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"The Bible is fiction."

The bible was written a long time ago and was used as a way of controlling people. Ordinary people were scared of this thing known as God because they did not understand death. We still do not understand death but at least we understand life a little better.
God was used to explain the unexplainable but now we understand some of the unexplainable. We no longer need God like our ancesters. All we need is hope...
Human nature is destruction and the only thing that we should hope for is that we do not destroy the beautiful planet on which we live. We do not deserve the gifts we have but maybe one day we will be truely gateful for them...

Which ones?

Some branches of it are.

Pagan refers to many things:

Belief in non Muslim, Christian or Jewish religion. However this description isn't used so much nowadays.

Belief in false gods. Who's to say Christianity isn't a pagan religion?

A non-religious belief.

Yeah, and then some dozy Emporer banned everything pagan from Rome. Christians called him The Great, but he stupidly rasied taxes and split the whole empire.

But it all came back after he died.

Edgy wrote:
> What's pagan about the Roman religion?

All the Gods.

What's pagan about the Roman religion?

Edgy wrote:
> Forest Fan, even the sun is named after Roman beliefs.
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> Our sun is called Sol. The Roman god of the sun.

Which is what I was explaining, a lot of words and things have pagan origins...

Forest Fan, even the sun is named after Roman beliefs.

Our sun is called Sol. The Roman god of the sun.

Well it should.
A faith so strong as to have planets named after it must be the one and true path to follow.

Stryke and FFF were making the points about the planets being names of Roman Gods, I added to that saying the days of the week have a similar origin, however it does not bother me.