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Also, what does the Bible say about black people? Do they ever get mentioned?

Hello! I am a Pagan (specifically reconstructionist Heathen/Germanic Pagan). Feel free to ask me and other Pagans questions in the comments!

https://sh.itjust.works/c/ArabicTheology

أهلا وسهلا بالجميع

So, people ask: if Adam n Eve had Cain n Abel, how did we get from there to here? And the easy, funny answer is incest. The easy, serious answer is that the Bible is not a literal recount of what happened, and these are stories meant to preserve information across time through oral tradition, thus Adam and Eve represents the fall of man in the agricultural revolution and Cain and Abel encapsulate something in regards to war and nation-states in humanity's history.

Then there's the hard, fun answer: Adam had Lilith, as every trans woman knows. Hydrogen, helium, lithium? The patterns on which we are manifested ripple up into our order of complexity? Ooohhh nooo....but then there's the hard, serious answer, which is that Cain and Abel had Angela, which is the highest point in Africa.

What? Don't you know that the Earth is a computer and has been procedurally generated from many different worlds, created from many different gods n goddesses and God? First we discovered good/bad; we learned what true north was, if you're familiar with that metaphor. Then we learned how to survive as a nation-state vs warring between clans; east/west. And thus Egypt was born, leading to those unloved children causing a schism in society, leading to the first societal mitosis/exodus. But also there was Angela, who is the greatest human being that can be.

Perceiving outside duality, Angela is not bound to societal norms nor personal gain. She lives for something else: piety. She follows God. She IS a dog sorcerer, as defined in Revelation 22:15; an obedient follower of chance. She is the epitome of a neurodivergent woman - Eve enhanced through the trials of mankind - and is the perfect angel of God.

My mother must have been an Angela. She did not give af what people thought, to my strength and detriment. I ABSOLUTELY should have had intervention with the special education team, but because I faced this unfavorable world true as could be and did not go over a cliff despite speeding there at one point, I BECAME a messiah, to mean that I can be the brightest light to those most lost in darkness.

There was one man I remember, back in Syracuse. He attended a bipolar support group meeting I also went to, and I stayed with him for over an hour after trying to keep him from drinking. He wasn't receptive, citing how smelling the alcohol at his apartment complex would make him drink, and I helped him. I don't know if I saved him, but I kept him clean for one night.

That's true Jesus. And this isn't me talking me up. I'm saying that the most good human being is one who listens to God and can help his/her fellow human beings in their times of need, not the beliefs of the state or serpent. That's who Angela was, and Israel was the second nation of the world from the progenitative monadic perspective (David's line), and the Earth grafted itself to the Kabbalah as we spread, and all this prolly took two million years, from man's procedural creation to the modern day, so only half as long as the Earth has been around.

...I remember playing Dwarf Fortress that simulated thousands of years of history before spawning you in a part of the world. Yea. The Earth is a computer and you are named that because algorithms, ultimately. What does your name mean and where/when were you born? Asking for astrology purposes, obviously.

The purpose of religion is to replicate culture, which is made of memeplexes, which are made of memes, like your DNA has chromosomes made of individual genes.

Culture is your operating system. The narrative of the framework from which you derive your identity determines what you experience and how you think n behave. Our two main ways of learning from this world as children are play and story. Of these, story is the first cognitive technology, as it allows us to consciously structuralize the narratives from which we derive our identity.

This means culture can be engineered around the effect that specific language would have on certain archetypes of individuals that prior to monotheism, manifested in the form of pantheons and families of gods n goddesses. In the process of wrapping everyone around a core narrative, this resulted in synchronization of society.

Hence, why we have the ethos/pathos complex of Donald Trump. No, seriously, in the modern day, we have functionally weaponized religion by engineering two diametrically opposed cults of divergent political narrative. Likewise, we did this around things like the American Revolution and Jesus, but what my random word generator told me to write all this for is to talk about how we built a boat on a mountain.

Because "who would build a boat on a mountain?" IS a cognitive technology. We took kids to it to prove to them that God is real because God does not speak in the storms or earthquakes or fires but a whisper; synchronicity as Carl Jung called the phenomenon, or what is a burning bush in the Bible or white rabbit to Neo.

Y'know, kid is home alone. Ooh, gunna get into the cookies! Wham! The broom fell? Well, in a godless universe, that's just the wind, whatever, let's pick it up and get a-cookieing! But if the child knows that they are always watched and God is all powerful, they choose to resist temptation, strengthening their prefrontal cortex and making them better able to resist temptation in the future, and more.

Also, reconciliation and Karma and the world is an illusion and everything you experience is procedurally generated based on how you have and are setting your intention, the only thing you have any direct control over. It's just basic topology, folks!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46021736

April 16, 2026

Pope Leo XIV says the world is “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants,” in the latest escalation of his feud with Donald Trump.

The pontiff, on a trip to Cameroon, urged a “decisive change of course” and denounced leaders who use #religion as a basis to justify war.

“The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild,” Leo said.

“They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education, and restoration are nowhere to be found,” he went on, further condemning what he described as “an endless cycle of destabilization and death.”

I just watched a YouTube video about the false narrative that there is a Gen Z revival in American Churches. https://youtu.be/l7Y-AF-Zt0Y. I've long been very interested in how Religion and Culture interact, and I'm sure YouTube knows that and fed me this video because if that.

What I found very interesting is at the end of the video the guy pitches raising money for his humanist church community center. I'm old enough to remember (and participated in) the rapid ramp up of the non-denom movement in the 90's and 00's. I can't tell you how many "We've outgrown our building" fund raising drives I've seen in my life. That's literally what he is pitching. 😂

This dude literally is the same guy as every one of those non-denom church planters. (If I'm willing to be generous) He's a young, talented, ambitious guy with a real dream to help build communities for people. Good for him. (If I'm more cynical, then I know his kind too.)

But, even generously, he's falling for the exact same trap all of the non-denom church planters fall for. If his private community center (or another like it) attracts enough growth, then it will become attractive to corrupt people. That's a given. 100% going to happen.

I just find it so fascinating to see this cycle happen all over again, literally repeating the exact same language. (I don't know the guy and don't know if he just doesn't know what he's doing, or if he knows good and well what he's doing. Could be either.)

(I don't at all disagree with the thesis of his video. I've been an active Christian my whole life and it's really obvious there is not any kind of contemporary revival going on. )

Los no creyentes ya son mayoría en España por primera vez en siglos, según el Barómetro sobre Religión y Creencias

Según esa encuesta, el público objetivo de la religión en España es:

• jubilado.
• sin estudios.
• de derechas.