Comments by "Psiberzerker" (@Psiberzerker) on "ReligionForBreakfast" channel.

I grew up with a Holy Bible: Old Testament, New Testament (And Apocrypha.) So, we didn't really read Enoch, but cross-referenced it, because it's mentioned a couple times. I read it, because I read the whole thing, (And I was the kind of kid that tried to memorize the phone-book) but I don't remember it very well, because it was a long time ago. Thank you for this: 3:23. I've been looking for a good translation, and run into issues where it was actually "A Book of Enoch" advertised as "The Book of Enoch" or 1 Enoch.
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It sounds like the Messianic Prophecy delusion to me. I mean, he was right, but he appeared to be talking about this for years, before he lived up to his own hype. Almost, I mean he didn't take over the world, but guys said stuff like this to legitimize their claims all the time. Not exactly the same things, but he didn't appear to say the same thing. Some of the details changed, like whether it was Apollo, Sol Invictus, or Jesus that inspired him, but this wasn't exactly a new story even back in his time. He might have just taken inspiration from earlier stories. Also, he obviously really liked the Solar imagery. That much is obvious. It doesn't really matter which Sun god, when you're this awesome.
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The Stonehenge thing: Okay, those circles are much older. We know that, but I can't say the Druids didn't use them. We don't know what it was originally, (It looks like the bones of a fortification, and it's in a great place to cover Salisbury Plain. I don't "Believe" anything, but it could be a proto-typic ring-fort. No idea how they did it.) We don't even know who did it, but if you're going to practice religious rites, are you going to pass up such a great temple when it's right there? Caesar described Keltic Rabbis. They're not Jewish, but they sound like they served a lot of the same functions for the Kelts.
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I don't believe (Speculation) in a continuous Religion of Witchcraft. I believe in Christianity, as a shaping force of superstitious Rebels. Just like today, there's people that claim to believe they're Vampires, but there's no evidence of a bloodline of vampires going back to medieval Wallachia. Okay, that's the claim of Wicca. However, you can't really persecute Witches, without creating Witches. There's too much of the rebellious streak, so there's always going to be people (Boys, girls, women, and men) that run off to the woods to dance widdershins in the light of the full moon. Also, witches influenced Christianity. Not just Halloween, also Mayday. Also Easter, and also Christmas. Mistletoe was used extensively in pre-Christian, "Pagan" (Basically Christian for non-Christian) and Christmas rituals. They didn't get it from the Christians. The Christians got it from the Witches. Why does the Easter Bunny lay eggs?
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"Wize" has a root in a similar word, Vizier. Also, Wizard, and Wizened. So, I assume that at some point, Magi was translated as Vizier?
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"In earlier books..." Like Genesis. I just have to point out the glaring similarities to earlier groups (The Gnostics) and later groups (The Wiccans.)
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Madonna: Is Madonna. She's named after Mary Madonna. She made her name with the song "Like a Virgin." At some point, you stop being offended by her blasphemies, and get the joke.
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What I want to know is the letter imprinted in a golem's head, and the letter you change it to, so that Dead means Live. Nobody knows, obviously because nobody dug the Golem of Prague out of some basement to go beat up Nazis. (Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee) Anyone who ever did also knew better than to write it down. Neo-Kabbalist are the ones who claim to.
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Rome Crucified people. Lots of people. They seem to be skipping over that part, this isn't a symbol of Life. It's a God Killer.
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There's also the 8 spoked wheel that's the Iota, Xi, Theta, Ypslon, and Sigma superimposed in a circle. Not only is that pretty attractive to someone that loves that Sun imagery, but also not too much of a stretch to abbreviate that to Xi, and Rho, if you want to do something new. Ish, and paint it on shields, or mount it on a pole.
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Reach out, and touch faith.
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Occam's Teacup: The simplest explanation is "Aliens." Because it rests in a saucer.
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We don't have to suppose brutal "Persecution" throughout. Keep in mind, these are still very much a Jewish people. I don't want to go there, but Persecution, and Secrecy are there. In both traditions. It could be just "Disapproval." Possibly scattered disapproval. You don't have to have a King, Emperor, or Czar riding you down with Cavalry to see where this can go. Especially when you have history of kings, emperors, and Pharoahs riding you down with Cavalry. This ain't America. Okay? You can't just fly a flag back then. Even if you can, you still remember your grandmother's stories about when we realllllly couldn't.
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@kostpap3554 Nicely done.
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Louis Cyphre is about the best depiction I've seen so far. I'd probably call Keyser Soze the second. I believe in Evil. It's good I'm not so sure about. Is there a singular supernatural force behind it? No, men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Evil is basically Entropy. Heat. It's easy to do wrong, but to do no wrong, you have to be perfect. Satan is when you stop trying to do any good at all. Manson. He's not The Devil, but he's got his number.
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Jobe is a Jack Tale. "The devil went down to Georgia..." They probably told a lot of stories about that, and they still do. This might be the origin of the "Deal With the Devil," even though it was God that was taking that bet. No where else does God, ever take a bet with Evil, then torment mortals to settle that bet. I consider it extremely Apocryphal.
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"All right everyone, today we're celebrating Jesus, and not Saturn!" Until it became Sol Invictus. Look at how Helios, and Sol Invictus were represented, and then look at how Jesus was represented post-Roman conversion. So, it might have been around Christian Households "Pst. We're not celebrating Sol Invictus." Wink Wink. Right before the conversion of Rome. Also, there's that story about the conversion of Constantine. How does that go again?
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@constantineofamerica1555 Okay, just ignoring the many, many Statues of SI before the birth of Christ. I said look at how Helios, AND Sol Invictus were represented, because they're the same God. Helios is just Greek for Sol Invictus, as Saturn is Latin for Zeus. So, if you want to make up this "Sol Invictus Cult," and the dates to go with it to prove your point, I guess. Go right ahead, and do that, but I wasn't talking about the Sol Invictus Cult. I was talking about the Iconography of THOSE DIETIES, and how they influenced each other, through the centuries.
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I believe in the beard. They describe his later life, when he walked around, and talked to people about this stuff. He didn't really seem to have a lot of regular opportunities to shave. Maybe it wasn't a full-on lumbersexual beard, but unless he used some of that miraculous power we hear so much about, I doubt he was cleanshaven.
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The Horned god wasn't mistaken for Satan. Satan didn't have horns, until they ran into worship of Hearne. (Antler God doesn't have the same ring to it.) And other similar local figures. I'm gonna call him the Spirit of the Wild Hunt. I think "God" is kinda pushing it, but the Roman Christians tacked some horns on Old Scratch to demonize Hearne, and other spiritual figures like him. Why Satan has so many animalistic affectations, like Satyr's hooves, and a goatee. The tail, all of these things were added to a nameless "Enemy" from the original Jewish myths they grew out of. The Jewish tradition didn't even have a name for the Enemy, but they wouldn't speak the name of God, or write it with the vowels. So, Satan came from the Greek Christians, Lucifer from the Latin Christians... All Saint's Day was moved, on the calendar to make Saughan into All Saints Eve, when the demons danced widdershins under the light of the moon until midnight. To demonize Saughan. (Don't corect my speling. I know who Glenn Danzig is, most of these names were mispeled intentionally in the Domesday Book just because there were so many friggen Williams that year. I choose the name Saughan, because it sounds like that. there is no proper spelling, with these letters.)
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The first amendment starts with the word "Congress..." Before it even gets to Freedom of Speech, it tells Congress, by name to not pass any law respecting an establishment of Religion. Now, we have Senators describing it as a Temple. Using language like "Sacred." Read the goddamned Constitution. You're sworn to uphold the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Especially where you're instructed, by name, Congress. They made the separation of Church and State pretty fucking clear from the beginning.
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Fandoms=/=Religions Especially when you realize how Heretical these works potentially were. Star Wars vs Star Trek fans can get pretty heated, but you can't literally be hunted down and executed for writing that Spock/McCoy slashfic. People were literally hunted down, and literally executed, in some really gruesome ways over these stories. Most of the Apostles were, by all accounts. Simon Peter was reportedly crucified up-side down, and he was the Pope.
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Bram Stoker wrote a Fanfic of History. Vlad Țepeș, Drculea wasn't even the worst we had on our side in that Crusade, but as long as they did it to the Ottomans. He's still the Hero of Romania, and not The Horror out of Wallach, to this day. However much you get into your fandom, you are not that hard-core. You will never be that hard-core.
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Also, just quit with the vampire messiah. It's been done, to death, literally. You're not going to do better than Dracula.
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I've been to church. Word of Faith, Assemblies of God, Episcopalian, Catholic, and various orthodox churches. I went to RA (Baptist) Camp. It's called Jerusalem Syndrome, but I've seen people do this. All this, every week in Texas. Just saying, Americans call their Puritan heretic ancestors "Pilgrims." So, yeah. It's not limited to Jerusalem, any more than Stockholm Syndrome is limited to Sweden.
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No. For one thing, the Church isn't the building, it's the people. Atheists get together to talk about Religion. (Well, a lot of them are doing that lately.) So, this is the next logical step. Religion didn't invent the church. They don't own the rites to it, either.
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@Daniel24445 ...atheism is, at first, far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction.
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Amazing what you can get people to say, when you cut them off, before they finish.
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Radiocarbon dating the organic material in something like Plaster requires understanding what was used in the plaster. Radiocarbon Dating starts the clock when something dies. That's when the Carbon 14 starts decaying relative to the other 2 isotopes of carbon in the sample. (Because it stopped breathing in CO2 from the Atmosphere.) However, some materials like Straw work better when they're fresh, ish. Fresh on the timescale of human life, it's still dried, but it's dried days maybe months before you polish the wall with it. That's how Archaeologists knows it was (Relatively) Fresh carbon.
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I read the Revelation as coded notes of an Alchemist. IDK who the "Man" the number is supposed to be of, but that's pretty much the point. He doesn't want to write: "Mix 3 parts Sulfur with the copper, and heat until it turns black..." So, instead The Beast comes out of the Earth, with 7 heads, 10 Horns, and 10 Crowns on every Horn... The point is that else nobody knows what the Horns, Crowns, and Heads are. The OTHER Beast comes out of the sea, like a leopard with the feet of a bear, then you add a drop of Wormwood until a third of the waters turn bitter...
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Kabbalists don't "Accidentally" write 616 instead of 666. They don't, you remember the story of the Golem? That tiny mistake can literally mean the difference between live and dead.
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@cjhunt9532 No, if they were, the one in Prague would have been animated, and let lose to beat up Nazis.
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I always thought that John the Baptist was a wild Heretic. That's kinda how they presented him in the gospel. Baptism might have just been his thing. They tried to tell him, no you do it here, at this time for this, you're doing it wrong, then he went off and became famous as the "Baptist." Some people thought it was cool, the orthodox (Jewish) faithful didn't. Jesus was a bit heretical in some of the new stuff he was saying, and also later translations kinda make it seem more and more like this was something everyone was doing. When the earlier ones, honestly? I'm pretty sure John was The Baptist. Like the only one, if you wanted to get Baptized, that's cool, but there weren't really any other Baptists wandering around, and giving people impromptu sermons/swimming lessons in rivers. It wasn't a job title, and to some, it could even be taken as an accusation.
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Okay, is she Mary of Bethany, Mary of the Tower, or Mary of Magdala? A major problem arises from the "Magdalene," which like Mary wasn't her name. In Greek, it would be Maria, and Magdala means Tower. It was also a town on the Sea of Gallilli. Bethany is nowhere near Magdala. It might be a different Magdala, like I said, it just means Tower. I don't know, I'm not asking for an answer, I doubt we'll ever know short of inventing Time Travel, but it's one of those interesting questions. We do know that she was called sinful, dirty, and unholy, more than even Judas was. That kinda implies that she wasn't well loved by the people that wrote these Gospels.
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Correlation is not Causality. They both happened around the same time. Also, most of the Nicene Creed is from the Second council, at Constantinople. Had Constantine decreed it, he probably would have edited it as badly as King James. Only instead of putting more Marys in it, he would have put more Sun worship in it.
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if you'd consider a part II. He's also been accused of turning water into wine. I say accused, because we shouldn't forget that The Last Supper is called that, because he was just short of a Convicted Felon, sentenced to death, the next day. So, they weren't dining like The King of Kings, unless he pulled off one of his party tricks.
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The thing about these statistics is how they're gathered. In the last Census, as many people checked [x] None as Catholics, and Evangelicals. okay? Then, THEY SENT IT IN, to the Government. People who're now willing to fill out a form, and send it in with their Race/Gender/Political Identity/Religion. What should be absolutely terrifying to you, is what happens when we start to Vote? (Remember that midterm election? The Senate does, and they can't remember the renovation that happened in January.) Catholics are a minority. So are Evangelical Christians. However, they hold such immense political power that they can politically oppose: Blacks, Immigrants, LGBTA, and Women put together. (Women aren't a Minority. By population, just have to point that out.) They can politically oppose Climate Change. How long can they keep this up, when the Nones start voting? Because we just started sending in our Census...
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I have to point out that there aren't more Nones than there used to be. That hasn't changed. All that's changed is the Nones that are standing up to be counted. That demographic includes "None of your goddamned business," Anarchists, and Ron Reagan.
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They debated this question too. More than any other. AFAIK, they never came to a consensus on any of them.
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Wotan is the allfather, but he rides Slepnir, and Loki is Slepnir's mother. TBPH, this isn't even weird. Isis, and Osiris were twins, and Isis was born pregnant. Christianity isn't any less weird. I mean, we kinda think it's normal, because we grew up with it. The big manly Norse grew up with this stuff too, and the Gospels were also written centuries after the prophets were dead. Matthiew, Mark, and Luke did not write the Gospels according to Matthiew Mark, and Luke, (Also, those weren't their names until they got translated to Latin, Greek, German, then English for the King James version, but Mary is his cousin.) We don't even have the originals of Paul's letters to all those cities, but yeah. Religion is weird, and makes you believe weird things if you grew up with them as bedtime stories.
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