Anthropological Theology Thread - Discuss religious/spiritual beliefs from an academic anthropological viewpoint.

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Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy

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There is a Christian theology thread, but not one on other religions or the general academic anthropological study of theology. Use this thread to sperg about any cultural woo-woo shit, any major religion, or why you think religion exists and how it affects culture. You don't have to be personally religious to discuss any of this.

Keep discussion of Jews as a people to the General Antisemitism Thread, but you can discuss Judaism as a faith and what their religious texts say here. Keep AI psychosis slop and conspiracy theories unrelated to religious texts/traditions to the Conspiracy Theory thread or the Schizo Conspiracy Thread.

I'll start by saying some opinions I have on theology:
  • Religion and churches provide a vital third space and community support. Millennials and Gen Z are so mentally ill because they reject religion and replace it with ideologies like liberalism.
  • I find it interesting how many repeated themes appear in world religions, such as the Flood Myth. While some consider religion to be metaphorical, I believe real historical events, such as a Great Flood did happen, due to how much they pop up repeatedly around the world.
  • You cannot divorce Christian morality from Western ethics. Atheistfags always say you can be moral without religion, and while true, they leave out the fact that their Western ethic system was founded by Christianity. And without religion, they begin to start playing Devil's Advocate for immoral behavior that is typically shunned by religion, such as sexual degeneracy.
  • Communists ban religion because they do not want their citizens believing in a power higher than them. They want political figures to be worshipped instead, like how the Kim family in North Korea want to be worshipped as gods.
 
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gpg said:
if hashem doesnt want us murdering then why does he permit israel killing muslims? checkmate liberals
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This isn't a political thread. It's for discussing religious texts and traditions.

Back on thread topic:
I want to read every major holy book eventually. I was reading an ESV Study Bible that had context and maps provided, but a friend recently recommended me a better study bible that also includes apocrypha (The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Revised Standard Version, Expanded Edition), so I'm waiting for that one in the mail. The ESV Study Bible was over 1000 pages, and this new one I ordered is like 2000 pages. I might make Bible collecting a new autistic hobby of mine. I prefer the study ones since they have a lot of information and try to have the most accurate translations. But I'd love to get some vintage ones too.
 
gpg said:
my post is religious tho, murder is a great sin in judaism yet still god allows the jews to kill muslims
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There's 1,000 other threads on this website for this topic. There's an Iran vs. Israel thread. But hardly any threads talk about reading the actual books (outside of just reposting quotes from social media). Post things about the Torah, Kabbalah, etc, but I don't want this to become another Middle East politics thread because I don't care whatsoever about that.
 
@WelperHelper99 Do you recommend any sources for learning more about Mormonism? Mormonism has always intrigued me, and I want to read the Book of Mormon at some point. I don't know a lot about Mormonism, but I find it interesting that Joseph Smith claimed there were Israelites in America. Considering there is some evidence toward pre-Columbus red-haired people in America (via accounts of numerous Native tribes and red-hair found in caves), I can't help but think he was onto something with that claim, whether accidentally or whether he actually did have some knowledge others didn't (he was a Freemason I think, right?).
 
Do groups like Buddhism count or is this strictly towards Abrahamic religions only?
 
AFAB said:
Do groups like Buddhism count or is this strictly towards Abrahamic religions only?
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Any religion. Doesn't have to be Abrahamic. One of the reasons I made this thread was because there wasn't a good thread for discussing Eastern religions like Buddhism. We talk too much about Abrahamic religion but feel free to sperg about Eastern ones too.
 
I highly recommend reading the Tao Te Ching, especially a copy with additional commentary, because it’s both an incredibly fascinating religion and philosophy.
Basically (it’s not basic at all tbh), there’s the religious aspect of Taoism (Daojiao) and the philosophical aspect of Taoism (Daojia). The philosophy came first, and as time went on it became religious with gods and rituals and all that.
 
Joseph McCarthy said:
@WelperHelper99 Do you recommend any sources for learning more about Mormonism? Mormonism has always intrigued me, and I want to read the Book of Mormon at some point. I don't know a lot about Mormonism, but I find it interesting that Joseph Smith claimed there were Israelites in America. Considering there is some evidence toward pre-Columbus red-haired people in America (via accounts of numerous Native tribes and red-hair found in caves), I can't help but think he was onto something with that claim, whether accidentally or whether he actually did have some knowledge others didn't (he was a Freemason I think, right?).
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There is the Book of Mormon. For more general history, there is doctrine and covenants, which provides a first hand account of the early days of the church.
 
VeteranOfTheRetardWars said:
I highly recommend reading the Tao Te Ching, especially a copy with additional commentary, because it’s both an incredibly fascinating religion and philosophy.
Basically (it’s not basic at all tbh), there’s the religious aspect of Taoism (Daojiao) and the philosophical aspect of Taoism (Daojia). The philosophy came first, and as time went on it became religious with gods and rituals and all that.
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I appreciate the book rec, I'll add that to my reading list. This is the type of thing this thread was made for.
 
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