Europe Returning to Pagan Roots

NewsMax ^ | May 30, 2003 | Fr. Mike Reilly

[GaConfed]

Well, the end of the Peloponesian War certainly did seal the fate of Athens, but it took a few coups and counter coups to bring it down to the backwater that it was when Alexander's boys showed up. It was kind of like a grand old hotel that had become a flop house, with some of the old girl's former beauty showing through if she smiled the right way.

[TheAngryClam]

And I do recognize the irony of my apotheosis statement while I have the quote from De Rerum Natura as my signature.

[ArneFufkin]

George carried a grudge!

[TheAngryClam]

I have soupcans and wires too.

Maybe I should sell my "E-Meter Mark II" in the back of comic books and Boy's Life next to the hovercraft plans.

[ArneFufkin]

I prefer carrier pigeons jammed into floating bottles.

[ArneFufkin]

Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum/quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur

That's my favorite Julio Iglesias song too.

[ffusco]

Scientologists tried to measure my aura with a voltmeter in LA. Better living through Radio Shack, the meter measures skin conductivity via perspiration. When I touched the 2 cans together and the buried the needle. My reading was over and I was asked to leave!


Not to worry, I think Apotheosis is pretty close to Valhalla and Ellysium, perhaps distinguished suburbs of Heaven? I'd better put on my asbestos now.

[ffusco]

; )

[Jim Noble]

I thought Germany already tried the return-to-paganism thing in the 1930s and '40s.

They did, and as the EU was the idea of the Man from Linz, perhaps it represents Germany's final victory.

[The Grammarian]

Actually, according to many theologians, no one is certain what the origins of it are. It's surmised that it comes from either religare or relegare, the one dealing with bonds/obligations and the other relationships.

Some suppose the term Religion to be derived from religando (Lactantius), others from relegendo (Cicero). According to the former derivation, religion signified the obligation rightly to worship God, or, that which imposes upon man obligations and duties. According to the latter etymology, religion is diligent attention to those things which pertain to the worship of God. (The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Heinrich Schmid, D.D.)

[ffusco]

And yet the document creating the common market in 1957, the pre-cursor of the EU, is called the Treaty of Rome. Hmmmm.

[TheAngryClam]

There's the matter of the word religio, religionis more than the verbs, and that has a definite, and separate, meaning from them, and is the source of the modern word "religion."

[ArneFufkin]

Tom Cruise has some really disturbing audio requirements in every movie and promotional appearance. The Scientologists have an annual Radio Shack gizmo maintenance contract with Tom that fetches $10 million or so a year.

Illuminati, Trilaterals and Bildebergers my ass ... the Scientologists are even creepier than the Kennedys.

[ArneFufkin]

The EU as an economic alliance is understandable. As a political and legal umbrella ... Hyenas, meet your new friends the Three misunderstood Brothers from Lion Pride North. You all get to know each other. No spine crushing or throat tearing you guys!

[ffusco]

"Three misunderstood Brothers from Lion Pride North"

Please expound!

[ArneFufkin]

All religion is Evil

Religion is a profoundly human necessity. Everywhere on Earth from the day we found self-awareness of our life and mortality.

Religion is as vital to our species as water, food, oxygen and reproduction.

You keep it real simple like.

[ArneFufkin]

Sorry, the killing scrum is moving toward the Nile Crocodile "RiverDance" meet and greet. The big cats are rockin and rollin.

It's so wonderful watching Europe recreate themselves into a 200 million person Yugoslavian brotherhood.

[rmvh]

Re your # 7...I don't really see the problem- Christianity is just a neutered, tired religion.

All....repeat ALL.. religions eventually fade into obscurity and impotence.....Two or five thousand years is just a blip in time for any given religion ....They all eventually go.

[ffusco]

I think he means oppressive organized religeous institutions which have the same vices as any beuracracy and not true religeuos piety.

[ArneFufkin]

All....repeat ALL.. religions eventually fade into obscurity and impotence.....Two or five thousand years is just a blip in time for any given religion ....They all eventually go.

Thanks for narrowing that lifespan. You've put a lot of time and thought into this revelation. So, Christianity either disappeared into Jethro Tulls Y2K bunker or its going to expire sometime in 5000 A.D. I told my Pastor not to sign that lease until 5003.