Definitions covering such a broad concept usually are. The ancient Greeks certainly would say that most creative acts were inspired by the Muses or...
You said "cherry picking", that concept usually has negative connotations. That assessment relies on thinking of religion as exclusivist towards...
You say that like it's a bad things? Pagan religions aren't about orthodoxy. Ancient Greek and Roman religion was notably syncretic, adopting gods...
Some signs can be subtle rather than overt or obvious. Something that might otherwise seem mundane, but is too much of a coincidence to just be...
I'm not sure what you mean?
Unitarian Universalism is a pluralistic or non-exclusivist religion. Religion is a vehicle for a community or a people to interface with what they...
I'm a Pagan, or what might be described as a Modern/Contemporary Pagan or Neopagan. Getting more specific: I'm a devotional polytheist practising a...
Several of them, yes. Prayer and offering are fundamentally about having a conversation with the divinity(ies) in question, about building a...
It's not really "new". It's just...not the Late Middle Ages anymore.
The Roman Catholic Church is a lot less centralized than it appears. In many cases, archdioceses are very autonomous and local church leaders may...
Oh it's been like this for...whew, since I've been here. Which was, oh, 2005? When I was just starting high school. There's a reason I only rarely...
It's not something baked into religion, it's something baked in the wider patriarchal society. Religion just reflects the society in which it...
It's been pretty well-accepted in the social sciences, anthropology especially, to define religion in terms of a confluence of worldview and ritual...
The ancient polytheistic religions weren't based on astrology, I don't know where you're getting your information. These gods were interacted with by...
I'm a (poly)theist and I don't reject evolution at all. You're making overgeneralizations again.
Revelatory experiences are the most overt, though other kinds of personal experiences are common among the deliberately religious.
No. I believe the gods sprang, many at once, after the physical universe began.
Those aren't mutually exclusive. Now, taken together they are mutually exclusive with omnibenevolence. That's (one of the reasons) why I don't...
Yeah, being one of the first civilizations will do that for ya. Because my main focus is Classical Greek and Roman civilization. Different era,...
Yeah I don't know where you're getting that the Sumerians are some mystery that is kept secret from people. My world history classes as far back as...
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