Titans - Gaia, Uranus, Cronus, Oceanus, Rhea, Thea,

Hyperion, Prometheus, Atlas, Phoebe, Mnemosyne, Dione, Metis, Tethys, Epimetheus, Crius, Coeus, Iapetus

Ancient Greek - Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Aphro, Hermes, Artemis, Haephestus

+Demigods - Eros, Pan, Nemesis, Demeter, Persephone, Dionysus, Hebe, Eris, Helius, Selene, Thanatos, 3 Graces, 9 Muses, 3 Fates (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos), Achilles, Alexander, Castor & Polydeuces, Heracles, Rhadamantus, Theseus, Harmonia, Helen, Minos, etc...

Egyptian - Amen, Anubis, Isis, Osiris, Nut, Ra, Ammon, Horus, Re, Set, Thoth, Bast, Bes, Chons, Geb, Hathor, Ka, Maat, Min, Mut, Nephthys, Qetesh, Tawaret, Wepwawet

Hinduism (since c. 2000 BCE) - Brahman

+ Vishnu, Lakshmi, Siva, Devi, Ganesha, Rama, Krishna, Hanumana, Subramanyam, Sita, Parvati (= Uma), Gayatri, Kartikeya, Durga (= Kali), Satyanarayana, Venketeshwara, Saraswati, Asparas, Chandra, Ganga, Gandharvas, Nagas, Pisachas, Rakshas, Yakshas, Surya

+ devas – Indra, Agni, Ushas

+ asuras - Mitra, Bhaga, Varuna...

+ gurus - Shankara, Madhura, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, Sivananda

Sikhism (founded c. 1500) - a divine being, common to all

+ 10 gurus (last died 1708) - Nanak Dev, Angad Dev, Aman Das, Ram Das, Arjan Dev, Hargobind, Har Rai, Harkrishnan, Tegh Bahadur, Gobind Singh

Roman - Jupiter, Juno, Cupid, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Vesta, Minerva, Mars, Mercury, Apollo, Neptune, Pluto, Vulcan, Janus, Saturn, Flora, Fortuna, Priapus, Pax, Hercules, Concordia, Justitia, Dis, Orcus, Proserpina, Bacchus, Lares..., Penates..., Emperors...

Zoroastrianism (Parsees in India) - Ahura Mazda, Mithra, the sun, fire

Jehovah's Doorknockers - Jehovah

+ Jerusalem, Kathusalem, Geronimo, lies and ruses

Scientology - Mammon, L. Ron Hubbard, Rolls Royce

Islam - Allah (pbuh)

+ Prophets - Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad (rip)

Christianity - God (the only one to get the name right)

+ Mary

+ angels & archangels - innumerable, but including Raphael, Michael, Gabriel. Virtues, Powers. Principalities, Dominations, Thrones, Cherubim…, Seraphim….

+ Demigods (Saints) - too many to list (about 5,000 and rising)

+ devils: Satan, Beelzebub, Abezethibou, Leviathan, etc.

that's enough gods (ed)

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. (Thomas Paine)

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations, Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that something agrees with reason, and it is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, accept it and live up to it. (Buddha)

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How can we make the world a better place? Let's think!

Some bad thinks:

If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion. (L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology)

Once the word of Islam was spread by the sword - today we are going to spread it with Kalashnikovs. (Some big Muslim cleric, London)

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews I am doing the Lord's work. (Adolf Hitler)

Sin is the true cause of all earthquakes. (John Wesley)

The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished.(Religious chief, Saudi Arabia,1993)

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot... the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor. (Mother Teresa)

The poor should remain poor... without them we will lose our jobs. (Sister Nirmala, head of M.Teresa's charity, where the millions donated remained in the bank)

A man can have sex with animals such as sheep, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the animal in his own village, but in a neighbouring village would be all right. (Ayatollah Khomeini, boss of Iran)

The deliverance of the Saints must take place some time before 1914. (C.T.Russell, founder of Jehovah's Witnesses)

A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. He should not penetrate, but sodomising the child is all right. (Ayatollah Khomeini, as above)

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Thou shalt not kill. (God)

And I shall execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen. (God)

And it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of cattle. (Exodus, xi, xii) cattle?!

And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote the camp of the Assyrians an hundred four-score and five thousand (185,000); and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. (2 Kings xix, 35)

...thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Pezizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebuzites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. (Deut. xx, 17)

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Love and marriage –

Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Phillistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. (1 Sam. xviii, 27)

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. (1 Sam. xviii,1)

But King Solomon loved many strange women...and he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. (1 Kings xii, 1,3)

...For he was wiser than all men. (1 Kings iv, 31) …and busier...

Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will do it for thee. (1 Sam. xx, 4)

David's lament: How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Oh Jonathan, thou wast slain in thy high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! (2 Sam. i, 25)

to Naomi: And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go: and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me. (Ruth, i, 16)

How shall we do for wives?... And the congregation sent thither 12,000 men of the valientest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. And this is the thing that ye shall do. Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins... (Judges xxi, 7+)

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Some good thinks:

We only half live when we only half think. (Voltaire)

Do unto another what you would have him do unto you... You need this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest. (Confucius, 500 BCE)

We should conduct ourselves towards others as we would have them act towards us. (Aristotle, 385 BCE)

The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known. (John Stuart Mill)

Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity? (H.G.Wells)

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. (Montaigne)

All religions have been made by men. (Napoleon)

If fifty million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. (Anatole France)

The demagogue is one who preaches what he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. (H.L.Mencken)

When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. (Oscar Wilde)

When religion ruled the world they called it the Dark Ages. (mo)

All Bibles are Man Made. (Thomas Edison)

There ain't no elsewhere. (Philip Pullman)

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. (John Buchan)

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. (Voltaire)

... the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. (Galileo)

The Christian God is a three-headed monster, cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging. three-headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who serve him. They are always of two classes, fools and hypocrites. (Thomas Jefferson, American President, 1801-9, author of much of the Declaration of Independence, 1776)

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. (H.L.Mencken)

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. (H.L.Mencken)

I do not find in our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites. (Thomas Jefferson, vide supra)

The story of creation in the Book of Genesis, unless we play fast and loose with words or with science, cannot be brought into harmony with what we have learned from geology... The stories of the Fall, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel are incredible. (Prof. Bonney, Canon of Manchester, 1895)

And the son of god died; it is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible. (Tertullian, 150-225 CE)

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you'ld have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things it takes religion. (Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate)

Religion drove those planes into those buildings, it's amazing how good religion is at mobilizing people to do awful, murderous things. (Rabbi Herschfeld)

Religion has done more to bust up humanity than anything. (Whoopi Goldberg!)

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. (Arthur C. Clarke)

I don't see any god up here. (Yuri Gagarin, first human in space.)

The theistic idea of God is not only unbelievable, it is immoral. (Bishop J. S. Spong)

Faith is a wondrous thing: it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a racehorse. (Arthur Koestler)

Religious belief has been a massively negative force in human history, causing great suffering and conflict. (A.C.Grayling, philosopher)

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Jesus was a Jew, one of our 'coloured brethren', and the offspring of rape, adultery and incest. What do conservative white 'born-again' Christians make of this?

Christians and Muslims worship the same god, Allah be praised, God willing.

For Christians, there will be no sex in heaven. Otherwise there would be millions of children who have not earned heaven, or there would be contraception. Surely the Pope would not allow this?

Will there be lavatories? If not, then no food or drink, either. So what is the penis (made in God's image) for?

What are the blessed going to do for eternity, apart from gleefully watching the torments of their ex-friends and relations in hell? (according to St Augustine)

For Muslims things are very different: sex is the main attraction. Young men who blow up children will go straight to paradise where they will find 72 virgins (each) waiting for them. I have seen some of these handsome and virile youths, and it is unlikely that 72 virgins will last them more than 72 days. Will another batch of 72 then be supplied? If this goes on for eternity, or even for a few months, paradise will be full of females. By force of numbers, they will be in charge. How will the men feel about that?

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What do you think?

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spiral galaxy – 100 billion stars

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