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Damn_Underscore posted...

Yeah I'm gonna need a source on that.

Jewish Rabbis in the last 2000 years were not afraid of astrology like someone who wants Harry Potter banned or something like that. They had different opinions on astrology (this is more so ~1000-2000 years ago than today). Some rejected it, some said it was valid but not to be practiced, others said practicing it was OK. Today it is basically universally rejected outside of Orthodox Judaism and even there it is largely rejected.

But the point is that they didn't ignore it and they knew about it. So why would they have differing opinions on astrology, and why would all of them believe that God is greater than astrology if the entire Bible is just derivative of astrology?

Astrology is far, far, far older than Judaism. The thing about religious allegories is that they help make your religion palatable to another culture that has their own religion.

So if I want to convert you to Christianity, but you're a pagan astrologer, I say things like "Jesus is the sun, and these 12 houses are these people and did these things"

This practice essentially continued until at least as recent as the European colonies in America with the native American religions.

So the fact that you see the same fucking shit pop up in different religions all the time isn't a coincidence, it's the result of thousands of years of proselytizing.

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It says right here in Matthew 16:4 "Jesus doth not need a giant Mecha."
https://imgur.com/dQgC4kv