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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Greg or e who wrote (19329)	3/7/2005 1:20:51 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 28931

<Ancient people were not stupid. I think it is just a bit arrogant to assume they were. > Straw man alert!! We are talking about ignorance, which is different than stupidity or gullibility. Do you think that the time the Egyptians spent building temples to animal-head gods, Anubis and various pharaohs was evidence of being "stupid" or just "religiously ill-informed"? Maybe it was important for maintaining order to act AS THOUGH pharaohs were God and to give hope by maintaining that the Land of the Dead was just beyond the horizon. Does pagan placement of fish in a certain shape along with the seeds planted indicate "stupidity" or do certain rituals entrain collective knowledge that isn't articulated by individuals? Yes, putting a fish in the hole with your seeds will make them grow better, but not for the reasons imagined by the primitive. Having everyone role-play against a script (even if they do it perfectly) doesn't make pharaoh God, though, does it?

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