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Pope Ogre'
I am a Poly-Pantheonic Discordian.
why is it so hard for Christians to except that there are polytheistic religions out there?
And why do they try to refuse to give these people the same rights as they like to claim?
Zeus devotees worship in Athens
By Malcolm Brabant
BBC News, Athens
The temple of Zeus has not been long unattended by priestesses
Worshippers who believe in the 12 gods of ancient Greece have held a ceremony at the Temple of Zeus in Athens.
This is a landmark event to celebrate official recognition of their religion by a court last year.
The Greek Orthodox Church has said they are miserable resuscitators of a degenerate dead religion.
But the ceremony went ahead, with crowds watching priests and priestesses, who said the event was a symbol of their civic rights.
In 2003, white-clad worshippers performed an illicit ceremony at the Temple of Hephaestus, just below the Acropolis.
At that time they were chased off the site by ministry of culture staff.
Despite vigorous opposition from the highly conservative Greek Orthodox Church, a court last year officially recognised the revived ancient Greek religion.
The worshippers are loyal to Zeus and the other Olympians
One of its leaders, Doretta Peppa, a writer who calls herself a high priestess, told the BBC the temples were built to respect the gods and now they were going to be put to their proper use.
Ms Peppa said she had been given official permission to use the temple, but there were fears that the culture ministry, which administers the site, might give way to pressure from the church.
The president of the Association of Greek Clergymen, Father Efstathios Kollas, has described the followers of the Olympic gods as a handful of miserable resuscitators of a degenerate dead religion who wish to return to the monstrous dark delusions of the past.
Ms Peppa and her followers aspire to have the rights afforded to Britain's druids who worship at Stonehenge, and Danish believers in Thor and the Nordic gods who are allowed to perform marriages, baptisms and funerals.
14 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoWhy do religiously stupid people ask stupid questions on R&S?
I mean Questions that make most Intelligent people want to drink large volumes of alcohol!!!
5 AnswersOther - Society & Culture1 decade agoIf Jesus is the Son of GOD wouldn't that make him a Demi-god???.?
A Demi-god is defined as a being of both human and divine parentage.
17 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoWhy do people insist the dominant religion of the US is Christianity?
When everyone knows it is NFL football? Go Saints!
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoHow can Christ be the Alpha and the Omega? If Eris Goddess of primordial chaos was here before here existed?
And will be here after here is gone?
All life started with primordial chaos and when the mankind no longer exists we will be returned to that chaos, where all things are possible.
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoIs the verse which reads "Thou Shalt not suffer a Witch to live." a Terroristic Threat?
Please give your reasons why or why not without just cut-and-pasting more Bible verses.
12 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoif everyone could laugh at themselves and their religons would the world be better off?
Some excerpts from an Interview with Malaclypse the Younger by THE GREATER METROPOLITAN YORBA LINDA HERALD-NEWS-SUN-TRIBUNE-JOURNAL-DISPATCH-POST AND SAN FRANCISCO DISCORDIAN SOCIETY CABAL BULLETIN AND INTERGALACTIC REPORT & POPE POOP
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GREATER POOP: Are you really serious or what?
MAL-2: Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously. Either way it is irrelevant.
GP: Maybe you are just crazy.
M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true.
GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
GP: Why do you deal with so many negatives?
M2: To dissolve them.
GP: Will you develop that point?
M2: No.
GP: Is there an essential meaning behind POEE?
M2: There is a Zen Story about a student who asked a Master to explain the meaning of Buddhism. The Master's reply was "Three pounds of flax."
GP: Is that the answer to my question?
M2: No, of course not. That is just illustrative. The answer to your question is FIVE TONS OF FLAX!
KNOW YE THIS O MAN OF FAITH!
I - There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess. There is no Erisian Movement but The Erisian Movement and it is The Erisian Movement. And every Golden Apple Corps is the beloved home of a Golden Worm.
II - A Discordian Shall Always use the Official Discordian Document Numbering System.
III - A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog Buns).
IV - A Discordian shall Partake of No Hot Dog Buns, for Such was the Solace of Our Goddess when She was Confronted with The Original Snub.
V - A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.
IT IS SO WRITTEN! SO BE IT. HAIL DISCORDIA! PROSECUTORS WILL BE TRANSGRESSICUTED
8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoCan you reconcile the ethics of of the Jedi Code with your religon?
Jedi are the guardians of peace in the galaxy.
Jedi use their powers to defend and protect, never to attack others.
Jedi respect all life, in any form.
Jedi serve others rather than ruling over them, for the good of the galaxy.
Jedi seek to improve themselves through knowledge and training.
-from The Jedi Code
There is no emotion; there is only peace.
There is no ignorance; there is knowledge.
There is no passion; there is serenity.
There is no death; there is the Force.
-from The Jedi Code
15 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agowould you vote for a president if they had commited a non-felony crime ?
and were honest about it and had made restitution....would your oppinion pagan if this person was a christian or a pagan (not satanic)? why or why not?( stupid answers will be thumbs downed...)
13 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoif you except that the commandment is thou shall not murder.?
is there any way to justify a war where you are the agressor and invade another land?
13 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agodo you believe you have the right to interfere in a religious right if it is not the religion you follow why?
please explain and no answers "like god said to"
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoif the 1st amendment guarantees freedom of religion why do some people think that means only monotheistic ones
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
11 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoWhy are religions scared of their folleowers sexualiy?
8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoCan anyone tell me why People think Pagan=Devilworshiper????
51 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agowhy do Christians continue to believe there is only one God????
In Psalm 82:1 of the Bible it clearly state that there is more than one god.And I Quote,
" God has Taken his placein the council of the divine;
in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:"
In the 10 Commandments it says, "Thou shal have no other gods before me". It says that you could not worship other gods it just says he want to be the first one worshiped....
38 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoTrolls!, are they in the dungeons? What type of trolls? Mountain, hill, smelly, rock, or bridge?
Let me get out my wand ...... "Wingardium Leviosa!"
Did I get them?
1 AnswerReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoShould those who follow Discordian teachings throw "Golden Apples" into the middle of R&S?
Eris (aka Discordia) threw a Golden Apple labeled "For the Fairest" into the middle of a feast the rest of the Greek Gods were having. The fight that resulted ended up causing the Trojan War.
Should we follow Eris' wholly sacred example and throw "Golden Apples" designed to make people THINK about what they believe so they can explain it to the rest of us?
After all King Kong died for your sins
6 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago