Occurs to me that taking ritual or doctrine from Mithraism, Zoroastrianism, ancient Egypt, or whatever isn't necessarily any detraction. The one thing that seems universal is that the common man cannot (or at least does not) comprehend the Truth. So the evolution of religious dogma could be expected as we near an understanding.
Tho atheism I find to be self-indulgent, both atheist and agnostic should find the whole thing sociologically interesting, at least.
Quote:
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
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I find it amusing to see Marx quoted on this board
So he is not the Devil after all?