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We Are All Different, Accept It.Some Quote from some Religions above;
Hinduism
In The Efficient Lotus of the heart Dwells Brahmas The Light Of Lights
- Mundaka Upanishad
Judaism
The Lord Is My Light Whom; Shall I Fear?
- Psalms
Taoism
Following The Light The Sage Takes Care of All
- Lao Tsu
Buddhism
The Radiance of Buddha Shines Ceaselessly
- Dhammapada
Christianity
Give, And It Shall Be Given To You. For Whatever Measure You Deal Out To Cthers, It Will Be Dealt To You In Return.
- The Bible
ISLAM
God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The smile of God's light is like a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp in a globe of glass, the globe of glass as if it were a shining star, lit from a blessed olive tree neither of the East nor of the West, its light nearly luminous even if fire did not touch it. Light upon light!
God guides to this light whomever God will: and God gives people examples;
and God knows all things.
qur'an - 24:35 - al 'nuur - the light
Ásatrú
A Boy's Will Is The Will of The Wind.
- Norse Proverb
Also this is my own work and if you wish to use it for anything, i'd wish to have credit. and send me a message about it.
Thank You.
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Why the hell is islam so close to peace?
______________________Judaism, Islam and Christianity is wrong! _____________________________
**********************The only Savior of the world's is Cthulhu!******************************
........................................................... All Hail Cthulhu!................................................................................ ............................................................ All Hail Cthulhu!.................................................................................
_____________Only Cthulhu saves the world from false Prophets and their sheeps!_________________
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Why is the biggest symbol the religious symbol of Satanism?
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The pentagram is actually a sign of protection, even when it's upside-down.
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wouldn't it have been just as easy to do the same with an upright one?
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Well, yes, that is true, but you do have to admit, it's an intriguing design.
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Intriguing insofar that it makes out all religion is a device of the illuminati? I guess so
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No, it does not. I'm pretty sure a lot of religions are actually against the illuminati, and also people don't even associate religion with the illuminati, okay? That's just stupid to me.
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why is there a nazi symbol i thought hindu symbol was this
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The symbol is seen throughout history across the world for many different religions and creed, however when the Nazis bastardised it they used the right facing version. Not the left facing one in this piece.
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Oh wow nice job it's really well done!
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at first, I thought it was the Nazi symbol, then I realize it's a rune for the Odinites
(damn Nazis)
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do the respective symbol's position within the pentagram thingy mean anything or is it just where they happened to fit?
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I'm sorry to say this but, though they may have a few points in common, all religions are definitely NOT equal.
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how do you suggest they are judged?
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What right does any religion have to stand above any other? By that they are all equal, because you belong to one does not make you a better or worse person than someone who belongs to another. You're just as capable of killing as you are of loving, and that is because of who you are not because of what your religion is.
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Truly this piece is good. I love it as a Christian, a Taoist and a lover of religion who hopes for equality among beliefs. Excellent work.
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I always have this feeling that it over shadows my written work, if that makes sense?
I'm glad you like it And I am truly happy to meet someone who epitomises what Christianity is supposed to be and not what it has become in most places. And in general just what religion as a whole should be. Too often is it used as a tool to damn the rest of the world, when it is meant to be a tool to help and give strength to those who need it most.
Thank you for you comment.
I've always wanted to learn more about taoism, it always appealed to me from what I know of it.
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Yeah that makes sense. Then again, visual work tends to do that on DeviantArt.
Yeah, I am very damn saddened to see the bullshit that is often made by the fundamentalist Christians. It pains me even more when I get lumped with them. For living up to the "love one another" part (which incorporates a belief that God judges on character, not belief and another belief that atheists, gays and others of the commonly damned type will not go to Hell), I have often gotten terrible labels such as "traitor to the Christian faith" and "misleading deceiver". It can be saddening but yeah, I still go forward.
You are welcome.
Taoism is interesting and I am learning more of it. One of major reasons I also became a Taoist was because of my own perspective similar to the Yin-Yang and dualist truth of the Tao. Like so, as painful and saddening it is, fundamentalist activity like the damning and condemnation has to happen (good and bad coexisting and all). But I'd like to at least try to lessen the bad and raise the good a bit.
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nice piece of art!! shows the equality of all religions
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Indeed. ^_^
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...a swasdika why did you put that, white supremisists are NOT respectable in ANY way, and I'm not just saying that as a Christian but as a human
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Then I will ask you to stop being a uneducated retard.
It was the symbol of Buddhism before the Nazi's took it for their symbol, also please notice how its not on its corner. It was once good before it was twisted into something bad.
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ahh... sry. I thot it didn't matter about the angle
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Yeah, most people think that lol. Btw awesome Avatar ^_^ Adams ftw!
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Excellent work with this piece
yes they are equal
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I really like this.Although I'm not pagan I really love their imagery 
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Yeah its beautiful, and its served as inspiration for almost all other imagery, majority of Christianity is based off it, if my memory serves lol.
But there are some totally startling marvels.
The norse ones I used are either the celtic knots, which cover both the norse and the celtic pantheons and belief's, but the main one is the Hammer of Thor with the twin ravens of Odin above it.
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I'll try to be objective even though I disagree... but this struck me as a little contradictory. The positioning of the pentagram in the background seems to suggest that it encompasses all other religions, which would suggest something like "all religions are equal except mine which is superior." Which I'm guessing is not what you were going for
Off topic: Polytheistic religions never cause any problems? I strongly disagree with that statement. >.>; Are you telling me the Roman empire never committed any oppressive acts? Or that China and India have no history of violence?
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Well the Pentagram was sorta because of the five elements and I think the central icon of the Yin and Yang was because it encompasses peace in all things.
Well thing is, which religion does the Pentagram belong too? cause I see it as a symbol of fertility and of the elements of fire, earth, water, air, and Metal, though it sometimes has others in place of the 5th one depending on the diagram. And the elements do encompass all things, as does love and fertility because without the continuation of them life would slow to a halt.
Well what I said was the don't cause as many problems as Monotheistic, cause the Roman empire did spend alot of its time as a Monotheistic system, though it was also polytheistic at first. I won't deny that polytheistic religions cause just as many if not more problems at times, but it is the Monotheistic ones which are causing the problems at this current moment in history, and to be honest the level of problems caused now does rank a lot higher than many of the ones done so in the past.
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The Roman empire didn't tolerate Christianity until the fourth century. Before that they were feeding monotheists to the lions. By the time they became officially Christian, the empire had pretty much collapsed.
I was referring to this: "Aye I wish they would see this kinda stuff, mind when ya think about it Polytheist religions NEVER really cause problems, but Monotheist religions are the reason why the worlds going to hell. lol."
Care to back up that statement? I don't think it's fair, either, to say that anything a person does wrong is because of their religion. There are cultural and personal factors as well. It wouldn't be right for me to blame China's poor human rights record on Buddhism, even though that's a very common religion in China.
In the past, polytheists were a majority. Now they aren't. Couldn't it just be that monotheists appear to cause more problems because there are more of them?
As for the statement that our problems now are worse than in the past... I don't know what to say other than I don't agree. What critera are you using to "rank" problems? There are issues we face today that we didn't five hundred years ago because the global population was a lot smaller, communication was slower, and there was less contact between cultures. That doesn't make people in the past morally superior to us.
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"Care to back up that statement? I don't think it's fair, either, to say that anything a person does wrong is because of their religion. There are cultural and personal factors as well. It wouldn't be right for me to blame China's poor human rights record on Buddhism, even though that's a very common religion in China."
this statement completely contradicts what you said before about the Roman Empire, China and India, in which you implicitly claimed that their respective polytheistic systems of belief were the cause of human suffering and oppression.
"In the past, polytheists were a majority. Now they aren't. Couldn't it just be that monotheists appear to cause more problems because there are more of them?"
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I will concede that my opinion was not very well stated before. What I should have said was, "I don't agree with the idea that cultures who primarily follow polytheist religions never have any problems." (And perhaps I misunderstood the original poster's point...) I don't think that's even up for debate. What I'm disputing is the idea that monotheist cultures commit atrocities because of their religion while polytheist ones do it for other reasons. That's what I was getting at in my second post. Violence is a common denominator across all cultures, regardless of their religion or lack thereof.
Please do not lump together all followers of Abrahamic religions, a very diverse crowd with many different beliefs, and brand us as fanatic suicide bombers. That statement is as hateful and ignorant as the rhetoric of the radical-conservative religious groups--who most of us aren't particularly fond of either. Before you ask me to adjust my worldview, please try to understand it a little better.
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Or it could be that monotheistic religions are more conducive to fanatical misinterpretation. Polytheistic systems are, by their very nature, self-balancing, in that a variety of deities, equal or otherwise, form a pantheon rather than one single anthropomorphic personification of human nature. in Scandinavia and ancient Rome, any one-faced fanaticism would be unable to exist. the Judeo-Christian and Islamic teachings, however, are said to each originate from a single source, and thus they promote the "i know the real word of God/Christ/Allah, come follow me and blow stuff up!" mentality.
take a long hard look at your argument, as well as your world view. i could sit here and spend hours picking the holes in both of them, but i have better things to do.
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I'm faving this.
But, I'm not sure what a few of these are....
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oddly enough this is my most hated Deviation... because I can't work out why people seem to like it so much
Thanks for the fav ^_^
yeah I keep getting asked that... which ones ya unsure of?
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Hmm, the one between the cross and the Islam symbol, the goat looking thing (I'm not sure what it looks like, sorry.), the one with the bird on top, and the three at the very top.
Other than those, I'm pretty sure I know what the others are.
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To tell the truth I can't remember what the one at the top is either... I think it might just be Science in general... I'm hoping its not Scientology, cause why are others should be equal... Scientology is just a scam lol, the guy who invented it even said so
The ones either side are just general celtic symbols. The one with the birds on top is the Hammer of Thor, Mjöllnir, the birds are Odins Ravens, Hugin and Munin.
The Tri symbol I think has an older meaning, which is what I was going for... but I can't find it now grrr... and the goat thing is actually an Aborigine symbol I think
Hope that helps xD
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Oh, yes it does, thank you. :]
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glad to help lol
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I LOVE IT SOOOO MUCH!
Is there any meaning to the fact that yin and yang are in the middle?
I <3 Religion
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The basic principle of the Tao mainly lol.
Balance in all things, both good and evil.
You can't look at a religion and see something pure and good, or pure and evil. It will always have a merging of the two within it. Such is human nature, we are not perfect and neither is anything we can create or comprehend. Only by accepting that can we understand more about ourselves..
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HEY!!! THIS is SOOO OSM!!! I have a question tho... Which symbol is which?
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Which symbols are you unsure of? or would you like me to list them?
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actually u dont have to... but i guess it would really help others if u put it on the info section
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I'll try, but if you could tell me which ones in particular you were unsure of first? I could try to tell you what they are ^_^
Then later I'll write them up in the description too. But knowing which are the most likely to not be known would help alot lol
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Well, almost all. Siince I'm not that expertish with religions, i dont know which Symbols go to which religions. Like that nazi sign thing, what religion is that from?
THANKSSS
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Well I've listed most of them in another comment so check it out, if ya can see it if not I'll answer any others ya unsure about.
Yeah it was used by the Nazi's but it was originally a Buddhist symbol ^_^
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