Was Orion the first god?

magica wrote:I think God or Gods were ancient aliens.

magica wrote:I think Jesus was described as golden haired, lighter skin by Pontius Pilot in his report to Rome.

The caveman pictures are fascinating as they only drew what they saw.

It wasn't until the Middle Ages when artists began depicting Jesus as white because Christians didn't like the idea of Jesus having Jewish features, even though he was Jewish

UNTIL 1961, there was no concrete archaeological evidence that Pontius Pilate, the fifth governor of Judaea, ever existed. There were accounts of him, of course, not least the accounts in the Gospels. But the records of his administration had disappeared completely: no papyri, no rolls, no tablets, no (authentic) letters to Rome. The Roman ruins that remained in Israel seemed to have nothing to do with him. Even his aqueduct - a project that got him into plenty of trouble at the time - appeared to have crumbled away.
In the summer of 1961, however, Italian archaeologists found a piece of limestone, 82cm wide by 68cm high, in the ruins of a sports stadium in Caesarea, beside the sea. The stadium had not been there in Pilate's time; he had yelled at his gladiators in another place. But the stone bore his name, and much else besides.

Because it is the only artefact we have - the only proof of him, and also the only object we can be sure he looked at and thought about - even the tiniest aspects of it have a huge importance. Until there are more discoveries, this is as close as we are going to get.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/historical-notes-pontius-pilate-a-name-set-in-stone-1084786.html

Original Quill wrote:

magica wrote:
I think God or Gods were ancient aliens.

That's the theory of Erich von Daniken.  It's fascinating.

Ben Reilly wrote:Shit, I meant to do a thing about this. Anyway, here it is in a nutshell:

Americans (the white ones at least) are largely descended from people who, in Europe, had some religious rule imposed upon them and instead of saying, "Ah, who the fuck cares," decided to move to an entirely different continent. That's a strong religiosity gene that got passed down to Americans and you see what it has done.

Australians (the white ones) are largely descended from convicts, and you can still see a bit of that in how some of them act like bad-asses/actually are bad-asses.

The English, on the other hand, are mostly descended from non-convicts who didn't care that much about religion, and can't you see that in England today? A la carte Christians for whom curry is quite enough of an adventure, thank you.

(Canadians, the North American descendants of the British, are pretty similar.)