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Here in Utah, the State Board of Education had ~6 hour debate whether or not to teach The Flood. As per my last post, those debates SHOULD happen. Not be exorcised because one group makes a decision that the debate can’t even be brought to the floor. Neither schools nor legislatures have infinite a...

I certainly hope that your hope that younger people are seeing it is correct. It seems to be. Voter turnout among younger demographics is always depressingly low, but according to this source , in 2022 it was ten points higher than in 2014. And those who did vote preferred Democrats by whopping mar...

People can join a monastery, and there is not movement having a hysterical meltdown over that. That's because being a monk has the backing of an ancient and more or less accepted cultural tradition. Joining a cult should be the same thing. One difference that comes to mind is that people in monaste...

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Tue Mar 07, 2023 3:55 am

Steering clear of women is the best financial decision a man can make.

I certainly hope you steer clear of women.

One of the oldest human settlements, Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey dates to around 9000 B.C. The people living in 4500 B.C. would've been thinking of the people who lived in Göbekli Tepe as the ancients in the same way we think of the Egyptians, assuming they even knew about them or had legends or storie...

Why would a lowlife such as that have billions of views on social media?? From an article in the Guardian ( link ): Tate, 36, a US-British citizen who came to public attention when he was thrown off the reality show Big Brother in 2016, likes to pose with a cigar in front of expensive cars and priv...

I realize Marcion favored Paul but it seems unlikely that he was the only one. For some reason there were people who saw Paul as enough of an authority to write letters in his name. If I remember correctly, the importance of Marcion was that he collected Pauline epistles and (according to his detra...

At this point in his moment of humiliation and desperation, do you really think he'd turn down negotiations with Dems if it means getting what he wants? I mean it really can't get any worse for him right now. The alienation is already happening and if he gives any more concessions to those 20 he co...

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 22, 2022 5:29 pm

What does Jewish custom have to do with a god impregnating a girl so he can incarnate?

The gospels say she was engaged at the time Jesus was conceived.

Turning my original question around, how many other religions at that time were based on (assumed to be) real people? I don't know. There were tons of religions...if they were all in some sense considered separate religions. Many to most contained many similar elements, it appears. Many to most als...