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BCG190

BCG190

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Hey there,

I'm new to the forums, looking for some good discussion. I'm currently a double-major in History and Religious Studies, with a History concentration in Enlightenment Era thinking. Although I am an Atheist, I see religion as the single most important social force that humans experience, and as such, feel that it is important to study, and discuss.

Look forward to some good conversation!
 
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URAVIP2ME

Veteran Member
BCG190 said:
Hey there,
I'm new to the forums, looking for some good discussion. I'm currently a double-major in History and Religious Studies, with a History concentration in Enlightenment Era thinking. Although I am an Atheist, I see religion as the single most important social force that humans experience, and as such, feel that it is important to study, and discuss.
Look forward to some good conversation!
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Welcome.
Have you always been an atheist, or what caused you to think that way?

Bible is full of religious history tracing mankind's general religious family tree back to its pagan roots or birthplace by Nimrod in ancient pagan Babylon.
As the pagan peoples migrated throughout the earth they took with them similar pagan religious overlapping concepts, thoughts, practices,etc. and spread them into a greater religious Babylon or Babylon the Great. That is why there is a mixing or fusion of pagan ideas blended with Scripture today.

I guess to genuine Christians 'Enlightenment Era Thinking' was 1st-century Christianity as recorded in Scripture.
 
BCG190

BCG190

Member
URAVIP2ME said:
Welcome.
Have you always been an atheist, or what caused you to think that way?

Bible is full of religious history tracing mankind's general religious family tree back to its pagan roots or birthplace by Nimrod in ancient pagan Babylon.
As the pagan peoples migrated throughout the earth they took with them similar pagan religious overlapping concepts, thoughts, practices,etc. and spread them into a greater religious Babylon or Babylon the Great. That is why there is a mixing or fusion of pagan ideas blended with Scripture today.

I guess to genuine Christians 'Enlightenment Era Thinking' was 1st-century Christianity as recorded in Scripture.
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I was raised in a Southern Baptist home, and therefore inherited the religion through childhood. My desire for knowledge through schooling led me to valuing facts and proof, of which I did not find any in religion. I trudged through several religions throughout my youth, including several sects of Christianity, Eastern religions, and pagan belief systems, and ultimately find the same level of implausibility in all of them. This was reinforced in my early adulthood when I began to truly "learn" (or at least, how I would define learning), and knowledge led me to the realization of not believing in god/divine altogether.

It is interesting you mentioned the path of myth through Babylon, and the convergence of several old-world belief systems, as that is precisely the topic of my senior Religious Studies thesis. I'm sure I'll be reading on the topic for hours on end.

I suppose for Christians, that would be their Era of Enlightenment, but for the sake of my concentration, it is simply dealing with the 17th century up until the beginnings of the Romantic Period. Entirely western, I'm afraid, but that is an interesting point.
 
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URAVIP2ME

Veteran Member
BCG190 said:
I was raised in a Southern Baptist home, and therefore inherited the religion through childhood. My desire for knowledge through schooling led me to valuing facts and proof, of which I did not find any in religion. I trudged through several religions throughout my youth, including several sects of Christianity, Eastern religions, and pagan belief systems, and ultimately find the same level of implausibility in all of them. This was reinforced in my early adulthood when I began to truly "learn" (or at least, how I would define learning), and knowledge led me to the realization of not believing in god/divine altogether.
It is interesting you mentioned the path of myth through Babylon, and the convergence of several old-world belief systems, as that is precisely the topic of my senior Religious Studies thesis. I'm sure I'll be reading on the topic for hours on end.
I suppose for Christians, that would be their Era of Enlightenment, but for the sake of my concentration, it is simply dealing with the 17th century up until the beginnings of the Romantic Period. Entirely western, I'm afraid, but that is an interesting point.
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Thank you BCG for your reply.

What I appreciate about Baptists is the emphasis placed on family life.
Most people as you are aware are born into a culture or cultural bias.

To value 'facts and proof' is a good healthy outlook and focus.
Because Jesus based his thinking on logic and reasoning on Scripture
as religious truth, I have found that what the world as a whole teaches is mostly tradition or customs outside of Scripture.
[Mark 7v7,13]

Wow, by the 17th century, Christendom [so-called Christianity] which was developed after 1st century Christianity ended, did Not resemble the teachings of the 1st century, but resembled mostly the pagan Babylonian myths in that old-world belief system of things.

According to Scripture this should be No surprise because of the warning given that wolf-like clergy dressed in sheep's clothing would try to fleece the flock for their own agenda. Which turned out to often be political.
[Acts 20vs29,30]

The rise and fall of successive world powers, depicted by a huge metal image, starting with ancient Babylon in Daniel chapter two includes what is western. Have you ever read Daniel?
 
dust1n

dust1n

Zindīq
Welcome to RF. Look forward to reading your posts on various topics, spread throughout the forum itself, hopefully in an extremely diversifying and open-minded manner.
 
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