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Thoughts about the pagan divine

  Current Thoughts about Divinity I could be so wrong, I mean, I feel like I have been a lot in life. So don’t quote me. I’ve been seeing a lot of writers, both academic and polytheistic, joining in to rationalise their religious beliefs; some euhemerise and many, unwittingly or intentionally, objectify. I don’t know how far this actually permeates the mindset; but I feel it’s endemic and needs to be really thought about. A thought system based on alien foundational material cannot be stable! And from what Christians suggest, constantly, that use of statues in any way to represent deity is idolatry, (I don’t agree) though, considering this reduction to object attack, we then accept that deity is ‘a planet’ like Gaia, or Sunna is ‘the sun’. Can you see the operation? So what is going on? If our best shots at ‘pinpointing’ or demonstrating deity are simple acts of reduction, or euhemerism, what are we left with? I’m going to suggest the need to point at the earth