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Jupiter King of the pagan gods, son of Saturn, Saturn was king of the gods before Jupiter. The Roman used to have a feast called saturnalia, it is believed that saturnalia feast became our Christmas feast
Religions need to continue
Welcome to our blog, man needs God
And this post, religions, Religions need to continue.
May God help me write the right religious things?
Dear readers, as we know and have already said many times before, man
has always believed in God/gods and all sort of religions, it is an inborn need
that we feel within us, it has been like this since the beginning of the world;
here is one of our own articles, Man needs God, if you would like to check it out;
there are also many other ways to check it out by reading history books or old
classic books, where they will show you that man has believed in many gods and
religions, therefore religions need to continue even if today religions need to
be modified to achieve that, so that man can believe what man wants to believe
and be happy for his own well being.
But now let us take a short break from these religious talks and see
what is happening around the world today. Because next month will be Christmas
time again, so, everybody and everything seems to remind us of the coming
Christmas festivities for 2014 and the season greetings that we usually send.
Now that I have mentioned my season greeting and wishes, I can tell you
what’s on my mind these days and then go back to talk about religions, since
even these Christmas feasts are, or seem to be religious, even if at their
beginning they were not religious and if they were religious, they were set in
a very strange way.
Today, as we all know or led to believe Christmas is a religious
happening and therefore is a religious feast, so how would people react if
there were no more Christmas?
This is also one of the reasons why religions need to continue as they
are, you see people like feasts, they like to belong in something that binds
them together, it has always been so since the beginning of recorded times,
therefore there are times when it does not matter whether the feast is
religious or otherwise, but because this site is religious we have to look
about it in a religious way.
I am saying this because, today religious orders could be under threat
from atheists who do not believe in God and religions, the extremist groups who
pretend to do God’s will when they do harm to their fellow man, and science
because they want to prove the existence of God when they know very well that
it is impossible to do, because God and the spiritual forces belong to another
dimension, now since science cannot see or prove the existence of another
dimension, they assume that God does not exist.
We believe that it is necessary for the scientists first to prove that
there is no other dimension, before they assume that God does not exist. Having
said that, now let us see if we can assume what the people would do if there
was no more Christmas; do you think that Christmas will disappear and nobody
will care about it? Or do you think that Christmas will be missed by the
people? So, let us see what could be the origin of this present feast of
Christmas, before it became a religious feast that we celebrate today.
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What are the origin of Christmas
Today Christmas may mean different things
to different people, therefore every one of us as their own ways to demonstrate
our feelings for Christmas, sometimes even with a song of our own; look at this
link to see what I mean: The
Christmas Song (Jayesslee cover)
Now, I want to say that today when we are
talking about Christmas one cannot help to wonder, what are the origin of our
present Christmas feast, we all know and perhaps most of us believe that
Christmas is the birthday of our lord Jesus Christ, but if or when we work it
out from the scriptures it is not right, some people say that Jesus Christ
birthday is in October, but in this case it does not matter when it is really,
because it has been changed to coincide with another ancient feast, therefore
the origin of our Christmas feast is not the birthday of our lord, because it
was once an old Roman feast called Saturnalia. This feast name came from the
god Saturn who was once the ruler of all gods and everything on earth and ruled
during the Golden Age. Saturn was the son of another two gods, his father was
called Heaven and his mother was called earth, well not exactly like that but
that is the equivalent in English. I could say a lot more about god and
goddesses, but here we are talking about the origin of Christmas, so we are
going to postpone that and write about gods and goddesses in another post in
order to explain a bit more about the pagan religion. Anyhow, as we have
already said, Saturn ruled during the Golden Age, when there was abundance of
food and everything else for the human race; therefore this might have been one
of the reasons why the Romans had Saturnalia, which was a feast of plenty and
everything else like a carnival. In the Roman tradition, the feast of
Saturnalia was held during the winter solstice in memory of the Golden Age of
man when Saturn was said to have ruled earth.
So, as you can see or guess the winter
solstice is when the days in the Northern Hemisphere are very short and the
ancient people thought that their sun god was abandoning them, so, they had to
do something religiously to get their sun god back, therefore the winter
solstice feast is also the feast of the rebirth of the sun, which many
religions have used to start a new sun year going. Here we are afraid to say
that there were some religions that used human sacrifices so that their sun god
would return to shine and bring life back. Let us just imagine a human being
was put to death in the hope of pleasing their god, so that the rest of their
community could enjoy another year of normal life.
I know that today all this seems absurd
that people were so ignorant then, but it was so or at least it is believed to
be so; Now, just to give you some proof of what I am saying, I want to point
out that even in the Bible these sacrifices are mentioned, but Yahweh being a
real spiritual God knew that human sacrifice was not to happen, so he ordered
animal sacrifice when they the Jews had to have a religious service. There is a
lot more that could be said about religions and sacrifices, but it does not
seem right to mention these cruel things of the past here, since we are not
against the existence of religions; in fact we are in favour of religions, see
the beginning of this post, where we have said that religions need to continue
and perhaps stay mostly as they are, in order to keep religious people happy.
Here we would like to add something else
that I was going to write in these religious writings whenever I had the chance
to write it, and it is the following:
Just let us discuss briefly the human or animal sacrifice of the old
religions and try to see the signs that they have left even today. We know that
some old religions believed that the gods needed a real sacrifice every now and
then, in those times the sun was thought to be also a god that gave life to
every living thing, so they sacrificed also to the sun and other gods as well,
in order to keep those god happy and favourable to the rest of the community.
Of course this outrageous practice to keep the gods happy is not used anymore
today, but even today this is being perpetuated in our religious service, but
it is perpetuated only in words and in our spiritual beliefs and no real
sacrifice takes place. These human sacrifices were changed from Yahweh God of
the Israelite, who replaced the human sacrifice with the animal sacrifice, and
later on this was changed again, If you have attended any Christian religious
service especially the Roman Catholic Church, at the most important part of the
mass the priest says, This is the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the
world; this means that Our Lord Jesus Christ has made the last sacrifice for
everybody and no other sacrifice is required, because he took away all the sins
of the world. This changing of religious things means that religions could be
changed and religions will change again even if it takes a long time.
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What could be done?
We know that you would like to ask what we
could do. The answer to that is that we believe that somehow we need to keep
religions and religious feast as they are today, so that people can continue to
enjoy what they know. We need only to look at Christmas to see that it took a
long time for the change to take place from Saturnalia to Christmas, and it
happened just because people like festivities and get together especially if
they are fun like the Saturnalia. You see, people don’t accept changes easily
and if any changes are going to be achieved it must be done gradually and in
such a way that would accommodate everybody.
Now, let us go back to the beginning of
this article, where we state that religions need to continue, therefore the
atheists, the scientists and the extremist groups need to rethink their
strategies, because religions are not going to disappear or change quickly, the
only way that religion can change at all is that we might be able to modify
religions slowly; so this is what we have in mind to suggest, we would like to
suggest a way of how we can be able to get everybody willing to embrace a super
religion that is able to connect all existing religions together, this is a
theory about a super religion that would set every existing religion one step
lower than the new super religion that we suggest and thus could link all
religion together. We need to say that part of this super religion theory has
already been written in our article pages, but it needs to be finished and then
connected and explained more clearly. This is a link of part of our writings;
This religious theory that we are talking
about is one of the several theories that could help achieve religious
reconciliation; so, we have called it Reconciliation of the Universe, not
because it will really be able to achieve universal reconciliation, but because
it aims to achieve that. Now that we have said it, we need to continue to work
on it so that we would be able to connect everything that needs to be connected
in order to work properly.
Dear readers, we hope you will follow our
religious writings of Reconciliation of the Universe, which is part three of
all our religious writings that at the beginning we called Prayers for
reconciliation. You see what we have written in part one and part two are only
explanations and the reasons why we need to come up with this new religious
theory. In part three we will try to set everything up in such a way that this
super religion could be created if people would be willing to create it.
Therefore we will write how this theory could work, because, as we said
religions need to continue, it is the only way for humanity to enjoy life as we
have been taught to enjoy. See you soon in part three, Reconciliation of the
universe.
May God bless us all?
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Man needs God
Religions need to continue
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with part three, Reconciliation of the universe
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