Capitalism =/= trade. Capitalism is a specific system of production and property. You can have trade and currency in a socialist system, a feudal system etc.
I never said merely personifications, nor did I mean such. I'm talking about an animist worldview. In a polytheist worldview, Thor is the spiritual aspect of thunder, not just a metaphor for the scientific process. However, this does not contradict scientific knowledge, because Thor is not a...
I'm not a monotheist myself but I generally see Tengriism referred to as monotheistic. To the best of my knowledge, it posits many spirits but Tengri as the one great God. You also have Atenism, the monotheistic Kemetic religion founded by Akhenaten which was imposed pretty coercively and not...
Apollo and Hyacinth </3
Orpheus and Eurydice </3
and tons of stuff with Dionysos - the story where he confronts the pirates and Euripides' Bacchae come to mind.
There are 7 billion human beings on this planet. We don't need more life. Procreation isn't an inherent good. But most people (including homosexual and bisexual people such as myself) do want to experience love, pleasure and companionship. Many people are infertile, or just don't want kids. Are...
Yes, it is good to have a system of universal rights by which one can compare and contrast different systems of morality and judge their value. These rights are constructed by humans tho.
Any reasonable god would. A god who wouldn't would be more narrow-minded than the majority of human beings I know, and also wouldn't respect me, so why should I worship them? Worship comes from "worthship", meaning to value someone/something (grant it worth). Homophobia is worthless, so I won't...
Mythology is one aspect of religion. A myth is an allegorical/fantastical story used to illustrate a religious idea or truth. The term has just been stigmatized because of a monotheistic mindset in which one religion is objectively and exclusively correct and all others are fictional. I try to...