Since we've gotten told to stop talking generally about religion twice in the Homosexuality and Religion thread and were told that, if we want to talk generally about religion, we need to make a new thread, I have made a new thread.
Full disclosure: I am an agnostic atheist and anti-theist, but I'm very interested in theology and religion.
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edited 9th Feb '14 1:01:31 PM by Madrugada
Incidentally, I do recommend the Danish Valhalla comics to anyone interested in Norse myth, if you can find it in a language you understand. They take their liberties, but remain mostly true to the spirit of the stories as told in the Eddas, and they blend humour pretty well with some genuine mythic epicness.
United Earth
The animated series was painful to watch. Shoestring budget?
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
There was an animated series? I'm only familiar with the movie, which had okay animation by the standards of European cartoons of its time.
vicarious
When I was being flippant, I was saying this from reading Kevin Crossley-Holland's adaptation of the Eddas and various primary sources. It's a good read and I highly reccomend it for a beginner, let alone actually reading the originals.
I say he's a dick because there's several episodes of evidence. While stealing the mead of poetry, Odin was going under the name Bolverk iirc means evil doer. When meeting the giant's thralls who were farming and posed no threat to him, he kills them with their own scythes.
Another has him disguised as a ferryman, who proceeds to troll the shit out of Thor as a flynting. It's hysterical how both deities are calling each other pussies and acting like douchebros.
Another one that is hilarious by modern standards is a poem where Odin is bitching about some princess who refused his advances, so he goes full MRA, about how women are treacherous and mean.
Didnt Odin was know as oath breaker? I meant a this point im wondering why Games workshop tie him into khrone when he clearly is tzeetch
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Also someone in another thread said that greek gods are like modern celebrities, like kardashian,hiltons and everyother vapid celebrity warped into one and adding rape, a LOT of rape
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"Just So" Story myths are probably the weirdest bits of their respective mythologies/religions,aren't they?
And tend to characterize the pantheons quite a bit.
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IIRC more a case of Exact Words. He didn't break oaths, in fact most oaths, again IIRC, were sworn on his name, but you had to check the fine print.
edited 4th Jul '16 10:01:24 AM by tricksterson
Trump delenda est
A conservative Christian from Georgia USA, goes to the Nordic countries to figure out their relationship to religion.
edited 22nd Jul '16 6:37:42 AM by TerminusEst
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Jupiterian Local
Please don't just post a video and nothing else. Some of us are on mobile and the like and can't watch it, and some of us don't want to spend half an hour watching a video with no idea what it's about or why we should care.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
United Earth
Especially since the first few minutes seem to be about some random US pastor freaking out about Scandinavians not giving a damn about religion.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Oh, hey, there's that goat statue that's notorious for getting burned down every year.
Didn odin also have the title oathbreaker? I mean the fucker really like to cause war at random
I'm yet to finish it but it seems a tad disapointing that they picked the most cartoonish US Pastor possible. They should have picked a less fundamentalist Pastor or Preacher, I think it'd provide a more enriching experience than what we got so far.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
I get a feeling though that was kind of the point-they're trying to make US pastors look less sane.
United Earth
Looking for insane-sounding pastors in the US is lazy.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
It is kinda funny how Sweden's Bible Belt is so-called because it's a whopping 14% Christian.
Impossible Gender Forge
I just had fun learning about Mary Magdalene and her incredible body hair.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
United Earth
He means Godiva Hair, and yes, it's quite epic in paintings.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Well, he should've used "body-covering hair" or "body-length hair", because "body hair
" has a totally different meaning.
Impossible Gender Forge
To quote:
There are pictures of this. They look really odd.
United Earth
She's got, hair, down, below her knees...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
What the hell were medieval artists smoking?
Impossible Gender Forge
I like that the Angels are nice enough to feed her and braid her hair, but not give her actual clothes.
I apologize for my inaccuracies. I had just woken up and my mind was groggy.
Now I'm trying to remember why I thought it was fourteen days.
Must have been something else. What could it have been.