I meant more random in that you took the topic quickly on a tangent.
I say we bring back sun worship. It does keep us alive after all.
That is a religion I can get behind. As Carlin said:
Overnight I became a sun-worshiper. Well, not overnight, you can't see the sun at night. But first thing the next morning, I became a sun-worshiper. Several reasons. First of all, I can see the sun, okay? Unlike some other gods I could mention, I can actually see the sun. I'm big on that. If I can see something, I don't know, it kind of helps the credibility along, you know? So everyday I can see the sun, as it gives me everything I need; heat, light, food, flowers in the park, reflections on the lake, an occasional skin cancer, but hey. At least there are no crucifixions, and we're not setting people on fire simply because they don't agree with us.
if you think about it ... all life starts with photosynthesis and its still an totally not-understood process for some reason ... take the oil our entire world depends on today ... it is basicly animals and plants that have rotten over millions of years inside the ground ... so even this energy comes from the sun ... even atom energy is made out of star dust in the end ... its called entropy ... and I never looked at it that way, but the fact you can actually see and observe the sun maybe makes it the biggest evidence you could present to people like ... BranKetra ... ^^
The sun is a far more worthy of worship than any man made God. It's where all these Gods, from Horus to Jesus, come from. God is The Sun, Horus is God's Sun/Son. Jesus, dies in the exact manner the sun does on the winter solstice. The sun "dies" than after a couple days, causing the world to be darker for the longest period of the year, then it rises, seemingly reborn. Jesus is always seen in early christian art with the sun illuminating behind his head. It's easy to see the root of the belief.
actually, philosophers have theorized that major monotheistic religions (Judasim, Christiniaty, Islam) originated in and near hot deserts because of the abundance of sun (just think of the travelers and shepherds in the desert, who followed the water, not the sun) . The sun might be worthy of worship if you're a farmer living in a cold climate, but everywhere else, it is a destructive god. Horus may have been God's Sun, but it was the Nile that provided sustenance.
Imagine a fisherman living on the beach of the desert. Can't grow anything, having your skin burnt and causing skin cancer. at the end of the day you still need to get your food from the sea. Sun is Hell.
surely, we can live without the sun (many creatures do) but we can't quite live without water. after all, Many cultures did make gods out of rivers, lakes, and seas. isn't water more worthy of worship?
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