No, you can ruggedize electronics, prevent external detection, and we got plenty of 3D programs floating around bootleg on CD.
And ancient Paganism often was allowed to freely evolve, just as Christianity usually has. There are significant theological and philosophical approaches, for example, between the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church in acceptance of Aristotle. Its to the point whenever I visit a Greek monastery I can’t mention any Orthodox theologian or Philosopher who wrote on Aristotle, as they see it threatening to their position on Gregory Palamas. I suspect you’d be interested in Gregory, given his influence on visual, Zen like meditation of seeing internal light patterns in the mind. It gets more complicated once you spread farther into the other holy sees, and even within the Catholic church you have radically different, competing schools. Same with Protestants… we actively induct foreign philosophies like Buddhism and Taoism into Christianity too now, be it Thomas Merton, a Catholic, or Seraphim Rose, Orthodox. The Orthodox are the slowest to change, but they are also the most aggressive in adopting eastern philosophies. These are the mainstream churches of Christianity. Its hardly stagnant. We are the ones who developed the big bang.
And comparing abortion clinics to nazi death camps is spot on. Its not a matter if political acceptance, but finding the correlates that drive people to violence… you gotta find the equivalent points in yourself. I’m not Muslim, I’m opposed to Jihad, but I try to figure our the mindset they act on, read their ideologies, why they say they are motivated. Its irresponsible not to investigate if your a philosopher, or act like it’s incomprehensible… they are human, so am I, so are you, it’s within reach. There really isn’t any difference whatsoever between a abortion clinic and a death camp… similar results, a structure dedicated to killing. Same for the sacrificial alters and burning of babies in the ancient world.
A question seemingly unrelated, but I was pondering… did they ever teach you the stars in the constellations, or did you learn how to make up astrological charts from scratch, or geometry?
I know Didymus the Blind was a accomplished writer on geometry… just, your emphasis on Paganism… usually it’s accompanied by a knowledge of geometry and the stars. How aware of you of this? I know you can’t just look up and see them, but you know how to draw them, their rough spacing? Can you put together a natal chart?
If not, I don’t think it be that hard for a friend to get some laminate paper with a design printed on it, cut it for you so you can get used to the format, run string through it to make a natal chart. You can learn basics of astronomy that way. Your approach to paganism has to always be in opposition to Christianity, but I figure if you learn more, you can rest your faith in it’s merits more, rather than opposition. I’m a Christian, but don’t have to bomb pagans, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists every time I mention my faith. I’ve rarely seen you mention your religion without doing the Father Ted “I hear your a racist” dace the British woman does in the background screaming about Greek immigrants:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6zkL91LzCMc
Basically, the Cather does a childish impression of Chinese people, and is seen doing so through the window by a Chinese couple… he panics, runs outside to explain, but everyone already heard he was a racist… to his shock and horror. Then the lady in the background goes crazy, kicking and hollering, shopping bags all over the place. I take your rants against Christianity in a similar light… if you learned more about some areas outside mere texts, such as astronomy, maybe you can balance your emotional scope a bit, not feel so threatened?