The word 'religion' comes from the Latin word relegere, which comes from legere, lego, which means, among other things, to 'read', but
mostly, its meaning is to 'pick up', 'gather', 'collect '. Therefore, the Roman
Religio refers to an activity that is performed, as such, in the field/land;
collect the harvest, the fruits of the field; of the earth. Here is the term
lego in its original sense, referred to a
field/land activity itself.
The Roman countryside is the foundation of what would later be the city of Rome. It is in the field where the Romans build their character, customs, traditions, and institutions that someday will make the city of Rome.
It is in relation to that land cultivated in the fields of Rome, which it will be shaping the sense of the Religio Romana, and the institutions that later Roman people will have a sacred and scrupulous respect.
But this scruple, this respect for what are the traditions and customs of Rome that spring from their land is completed solely on the link between all this to the Roman blood, the blood of the founding fathers of Rome, who will inform the subsequent patricians. Religion, therefore, arises when there is a link between Blood and Soil; Religio is the link between Blood and Soil.
But Later, a fourth-century Christian philosopher named Lactantius, in a time that Rome virtually no longer exists, tried to manipulate the meaning of the word 'religio' to justify something which in Roman times was a nonsense, that is, that Christianity was "a religion".
That because Romans called the outlaw cults as 'superstitio', ie, 'superstition', and Christianity was called 'superstitio iudaica'; 'Jewish superstition'. Etymologically the word 'superstition' comes from 'superstare', which refers to excessive fear of the gods and of submission to them or unreasonable religious belief, as opposed to 'religio', the proper, reasonable awe of the gods. Therefore, the real meaning of 'superstition' is not the common usage: "attributing magical explanations to phenomena", but "to be subjugated or enslaved by a god", which is an inherent characteristic of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianism, and Islam).
'Religion' was originally and naturally ethnic, folkish, the Natural Religion and the Religion of Nature. The concept of a "universal religion" is nothing but artificial. "Religion", in its real sense, is the expression of the particular spirit of a people, it is a inseparable reality of a general way of life, a way of seeing the world inherent to each culture. The diversity of "religions" refers to the diversity of peoples. And this shows the incontestable truth that every being is equal to itself and different from others.
The belief that a jewish god with a jewish name is the "god of universe", and that these dogmas of this belief are universal and valid for all the people, and they should be imposed on others for "their salvation", it means to be incapable of recognize and respecting the differences between people, and it is the greatest form of intolerance and hate: it caused a terrible devastation and genocide of hundreds of cultures, the destruction of temples, scriptures, artistic works and philosophers, with consequent scientific, social, political and philosophic backwardness.
The Roman countryside is the foundation of what would later be the city of Rome. It is in the field where the Romans build their character, customs, traditions, and institutions that someday will make the city of Rome.
It is in relation to that land cultivated in the fields of Rome, which it will be shaping the sense of the Religio Romana, and the institutions that later Roman people will have a sacred and scrupulous respect.
But this scruple, this respect for what are the traditions and customs of Rome that spring from their land is completed solely on the link between all this to the Roman blood, the blood of the founding fathers of Rome, who will inform the subsequent patricians. Religion, therefore, arises when there is a link between Blood and Soil; Religio is the link between Blood and Soil.
But Later, a fourth-century Christian philosopher named Lactantius, in a time that Rome virtually no longer exists, tried to manipulate the meaning of the word 'religio' to justify something which in Roman times was a nonsense, that is, that Christianity was "a religion".
That because Romans called the outlaw cults as 'superstitio', ie, 'superstition', and Christianity was called 'superstitio iudaica'; 'Jewish superstition'. Etymologically the word 'superstition' comes from 'superstare', which refers to excessive fear of the gods and of submission to them or unreasonable religious belief, as opposed to 'religio', the proper, reasonable awe of the gods. Therefore, the real meaning of 'superstition' is not the common usage: "attributing magical explanations to phenomena", but "to be subjugated or enslaved by a god", which is an inherent characteristic of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianism, and Islam).
'Religion' was originally and naturally ethnic, folkish, the Natural Religion and the Religion of Nature. The concept of a "universal religion" is nothing but artificial. "Religion", in its real sense, is the expression of the particular spirit of a people, it is a inseparable reality of a general way of life, a way of seeing the world inherent to each culture. The diversity of "religions" refers to the diversity of peoples. And this shows the incontestable truth that every being is equal to itself and different from others.
The belief that a jewish god with a jewish name is the "god of universe", and that these dogmas of this belief are universal and valid for all the people, and they should be imposed on others for "their salvation", it means to be incapable of recognize and respecting the differences between people, and it is the greatest form of intolerance and hate: it caused a terrible devastation and genocide of hundreds of cultures, the destruction of temples, scriptures, artistic works and philosophers, with consequent scientific, social, political and philosophic backwardness.
God
The Latin word for "god", “Deus” (Indo-European *deywó-) has a pagan origin and stems from the Indo-European designation of "daytime sky" (*dyew-).
The English word itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic *ǥuđan (Woden/Wotan/Odin?), and most linguists agree that the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form * ǵhu-tó-m was based on the root * ǵhau(ə)-, which meant either "to call" or "to invoke".
The original Bible never says "God", but "Yahweh", "Adonai", "El", "Elohim". So, when someone says "God", is using a term whose origin is pagan.
