Wednesday, August 25, 2010

I Should Believe In God? Okay, Help me Pick One! (Enjoy!!)

Here's an incomplete list of gods proposed at one point or another throughout history. Please help me decide which one I should be following. For the sake of brevity (lol) Yahweh and Allah (same god anyways, no?) have been left out.

Agdistis or Angdistis

Ah Puch

Ahura Mazda

Alberich

Amaterasu

An

Anansi

Anat

Andvari

Anshar

Anu

Aphrodite

Apollo

Apsu

Ares

Artemis

Asclepius

Athena

Athirat

Athtart

Atlas

Baal

Ba Xian

Bacchus

Balder

Bast

Bellona

Bergelmir

Bes

Bixia Yuanjin

Bragi

Brahma

Brigit

Camaxtli

Ceres

Ceridwen

Cernunnos

Chac

Chalchiuhtlicue

Charun

Chemosh

Cheng-huang

Cybele

Dagon

Damkina (Dumkina)

Davlin

Dawn

Demeter

Diana

Di Cang

Dionysus

Ea

El

Enki

Enlil

Eos

Epona

Ereskigal

Farbauti

Fenrir

Forseti

Freya

Freyr

Frigg

Gaia

Ganesha

Ganga

Garuda

Gauri

Geb

Geong Si

Guanyin

Hades

Hanuman

Hathor

Hecate (Hekate)

Helios

Heng-o (Chang-o)

Hephaestus

Hera

Hermes

Hestia

Hod

Hoderi

Hoori

Horus

Hotei

Huitzilopochtli

Hsi-Wang-Mu

Hygeia

Inanna

Inti

Iris

Ishtar

Isis

Ixtab

Izanaki

Izanami

Juno

Jupiter

Juturna

Kagutsuchi

Kartikeya

Khepri

Ki

Kingu

Kinich Ahau

Kishar

Krishna

Kuan-yin

Kukulcan

Lakshmi

Liza

Loki

Lugh

Luna

Magna Mater

Maia

Marduk

Mars

Medb

Mercury

Mimir

Minerva

Mithras

Morrigan

Mot

Mummu

Muses

Nammu

Nanna

Nanna (Norse)

Nanse

Neith

Nemesis

Nephthys

Neptune

Nergal

Ninazu

Ninhurzag

Nintu

Ninurta

Njord

Nugua

Nut

Odin

Ohkuninushi

Ohyamatsumi

Orgelmir

Osiris

Ostara

Pan

Parvati

Phaethon

Phoebe

Phoebus Apollo

Pilumnus

Poseidon

Quetzalcoatl

Rama

Ra

Rhea

Sabazius

Sarasvati

Selene

Shiva

Seshat

Seti (Set)

Shamash

Shapsu

Shen Yi

Shiva

Shu

Si-Wang-Mu

Sin

Sirona

Sol

Surya

Susanoh

Tawaret

Tefnut

Tezcatlipoca

Thanatos

Thor

Thoth

Tiamat

Tlaloc

Tonatiuh

Toyo-Uke-Bime

Tyche

Tyr

Utu

Uzume

Venus

Vesta

Vishnu

Volturnus

Vulcan

Xipe

Xi Wang-mu

Xochipilli

Xochiquetzal

Yam

Yarikh

Ymir

Yu-huang

Yum Kimil

Zeus

8 comments:

  1. None. You left out the two you should!

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  2. Vulcan. It is the logical choice. (GET IT? lololol)

    You actually, in a sense, repeated a lot of gods/goddesses by including both their Greek and Roman names (Ares/Mars, Aphrodite/Venus, Jupiter/Zeus, Hera/Juno, Artemis/Diana, Bacchus/Dionysus, Hephaestus/Vulcan, etc.). There were some minor differences, but they were basically the same...

    Anyway, you want to know what I thought as I scrolled through this list? Wouldn't it be funny if this was the next unnecessary batch of new Pokemon? XD There'd be something amusing about the biggest deities in human history being reduced to annoying little pets in video games that the players keep stuffed in balls... lol

    Their portrayals can even be based on those found in their religions. Imagine your character yelling, "GO! YAHWEH!," throwing a ball, and summoning a burning bush. We can call it Pokegods.

    I'm so onto something here. I know it... :) XD

    Oh, one last thing: I think you've subconsciously already made your choice because you listed Shiva twice. :P

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  3. Well, since Islam claims all of these gods are false, then you should follow Allah, yay!

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  4. Catholic friend: "None. You left out the two you should!"

    Muslim friend: "Well, since Islam claims all of these gods are false, then you should follow Allah, yay!"

    What's an atheist to do?

    Seriously guys, if you read this, think of it from our perspective. Two opposing claims, each issued with equal certainty and seemingly equal support (in an evidenciary sense). Both believe the other is wrong, and both believe themselves to be right.

    Assuming I did not think you both to be totally wrong (which you know I do....sorry dudes) what the fuck are we supposed to do?

    You both offer similar rewards and punishments. So I'm facing hell either way, and both have so called holy books chock full of written accounts said to be dictated, commanded, or instructed (etc) by the relevant deity. Both have prophets, disciples, claims of miracles, etc

    How the fu-?

    "The answer is simple: Cthulhu"

    Ah goddam- ah, wait, yours is easily cast out of the running. Since, you know, it's openly fictitious.

    "You actually, in a sense, repeated a lot of gods/goddesses by including both their Greek and Roman names...."

    First off....HEY SEPH! That being said, thanks for the correction. I grabbed this list online, so the error isn't really mine.

    ;)

    Really though, I had no idea. Tx.

    "Oh, one last thing: I think you've subconsciously already made your choice because you listed Shiva twice. :P "

    Well, technically it wasn;t me, as I got this list online, but I read through it all and did not catch that (clearly....).

    I should change one of them to Sheeva. Head stomping multiple limbed Mortal Kombat Kombatant. Scary ass bitch!

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  5. "Ah goddam- ah, wait, yours is easily cast out of the running. Since, you know, it's openly fictitious."

    Look at it this way, all of them are fake, so at least by being OPENLY fictitious, Cthulhu is more honest than any of the other nominees on your list. If you had to worship a god, wouldn't you at least want to choose the most honest one? Even if he does want to eat your soul.

    Besides... it's fuckin' Cthulhu. He's like the Bruce Lee of deities.

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  6. Well, in my case, as I think I have stated before to you, I have compared the two religions and I have concluded that Islam is superior to Christianity.

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  7. "I have compared the two religions and I have concluded that Islam is superior to Christianity."

    FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!!

    ;)

    "Besides... it's fuckin' Cthulhu. He's like the Bruce Lee of deities."

    If you would have said Ryu Hayabusa, you would have sold me.

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