I've talked about this many times, but this is not wrong simply because of ethnic reasons. That's not even the primary issue. The primary issue is that gods are spiritual beings. They are not psychological mascots. Poseidon is some sort of spirit. He is not depicted as classically strong because you need to look at something to be strong, but rather he is depicted as classically strong because that shows the kind of spirit he is. He is the kind of spirit who both provides travel and a living and beats men to death viciously with waves. It's not about you being or not being strong; it's about the sea being a sovereign spiritual power over men. Everybody should look at images of Pan or other not hypermasculine gods to understand this: Pan Is a strange little horny half goat half man god? Why? Because the spiritual powers of of the kind of wilderness just adjacent to shepherds and pastures are like that. And indeed you are, in fact, subject to the spiritual power of the sea or the pastoral wilderness according to the Greeks, which is certainly true.
The image given of Thor above is not even a religious image but a romantic image with no actual spiritual value; but in that case, also, a man is subject to the sovereign spiritual power of thunder and the sky and the power over combat, etc. Again, it's not about you being so strong, but that the spirits over the things you are involved in are so superior to anything you're doing that you had better give them honor or else risk offending them.
Meanwhile Christ, sovereign Lord of all being who sustains all things that exist, including all spiritual entities, in whom we live and breathe and move and have our being, and who shall come at the end of days to judge the living and the dead, comes to us, appearing this time in the flesh and among us as the suffering servant who takes away the sins of the whole world. He does this not because he is weak but because this power, to whom every mountain, man, and grain of sand is subjected, is the sort of Lord who seeks and knows his own, redeems them from all their failures, and brings them back into his household as sons. Again, it is not about you being so weak or you being so strong, but rather that the divinity comes in the different forms he is.
More: that view which puts up the gods, any of the spirits, even the demons, as mere psychological images; what even is the idea, exactly? Exhort us to strength? The religious statue of Poseidon is actually supposed to be what? Some ancient poster of Arnold Schwarzenegger encouraging you to go lift? Foolishness. Stupidity. Not even religious. Not even spiritual. Atheism. Blasphemous. Blasphemous even to your ancestors. Nobody sacrificed in blood and war to your workout inspiration, you child. You are honoring your ancestors? No, you aren't. You make fools out of them. If I want to learn how to get large and hit a man with a hammer, I find a man who is large and can swing a hammer and have him teach me the ways. I do not make up stories and romantic paintings of such a man and say that he is a spirit lord over the earth, etc. Such a thing is not even worth sending a missionary to combat. Such little boys need testosterone therapy and a few dozen father figures in their lives. You and I have nothing religiously to do with one another except to the extent that you confuse souls who need actual spiritual lives.
Internet janny-ssaries getting pissed off by the analogy and completely missing the point, thinking Keef is actually calling for Constantinople to be handed back to the Greeks.
@nolibertarians "Didn't one of the commandments say that stealing is wrong or something? Maybe we should stop looting this monastery?"
"William, we're protestants."
"Splendid."
@TomaszSynowiec TeutonoPolacy. Polska odmiana grojperów popierających na raz Brauna i Tuska. Nienawidzą PiS, szlifują każdą możliwą krawędź edgy-dziecka w internecie. Mają też zalety - jest ich z siedmiu.
"What's with the hysteria? Most of the 60,000 migrants who broke through the border barriers to pillage a European town for a few days have already left. Nothing happened in Ceuta."
Uspołecznienie własności wielkokapitalistycznej i zorganizowanie sprawiedliwego podziału dochodu społecznego.
Zapewnienie masom pracujących współkierownictwa i kontroli nad gospodarką.
Swoboda walki dla klasy robotniczej o jej prawa w ramach nieskrępowanego ruchu zawodowego.
@mihasik1974@salemdesu@ReviewsPossum Getting rid of muslims requires ethnocentrism which the kosher right will not give you because there's a pile of shoes in auschwitz
@Doemaster29 I had a lot of uncharitable things to say about toriel but even though i still do i walkes back a lot of what i thought before, now it's something more along the lines of "this character makes no sense and only does what she does to let the story play out as planned beforehand".
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@KuyavianR4p1st Wrócę chyba do planu agitacji za głosowaniem na partię co na 100% nie wejdzie do sejmu jak np. unia centrum byle liczyło się do całej puli ważnych głosów. Byle utrudnić razemitom i morawerowi przekroczenie progu.