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"Over the last thirty centuries of religious propaganda, (...) paganism has been painted as a parade of horribles. We are instructed to regard paganism as an "abomination," as the biblical authors so insistently put it, a dark and demonic force compounded of harlotry, idolatry, sorcery and human sacrifice. (...) The core value of paganism was religious tolerance - a man or woman in ancient Rome was at liberty to offer worship to whatever god or goddess seemed most likely to grant a prayerful request, with or without the assistance of priests or priestesses, so long as he or she didn't do it in the streets, as a Victorian-era wit once said of women preachers, and scare the horses."
- "God against the gods" by Jonathan Kirsch
"What does it matter by which wisdom each of us arrives at truth?" muses Symmachus, a pagan prefect of the fourth century. "It is not possible that only one road leads to so sublime a mystery."
- quoted in "A Chronicle of the Last Pagans" by Pierre Chuvin.
borrowing non-fiction doesn't work for me. 9 pages in, and i already want to highlight. *adds book to long, long list of things i can't afford*
- "God against the gods" by Jonathan Kirsch
"What does it matter by which wisdom each of us arrives at truth?" muses Symmachus, a pagan prefect of the fourth century. "It is not possible that only one road leads to so sublime a mystery."
- quoted in "A Chronicle of the Last Pagans" by Pierre Chuvin.
borrowing non-fiction doesn't work for me. 9 pages in, and i already want to highlight. *adds book to long, long list of things i can't afford*
