On 31 May 2014, at 01:13, meekerdb wrote:
On 5/30/2014 10:49 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
If you try to fight a religion, you will always (in general) make
it more powerful.
The romans tried to eliminate the christians, and we have seen the
result, for example. (well, some genocide or catastrophes might
have eliminated *some* religion by total elimination of the
individual believers, that remains possible in some past, like in
South-America, perhaps).
It's not only possible, it has happened repeatedly. There are no
more worshippers of Agdistis or Angdistis, Ah Puch, Ahura Mazda,
Alberich, Allah,
They are no more worshippers of Allah?
Amaterasu, An, Anansi, Anat, Andvari, Anshar, Anu, Aphrodite,
Apollo, Apsu, Ares, Artemis, Asclepius, Athena, Athirat, Athtart,
Atlas, Baal, Ba Xian, Bacchus, Balder, Bast, Bellona, Bergelmir,
Bes, Bixia Yuanjin, Bragi, Brahma, Brent, Brigit, Camaxtli, Ceres,
Ceridwen, Cernunnos, Chac, Chalchiuhtlicue, Charun, Chemosh, Cheng-
huang, Clapton, Cybele, Dagon, Damkina (Dumkina), Davlin, Dawn,
Demeter, Diana, Di Cang, Dionysus, Ea, El, Enki, Enlil, Eos, Epona,
Ereskigal, Farbauti, Fenrir, Forseti, Fortuna, Freya, Freyr, Frigg,
Gaia, Ganesha, Ganga, Garuda, Gauri, Geb, Geong Si, Guanyin, Hades,
Hanuman, Hathor, Hecate (Hekate), Helios, Heng-o (Chang-o),
Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Hestia, Hod, Hoderi, Hoori, Horus, Hotei,
Huitzilopochtli, Hsi-Wang-Mu, Hygeia, Inanna, Inti, Iris, Ishtar,
Isis, Ixtab, Izanaki, Izanami, Jesus,
... or of Jesus?
Juno, Jehovah,
... or Jehovah?
Jupiter, Juturna, Kagutsuchi, Kartikeya, Khepri, Ki, Kingu, Kinich
Ahau, Kishar, Krishna, Kuan-yin, Kukulcan, Kvasir, Lakshmi, Leto,
Liza, Loki, Lugh, Luna, Magna Mater, Maia, Marduk, Mars, Mazu, Medb,
Mercury, Mimir, Min, Minerva, Mithras, Morrigan, Mot, Mummu, Muses,
Nammu, Nanna, Nanna (Norse), Nanse, Neith, Nemesis, Nephthys,
Neptune, Nergal, Ninazu, Ninhurzag, Nintu, Ninurta, Njord, Nugua,
Nut, Odin, Ohkuninushi, Ohyamatsumi, Orgelmir, Osiris, Ostara, Pan,
Parvati, Phaethon, Phoebe, Phoebus Apollo, Pilumnus, Poseidon,
Quetzalcoatl, Rama, Re, RheaSabazius, Sarasvati, Selene, Shiva,
Seshat, Seti (Set), Shamash, Shapsu, Shen Yi, Shiva, Shu, Si-Wang-
Mu, Sin, Sirona, Sol, Surya, Susanoh, Tawaret, Tefnut, Tezcatlipoca,
Thanatos, Thor, Thoth, Tiamat, Tianhou, Tlaloc, Tonatiuh, Toyo-Uke-
Bime, Tyche, Tyr, Utu, Uzume, Vediovis, Venus, Vesta, Vishnu,
Volturnus, Vulcan, Xipe, Xi Wang-mu, Xochipilli, Xochiquetzal, Yam,
Yarikh, YHWH, Ymir, Yu-huang, Yum Kimil or Zeus.
I doubt those disappeared only from human purposeful eliminations.
Bruno
Brent
With apologies to H.L. Mencken.
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