(extracted from a video I posted this past Sunday)
What if a friend told you they're totally into Zalmoxis; an ancient demigod who is of course invisible, but he's really really there; and they'll never die because Zalmoxis has cleansed their soul with his sacred magical blood, which grants them the privilege of immortality, living forever in a place that nobody can see.
The cult of Zalmoxis
I always come back to a really great point that Dawkins makes: We're all atheists in one way or another, because we all refuse to believe in one god or another.
Gods come and go. They're born of whatever fervor (or fever) you care to document or imagine; they grow (if a group ofsuckers followers can be mustered in sufficient numbers); they flourish - sometimes dominate for a while; and then in time, when people stop worshipping them, and stop making sacrifices to them - they die. As it should be. As god intended.
What if a friend told you they're totally into Zalmoxis; an ancient demigod who is of course invisible, but he's really really there; and they'll never die because Zalmoxis has cleansed their soul with his sacred magical blood, which grants them the privilege of immortality, living forever in a place that nobody can see.
The cult of Zalmoxis
I always come back to a really great point that Dawkins makes: We're all atheists in one way or another, because we all refuse to believe in one god or another.
Gods come and go. They're born of whatever fervor (or fever) you care to document or imagine; they grow (if a group of
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