Are christians any different than those people who believed Zeus and Thor?

Answer 1

Yes, they are far more violent, defensive and easily provoked. They really are more immoral on average and less interested in pursuing actual knowledge. People didn't kill each other for Zeus or Wotan, they killed for other reasons. More people have died for the abrahamic god than for anything else in the history of the world - by far.

Followers of Zeus and Thor also never attempted genocide due to their holy beliefs, they didn't try to eradicate the Jews for instance, as the Nazis (who were the most christian nation the world has ever seen at the time) did, for allegedly killing a messiah who was meant to die anyway.

Answer 2

Yes. Christians believe in a God who is Omnipotent. Zeus and Thor were limited in their realm of power and beset by quite human faults. This allowed their followers to be excused of responsibility for their not so good behaviors, because even their Gods were not perfect.

Answer 3

Christians are VERY different than the pagans whose beliefs they brutally suppressed. Paganism by it's very nature was pretty much based around an "it's all good" philosophy. If, for example, a god from a neighboring nation seemed like a useful idea, they incorporated that god into their local pantheon of gods. Most individuals or households had their own, "personal gods" and while "cults" that revolved around a particular god were not uncommon, no one went around killing others because they chose another path.

But today's Christians ARE no "different" from pagans in very central ways they will never acknowledge: While the Christian world-view is supposedly monotheistic, they in fact worship a heavenly hierarchy composed of a central "God," Jesus Christ, this central god's "son" avatar; the "holy spirit," to cover all possible loopholes; a "goddess" in the form of Mary the Madonna; a host of Saints (both minor and major), angels, demons and martyrs by the score and, of course, the anti-god God...Satan (and his countless legion of minions).

All in all, a list so long it puts most polytheistic cultures to shame by comparison.

So no. And yes.

Answer 4

I don't know about the christians, but the UN has a massive statue of Zeus in its entrance hall. Hmmm.

Answer 5

background significant right here and on a similar time as some ideals suggested interior the Bible are additionally present in different cultures that doesn't advise that they got here from those supplies to the Bible, that's an assumption on your area. additionally in case you prefer to do away with something basically for the reason that's previous and strains returned to the "time of fantasy" does this make greater to all disciplines or basically human beings who you do not accept as true with? What age could you initiate treating issues as truthful, what's a while decrease? could desire to we do away with the Hippocratic Oath basically through fact it strains returned to the "time of fantasy", or how approximately all regulations in keeping with the two the ten Commandments, Hammurabi's Code or the Roman Twelve Tables? could desire to we end democracy for the reason that's barely a privative concept from the age of fantasy? additionally non secular examine do have greater practise, basically approximately all the unique faculties existed to coach theology, regulation or drugs. have you ever by no ability heard of seminary? human beings pass there to learn approximately their faith and locate nearer information so they are in a position to then pass and coach others.

Answer 6

Ask a Christian, and he/she will definitely say they are different, because all Christians believe they have THE true religion and the rest are bunk.
Ask an atheist, and he/she will say that it's just one more group of people who follow a myth.

Answer 7

No they are not. Nor are they different than anybody believing in of the many other gods man has invented over the centuries.

It's funny how folks are so sure their one god is the only one and so therefore all others must be false. I agree with these folks, Christians, or whomever. I also believe in all those other gods are nothing but made up fairy tales. It's just that I know that THEIR god is also in that bunch of fairy tales.

Answer 8

Thor rules.

Answer 9

Jesus Christ died so that we may be forgiven of our sins. I have not studied up on Zeus and Thor, but I do not believe they made any such sacrifice.

Answer 10

zeus and thor had the thunder and the hammer respectively but jesus had none!!!
(zeus and thor seem more realistic!!!)