Among them are that the analogy between the works of nature and human artifacts is not particularly strong; that even if we could infer a grand designer of the universe, this designer turns out to be something less than the God of the theistic religions (especially given the great amount of evil in the world); and that just because a universe has the appearance of design, it does not follow that it is in fact designed; such an event could have occurred through natural, chance events. Although many of the answers found by early Greek philosophers regarding the nature of the universe were later proved false, their use of logical analysis led to the rise of the scientific method. Out of this burden God gave them a strategy to use a unique type of evangelistic rally to reach young people. It is often seen as humanity’s first attempt to provide rational explanations for the workings of the world, without mythological content (traditional legends or stories) or the use of gods to explain existence. After the creation of the world, heavens, hell by Allah the first one to enter in it was Hazrat Gabriel. On top of all these economic benefits, one that cannot really be quantified is that people who are religiously involved are also happier.

This site was not about whether you are satisfied, happy, at peace, whether you are fed up with yourself, or think you are a failure. God gives intelligence, knowledge, power, peace, patience, means of enjoyment etc. Only by having these qualities, one is able to perform his duties towards the family, friends, teachers & society. Unlike most other religions on this list, Buddhism has a fairly clear history: it begins with one man, Siddhartha Gautama, known otherwise as Buddha. They also borrowed from Egyptian religions and from west-Asian civilizations. Discussing these New Age “translations,” Safi said, “I see a type of ‘spiritual colonialism’ at work here: bypassing, erasing, and occupying a spiritual landscape that has been lived and breathed and internalized by Muslims from Bosnia and Istanbul to Konya and Iran to Central and South Asia.” Extracting the spiritual from the religious context has deep reverberations. According to the Roman writers who provide the earliest written accounts of prehistoric religion, late Iron Age worship focused not on built temples but on ‘sacred groves’, the haunts of Druids, whose name means ‘oak-knowers’. These two writers were Virgil (70-19 bce) and Ovid (43 bce-17 ce).

Virgil was the author of the Aeneid, a kind of sequel to Homer’s Iliad, which tells the tale of Aeneas and the founding of Rome, while Ovid is best known for the Metamorphoses, an epic collection and expansion ot Greek and Roman myths. The Olympian gods remained at the center of Greek culture and religion for several hundred years. Yet for centuries they dominated concepts of prehistory, and were wrongly portrayed as the builders of Stonehenge – a monument abandoned at least a thousand years before they are first heard of. For example, the concept of atoms as building blocks of matter, usually thought of as a nineteenth-century discovery, was actually first developed by two Greek philosophers in about 400 bce. The Greek myths, in turn, attempted to explain the mysteries of life and nature, such as the origin of the world and the creation of the seasons. It is this last element that implies that the timeless being is outside time because a temporal living thing only possesses one moment of its life at a time.

For example, each person has one guardian angel, called Fravashi. The Greeks called this set of twelve gods and goddesses the Olympian gods, because they supposedly lived on Mount Olympus in northern Greece. In 490 bce Greece was invaded by the forces of the Persian Empire. Peloponnesian peninsula of southern Greece. This British landmark features one of the highest domes in the world. Homer explained the family relationships between the various gods, gave each one a title and a specific power or responsibility, such as Zeus, as the supreme god; Poseidon, the god of sea; or Ares, the god of war. He also gave them very human qualities. I know that Islam endorses slavery, oppresses non-Muslims, and is opposed to human dignity, especially the dignity of women. For this reason, Greco-Roman philosophy was revolutionary in the history of human thought. The Greeks took some of their ideas from the ancient Minoan civilization (c. Greek and Roman religion was polytheistic; ancient Greeks and Romans worshipped many gods and goddesses. The origins of ancient Greek religion go back thousands of years. The Greek word “manifestation” is “phanerosis,” which means: exhibition; or making visible.