Ok Mr. "It is my turn to call you droolingly uninformed."
Wow, you know Paganism isn't a Abrahamic religion. Finally you didn't publicly embarrass yourself with a childishly wrong statement. But sadly you lose that distinction with the second half of your sentence.
You: "did not have 'Satanic' rituals because they had no name for Satan."
All Pagan systems engage in Sun worship.The name used does vary from culture to culture. In the Semitic culture he was known as "Baal." Other titles for the same character would be "lord of the flies," or "prince of demons," or "Lucifer," or many other names and titles throughout various cultures. This character is clearly identified as Beelzebub who is identified as the devil in Christian Scriptures: Matt.12 [24-27].
Occultists use the ploy of saying they have no belief in Satan to fool the simple minded. Congratulations, you earned another title. Another ploy they use is to just refer to it as "black magik," but it is the same ploy of evoking a "prince of demons" using another way of saying it.
I don't have the time or energy to correct your other foibles. I'll just end by repeating the same statement of fact. It is not a deep dark secret hidden away in a dusty file cabinet. It is well known to anyone who takes the time to look:
Homosexual behavior is explicitly condemned by every major religio/philosophical system of morality that has existed from the beginning of time to the present. It is specifically condemned in the sacred Scriptures of the Buddhists, The Bhagavad Gita of the Hindu, Jewish Scripture, Christian Scripture, and Islamic Scripture, and even the Egyptian Book of the Dead. And the idea of homosexual marriage was,accordingly, too absurd to even consider. This is what Justice Scalia was referring to. And he was, of course, correct.
In Semitic culture, yes. That accounts for the regions surrounding Israel, which are more or less the birthplace of Abrahamic religion. Written mentions of Baal first appeared in the Hebrew Bible, mostly within the First and Second Book of Kings.
Baal didn't come to be identified as Satan until the New Testament, which was specific to Christianity.
Ba'al, sometimes known as Hadad, was not Satan in the Old Testament (that was Ha-Satan Samael), but instead a false god in scriptures devoted to Yahweh. Ba'al and Samael are seperate entities. Even calling him Lucifer is a misnomer, because according to Isaiah 14:12, "morning star" (Lucifer, in Latin) is the mortal king of Babylon who sought to elevate himself as like God.
Ok Mr. "It is my turn to call you droolingly uninformed." Wow, you know Paganism isn't a Abrahamic religion. Finally you didn't publicly embarrass yourself with a childishly wrong statement. But sadly you lose that distinction with the second half of your sentence.
You: "did not have 'Satanic' rituals because they had no name for Satan."
Occultists use the ploy of saying they have no belief in Satan to fool the simple minded. Congratulations, you earned another title. Another ploy they use is to just refer to it as "black magik," but it is the same ploy of evoking a "prince of demons" using another way of saying it.
I don't have the time or energy to correct your other foibles. I'll just end by repeating the same statement of fact. It is not a deep dark secret hidden away in a dusty file cabinet. It is well known to anyone who takes the time to look:
Homosexual behavior is explicitly condemned by every major religio/philosophical system of morality that has existed from the beginning of time to the present. It is specifically condemned in the sacred Scriptures of the Buddhists, The Bhagavad Gita of the Hindu, Jewish Scripture, Christian Scripture, and Islamic Scripture, and even the Egyptian Book of the Dead. And the idea of homosexual marriage was,accordingly, too absurd to even consider. This is what Justice Scalia was referring to. And he was, of course, correct.
In Semitic culture, yes. That accounts for the regions surrounding Israel, which are more or less the birthplace of Abrahamic religion. Written mentions of Baal first appeared in the Hebrew Bible, mostly within the First and Second Book of Kings.
Baal didn't come to be identified as Satan until the New Testament, which was specific to Christianity.
Ba'al, sometimes known as Hadad, was not Satan in the Old Testament (that was Ha-Satan Samael), but instead a false god in scriptures devoted to Yahweh. Ba'al and Samael are seperate entities. Even calling him Lucifer is a misnomer, because according to Isaiah 14:12, "morning star" (Lucifer, in Latin) is the mortal king of Babylon who sought to elevate himself as like God.