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Topic: Winning an argument (according to the Quran)

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Reply #60 - July 19, 2013, 09:52 PM

Quote from: Quod Sum Eris on July 19, 2013, 09:35 PM
I do feel the need to point out that's an incredibly offensive portrayal pushed by the Church as part of attempts to discredit and destroy the old ways. Witchcraft, like all other types of Paganism, are nature worshipping religions.

Apologies for the strawman and ignorance on my part, I stand corrected. I just used the example to make my point. Though it could be that in later centuries 'old-ladies-with-cauldrons' types could possibly have been considered to be 'witches' involved in 'Devil's Majick' and with biblical justification been burned/drowned and perhaps that is how the perception has persisted?

I am better than your god......and so are you.

"Is the man who buys a magic rock, really more gullible than the man who buys an invisible magic rock?.......,...... At least the first guy has a rock!"
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Reply #61 - July 19, 2013, 10:42 PM

Pretty much, seems obvious to me the image of Satan was modelled on the god Pan specifically to discredit him. When they moved into northern Europe and found stories of trolls, they came up with this "Trolls can smell Christian blood" thing. You wouldn't believe how the Church drew people to accept Jesus as saviour and worship the one true god rather than the native gods, it was actually brilliant in it's simplicity.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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