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I believe the man in question died as reported, although I do believe "stake" or "tree" is likely more accurate than "cross". In any case, however, I still take issue with the following highlights:


We certainly need to let the author of that old rugged song have a bit of metaphorical license or whatever, but far too many Christians seem to me to have since literalised those things into believe-or-be-damned doctrine.

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Sorry, no offense intended by that, was just wondering. I'm not an ex-Christian or anything so I don't have that sort of understanding of it from learning in Church or from parents. I just like history so my interest in Christianity and other religions is more or less based in anthropology. That's very interesting though, and I understand the symbol better

There's a church near me that has a symbol with a cross kinda, erm, penetrating a fish. I believe it's actually symbolic of the old 'Lingam' and 'Yoni' thing. Which strikes me as strange on a Christian church, but it makes sense to me as all the religions mash together in my mind. I think they are all very interesting and meaningful in some way.

There's several Indian shops in the city that have that symbol too and it makes me giggle, because I'm childish. Shiva/Shakti superstore, and then a big sign of a symbolic phallus penetrating a vagina. Nice.

Much editorial comment could be made about the matter of "Cross, pole or stake?", but there are other people here on WP more qualified for that ...

Note: "What pagans did with crosses before the death of Christ has nothing to do with anything today" is the same kind of argument Christmas-and-Easter Christians use for practicing pagan rituals today!

Your Shivalingam will be moving this thread to Adult next not PPR and Kali will be hot on your tail!

There are festivals in Japan for their Shinto religion that involve a group of young men (monks, probably) carrying an enormous sculpted penis through the streets, then ritually throwing it through the doors of the temple (aka - the vagina). Now that is a fertility festival

Commme onnn, we've all got one.

I've not embarrassed you again have I? Anyway, only half the population have one.

The other half have the other one. And then there's maybe a few with both

Funny that so much so called "witch craft" in the past is now acceptable science. New discoveries by open minds.

Well said. In one word; Ignorance.

Yes, or maybe arrogance!

EGO = Edging God Out

Yes.

"Science" presented a hypothesis, tested said hypothesis, reviewed the results, and repeated them. The "witchcraft" that proved to have real benefits is now in the realm of "science," not because "witchcraft" is valid, but because what was once thought of as "witchcraft" turned out to be rooted in the mundane, physical world. "Witchcraft" is no longer required to explain the phenomena it had previously been called on to explain.

Have an "open-mind," but not so open your brain falls out.

Furthermore, science and skepticism has absolutely nothing to do with being "closed-minded." Science is a method of gathering information about the physical world through observation and testing. Nothing more. If your comfortable investing your beliefs in claims with little to no physical evidence to support them, that's your choice, but, as a skeptic, I accept nothing without question and prefer science to other methods because, in my view, it has proven much more reliable and beneficial than blind faith alone. That does not make me "closed-minded," merely circumspect.



No.

"Science" does not discount the possibility that a god (ghosts/unicorns/fairies/psychic powers/ect.) exist, it merely states that there is currently no good physical evidence to support such a notion. And science primarily deals with things that can be measured; if something cannot be measured, science doesn't bother with it, which isn't the same as saying it doesn't exist, merely that we can find no evidence of it at this time.

Honestly, I'll never understand folks who seem to want to paint scientists as a group of cackling mad people who hand down dogmas, squash any and all dissent, and conspire to conceal the existence of Bigfoot and alien abductions. It's an information-gathering method....that's it. It's proven very reliable. The overwhelming bulk of human civilization is built on it.

Of course, the scientific method isn't the ONLY method for gathering information, or for deciding "truth," it's just the one people like myself prefer.

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Besides, in science, there's something called peer review.

Religion and witchcraft both don't have that. Just dogmas and assertions not based on conclusive evidence.

I do not know about witchcraft, but plenty of "peer review" actually does take place within religion all the time or there would not be so many sects and denominations made up of people continually talking about each others' beliefs and practices ... and it is from there that others of us can then make our own non-peer reviews such as any possible scientific investigation.

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Exactly.

And I hear James Randi is still offering a million dollars to who ever can prove a paranormal event. Some of our resident "psychic Aspies" who live on benefits might be interested in taking up that offer.