Polytheism: Whats the snags?

[barney]

And in the words of President Clinton, What do i mean by "Is"

By the Church I mean the thousand of splinter groups that seem to feel they have a dircet and wholly correct line straight to the creator of the universe who is telling them, through "feelings" and thoughts or even voices in their heads what the actual truth is about this poor old chap who lived a handful of centuries ago, who nobody seems to know anything about, but everyone is convinced they do.

By "Know" I mean have enough measurable or sufficent case for to personally beleive something that is defensible against the larger populatio.....ahhh crud! I just destroyed Atheism. Scrap that.

By Know, I mean for something not to involve talking snakes, donkeys, flying horses or gods that cant do anything when they promise they can do evrything.

My daughter loves My Little Ponys. The pegasus ponies especially. They dont exist and she dosnt actually believe they do, in real life.
But she has scripture, the books.
The Eyewitness accounts, (videos) and deep and far reaching theology. (ancient texts on flying girl horses, from Pegasus to the Revalations to Hercules to Nights journey)

Now explain why My Little Ponys, "Starcatcher" is not a real flying horse?

 

[alcurad]

most of what I got from that post was barney loves dolls

but really barney, people first believe in the basics ie. god created everything, he knows everything etc then comes belief in miracles and the rest.

btw how agnostic are you?

 

[Grace Seeker]

Barney, a friend of mine asked me to day how to deal with her son (age 7) who is waking up at night with night terrors. He things that there are monsters and that turning the light on will keep them away. I told her that she has to realize that the monster is real to her son. He has one plan on how to defeat the monster, if she doesn't like that plan, then as the parent she needs to help him come up with a different one. One place might be to begin talking about the monster during the day time and let him devise his plan of attack before the monster show up again. Becaues whether she believes in it or not, he "knows" that there is a monster. Just like my brother "knew" the Cubs were going to win the World Series this year. And you "know" that your wife is faithful.