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[–] 16951971? ago 

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If you're an agnostic, the pagans are closer to your thoughts, and yes most of them thought of their myths as metaphors and not the literal truth.

I figured I should back this one up before the kikes start shouting about LARPagans.

From Revilo Oliver's America's Decline, pg. 146.

The noble religion of the historical Greeks,which was in its way no less profound than Buddhism or Vedanta and was certainly more beautiful, is often misunderstood by the modern mind because it differed from Christianity in a basic postulate that is sometimes overlooked. Today,both believers and skeptics regard religion as based on historical fact - eg, the Immaculate Conception either did or did not take place - whereas the Greek mind saw no possibility of ascertaining historical facts concerning its gods. There was no revelation and therefore no dogma. In the Greek mind four distinct concepts took the place of what we regard as theology:

1) religion as a work of art, ie. the legitimate exercise of poetic fancy which produced the literary mythology;

2) religion as speculation by the human reason about natural phenomena - a concept already present in Homer, for which see R.K. Hack, The Concept of God in Greek Philosophy to the Time of Socrates;

3) religion as civic rites which affirmed participation in a common polity but not a common faith; and

4) religion as an irrational emotional experience, particularly for those who chose to be initiated into one or another of the mysteries.

The four apparently diverse concepts were united by an under-lying piety which is well described in Thaddeus Zielinski's Religion of Ancient Greece, and which developed historically in the way described in Gilbert Murray's Five Stages of Greek Religion.

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[–] 16951981? ago 

Revilo Oliver was an incredible articulator! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neVZYotznwo&t=1963s

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[–] 16951976? ago 

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[–] 16965528? ago 

Not compelling. Unfulfilled wishes should be expected of every thinking being, because it's much easier to imagine something than to do it. I can imagine building a rocket and flying to the moon, but I couldn't possibly do it. Now extend that to many categories, including moral ones, and there you go. Imperfect man, no talking snakes required.

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Adam, the first man created in God's image, the first white man; was created 6,000 years ago.

The first swastika found was at least 12000 years old. There are bones of white men significantly older than that, and genetic evidence shows earlier splits from the subhumans. Gobleki Tepe and other archeological sites show civilization at least 12000 years old, and several vectors of evidence show cows and dogs being domesticated in Europe at least that old if not older. The OT is factually wrong, according to not just one type of science, but to every form of scientific or scholarly inquiry you can think of.