Throughout the ages there have been anonymous claims of deities, Humans claim themselves to be gods…http://www.khilafatworld.com/2011/04/list-of-dead-gods.html
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If i have missed out any gods... please highlight them to me! :-)
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What's the point of this thread? and Homer was never considered a god.
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What's the point of this thread? and Homer was never considered a god.
Please read the article well, some were worshiped as gods and some claimed themselves to be gods but this article presents " are these people worthy to be gods"
Hope you got it!
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Please read the article well, some were worshiped as gods and some claimed themselves to be gods but this article presents " are these people worthy to be gods"
Hope you got it!
Well Homer wasn't worshipped as god nor he himself ever claimed to be a god. He's an author and poet.
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this link may help you to study more about Homer http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/nagy/threads/concept/hero_cults.html
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^ Peace khilafat
hareem01 is absolutely right ... Homer is the author of the various myths and legends not one of the candidates in his own stories ... He never claimed to be a god or a deity. And the link you gave does not show that either ... the Homer hero cult worshipped the taghuts in his stories, e.g. Athene, Zeus, Poseidon, Achillies, Perseus, etc ... they didn't worship him. The khilfat website needs to be edited ... A correction is in order or else the credibility of it will fail.
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Khialfat, do you consider Jesus (as) a dead God? Thats news to me.
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Khialfat, do you consider Jesus (as) a dead God? Thats news to me.
Dear Brother, din't you read the description? I have added a note saying Islam consider Jesus as only a Messenger and Human being, the dead god concept is added in Christian point of view!
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Thank you for your comment, the list prepared as mentioned in Wikipedia, take a look at this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_been_considered_deities
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Dear Brother, din't you read the description? I have added a note saying Islam consider Jesus as only a Messenger and Human being, the dead god concept is added in Christian point of view!
You misunderstood my question. Muslims don't consider any of the listed persons as God. My question is: do you consider Jesus(as) as dead since Jesus(as) is listed under 'List of dead Gods'?
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Peace khilafat
Yes you are right 
… I didn’t know that! … They set up a shrine for venerating him as the source of poetry linking to Oceanus the Titan son of Gaia … The hero cults treated their ‘hero’ as more than man but less than a god - Would that be similar to avatar in some Hindu sects, because others say they were exact manifestations of God, yet others say they were demi-gods. However all in all yes I agree after the shrine for homer was built people started to give him a power that he did not have and that is technically shirk.
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Peace khilafat
Yes you are right :) ... I didn't know that! ... They set up a shrine for venerating him as the source of poetry linking to Oceanus the Titan son of Gaia ... The hero cults treated their 'hero' as more than man but less than a god - Would that be similar to avatar in some Hindu sects, because others say they were exact manifestations of God, yet others say they were demi-gods. However all in all yes I agree after the shrine for homer was built people started to give him a power that he did not have and that is technically shirk.
Thank you for you comments and reply :-)