Opinions on structured religion and astrology
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Anonymous
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If you are religious, especially those who align with a structured religion, do you
1) feel that astrology is evil? 2) read astrology sites or posts? / follow on social media etc? 3) feel that you can partake in both a religious organization or belief AND believe astrology? 4) feel that they are not compatible? What do you think about the compatibility of reading/caring about astrology and your other beliefs? |
Anonymous
| I don't think it's evil, I just think it's nonsense. If you like reading your horoscope because it's fun or whatever, knock yourself out. Whether its contradictory depends on the tenets of your religion. |
Anonymous
| There is no particular relation between the two whatsoever. |
Anonymous
| Troll fail |
Anonymous
Not a troll. I’m religious. And I think astrology is fun, if empty. I feel a pang if guilt for liking it though. As though God or my own choices are overtaken my some other mystical force. And I’m denying myself/God power. Something about instead of finding answers to life from God, that I’m finding them elsewhere. |
Anonymous
Well, then stop reading them and focus on your relationship with God. |
Anonymous
| We, Christians, have very clear instruction about astrology found in the Bible. Hence, the faith in Abrahamic God is incompatible with astrology:”There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.” |
Anonymous
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Christianity developed and was practiced for a good millenium and a half before Copernicus. The prevailing view of the universe was a geocentric one--that is that the universe was centered on earth because from our visible viewpoint the sun, moon, and stars move around the earth and the earth does not circle around the sun.
The celestial movement of the stars, especially those in the constellation of the zodiac, marks the seasons and in this sense foretell the future. Spring rains and new animal life will be followed by summer heat, autumn harvests, and cold winters. In Egypt until quite recently the annual flooding of the Nile was predicted by the rising of Sirius. What many now view as astrology--taking meaning in the movement of the stars from a geocentric point of view--was yesteryear's astronomy. It is sometimes referred to as Ptolemaic astronomy. However, even then, inferring personal fates from the movement of the stars, that is, astrology, was suspect by knowledgeable people, who nonetheless strongly believed in using the movement of the heavens to predict seasonal events that affected everyday activities like growing crops and raising livestock. We no longer believe in an earth centered universe and now have more sophisticated means for predicting weather and seasons, though more remote areas still rely on the stars. This makes astrology even sillier than it was in an age when people believed the universe circled the earth. Even more so, when one realizes that owing to the precession of the equinoxes, those born under the sign of Aries 2000 years ago (the period from which popular zodiac signs today are taken) would be born in the sign of Pisces if they had the same birth date today. All that said, if newspaper astrological predictions give you a giggle, no great harm done. |
Anonymous
| I'm a Christian and a psychic. I believe that before we incarnate into this earth reality, we put little signs all over to help guide us. Including in the stars. |
Anonymous
| Not religious and I see little difference between the two. |
Anonymous
I am not sure what christianity you belong to but it is not Christianity taught in the Bible. |
Anonymous
| Why is there a weekly/daily horoscope feature in most western publications if there are some many who don't believe in it? |
Anonymous
"Rabbi ?anina said to his students who heard all this: Go and tell the son of Levi, Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi: It is not the ruling planet of the day of the week that determines a person’s nature; rather, it is the ruling planet of the hour that determines his nature. One who was born under the influence of the sun will be a radiant person; he will eat from his own resources and drink from his own resources..." Shabbat 156B. Judaism did NOT consider astrology a form of divination in line with the prior quote - any more than PP likely thinks weather forecasting is. As a Jew, I do not consider astrology a sin. I do consider it unscientific and unworthy of belief. |
Anonymous
Why are there ice hockey scores when most people do not follow ice hockey? There is a horoscope feature because there are enough people who do believe it to make it worthwhile (this was true even when periodicals were published on paper,not electrons) and there are others who just like to read it, even if they don't put much stock in it. |