Question

What makes you ________?

i.e. Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Athiest, etc

How do you define yourself as that belief?

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The Differences

I've seen much confusion and misinterpretation between athiests and agnostics. What's the difference?

Athiests: "the theory of belief that God does not exist"


Agnostic:  "a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God."
How accurate is this to your own opinions and beliefs?

Heaven or Hell?

Would you rather live believing in a possible paradise or no reward at all? Would you rather know the risk of burning in a hell or the idea of ceased existance and no where to go? It's an indivdual's own belief, and a mystery that has been always questioned by people.

Top Ten Organized Religions.

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Ἀθηνᾶ (Athena) - Greek Goddess of Wisdom

In Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene (Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnā or Ἀθηναία) is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, logic,  the arts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is commonly associated wtih the owl.
She is the virgin patron of Athens. In her honor, the Athenians built the Parthenon on the Acropolis of her namesake city, Athens.

Athena, as a goddess of philosophy, became an aspect of the Classical Greece cult during the late 5th century B.C.

Athena and Erichthonius
Athena appears in Greek mythology as the patron of many heroes, including Odysseus, Jason, and Heracles. In Classical Greek myths, she never becomes involved with a lover, nor does she ever marry. A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of Erechtheus/Erichthonius through the foiled rape by Hephaestus.

Athena elluded Hephaestus and thus his semen fell to the earth and impregnated Gaia, and Erichthonius was born from the Earth. Athena then raised the baby as a foster mother.

Athena puts the infant Erichthonius in a small box (cista) which she trusts to the care of the three sisters, Herse, Pandrosus, and Aglaulus of Athens. The goddess does not tell them what the box holds inside, but she warns them not to open it until her return. One (or two) sisters opens the cista to reveal Erichthonius, in the form of a serpent. The serpent/snake, or insanity induced by the sight, drove Herse and Aglaulus to throw themselves off the Acropolis.

Her Birth
Zeus lay with the goddess of crafty thought and wisdom, Metis. It had been prophesied that Metis would bear children more powerful than even Zeus himself. In order to forestall these dire consequences, after lying with Metis, Zeus "swallowed her down all of a sudden." However, Metis had already conceived.

Eventually Zeus experienced an enormous headache; Prometheus, Hephaestus, Hermes, Ares,or Palaemon  (depending on the source) cleaved Zeus's head with the double-headed Minoan axe, the labrys. Athena leaped from Zeus's head, fully grown and readily armed.

The Virgin Athena (Athena parthenos)

Her most famous temple, the Parthenon (right), on the Acropolis in Athens, takes its name from this title. It was not merely an observation of Athena's virginity, but as a recognition of her role as enforcer of sexual modesty. Beyond recognition, the Athenians allotted the goddess value based on this pureness of virginity as it witheld a principle of female behavior in a patriarchal society.