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Post by Arlon10 on Sept 5, 2019 1:33:12 GMT

Sept 4, 2019 16:11:57 GMT general313 said:

Sept 3, 2019 22:00:06 GMT @homergreg said:

I pray to God. I do not pray to my religion nor do I find God through religious ceremony. I will place God first, my family next. I'm Christian. I find God in prayer, and I try to do his will through his guidance in prayer and also through Church. I understand you feel differently, but I would not be able to find God like I have your way.

I appreciate your view and if you find God through the path of the Catholic church, that is wonderful.

I think it's easy these days to dismiss the value of religious ceremony in the modern practice of worshiping God, given how ubiquitous Christianity is now, but in the past that ceremony was vital. I believe the Vikings would still be heathens (i.e. Odin worshipers) today if the early Christians didn't have some impressive ceremony to help convert them.

I suspect most Vikings were far less deluded than many modern people think. I suspect the Viking pantheon was more like modern day movie heroes. There was likely little pretension to detailed facts and more a matter of lessons and morals in the stories.

Of course a few people back then were probably like the people today who entirely miss the value of it all because of their pedestrian thinking. I would even guess the people today are even worse idiots.