To: vladimir998
Where are the believers in Zeus or Jupiter now?Like the Romans did to the pantheon of the Greeks, and the Greeks did to the pantheon of the Egyptians, Catholics simply changed the names. Now Zeus and Jupiter are "Patron Saints," in charge of their own little portfolios like weather or childbirth.
12 posted on
02/26/2010 8:08:35 PM PST by
Anti-Utopian
("Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds I' th' cage." -King Lear [V,iii,6-8])
To: Anti-Utopian
You wrote:
“Like the Romans did to the pantheon of the Greeks, and the Greeks did to the pantheon of the Egyptians, Catholics simply changed the names.”
Only someone absolutely unschooled in reality would make such a baseless and ahistorical claim.
“Now Zeus and Jupiter are “Patron Saints,” in charge of their own little portfolios like weather or childbirth.”
Nope. The saints do not share the characteristics of Zeus or Jupiter. Your claim is false.
69 posted on
02/26/2010 10:04:15 PM PST by
vladimir998
(Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
To: Anti-Utopian; vladimir998
Like the Romans did to the pantheon of the Greeks, and the Greeks did to the pantheon of the Egyptians, Catholics simply changed the names. Now Zeus and Jupiter are "Patron Saints," in charge of their own little portfolios like weather or childbirth.
Oh, that's doubly hilarious -- Zeus and J aren't saints. And the Greek pantheon didn't absorb Egyptian gods -- Greeks from the Indo-European Aryanic religion, while Egyptians had their own religion, no relationship. Even Ancient Greek thought borrowed more from Phoenician religion (europa) than Egyptian.
557 posted on
03/04/2010 6:52:23 AM PST by
Cronos
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