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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

New gospel: All Gods are real and the reason they no longer meddle in the affairs of mortals is because they are too busy fighting their wars in heaven.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

New gospel: All Gods are real

That's the old gospel. Even at the time of the apostles polylatry (like idolatry, but different). All the gods are real but this god is your god. Hence all the proscriptions against idolatry and other gods.

And they fought in spirit and by archons. When David slew Goliath (or his chroniclers stole valor from Ethanan), that was a contest between gods, even as modern interpretations of the fight coach it in materialist terms.

The rising denial of gods via monotheism occurred after Caesar became Christian since prior Caesars got into the habit of persecuting those who didn't worship Caesar's god, or eventually Caesar, himself.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sorry, I never read The Lord of the Rings so I don't understand any of this lore.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Since I have been talking about LOTR lore in other comment threads, you totally threw me.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

The Silmarillion: still makes more sense than the Bible.

[–] bravesirrbn@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

That sounds metal AF

[–] chetradley@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

I just finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman so this theory seems good to me!