Yes, I'm familiar with those lectures from Professor Bob Brier. He is a great Egyptologist, but he would never characterize Egyptian history as a "horror film of oppression and suffering for thousands of years." Your description was a gross exaggeration. Ancient Egypt was no different from all...
What in the Netjeru's name are you talking about? There's only a small portion of Ancient Egypt's history in which they're imperialistic and that's during the New Kingdom. Before that, they barely have a standing army and once they do, their main concern is securing their border with a few...
This is why I simply refer to the power that's greater than us as "The Divine", rather than God or Gods. The Divine is all encompassing and shouldn't marginalize any theists.
To which I would then say instead of:
The Divine is a whole and religions are different viewpoints on the nature of...
There is literally nothing that we know of or can think of that isn't a multiplicity - not even you yourself. These cells, molecules, and atoms you mention aren't special, there's many and they're made up of many components. From multiple universes to infinite parallel universes, everything is a...
The Divine is One and Many. If you believe your divine being has a personality and creativity, it shouldn't be hard for you to believe in multiple divine beings.
Scientifically, much of what we know of in the universe is a plurality and multiplicity - cells, atoms, elements, suns, galaxies...
What if creation is perfect based on the laws that govern this universe, and all the negative things we associate with life are a necessary component of life in this universe. Death, suffering, disease, war - are all just natural side effects of life created by a prefect being.
This is why when I talk to the Gods or are talking about them, I use the Kemetic term "Netjeru," which I translate as "The Divine" rather than "The Gods." I think people would get less upset about pronoun use if using "The Divine" was more commonplace.
Schools teach sexual education and have anti-bullying lessons and programs that are part of the curriculum. What your religion says holds no value. If it's such a problem for you, put your kids in homeschooling.
No, I think there's very little that could of been done. These people were brainwashed. And as for a modern "lethal mental parallel" the obvious example that comes to mind is radical Islamic groups. Can these people be reasoned with? I don't believe so. Not unless they take the initiative to...
I'm going to go with the ancient civilizations. Egyptians called God "Netjer" and I believe the Sumerian's used the word "Dingir". I'm not aware of what the Hindu word for God is..
When I think of the word primitive, it makes me think of prehistoric times. I'd probably use the word primitive if I was trying to insult or mock a horrible attribute of a religion or government system (human sacrifice, honor killings, female genital mutilation, dictatorships, etc). Otherwise I...
OP didn't say Islam is against Satanism. He said Muslims would be offended if you called their religion satanic. But since you brought the topic up,how can something be punishable by death and yet also believe in the commandment that says "thou shall not kill"?
Well no, that wouldn't make much sense since Christianity and Islam branched out of Judaism. Unless you're telling me that this Aset Ka belief system is the precursor of the Kemetic religion? If so, is there any historical evidence to support that claim?
Not that I'm accusing you of making...