiful figure even though it's behind that unnecessary gym clothes. I yearn for him in a way both primal and spiritual. I would commit more war crimes than every president in United States history just to lick the sweet, glistening sweat from his smooth, creamy skin. I want to listen to his moans as my manhood throbs within his, I want to hear his heart race as our bodies become one and our souls irreversibly intertwine in the holy sin of carnal union.
I want to suckle at his fatherly bosom, slurping that rich juche milk from his teat as he gently strokes my raging erection. I would stir his velvety cream into my coffee and let my balls boil in it. His cries of pleasure and the rocking of our bed would be louder than the cacophony of ten thousand drone strikes. I would make love to him until my body gave out, and then some. I would let him break my rib cage with any part of his body. I would let him hit me with her car just to be near her for a brief moment. (ZOO WEE MAMA)
Heβs so perfect it hurts. Every moment without him I suffer a pain worse than breaking every bone in my body simultaneously while drowning and also having shards of glass coated in hot sauce forced through every orifice of my body. I want him, I need him. I want to desecrate his crisp general suit. I want to start a family with him and retire after our twenty seven children have grown up and moved out. I want to see those luscious lips speak such filthy, perverse words into my ear while he slides ice cubes down my gaping pisshole.
I want to fuck him like he owes me money. I would let him step on me, just to feel the soft, firm warmth of his feet upon my face and groin area. I would sleep under him just to catch his drool in my mouth. I would fish the strands of hair from his shower drain just to smell his alluring scent, and braid them into necklaces to keep him with me always. Or cock rings. Whichever would please him more.
God please, I would do anything for him. I would relinquish my life, all my hopes and dreams, just to become the socks on his feet so that I may warm his mouthwatering toes with my very being, so that he may feel the heat of my love always. I would e
... keep reading on reddit β‘I know the Redguards have their own gods such as Satakal, Tava and Tuβwhacca, but is there a significant population of Divines worshippers in Hammerfell?
Solomon dies worshipping pagan gods. If the alleged one god of the universe gives you his divine knowledge and you've been blessed with that and the person who has been blessed with that is able to be so easily swayed to worship other gods...then I don't think you are the one god of the universe.
It is much discussed and lamented that the old Nordic pantheon has been replaced by the Imperial Nine Divines in 4E201 when Skyrim is set. It has been reasoned how and why, often using the real-world comparison with Christianity in the Europe, but it remains that it beggars belief that during the waning years of the Empire the Nords converted en masse while remaining devout to their tradition for previous millennia⦠until we consider the end of the 3rd Era.
As we all know, the Oblivion Crisis ended with Martin Septim becoming the avatar of Akatosh to defeat Mehrunes Dagon, and subsequently petrified as a statue above the Temple of the One. This would have been an awesome display of the power of the Divines to witness live, while the impressive statue then remains as a testament for any later visitor to see. This surely would have been a powerful boost to conversion.
I am looking for whether this is the complete obvious and already assumed by most? Or whether there is any shortcoming I had not considered? I have never heard this idea mentioned before, although it is is often enough mentioned in discussions on lore by Fudgemuppet for instance.
Hi, I ordered the book that was adviced to me but itll come late, not make it for Christmas, are there some books out of a warhammer universe giving this at least slight vibe of necrons? You can advice and suggest base on Your own personal experience. Merry Christmas and thanks!
Considering that there are people who do believe in Dante's inferno and how his writing influenced how we see hell, there could be a chance that the divine comedy could be part of the bible. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the creation of the poem was influenced by the politics and religion during his time. Just like the book of revelations, it was written because of the politics and religion during the time it was written. If the book was published in the early years of the common era, there would be a chance that it would be included in the bible. It might even be in it's poem form and it would still be in the bible, but we may never know.
Let's say I wrote a book about cookie recipes. Some people who followed my recipe book make excellent cookies and everyone loves the cookies. But for the vast majority of people, they end up with either a steaming pile of ash, or undercooked dough that gives them salmonella. So they leave me bad reviews on my cookie book. Is it the fault of the 95% of people for being unable to follow my instructions on cookie recipes, or is it my fault for writing unclear recipes that only some people can successfully decipher? Obviously it is my fault, in which case either I am not so great at writing recipes, or I wanted people to end up with inedible cookies for whatever reason.
The same should apply to religious books (by religious books I mean Quran, Bible, etc.). If the vast majority of people who read the book do not achieve the intended result, then it's not the fault of the people, it's the fault of the book. Therefore, the book cannot have been written by an all-knowing creator (who would have known exactly how to write a book that would cause all readers to achieve the intended result), or if it was inspired by an all-knowing creator, then he only intended for certain people to achieve that intended result.
What do I mean by intended result? I mean by exactly what is written within the book. I will use the Quran because that is the one I have been reading lately, but I am sure that similar things apply to other religions. We will assume that no one except people who call themselves Muslims has read the Quran (just for the sake of argument. For example I am a non-Muslim who has read the Quran, but for simplicity we will use only people who call themselves Muslims). Despite this, there are Muslims that the Muslims on this forum will call too extreme. They read the Quran and were inspired to violence and terror. This is analogous to the steaming pile of ash. At the same time, there are Muslims out there who don't pray, drink alcohol, don't wear hijab, have extramarital sex, etc. and they still call themselves Muslim. This is analogous to the undercooked dough. The interesting part of this is that each and every Muslim (or other religionist, again I am only using Islam as an example) believes that they are the perfectly cooked, delicious cookie, and the others are either too much or too little. So if you think about it, regardless of which tenets of the Quran you follow, you are a minority, even among Muslims. This doesn't even get into the different sects of Isl
... keep reading on reddit β‘In an attempt to learn more about Islam as was recently talked about I have a question that has been nagging at me for a while. And I am curious to get ya'lls thoughts.
The Qur'an and the Book of Mormon aren't very similar when comparing certain aspects of the texts. In fact, in terms of content and how they were received there are far better comparisons between the D&C and the Qur'an. But there is one area where both our religions view our secret text similarly. And that is they were both given via Divine dictation. That is the words were purported to be provided by God.
Yes with the Book of Mormon there are loose translation options, meaning the exact words may have been filtered through Joseph Smith, but either way, the General ideas, and content were revealed by God.
We usually prop this up as a good thing saying that, unlike the Bible which has gone through multiple hands and translations with errors creeping in, or put in by conspiring men, The BOM has only had 1 translation into English and it was done with Divine revelation to preserve the truth contained in it.
The Qur'an has a similar idea in that the only "Real" Qur'an is one that is presented in its original Arabic. Anything else is not the Holy Qur'an. So If you get an English translation it is usually English on one side of the page with Arabic on the other side. This seems to be in part to preserve the text and thereby protect it from having errors like we would say happened with the Bible.
So this gets to the crux of my question/thought. And that is, is the English BOM the only "real" correct version of the book? We wouldn't take it to the extreme as Islam does with printing the English along with the church-translated languages. But we know that all the other translations are open to having errors accidentally added into them. They are done by humans after all. Sure we have better methods and safeguards for translations in our modern times, However, we see that new editions come out with changes to words or phrases with some frequency. Especially when concepts and ideas in the English BOM don't have other language counterparts and/or church translators come up with things that might better present what the text is saying.
Anyway, it is something I have thought about especially when I leaf my copy of a Qur'an.
Thoughts?
Anyone who follows the order/law of the earth set by god is a submitter to god even if that guidance wasnβt taken directly from the Quran and even if they did not believe in a god. They still submitted to the laws he created without knowing they were his.
Kafir ΩΨ§ΩΨ± does not translate to unbeliever. Kafir comes from the word kafar ΩΩΨ±. Which means to cover. To cover the truth.
βAtheism deserves better than the new atheists whose methodology consists of criticizing religion without understanding it, quoting texts without contexts, taking exceptions as the rule, confusing folk belief with reflective theology, abusing, mocking, ridiculing, caricaturing, and demonizing religious faith and holding it responsible for the great crimes against humanity. Religion has done harm; I acknowledge that. But the cure for bad religion is good religion, not no religion, just as the cure for bad science is good science, not the abandonment of science.β
There are atheists who are kafirs and there are atheists who are not. An atheist who died before believing in a god and was unable to prove gods existence but was never only trying to disprove(cover/ΩΩΨ±) his existence and only did good on earth is in reality a Muslim.
Islam is not a club you join. Muslim is your behaviour and there are no rites of passage or religious rituals that make you one. Praying and fasting and giving zakat when done properly transform your character. They strengthen your will power. They teach grit, compassion, forgiveness. But all these things can be learned through other means. The Quran just shows you a way to great good yet Muslims have found loopholes to fast without feeling like theyβre fasting making the purpose of those orders useless. They failed to extract the wisdom from those orders.
Many Muslims who follow Islam through a set of rituals without utilizing the wisdom behind the order of god may not be Muslim in the eyes of god (I cannot say for sure)
Weβre misunderstanding what Islam is due to the wrong interpretations of scholars. If we want to learn from the Quran then it is our individual duty to understand it using the abrahamic locution instead of relying on scholar interpretation. Every problematic verse became unproblematic. From hitting your wife to polygamy.
Islam as a religion today is interpreted by men for men.
The point of Islam is to do good by all. The afterlife requires us to have a certain character and a Muslim character in this life is prerequisite to that.
... keep reading on reddit β‘Is it just a hot item right now or what? Also should I get the Commonwealth edition or the NA one. Iβve heard that the North American version has some pretty big errors.
