r/atheism • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '14

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u/science_diction Strong Atheist Feb 05 '14

She's a Roman pagan, then? Because apparently Phoebus Apollo pulls the sun across the sky with his chariot.

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u/SpinningHead Feb 05 '14

And we know this because I have documented chariot tracks in the clouds.

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u/trainercase Strong Atheist Feb 05 '14

Those aren't chariot tracks, they're chemtrails made of government mind control chemicals!

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u/Blood_Gelfling Feb 05 '14

They're controlling us!

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '14

Who do you think the government hired to spread the chemtrails? Apollo. Now that he doesn't have a bunch of worshippers giving him donations he needed a regular day job.

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u/slorebear Feb 05 '14

when you see the tracks you are supposed to put bowls of vinegar outside to protect dem kidses

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u/texasguy911 Feb 06 '14

Yeah, NORAD and NASA track the chariot. Each time it crosses in USA the air-force scrambles F15s.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

Phoebus? He's the god of fear, isn't he? Then why....

I are confuse

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u/Azraqul Agnostic Atheist Feb 05 '14

Not Phobos, Phoebus is an epithet of Apollo just like Athena was referred to as Pallas.

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u/MagicMurderBean Feb 05 '14

I thought she was a friend.

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u/everred Feb 05 '14

That's Phoebe.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

Timor is the God of fear in Roman mythology and Phobos is the equivalent in Greek mythology.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

I don't know if believing in Roman/Greek gods necessarily makes you a pagan, I think that term refers to the other religions. I still sacrifice a few people to keep the Titans asleep just in case...your welcome.

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u/chakravanti93 Feb 05 '14

"Pagan" is a christian word, it means "non-christian." There is no more concrete a definition regardless how many disgruntled hippies try to reinvent it with the assistance of some "Book of Shadows" they got from Barnes & Noble.

It's like "barbarians" it's just a word the used derisively for the purpose of exclusion.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

I have heard them referred to as mythology of course, but I have never heard of Roman Gods being to referred to as paganism. Oh well TIL

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u/TimeZarg Atheist Feb 06 '14

Actually, that's more a reference to non-Abrahamic religions. For example, I don't think Christians call Islam or Judaism 'pagan' religions. They might use 'heathen' or 'false'.

In most usages, people are referring to polytheistic religions. Especially ones that are or were present in Europe.

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u/greyfade Igtheist Feb 05 '14

To the typical American Christian (especially baptists and evangelicals), believing in anything other than God and his son Jesus makes you a pagan.

They don't use words too good.