Why was death worshiping so rare throughout history? Compared to other cults, i mean...

Why was death worshiping so rare throughout history? Compared to other cults, i mean. Everything in life is uncertain and temporary, only death is certain and eternal.

Other urls found in this thread:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_Yusuf
youtube.com/watch?v=9g2PutZlwEs
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

The most worshipped religions around the world basically boil down to being death cults.

Death is 2 spoopy

But also this. The majority of religious revolve around death ie your actions in this short life determine your eternal fate. Religion at its core is a tool to manipulate people's fears of death for gain/obedience/support

Christianity is essentially about hope through afterlife. I'm talking about the adoration of the death itself.

>hope through afterlife

But that is also venerating death.

Death isn't worshipped in itself because it symbolizes everything humans innately dislike. It runs counter to our desire to survive and it embodies the unknown in our desire for knowledge.

That said, religions boil down to living a certain lifestyle so that death will be more pleasurable for you. Whether that be praising Jesus Christ, serving Allah, dying on the battlefield for Odin, etc. Death is a core component to most human religions.

Adoration of death is Christianity and most religious as well. It's the reason suicide is a sin despite how gloriously heaven is portrayed and how much a christian may want to get to it/the eternal reward

I wish my phone would stop autocorrecting religions to religious. Is religions not a word or something

Czech'd

Autocorrect just being a bitch. It happens to me sometimes. Clover posting?

what the fuck are you even talking about? almost every major religion has a heavy focus on death. abrahamic religions have a huge focus on the afterlife or heaven/hell in the event of death, eastern religions place a large focus on reincarnation, and I don't think I have to even do anything but mention what central and south americans were up to pre-colonially.

Spoken like a true fedora. This thread reeks of fedora anyway, I hate how Veeky Forums has invaded this place.

If you don't like the thread or the board you can fuck right off.

Precisely because death is certain and eternal. People started the most primitive religions to attempt to appease and thereby control the natural forces/gods around them. Do this dance and the crops will be good, say this prayer and the raiders will pass you by unmolested, go to this holy place and the illness will pass.

In an uncertain world, religious rituals attempt to provide a measure of control and protection, and do enough random crap and you'll get enough random successes for confirmation bias to set in, and voila, you have the underpinnings of a religion.

But death doesn't work that way. Everyone dies, and nobody comes back. You can't exactly control death, or even pretend that you are, with your veneration.

>Norse religion: Val Halla througg glorious death
>Christianity: eternal life following death
>Hinduism: keep dying until you get it right.
>Islam: rewards glorious death

Idk...seems like a lot of relgions glorify death if they dont "worship" death

*tips fedora*

Because death is super spoopy and no one wants to die
Worshipping something so antithetical to human existence feels unnatural

f'dora

Go back to /pol/ I'm trying to experience a different board without you fags shitting it up calling everyone with an opinion a beta cuck or a fedora

This

Basically all major religions have a strong focus on the afterlife.

All your actions in life will determine your place in the next: heaven or hell, reincarnation as a bug or a king, glorious eternal battle and feasting or boring gloom, etc etc.

All religions are death-cults in that sense, but rarely will people welcome death, because only a fitting life will ensure a good afterlife.

euphoric

gb2reddit

>not proof about death being eternal
>i-it's just what science says guys! after all science is the only tool to know the universe, r-right, goyim?

You do realize most christfags in Veeky Forums are supposed to be fasting and praying right now to get ready for large feasts celebrating the death of their god

That's what I thought as well, maybe he is referring to worshiping the actual state of death, and not those who have died?

how is life not certain and eternal?

>i dont understand christianity

Daily reminder that the afterlife is 100% fact.

Look up near-death experiences, all of these things tend to be universal:

>hovering, looking down on your own body
>going into a light or tunnel
>having a 'life review'
>experiencing the terrifying agony of hell or getting a glimpse of what heaven is like
>being told by God/Jesus "it's not your time yet" and being put back into your body
>wake up in hospital as doctors are shocked and thought you were brain dead

The most fascinating part is that all NDEs point to the Bible, not any other religion.

Muslims, Atheists, Hindus - they die and see a Christian afterlife. Many people become converted after an NDE.

God-haters have tried to explain it away by claiming it's all just brain chemicals, but this idea has been debunked.

>this is what redditfags believe
Easter is the celebration of the triumph of Jesus over death. Holy Friday is a time of contemplation.

t. catholic

Easter (Ishtar) and Christmas (Saturnalia) are pagan holidays.

And in which way does that contradict what I already said? No matter their origin, the purpose of the celebration is not what you were implying, reddit.

Because easter is not a celebration of Jesus.

Easter is the celebration of Horus/Tammuz/Nimrod. Eggs and bunnies have nothing to do with our Lord and Saviour.

Neither does Satan Clause and his phallic pagan tree.

>Many people become converted after an NDE.

To Islam actually, not Christianity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_Yusuf

So where's the testimony?

>Easter is a pagan holiday

Except it isn't, it's a Jewish one.

Proof?

Let's start with the fact that both Pesach and Easter are mobile holidays, unlike most (if not all) Graeco-roman festivities. Then there is the fact they fall roughly in the same period (there is a difference because the Lunar calendar is used for Pesach).

And, of course, many rites are exclusively Christian, without any particular pagan or influence (like the Viae Crucis).

Passover is not Easter.

I remember reading a story where a woman had a NDE and claimed she floated up to the roof. She described a red shoe that they later indeed found up there.

What was weird was I remember reading this on Salon or Huffpost or some other far left blog.


Feakiest NDE thing I've heard.

Not him, but what do you mean by a "mobile holiday"?

This one really got me trembling.
youtube.com/watch?v=9g2PutZlwEs

NDEs remind me to get right with God.

They don't fall the same day, they're moved accordingly to lunar calendar.

That's retarded, all it means is that the religions in question follow a lunar calendar, in which they're on the same day every year.

It's commonly reported because it actually happened user.

That it doesn't fall in an exact day of the calendar (for example, 15 of April) but it changes depending on what calculations you do over the solar/lunar cycle.

And again, that's completely idiotic and simply a function of how you structure your calendar.

If I'm from a civilization that uses a lunar calendar, than our (lunar calendar holidays) are on the same day every year, and anything that's set to be on the same day in a solar calendar is the one that skips around.

>death cult
t. reddit

isn't national socialism a death cult?

Yeah, it's not like solar/lunar calendar differ so much from the gregorian calendar, oh wait.