Why?
2007-01-25 20:39:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no deity has been scorned enough they are obstacles to reality from the depths of the ignorance of mankind ... like children quarreling over mud pies the child of mankind needs to grow up and face the music of reality .how much senseless bloodshed is required to satisfy the ignorance of those who hide behind a fantasy .
2007-01-25 21:00:15 · answer #1 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Of all time??? Considering we have been around for over 100,000 years as Cro Magnon(homo sapiens) and that what we really know of any religion is less than 8,000 years old I can not give you an answer. Zeus and his gang, had been around for at least 3,000 years Same goes for Egypt, Assyria, Sumeria the whole Hindu valley, the Phoenicians etc. Christianity is a mere child as religions go with an existence so far of about 1,700 years. It would be horribly presumptuous for me to assume i have an answer. In our time (of written history) the most violent intolerable and blood thirsty religion has been and still holds the crown, Christianity. I beg to differ with First L who seems to have a one track closed circuit mind. Christianity is the first to wage major wars and suppress people in the name of god. It's the first religion physically and violently depose of old gods and the beliefs of different cultures. God is always on our side. Islam inherited this bug. Islam however never came up with wonderful concepts like the Holy Roman Inquisition, the Jesuits. the knights Templar. We have as Christians eradicated, wiped out destroyed killed more cultures and people than everybody else put together (Alexander, Caesar, Attila etc.). All other religion pale. It's all in there written in history books. Read people READ especially you FIRST L
By the way the so called Satan/Adversary/Lucifer/etc does not exist in the bible. He is invented by the church latter. about 300 years later.
2007-01-26 05:20:26 · answer #2 · answered by The Stainless Steel Rat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The most misunderstood I have ever seen has been the Horned God/Cernunnos (which just means Horned One). He's similar to Pan, though he isn't a satyr. It is what the early Church used to give an image to Satan. Practically destroyed the true image until recently.
2007-01-26 09:43:23 · answer #3 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan, without a doubt. Many early gnostic christians revered him as the personification of man's free will, and in particular the will to knowledge, and in fact, in the old testament Satan was only the adversary insofar as he was man's adversary when God tested him (think Jonah)
It was only after the church was formed by Constantine, and later when Christianity spread into Europe, that the church needed a truly dualistic setup with which to frighten the pagans into believing. So they set up Satan as God's adversary, gave him horns, hooves and a tail, so he would be associated with pagan nature deities like Pan, Cernunnos and others, and made sure that HELL, BURNING, ETERNAL DAMNATION, figured prominently in all their conversion sermons. He was also a convenient excuse when they felt the need to burn, torture or otherwise.
2007-01-26 04:56:04 · answer #4 · answered by dead_elves 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would have to say Set, who is often portrayed as the "evil" God of Egyptian mythology.
He's hardly evil - if any creature in Egyptian mythology can truly be considered evil, it's the very epitome of uncreation, the serpent Apep(Apophis).
Set is necissary to the concept of Ma'at(which is also a Goddess). Ma'at is balance in the universe, to put it simply. Balance is both order AND chaos, and Set represents the necissary chaos in that equation. But most people don't try to understand this reasoning and see it in black and white-good and evil, when it's not what the Egyptians believed of the world... or of Set.
2007-01-26 04:54:20 · answer #5 · answered by Natasha 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say there are quite a few. Hate, and fear come from ignorance to understand. Now if you're digging for someone to say "satan", then maybe to many that is the answer. I personally do not believe in him, so it's not my answer. I do not fear or hate any deity, why should i?.
2007-01-26 04:58:09 · answer #6 · answered by Solista 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the adversary? why? because he open our eyes! he started the inquiry into the truth. why accept what you are told, when you can discover life for yourself.
lucifer is indeed one of the most misunderstood. the church has the monopoly on the intent of lucifer, but he was representing mankinds needs to be his own decider of his own fate. not a cat in a cage.
the church does not like lucifer, so why take their word for his nature? would you ask a hater of raggae what they thought of bob marley? no.
teh church hates anything that contradicts it, except its believers who constantly contradict the thoughts of jesus.
long live the light bearer, for the light shall cleanse the blind of blind faith, even if the answer is death. the truth often hurts.
2007-01-26 04:48:53 · answer #7 · answered by SAINT G 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Satan.
Because he wasn't a devil until the Christians made him one and gave him god-like powers. Before that, he was an angel and inner adversary (Judaism) and ONLY did what God told him to do. He gets the blame for a bunch of bad stuff, but he's not the one who orchestrated it. Sadly, Christians blame their own evil doings on him, instead of taking responsible for their own actions.
2007-01-26 04:54:57 · answer #8 · answered by gelfling 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Gordon the Gopher. Jealousy really.
2007-01-26 04:46:07 · answer #9 · answered by fatherf.lotski 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The adversary... because nobody likes the adversary except those who are the adversary.
Edit: also, the Grand Unity... very misunderstood
Edit2: Saint G... I agree, that was what I was implying...
2007-01-26 04:44:51 · answer #10 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋