[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Sometimes I wish other ancient religions had survived to give us more variety in the world. The ancient Norse religions and Mithraic Mysteries have always fascinated me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraic_mysteries

I dunno, that just seems like it would be more people to be potentially preachy about beliefs which are kind of cool as legends but not really cool at all when taken as true.

I recently found out that a guy I've had a bunch of conversations with at a small beer house I frequent in Shanghai is a scientologist. He's a nice guy and all and I can totally see how an intergalactic lord blowing up a bunch of aliens in Earth's volcanoes could be cool in a science fiction novel, but it's kind of disturbing when someone actually believes it's true. Religious stories as interesting legends = cool. Religious stories believed to be true = a little bit crazy.