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> And of course religion has shaped and sustained whole civilizations, arts, philosophy, etc, in ways which astrology did not Many religions that have shaped c
by icebraining 7y ago
> And of course religion has shaped and sustained whole civilizations, arts, philosophy, etc, in ways which astrology did not
Many religions that have shaped civilizations were heavily based on divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the movements and relative positions of celestial objects (i.e., astrology). Multiple Rome emperors had court astrologers, for example.
- coldtea 7y ago>Multiple Rome emperors had court astrologers, for example. Yes, but not of the major religions are about that -- Christianity, Bhudaism, Jewism, Islam, etc. Nor where the religions like the ancient Greek, Egyptian etc that did contain such rituals, predominantly about those. So we can quite easily consider astrology as something either separate or a very small subset of any religion that shaped civilization...