Just as the title says. I do ubereats on the side and just delivered to Apocalypse world Michael. He came out the elevator and i was sure it was him but also thought i could be wrong so i didnt day anything. As im walking out im looking up to see if name and picture matches the guy and it did. I had already walked out of the building but turn around and ask if he was michael on Supernatural and he said yes. I wanted a picture with him or something ive beeN Watching this show since it came out the bloody mary episode was the first one i saw as a New episode but i didnt.

Most people I know that are Christian are low key terrifying. They are very insistent in their beliefs and always try to convince others that they are wrong or they are going to hell. They want to control how everyone else lives (at least in the US). It's creeps me out and has caused me to have a low option of them. Plus there are so many organization is related to them that are designed to help people, but will kick them out for not believing the same things.

Just gonna preface this with the fact that I am not jewish or christian.

I've always been a fan of the occult in the same way I'm a fan of Lovecraft, and have found inspiration in a book called The Lesser key of Solomon. For those unfamiliar with it, its a book containing information on 72 demons bound and investigated by King Solomon from the old testament. Its just a bunch of demons ranging from scary to benevolent and reading it feels like reading a monster manual.

I'm interested in starting to write a 1920's campaign set in Los Angeles where wealthy Hollywood elite have begun to utilize and ancient copy of this book, and the investigators do their thing in discovering the various cults of various demons of various strength and size, whilst perhaps chasing down a BBEG warlock type.

I'm currently working out details and am realizing a few things. One, how do I make a well know mythos (Judeo-Christian lore) still mysterious in the cosmic horror style. Two, what elements of this religious lore would prove badass to incorporate. Three, if all demons exist within a single book, how do I keep the chase alive without it turning into a "well lets read the bible and figure it out" easy thing. Fourth and finally, how do I keep it from turning into bible study group lol.

I love this community and love talking to y'all, if you have ideas or this idea excites you, feel free to steal it as long as you share ideas with me!

tl'dr judeo christian themed campaign but not bible humping. Ideas?

EDIT: My god this community is so great! Thank you all for your help, am feeling much more excited and organized on what to work with and how to make it work.

Having just finished reading the book, I thought I'd bring up the general claims of the book for what I'm sure will be some colorful discussion.

> Summary:

The book is a basically an extension of what a few scholars (and many psychedelic users) have proposed in the past, that the mystical experience often reported through consumption of psychedelic chemicals in more or less proper settings is the foundational experience of religion(s) including Christianity. By extension, it follows that a psychedelic was certainly the original Eucharist of early Christianity. The phrasing used in the book and by others is "the pagan continuity hypothesis". The book proposes a history of religious ritualistic psychedelic use at least as old as the ancient Greek mystery religions, especially those starting in Eleusis and dating to roughly 2,000 BC. Those religions featured psychedelic beer and ceremonies lead by women and they had evolved into worship of Dionysius the wine God and featured psychedelic wine approaching the time of Christ. They were driven mostly underground and into home based practice by the Romans in 186 B.C after the Roman crack down of the Bacchanalia.

From there, it is proposed that the Gospel of John was intentionally written to appeal directly to those secret Greek speaking worshippers of Dionysius by using very overt symbolism to identify Jesus as Dionysius and the Eucharist as the already existing mystery ritual practices consuming psychedelic spiked wine. Those Greek speaking converted pagans then become the paleo-Christians. The paleo-Christian era from the time of Christ up until Constantine is left a bit foggy, but the book seems to propose that as the church slowly grew it began to fracture into two groups. The hierarchal structure that ultimately evolved into the Orthodox/Catholic church and another group composed of home worshippers continuing the use of psychedelic wine as the Eucharist along with the Gnostics. The latter group is not terribly well defined, and honestly not easy to define at all.

Ultimately the hierarchal form of Christianity shoots to prominence as it is legalized and popularized via Constantine, the Gnostics are shunned completely, and those Christians still using the psychedelic Eucharist are basically declared heretics and driven out. Though not clearly stated, it is left to assume that in attempting to suppress the use of the psychedelic wine eucha

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Arguing from the perspective of history, anthropology, and other social sciences........................................................

If you observe most cultures across the world, they either worshiped animals or humanoids combining the features of various animals and humans (like the Egyptian gods having animal heads and human bodies). And some cultures had an approximate equal mix like how Chinese deities are animals, humans, and hybrids. Even gods that appear human at first glance often have very something that doesn't feel human about their appearance-just look at statues of Astarte with its red eyes or statues of Baal which have unrealistic proportions.

Greco-Roman civilization however seemed to be an outlier in that almost all the gods basically designed to resemble realistic human beings. Look at Greek sculpture and Roman mosaics of their various gods. Hell even barbarian European civilizations before conquest like Rome such as the Gauls and Brittanic worshiped primarily human deities with art that tried to come as close as their technology and limited sciences allowed them to.

So I have to ask. At the huge risk of making big generalizations and leaving out plenty of nuances, is one reason why Christianity eventually won in Europe and still remains there today is because Christianity is already compatible with European culture and civilization in the theological sense? After all Jesus is the GOD who is HUMAN. Greco-Roman and Europe as a whole West and North of Italia seemed to be obsessed with human-looking Gods. Even when pagan gods were borrowed from Egypt and other civilizations, it was almost always human-looking ones like Isis that were co-opted into Greek and other European civilizations and some of the non-human ones were modified to appear like normal humans as seen in the transfer of Zoroastrian concepts into Europe.

I also wonder if this is a big part of why Islam had so much difficulty penetrating Europe? With its emphasize of God as all-omnipotent and iconoclastic theology, was it so hard for Europeans to attempt to adapt esp seeing how so much of European art masterpieces even after the Protestant Reformation revolved around painting or sculpting humans? Even much of Pagan architecture often had normal humans as part of ceilings and such and this can be seen later in Medieval Europe with glass stains of Mother Mary and the Crucifixion and so on.

While from what I seen pre-Islamic Middle Eastern architecture often focused on mon

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Arguing from the perspective of history, anthropology, and other social sciences........................................................

If you observe most cultures across the world, they either worshiped animals or humanoids combining the features of various animals and humans (like the Egyptian gods having animal heads and human bodies). And some cultures had an approximate equal mix like how Chinese deities are animals, humans, and hybrids. Even gods that appear human at first glance often have very something that doesn't feel human about their appearance-just look at statues of Astarte with its red eyes or statues of Baal which have unrealistic proportions.

Greco-Roman civilization however seemed to be an outlier in that almost all the gods basically designed to resemble realistic human beings. Look at Greek sculpture and Roman mosaics of their various gods. Hell even barbarian European civilizations before conquest like Rome such as the Gauls and Brittanic worshiped primarily human deities with art that tried to come as close as their technology and limited sciences allowed them to.

So I have to ask. At the huge risk of making big generalizations and leaving out plenty of nuances, is one reason why Christianity eventually won in Europe and still remains there today is because Christianity is already compatible with European culture and civilization in the theological sense? After all Jesus is the GOD who is HUMAN. Greco-Roman and Europe as a whole West and North of Italia seemed to be obsessed with human-looking Gods. Even when pagan gods were borrowed from Egypt and other civilizations, it was almost always human-looking ones like Isis that were co-opted into Greek and other European civilizations and some of the non-human ones were modified to appear like normal humans as seen in the transfer of Zoroastrian concepts into Europe.

I also wonder if this is a big part of why Islam had so much difficulty penetrating Europe? With its emphasize of God as all-omnipotent and iconoclastic theology, was it so hard for Europeans to attempt to adapt esp seeing how so much of European art masterpieces even after the Protestant Reformation revolved around painting or sculpting humans? Even much of Pagan architecture often had normal humans as part of ceilings and such and this can be seen later in Medieval Europe with glass stains of Mother Mary and the Crucifixion and so on.

While from what I seen pre-Islamic Middle Eastern architecture often focused on mon

Arguing from the perspective of history, anthropology, and other social sciences........................................................

If you observe most cultures across the world, they either worshiped animals or humanoids combining the features of various animals and humans (like the Egyptian gods having animal heads and human bodies). And some cultures had an approximate equal mix like how Chinese deities are animals, humans, and hybrids. Even gods that appear human at first glance often have very something that doesn't feel human about their appearance-just look at statues of Astarte with its red eyes or statues of Baal which have unrealistic proportions.

Greco-Roman civilization however seemed to be an outlier in that almost all the gods basically designed to resemble realistic human beings. Look at Greek sculpture and Roman mosaics of their various gods. Hell even barbarian European civilizations before conquest like Rome such as the Gauls and Brittanic worshiped primarily human deities with art that tried to come as close as their technology and limited sciences allowed them to.

So I have to ask. At the huge risk of making big generalizations and leaving out plenty of nuances, is one reason why Christianity eventually won in Europe and still remains there today is because Christianity is already compatible with European culture and civilization in the theological sense? After all Jesus is the GOD who is HUMAN. Greco-Roman and Europe as a whole West and North of Italia seemed to be obsessed with human-looking Gods. Even when pagan gods were borrowed from Egypt and other civilizations, it was almost always human-looking ones like Isis that were co-opted into Greek and other European civilizations and some of the non-human ones were modified to appear like normal humans as seen in the transfer of Zoroastrian concepts into Europe.

I also wonder if this is a big part of why Islam had so much difficulty penetrating Europe? With its emphasize of God as all-omnipotent and iconoclastic theology, was it so hard for Europeans to attempt to adapt esp seeing how so much of European art masterpieces even after the Protestant Reformation revolved around painting or sculpting humans? Even much of Pagan architecture often had normal humans as part of ceilings and such and this can be seen later in Medieval Europe with glass stains of Mother Mary and the Crucifixion and so on.

While from what I seen pre-Islamic Middle Eastern architecture often focused on mon

Arguing from the perspective of history, anthropology, and other social sciences........................................................

If you observe most cultures across the world, they either worshiped animals or humanoids combining the features of various animals and humans (like the Egyptian gods having animal heads and human bodies). And some cultures had an approximate equal mix like how Chinese deities are animals, humans, and hybrids. Even gods that appear human at first glance often have very something that doesn't feel human about their appearance-just look at statues of Astarte with its red eyes or statues of Baal which have unrealistic proportions.

Greco-Roman civilization however seemed to be an outlier in that almost all the gods basically designed to resemble realistic human beings. Look at Greek sculpture and Roman mosaics of their various gods. Hell even barbarian European civilizations before conquest like Rome such as the Gauls and Brittanic worshiped primarily human deities with art that tried to come as close as their technology and limited sciences allowed them to.

So I have to ask. At the huge risk of making big generalizations and leaving out plenty of nuances, is one reason why Christianity eventually won in Europe and still remains there today is because Christianity is already compatible with European culture and civilization in the theological sense? After all Jesus is the GOD who is HUMAN. Greco-Roman and Europe as a whole West and North of Italia seemed to be obsessed with human-looking Gods. Even when pagan gods were borrowed from Egypt and other civilizations, it was almost always human-looking ones like Isis that were co-opted into Greek and other European civilizations and some of the non-human ones were modified to appear like normal humans as seen in the transfer of Zoroastrian concepts into Europe.

I also wonder if this is a big part of why Islam had so much difficulty penetrating Europe? With its emphasize of God as all-omnipotent and iconoclastic theology, was it so hard for Europeans to attempt to adapt esp seeing how so much of European art masterpieces even after the Protestant Reformation revolved around painting or sculpting humans? Even much of Pagan architecture often had normal humans as part of ceilings and such and this can be seen later in Medieval Europe with glass stains of Mother Mary and the Crucifixion and so on.

While from what I seen pre-Islamic Middle Eastern architecture often focused on mon