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  79. The desire to control reality begins in infancy. When our cry brings food and comfort, we begin to inform our conscioua mind of an illusory 'power.' We need to believe in our own power. However false this belief may be, within it lies our very assurance that we are not adrift on a sea of helpless fear. As we get older and more aware, we find faith. Although we may debate how 'real' our faith is, ( and the nature of reality itself is quite unknown) many of us acquire a sense of comfort through the ritual provided by worship. Mass, feast days, confession etc. provide ritual and continuity. Wicca, however, seems a bit chaotic. With no central core doctrine, it seems likely to appeal to those younger folk who, finding close to 2 thousand years of dogma and history, the foundation and development of Western philosophy about as impressive as a fast-food lunch they then long for something 'real.' They then gird their loins with clothing purchased at Hot Topic and proceed to read this worthy author. You know, I was impressed (favorably) by a rather serious young man who expounded for hours upon the works of Eliphas Levi, Manly P. Hall, Paracelsus, John Dee, The Kyballion, The Key of Solomon and other volumes both obscure and famous. He could read Latin, Greek and a bit of Hebrew. He was a serious student of the Occult. But most Wiccans, alas, seem to dwell on tomes like "Mix your own love philters" And "Spell$ To make your dreams come true" written by worthies with names like 'Wolfhair Ravenbush' and 'Elfsprite Tinkleberry' etc. I consider Wicca the acne of spiritual growth. At best its something to giggle over with your former spell-casting buddies, remembering your 14th Summer with cringey amusement. But at worst you are knocking on the door of Captain Howdy and some even more dangerous cohorts. A doctor is trained for many years, a priest as well. One does not play with scalpels, bonesaws, syringes. They are dangerous. Any doctor who encourages amateurs to 'investigate' the mysteries of the human body with the tools of his trade would be called a dangerous madman. Draw from this a parallel, those who are wise.
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  257.  June VanDerMark  I think you need to revise your understanding of who Jesus is and why He was born. Judaism built a relationship between God and man based on the ceremonial performance of ritual-;what the NT calls 'works.' By perfect adherence to these rituals a Jew was called "righteous.' This was not however what God originally intended for man. In Isaiah God tells the people 'Your burning sacrifices are not what I desire, I desire a righteous heart'! God wanted the fulfillment of this righteousness and the Messiah was born. We cannot explain in human terms how the sacrifice of Jesus could atone for the sins of mankind. Great works of soteriology -;the theology salvation, have been written. The best we can understand is that perfect Love is willing to do anything, suffer anything endure anything, and that Love can transcend any barrier between us and death. Jesus Jewish family was righteous indeed, and had to be for God's plan of salvation. We Catholics believe that Mary was chosen before time began to fulfill her destiny as the Mother of God. The Child growing within Her womb wasn't only a human baby, but fully man and fully God. For this purpose Mary was born without original sin. The Holy Spirit Himself prepared Mary as a sinless vessel to bear Jesus, because God cannot dwell with sin. There is a lot greater authors could tell you but not the greatest can explain the mysteries of faith and salvation. And we are all human beings and our understanding will never be perfectly The best thing to know is this: Jesus commanded us to live one another. To help and befriend the poor in every need and to love God. Whether you are. Roman Catholic like me, or a Protestant, Orthodox or Copt adopt humility and kindness as your guide. Imitate the Lord as much as human frailty permits. Be chaste and honest and charitable. Blessings to you.
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  423.  @renaudtheis1197  How you camr to these conclusins is problematic. Jesus of Nazareth has a drfiniitive tomb as far as his followers are concerned.The building known as the Edicule in Jerusalem has been standing since at least the 3rd century. The present Rotunda of the Anastasis was completed in the year 2000 and it is under the care of the Roman Catholic, Egyptian Coptic and Armenian Orthodox churches. We know what we know of its authenticity as a place of pilgrimmage since the reign of Constantine who built a now-destroyed basilica to enclose the edicule. I am not at home but as soon as I get thereI will.post an excellently researched volume that you may acquire it at your local library. But why you don't know this is puzzlong since this os probably the most well studied buildi g in Western history As to why his followers faced martyrdom and rxile, human capacity for self delusion is an abyss that has no known sounding depth. Why woulfd Islamic extremists fly a plane into a building? Why would women (and men) sink millions of dollars. endure broken jaws and risk blindness ina quest to ne 'beautiful?' Why would women violate their own infants in aquest for the 'love' of a rock star? ( look up Ian Watkins if you have the stomach). The unlovef, the poor, the homely, th friendless, the un-special 'lumpen' who are not rich or pretty or clever- have a chance to be 'special. rewardef, and most importantly LOVED by a Magic Sky Daddy who will dry every tear. Isn't that wonderful? The fat. potato-nosed.fried chicken gobbling mid western hausfrau can be saved for the asking while skeptic Vaudelune, who on her pld age cares for two old men (cancer and liver failure) free, houses an old homeless woman no one wants, carres for a diabled sisyer and endures 30 years in an unloving marriage to a porn addict, sharpens a still keen mind and goes to hell Don't tell me to pray Tried it. 26 years Nope. No one is listening
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  607.  @bring-out  Sir, I really hanen't the time to process an entire text wall. To suggest that the United Staes has the same world view today regarding war in the late 20th century as we had in the early 20 century is ludicrous. The United States is acompassionate and just nation, but our leaders are not. The common people only generally believe what their favorite politician tell them. And people bound to prosper off the Viet Nam war-partcularly firms like Halliburton- do not give a flying fuck about THeir OWN sons dying in a jungle, they sure as hell didnt care about a bunch of slant eyed kids in black pajamas. If I were you, I would educate myself by reading The Pentagon Papers. The reason we were in Vietnam is that, after that after WW2 a roomfull of 'Society of the Bell' type assholes believed that France had to keep it colonies to remain solvent. Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the Viet Min party and we promised to support Vietnamese independance if he helped us drive out anti French partisans at Dienh Bien Phu. GUESS WHAT? WE LIED. We betrayed HCM who at the time was very pro American. We have done this often. We destroyed Guatemala in the 70s by funding an ouster of the legitimately elected president who vowed to give millions of acres of coffee growing and banana growing land back to the Maya. We played pocket pool while Gen. Efrain Rodriguez Mont murdered 1.5 million native Maya. We used our technology to overturn an election in Chile and make sure that we had a military junta instead. Of what the Chilean people wanted. . WE FUNDED THE COUP AGAINST SALVADOR ALLENDE. WE PUT SADDAM HUSSEIN IN POWER. WE DESTABILIZED IRAN. You were extremely insulting to me and will not return the favor but I have no time for those who wish to discuss politics with no knowledge of history.
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  694.  @LASLAY13  Can you read English? I am a ROMAN CATHOLIC. The Bible is NOT inerrant. The book of Genesis flood story is simply an adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh, where a righteous man named Nu saves his family from the wrath of the God Enlil. No righteous God would do such a thing, but you are referencing the folk tales of a primitive nomadic people. Empathy, tolerance, mercy and humane behavior are not possible in an environment where your neighbors and nature are trying their best to kill you. But they survived and became a literate, cultured and artistically gifted people. The RCC does not oppose the teaching of evolution. The Holy Father is doing his best to reconcile the church with our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. And the church is troubled. Out of a population of 414, 567 priests 235:have been convicted of molestations and that is too high a number. And the RCC has doubled in size since 1970, to about 1.229 billion in 2014. So to answer your question, of course not.Although the RCC has the same Jewish roots as Protestantism, Coptic church and Orthodox we are not fundamentalists. The Bible as well as the Magisterium ( writing of the church doctors, philosophers and mystics) guides us as an organic, living and growing entity. Do you see how your ignorant assumptions pigeonhole people into your world iview. Your search for confirmation bias paints every theist as ..what was it? "Easily led... indoctrinated...etc." No religion is as fanatical and dogmatic as atheism.
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  703. ​ @nolwino We all have a personal religious life. However, if you read the Gospel ( or the Quaran or Gita or Tanakh and Hadeeth, etc) we are commanded by our Deity to extend ourselves into charity and love. I mean, its all well and good to give yourself an excuse to isolate and ignore, but that isnt the mark of spiritual maturity. Catholic saints- Francis of Assisi, st. Clare, St. Vincent de Paul, the blessed Frederick Ozanam, to name only a few-gave their lives not only to the promulgation of faith but to the service of the sick, the orphaned, the destitute. The amount of charitable effort of the RCC is astounding, and that is from Quora, a news service that dosent particularly like us. As an adult, I came to absolutely shocking conclusion that my ego, my self concept, my sense of self and my wants and needs were not the center of the universe. Like most humans, Im selfish, dishonest, self decieving and not really a great addition to humanity. But getting outside of my self, caring for those who truly need it ( right now a gentleman I met long ago, a man who thru 3 successive heart attacks lost everything) I find the redemptive medicine prescribed by dr. Eshoa Bar Yusuf of Nazareth. Its expensive. He has no SS, no pension, no savings. But his SS kicks in March, his health is improving, and to see him safe and happy is my reward on Earth. After he is on track, God will put someone else in my path. It is the visible and tangeable expression of a faith that saves not only them, but me.
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  734.  @achen5689  And any sexual contact where you have an adult and a minor the principles put in place by the law are there to protect that minor. Whether or not a minor initiated this act is irrelevant; the adult is ALWAYS the responsible party. The legal principle of "respondiat superior" applies to adults and minors, seniors and subordinate, teacher and pupil, anywhere where an imbalance of power, experience or influence results in an imbalance that may result in exploitation or coercion. This is done to protect ANY vulnerable party. "Adult" for legal purposes must mean an adult who is capable of understanding the law.In the case that the adult is mentally defective ( state vs. Arturo M.) the state ruled against a minor (16) who S.A. his developmentally delayed sister (30). The principal guiding these laws is not age, the principal has to do with the presumption that the adult has the capacity, the experience and intent of manipulating the vulnerable party in ways they cannot foresee. Age, while certainly the criteria used by the law as a hard and fast criteria, is only one hard line in the sand. You cannot establish certain types of relationships with those under state protection for their own welfare. The point is that certain relationships require two equal participants. An imbalance that puts a partner at a disadvantage is not morally or ethically sound; this is the kind of principled thinking that will keep you out of legal trouble. Do what is right, and you will implicitly avoid that which the law forbids.
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  774.  @arcajeth626  Faith with no rational basis is indeed only superstition. But over 2000 years of magisterium-the works of those whose writings founded Western thought and civilization, founded the 1st universities in Padua, in Rome, inParis , in England. at Cambridge and Oxford, are not the doings of irrationality and superstition. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and you are STILL eating what was cooked by Roger Bacon (the scientific method) Thomas Acquinas ( formal logic) hundreds of years before the discovery of the New World. Nihil nihilo fit-and in a world where humankind has BARELY scratched the surface of what actually comprises the nature of reality, I would not limit my tools to mere empiricism. Your little tool kit falls apart on the sub-atomic level. Atheism has always been popular for the 'rebel without a clue' types all the way back to Byron and Shelley, but that it all it is, an affectation for a limitation. And Jung knew this better than anyone. If you walk out of your cozy bedroom tonite into a hallway where you see a masked man in black carrying a Bowie knife, you will, against all rational affectation. pray. Maybe not to god, but your every living synapse will take part in a silent rosary of hope that Mr. Bigknife didnt see you. And your next series of litanies will take place after the mad dash to the bedroom where you will continue your entreaties in hopes that the police will get there before your door comes crashing in. This dosent 'prove God,' but it is pretty convincing evidence that your 'rational interpretatation' paradigm goes out the same hole as the stuff filling your drawers when you are in survival mode. And survival mode dosent NEED rationality to interpret the universe. This isnt an argument against empirical or rational thought, justva reminder that it isnt the whole tool kit.
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  811.  @six7595  lol, Honey, i used to "know thay. I' m ugly" too. Until o got out on my own and tealized a few of life's truths that you dont learn in schol So listwn to Auntie V 1) The kond of conventional beauty you see on models makes them all look alike. This is not a coincidence. They are cookie cutter cpoies of each other necause they are there to sell clothes Designers want to showcase their creations, not the girls wearing them 2) Boys like girls who are basically vapid mental midgets who know how to put on make up and wear expensive clothes. MEN, hpwever, do npt. And can not. accomplish anything im life at the side of am idiot. You are going to know how to have to know how to speak act, comfort and strengthen a man. An idiot cannot do this. So worry about ypur mind before ypu worry about perfect hair and flawless skin. Your accomplishments must be brilliant. After all, a power couple must have twice the power. 3) Sweetheart, YOU teach the world how tp treat you. Nasty, cruel bitches can smell low self esteem the way sharks can smell molecular quantities of blood in the water 10 miles away Study French women If they have large ears, a big nose, a strong chin, they dpnt cry about it. They capitalize pn it!They make it their symbol, their banner 3) Get sassy Get savvy. Make friends with a drag queen Trust me, they have a couple of obstacles on the way of being a beautiful woman but by God they dp ot wrll. Learn frpm themto find your 'fierce' , to find the part of you that arefuses to sit dpwn and be quiet Find your fierce It took me a while, and I went from geek to freak and tried to make up for lost time! But honey, at 56 I had a a 24 year old boy friend..and im not done having fun! Girl, find your fierce. Be happy. Be you!ps i am sorry about typos i have very bad artritis.
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  877.  @douglasrasmussen480  This process of inculcation, as you call it, is responsible for the transmission of values centred on the person of the Christ and has been the central factor sustaining Western Civilization. You must not have my years or you would have known two prior generation of doctors, teachers, community leaders of every type whose faith, both public and private, sustained and anchored the greatest generation our country has produced. You haven't the benefit of having known people of faith who have raised men and women of vision, whose dedication to the wellbeing of family and community have their roots in faith. And I don't just reference my own church, I happen to be RC but churches as well as synagogues and temples across the nation established a society conducive to public and private well being. Going back even further, nearly every benevolent institution- EVERY great European houses of learning, hospitals, orphanages,, shelters established for the aged and infirm. Only am enemy of peace and prosperity would deny the societal need for religious expression. Actor Russel Brandt, a recent convert to Catholicism put it neatly, " we are a species that worships." Only the past 80 years, a pathetic tic of the clock for the human race, scarcely a movement of the second hand, have tried to deny this. And this has been a time of prodigious technological progress. Has this progress made us happier? Less lonely? More inclined to relieve the burden of the weary? If anything we can now enjoy our misery and loneliness hygienically. The therapist has taken the place of the confessor, the internet the place of community, and we buy buybuy, unable to fill our stomachs with enough food, when a little bread eaten in the company of a friend give satiety and joy. Promiscuity and gratuitous display takes the place of love, when in other days the spouses of many years loved tenderly, cherishing the unstained bed and the aging body as proof of faithful love. This 'inculcation' as you call it paved the ground for civilized humanity, back as far as history will take you, the voice of man's inner self called out beyond his own existence and lifts him above simple nature BECAUSE we are 'the species that worships.' .
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  879.  @douglasrasmussen480  I will try once more to answer you. I have no idea why my replies are deleted. You must not have my years or you would remember entire communities anchored deeply in the Abrahamic faiths. Children of former generations were guided, taught and educated based on principles exemplified by the Christ. This system brought forth men who fell at Verdun and Normandy and women in whose hands and hearts lay the responsibility for teaching the values and skills necessary to preserve civilization. The domestic arts are those taken for granted by so many, but these are the difference between a barracks or squat and a comfortable home. Having been raised by people who did not know or care, I envied my friends the sweet comfortable peace of their homes. Doctors, attorneys, accountants, teachers, caroenters, people from every walk of life were 'indoctrinated' into the faith of their fathers. The result was peace, stability, neighbors who would befriend and help in any need, close-knit communities, school where children learned skills that would assist them in the acquisition of gainful employment, elders treated with pious respect due to their gray heads, mother's and fathers faithful and devoted to each other and their families. No 'baby mamas' and "baby daddies," but ever-present, attentive, dedicated role models. Was it so in every home? Not in mine certainly , but this was the standard accepted by the educated and skilled labor. It would seem that this dreadful indoctrination had a stabilizing effect on their lives. Technology and it's wonders are late comers. Yes, we can only wonder at the progress made in medicine, in communication. But has it made us happier? Safer? In fact, this present generation is the first that is not expected to live as long as their parents. Abuse of Food, drink, substances, sheer boredom and lack of any true examples of peaceful and productive cohabitation . There is no sense of dedication or devotion, and the ideal seems to be a 25k wedding that lasts a year. The best we have, it seems, is the ability to enjoy our misery and loneliness in hygienic comfort. What does you faithless world model offer in lieu of the civilization we once had?
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  887. What a eay to cheapen and tarnish the memory of this poor boy, using his murder to advance the cause of the Marxist radical nightmare infecting this country. I really dont care what you think of the Stars and Bars and the statues commemorating the Confederate dead. To suggest that anyone of the people marching by this young mans casket would blame his death on z piece of cloth or a stone man placrs the onus of ignorance AND. Childish savagery on the black man, again, dispatching his 'black rage' on inanimate objects. Have you NO shame. NO decency. I know the radical left holds nothing sacred so i should not be surprised. But this shocks me. The Confederacy existed. Men died for their nation The great overwhelming majority of men who died were too poor to afford a second pair of shoes let alone a slave. Their names are long forgotten. All that is left are pieces of carved stone. Men like Robert E Lee abhorred slavery and haf long made his feelings on this matter known.. He fought for the same reason men enlisted to serve in Viet Nam; a vow made to God and country was taken will soul deep seriousness and a belief in the honor of a luteral God. You cannot erase the 19th century, slavery or the descendants of the Southern poor by declaring a statue a criminal or by exploiting the death of a murdered child to incite violence and mayhem and public destruction. If towns would remove monuments let this be expressed by referendum and vote. If this be the will of the people do we not have the democratic venue of local vote to express lawfully this will? Stop inciting vandalism an public rioting. Stop exploiting 66 year old murders. Let this woman pay for her evil crimes. That is justice. Do justice with dignity. I am sorry for typos. Severe arthritis.
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  908.  @jacobjasch4397  There was a great and bitter war in the Eastern Roman Empire. Those who believed that the cross and Icons wers not godly, and those who did. In the end, a bishop of some renown brought forth a concept deeply rooted in reality: whatever we see makes an image. We cannot help it; what we see creates a visual memory indelibly printed on the subconscious. And an icon or crucifix is merely the expression of what we already have in our minds and hearts.When we say 'Jesus' we already see him in our mind and heart, to externalize this vision by means of an artistic effort is just an expression of this vision. To take a commandment or a law out of context is wrong. You must contextualize what you say else "Thou shalt not kill" nullifies 4 or 5 Levitical laws-including working on Sunday-that demand the penalty of death! Adultery was punished by stoning in the O T- but did not G.say' thou shalt not kill?' But execution IS killing for a transgression. You see my point about context. When the decalogue was given to the Hebrews the 'idols' where those of Moloch and Baal before whom sacrifices (horrible ones) were made. But G. demanded that CHERUBIM (a heavenly creature) be put on the Ark of the Covenant! Remember the fire serpents? 'Go and look upon them that you may be healed?' If you do not wish to have an image or a rosary or an icon, there is nothing wrong with that. But many do. If this helps a person with their devotions to a loving G. Then certainly a case can be made for its spiritual efficacy and edification
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  1101.  @alexwilliams5799  One side fought because they were CONSCRIPTED. They were not invited. Just like the Vietnam conflict, the movers and the finaciers behind the scenes had a definite interesti n maintaining a profitable 'status quo.' If you had ASKED. A simple Confederate soldier,he would have told he didn't give a damn about no n. "The North is bound and determined to undermine our right to do as we please on our own. Soil." Of course we feel different today. Many of us have read the Bible but that is hardly the ONLY book we have read. If you had been born on 1820,in the rural South, that is likely the only book your family possessed. You believed FERVENTLY in a loving God. You woyld have to to keep your sanity.You would have seen tiny brothers and sisters, Mama, Granny and Pawpaw die in agony. If slavery was in the Bible,why would you have questioned it? You seem to have empathy and sympathy for the enslaved African Americans, and how not? Only a monster would deny their suffering. But those poor free men who, in good faith and embracing the only creed they knew died, ignorant and exploited by the rich, should not be denied their place in history. I have no ax to grind. My Mama's people came from Germany in the 1870s and my Daddy from Puerto Rico in the 1940s. The US treatment of Puerto Rico is best discussed in the book 'WAR AGAINST ALL PUERTO RICANS' (Nelson A. Denis). The young Americans who in 1898 captured our Island had no idea that they weren't "liberating" us. That is the nature of HUMAN culture. Puerto Rico was liberated by the US who liberated us from the Spanish who liberated us from the 'heathen' indians as they were 'liberated' from the moor by the Spanish king and queen, who before were liberated by the Romans who liberated the Iberians. How far back do you want to go?
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  1143. This is a much more important conversation than anyone can imagine. The trans agenda is a brilliant strategy concocted by white, elite power players to remain in power. Asia, the middle East, Central and South America are the breadbaskets, dumps and sources of cheap labor for first world capitalism, mostly the USA. The elite whites have to keep the brown people poor, so they have (perfectly) emulated the Victorian Protestant missionary tactic. None of the brown nations or Eastern Europe will EVER ACCEPT THE TRANS AGENDA. Muslims, devout Orthodox and Roman Catholic South America as well as Christian Africa consider men and women the soul of the nuclear family and marriage the basis of society. White American elites can now tell them 'Trans rights are human rights. Since you all now stand in violation of human rights, we denounce you and will deal with you as we see fit.'.Black Americans by and large ABHOR the trans agenda. Traditional masculinity and mother figures are the backbone of black American society. Asian Americans, same. So that leaves a small cadre of WHITE WEALTHY ELITES to tell us what we can and cannot say, feel think and do. It's brilliant because Christian white evangelicals are ALSO excluded A small group of AMERICAN doctors who, without long-term research have come up with the WPATH protocol as their authority. Strange, because the UK, Netherlands, Sweden, and just about every other country on planet Earth is flagging puberty blockers as dangerous . Manipulating language, medical practice, and media, a small nucleus of power players can cancel you, make you lose your job or practice, declare your country in violation of human rights. So this is relevant and then some.
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  1167. People do not know history. Prior to the 1st world war, Theodore Hertzl and his followers purchased, legally, most of what we know as the the territory of Israel. It was purchased from Arabs who LEGALLY owned this land. These notarized contracts are kept in the Knesset. At the time, Palestine belonged to the OTTOMAN Empire The Turks. Who stole it fair and square from the Byzantine Empire, who stole it fair and sqare from the Romans who stole it from the Nabataeans. Who stole it from Alexander. My point is, that Hertzl and his followers PURCHASED these tracts of land. After WW1, the Ottoman Empire ( who were allies of Germany) had no money to pay the reparations demainded by Versailles, gave Palestine to the English. The English promptly made any land purchases by non residents illegal. But the purchases by Hertzl and his followes had to be respected as they were legal purchases. After WW2, the descendants of English, German and Eastern European Jews demanded the right to occupy the territory they legally owned. England did all it could to stop them but in 1947 the state of Israel was voted into the UN. England voted against, USA voted for. After Israel was declared a nation, its first President, David ben Gurion PLEADED WITH ALL MOSLEMS TO STAY. ( you can download this speech on YT). Why didnt they? The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem DECLARED A FATWA ON ANY MUSLIM WHO STAYED TO LIVE IN PEACE AMONG THE ISRAELI PEOPLE. Who was the Grand Mufti? The Moslem leader who spent the entire WW2 in Berlin as a guest of the Third Reich. Israel legally owns the land it sits upon. This is not opinion, it is historical fact. And Israel will not leave. It has the backing of the USA and the Gaza Strip will become the Great Chasm of Gaza or the Great Hole of Gaza before they surrender this land. That is not opinion either.
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  1296. If you are Anglican or Episcopalians, "not my circus, not my monkeys." If you are Roman Catholic, No. On top of no, with no sauce. 1) The Bible forbids it. 2) The Church forbids it. Yes, I understand that Christ died for ALL humanity, men and women. But unlike the peoples Republic of Looney Tunes, we inhibitants of the Sovereign State of Reality realize that outer physical characteristics are the LEAST differentiating between the sexes. Men and women have different brains. We process information differently. Our hormones affect our brains differently. Do women love God less? Of course not. But 'in persona Christi' ' means a man. This is what God commanded. We dont make up the rules as we go along, we obey, albeit imperfectly. 3) Women are born with a vocation. We create life, shelter that life in our own bodies, nearly lose our lives giving birth and then worry our butts off for at least 18 years. And I know some women cannot bear children as some men cannot have viable sperm. THAT means nothing. Some aunts and grandmas have been more mother than some mothers. We as human beings nurture our young. But making a home a place of love is something only a mother can do. We have lost, with modernism, 60%of the culture our mothers and grandmother's had. My mother and father came from horrible families and made our childhood a nightmare. But visiting the families of other people I realized that things like china, tableware, recipes, lovely linens, stories and culture were passed down. As a soldier I spent a Christmas with a kind family and wondered at the pride and love the husband, grandfather and uncle showed the lovely women who cooked and baked and decorated the lovely home. I was shown knitted, crochet and embroidery pieces that had been in this family on both sides. And I realized I had been been very, very neglected. My father hated women, my mothers family was poor and lazy. I had a quick mind and have had many jobs, but have never known the joy of being cherished because I brought something other than money to the table. At 66my home is clean but Spartan, my cooking adequate. But the lovliness of a home and a people who truly value what women give to a culture was not for me. Nor my children, sadly. Having to be the man, I missed out on being the woman, and that is sad. Ate we the better for this now? Are children happier, more secure, safer, now than 3 generations ago? I know for damn sure they arent smarter. Where is Mother? Grandma? Forgotten.
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  1309.  @thomasridley8675  So you would have us believe. But history has given us a rather convenient sorting process. Baiti the clown god and any deity overseeing a cheese-making process have been given over to history. Are you saying that because humankind once gathered from the wilderness we now eat only nuts and grasses and tubers? No. We eat the bounty of the sown field and the creativity and clever manipulation of modern agriculture. Millions are fed from few acres, millions of souls are nourished by the few books of the Abrahamic faiths. You would have me believe that the message of the Gospel has not reached the four corners of the Earth? You remind me of the Jesuits who, reaching the desired borders of Southern India where shocked to find the Nazirinis, the 'Thomas Christians,' there and boasting of the 1000 y.o church they claim begun by the apostle Thomas himself. Their Bible does not contain the book of Revelation as it had not yet been written. At about 200 CE, ALL of the known parts of Africa- those parts known to Greece and Rome- were not only Christian but producing thinkers whose names still crown theology Augustine of Hippo, etc. Yep, all black. The Coptic Church of Ethiopia predates the Roman Catholic church by about 200 years although the rites are basically the same. If you want to argue theology with me why step UP and take your chance! I am not informed,as you are, by popular culture, I own a vast private library of the best and most historically venerated works on the subject. But I would be remiss if I did not warn you that you are a puppy barking at a bear. But as you will. Bears need supper too.
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  1316.  @coen8677  Just out of curiousity, why do you think that the Holy Father says who goes to heaven? A saint is just like you and me.. Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 3:13 that Jesus will return to us WITH ALL HIS SAINTS. In Rev. 6 9-11 the martyrs IN HEAVEN cry out to Jesus in a loud voice. Is it not written that to be absent from the body is to be present with God? 2 Cor. 5 :8. There is abundant biblical evidence to confirm that thise who die for Him rejoice with Him! But the Magisterium of the Church- the collected wisdom of 2022 years, has more than the Bible. The visions of our mystics- people like Teresa of Avila, St. Francis of Assisi...so many more, tell us more. To be considered a saint, you have to have 3 confirmed miracles. But not all do. Some just lived such wonderful lives that we know Jesus loved them in life and in death. What death?? In Jesus ther e is no such thing! As to Mary Martin Luther himself wrote in 1532 : "God formed the body and soul of the Virgin Mary to be without sin, that she may be the mother of Our Lord. The Lord didnt pick Mary's name out of a hat, my friend. She was chosen before Time was. Her and her alone. As the mother of a son I can tell you that two hearts, Mother and Son, burn inseparably with the same flame.Bur dont worry. None one Earth can love her as much as Jesus does. And what He loves, I love too! Do you not know that death from disease was an everyday thing in first century Jerusalem? EVERY household had 'brothers' and 'sisters' that were children left by parents to be cares for by others. In one verse it says "If you behave unseemly to your virgin.."every household if better circumstances had 3 or 4 parentless young ladies who depended on them fully for shelter and care. The household of Mary and Joseph would have been no different. Mary was given to the Universe as the bride of the Holy Spirit. Chaste Saint Joseph was given to care for her and the Son of God. I am not asking you to believe as I do. Only to consider that long ago monks and nuns went among the lepers and plague houses for love of Jesus. They built the great universities of Oxford. Padua. Paris. The great cathedrals that still stand. All for love. Today the church is a troubled place full of troubled people who stand strong upon that love. At mass today, old people. Young people, so many young faces!- families and seniors, ALL united in the love of God! We are your brotherscand sisters. The Presbyterian, the Methodist, the Coptic, the Orthodox...wherever 2 or more are praying is He not there? Pax Tecum🕊
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  1333. @Tragedy 01 I have no belief. And no athiest says 'god does not exist.' What we do affirm is that we have insufficient evidence to make such a claim, evidence that can be corroborated. No athiest seeks the TRUTH. WE SEEK THE FACTS..First of all, to deny the existence of something you must be able to define the concept of both 'god' and 'existence.' What is a god? What is existence? Think carefully before you answer. Integers have existence. The axioms of geometry have existence. Watermelon seeds have existence. If I say that I exist, i could mean many things. But I can also consistently describe myself in a way that everyone would understand my characteristics. 2) An athiest would be more than happy to meet your god The problem is the same for us when we meet Billy, a rather willful child. Me: "Billy, you say you have a friend that I cannot see." Billy : " Jeffrey the Magic Unicorn is my best friend." Me: " I cannot see him." " Well he only shows himself to people he likes." Me: " Why dosen't he like me?" Billy: "Because you don't believe in him!" Me: "That makes no sense. Whether I believe in him or not, he should be able to confirm his existence somehow. If your unicorn has superpowers and is really smart, then he should be able to make himself known." "But all you need is faith" says B "Now Billy, " i say "you know that faith can be had about about many things. That does not make them true. If I take an antibiotic I can have faith that i will get bettet. Because it is probably true. But if your unicorn is real, then he can what I do and i have no superpowers. Your uniform is capable of relaying consistent and verifiable information that is both specific and testable right?" If he wants to. But he dosent like you!" 3) Everyone on earth is entitled to their own opinion. No one is entitled to their own facts. Theoretical and quantum physics are in their infancy. We know little about the ultimate nature of matter and non-matter. But this dosen't get you to a god. The Bible was originally written in Hebrew and the NT in Greek.Which version you use may depend on the manuscript of origin. Aside from that claims of prophecy are subject to nterpretation. So far as I can see, most prophecy only surfaces as retrospective piecing together of events, never before the fact. So unless your imaginary friend is bettet than Billy's i would find it hard to change my mind.
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  1385.  @felipesimoes1699  These facts are well known to me. Where you failed is that a half truth is still a lie. It was not only America, but England, France, Russia and parts of the Balkans who dropped bombs on. Germany to fight a madman. The Vietnam war was a manufactured crisis fought to make boot wax makers rich. Ho Chi Minh was initially very pro American; and we promised that we would support his efforts for a free VN . We lied. We listened to the ivy league, Skull and Bones idiots who told us tha France needed its colonies to remain free. There was no need for a VN war.JFK in fact said "If we do not fight Communism in Cuba, which is so near, why would we do so in VN which is so far away?" And I do believe that sentiment got him killed. JFK found out very soon that he was not running the war. Then as now, the president is surrounded by those who had their own agenda. McNamara confessed on his deathbed that the war was about making the rich richer. But its not as easy to keep a strong young president in the dark as it is to run circles around a senile old man. . In Europe children died from air raids because a madman named Adolph Hitler put them in the way of those who had to free their nations or watch many more children die. Children died in VN because to the American Military Industrial Complex they weren't human. They were g**ks, slants, sub humans whose death meant nothing. During the 2nd WW. people of Japanese descent were rounded up and put in concentration camps. Why werent people of German descent treated the same way? Because they were white. I call them as I see them. And if you think I dont research. then read the Pentagon Papers for yourself. Stupid is as stupid does Forrest.
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  1386.  @felipesimoes1699  I most certainly answered your question about the increase in numbers. And as far as VN being a 'just war' IT, LIKE THE WAR IN IRAQ, WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A WAR AT ALL IF HAD NOT CAUSED IT. . You dont even read your own writing. Germans were detained and questioned. As YOU YOURSELF WROTE 'but very few' actually remained imprisoned. Those who were HAD PROVEN TIES TO THE BUND.' That was a crime. Japanese citizens were detained solely -SOLELY-based on their race. This is history. You cannot spin it or change it. At the same time the war was going on. Guatemalans were being DELIBERATELY infected with syphillis by thebAmerican govt. But what the hell, they arent white.I know what Americans did in my country, Puerto Rico. In one of the most impecabbly researched books ever printed, ' War Against All Puerto Ricans' will explain how, before Congress, it was explained that we were 'Largely innimicable to assimilation, being mostly of Negro stock.'Good thing they didnt explain that to the 65th Infantry who served with distinction in Korea. My dad was one of them. But just like you he was 'white washed' to the point that he was ashamed of the darker skinned people of his family'. When you read the Pentagon Papers you come back and talk big. As for now, our destabilizing of Iran, Iraq, Guatemala, Chile-we did these things DELIBERATELY. AND just like VN the chickens are coming home to roost. I can live with whatever opinion you have of me much better than if I had to live with myself as an imperialist, racist, white washed apologist for the gross atrocities commited every time the USA "liberates" countries like Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan
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  1492. Sir, I don't need preaching. I can read the Textus Receptus and the Tanakh, in the original languages, I know what your Bible says. Word for word. Most athiests ARE athiests because they HAVE read the Bible. We are not athiests because we "want to sin," in fact, we are like Pauls 'virtuous pagans' who live peacefully and virtuosly by the old customs of the Republic, not the Empire. But we cannot understand why you worship a god who orders genocide (1 Sam.) Doles out infinite punishment for finite sins (Rev) and 'repents himself' of creating a world and murders everyone and every animal in it, save a family that turns out to be no better than the ones he drowns. We know for a dead certain fact that we evolved, because this evidencevis in our genetic material. Our DNA carries a record of where we have been as a species. This is not in doubt. It is factual. The same empirical science that discovered the DNA link between humans and our nearest kin is the SAME empirical system thatvis providing reaserch for the COVID 19 vaccine-you accept genetic science and empirical thought when it pleases you, don't you? Your god is certainly not interested in curing this disease. Nor can you defend your beliefs historically. Your gospels are not contemporaneous with the life of Jesus-although the writings of the Apostolic fathers can be dated to the 2nd century. And I have little doubt that Jesus was a historical figure-itinerant rabbis were frequent and ubiquitous. Paul most certainly was a great writer and a brave fellow, no doubt. I admire his writing. But I cannot believe what cannot be empirically proven. I realize that integers are abstract and have existence, however, it is an easy thing to explain how primitive man carried rocks to symbolize how many enemies he killed that day (decapitated heads are heavy and get smelly. Just an example). The path from material to abstraction is clear here; to a god, not so much. I am unwilling to believe because I want there to be a god; who WOULDN'T want the suffering of good people to be vindicated? Who would't want to live forever with their departed loved ones? My dear husband is dying of cancer, i would love to believe i will see him again. But you have nothing to give me but 'believe.' And that is only wishful thinking.
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  1498.  @damianedwards2327  Serious consequences? So you are here to sell me Holy Fire Insurance. My lad, compelling someone to behave a certain way by use of fear or intimidation is called TERRORISM. And telling me that god wants to give me lots of free goodies in (what appears to me) Celestial Pyongyang iss just the old carrot-and-stick approach. I would think a god had better ways to convince me. The ONLY WAY to get an empiricist to believe in anything is by empirical evidence. And I have seen none I know your bible better than you do. I read the koine' Textus Receptus for the NT and the Tanakh for the OT. I parse Greek verbs for fun I even have photocopies (not cheap) of nearly every Bible codex used since the time of Tischendorf for translation. Even Coptic and OCS copies of pergamon and parchment, palimpsest and scroll. I am not compelled nor convinced. And 'faith' requires 'belief" which excludes 'proof.' I wish I did have proof. I know that when i look in my son's eyes for the last time i will never see him again. A good old freind from Russia gave me a lovely icon 17 years ago ( i came ino his house and cared and cooked for him when no one else would) I still have it, i dont despisecsuch a loving gift!. Athiests by and large are humane and caring people who despise the kind of bullying your god does. How could you possibly condemn someone for eternity to misery when they were only 'bad' ( or skeptical) for a lifetime? Or the SDA you get destroyd in a lake of fire? Big deal. Not the best way to go but being ablebto jump in holding hands with Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Oscar Wilde and Percy Shelley? So worth it. You cannot refute what I have said, its merely a comment. Everything you sayand everything you do, every emotion and yes, your body releases hormones in your stomach (leptin) that inform your sympathetic nerve system that you need to get out of bed. Your mind, memories, even the fantasy you call faith-is nothing but an electric grid. On the positive side, they say that Elon Musk has actually 'copied' a pig that appears as a holographic image that displays the same characteristics and the same learned behaviors the pig had in life. Virtual immortality. Fiction? Maybe. But that sounds like that pig beat death.
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  1587.  @LogicalMuzikmixer  This is just a bunch of nonsense cooked up over the last 7 years. The definition of MAN and WOMAN have been the same in every language and every society from New Guinea tribes to NYC up till SIX OR SEVEN YEARS AGO. And why?? Because there is consensus of agenda from medical professionals? Where? This a white, elitist, attempt at establishing a dominant class . Now that money, warfare, colonialism and technological superiority are in bad odor as tools of conquest, the worship and establishment of a class system that endorses a rejection of the very foundation of human civilization as we know it. Disrupting the most basic anchor of social identity, those NOT in power will face the reasons why the new eliite must think for them 'guide ' them and protect them from their own primitive ideas. The black American community, the Muslim community WORLDWIDE, all of Asia, all of India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Eastern Europe SOUTH and Central America, and EVERY COUNTRy where agriculture and manual labor are both prominent and poorly remunerate CONDEMN AND EXCORIATE this manipulation of language, society and sex politics. Science? what science? It didn't surprise me when I learned that ' scientists' in Nazi Germany confirmed that Eastern European Jews were 'mentally degenerate ' and physically inferior ' to Arian Germans. It didn't surprise me to find out that Chinese and Russian found that dissident voices in Communist societies were ' mentally maladjusted ' and placed in institutions. A woman is a biological femal. You don't get to give a kweer an extra hole between his legs and call him a woman. You don't get to manipulate language and destroy a reality acknowledged by Western Civilization since it's inception. The last seven minutes cannot destroy the weight of history and prehistory. Do you think that, long before writing, that you had to explain to the sculptor of the Venus of Willendorf what a woman is? You haven't yet felt the pushback of the combined strength of very different people united under one banner. The main players aren't even assembled on the field yet. Wait for it.
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  1593.  @julianbigelow2794  You would have to be very, very stupid, or to think that others are, to bring Constitutional law into this conversation. The First Amendment guarantees that you can pretty much call yourself anything you want to and every HS educated Joe Bagadonuts knows this. If this was some kind of pseudo sophisticated move, like actually pointing out that the sky is blue and you can name your puppy Blue if you want to and not even Daddy can stop you, well, keep trying. The point I make, and will make again, is that you are calling an Iranian a resident a citizen of the land of Oz. You might as well be as Persia does not exist and hasn't for a long time. A man who gives birth DOES NOT EXIST. A woman BREAST FEEDS HER CHILD. Breasts that function to convert blood into milk belong exclusively to women Both men and women have chests. Men do not breast feed babies. You can save the poison pablum about gender and sex. This is accepted by a cadre of white, wealthy radicals whose money and visibility has focused media attention . They have been able to bully a segment of the medical profession into acquiescing the same way that Nazis bullied German doctors into agreeing that Jews were 'physically and mentally degenerate'. Stalin era Soviet doctors were threatened in the same way if they didn't diagnose dissidents as 'mentally I'll and socially maladjusted.' Doctors who don't go along with your agenda are threatened. Doctors can't afford that kind of controversy. Why do this? Because that small cadre of white exclusivists has just figured out a way to retain privileges and power by excluding the poor and the brown. The nations that are the white world's potential breadbaskets, dumps, sources of cheap labor and prime material have to kept poor. And the base of their society 's is the NUCLEAR FAMILY. The nations of South and Central America, Eastern Europe, ALL. Of Asia, Indonesia and ALL of Africa reject, and will reject, the trans agenda. They call men, men and women women and will continue to do so. NOW a small white power base has the moral authority to condemn, subvert, withhold and sanction. The trans movement is emulating move-by-move the Victorian missionary colonial agenda: 'We have a social duty to educate you in the name of humanity. Do it our way or you will receive no foreign aid, tourism and we will condemn you openly at the UN. Agree that anyone can call themselves either man or woman or we will KEEP you poor." And it's brilliant. Technological superiority, military might and Protestant missionary fervor are in bad odor as ways to keep Muslims, Eastern European Christians, Hindu India and ALL Roman Catholic South and Central America from becoming empowered and influentiall participants in privileged white society. Of course you have token black and Asian stage dressing , highly visible entertainers who base entire half time and election shows on the trans agenda.
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  1598.  @LogicalMuzikmixer  So, did you get the memo that giraffes, crocodiles and penguins do NOT have spoken or written language, do NOT have a cohesive written history where rhetoric and semantics play a significant part in their social structure and how they view themselves? By and large I am going with the theory that giraffes don't give a flying fork WHAT we call them. We just aren't that important to them. But human beings DO care because what we call each other marks our place in society. We are defined, recognized and placed in contextual value among our own species by language. I am a WOMAN. Since the beginning of human literacy-all literature- Sumerian, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek and ANY script that has ever been deciphered, WOMAN MEANS ADULT HUMAN FEMALE. The fact that a small cadre of doctors- of medicine or otherwise- decided that they were going to play make-believe and create ghoulish, useless mockeries of human sex organs seven minutes ago DOSENT change the fact that the entire combined weight of human history supports me, not you. The doctors of the Third Reich were MORE than happy to let all Germany know that Jews were 'physically and morally degenerate." They found plenty of "scientific evidence" to back it up- skull shapes, illness frequency, etc. Stalin's doctors found PLENTY of 'medical proof" that those who opposed Communism were "maladapted" and 'mentally impaired " and got packed off to mental institutions. So your stamp of medical approval rings hollow in the face of the history of 20th Century medical complicity to high crimes. Especially hollow seeing that the doctors in THE REST OF THE KNOWN WORLD ARE SCALING THIS SHIT BACK at record levels. The UK's NHS is limiting puberty blockers to RESEARCH ONLY for people under 18. European countries allow puberty blockers only under the STRICTEST medical criteria, that means YEARS of study, medical history, medical, psychiatric, psychological, sociological, so that ALL parties involved have a consistent history and a xalid diagnosis with a positive prognosis going forward. Pink Floyd put it TEACHER LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE. But I digress. A mutilated male, with an oozing surgical wound between his legs, is NOT A WOMAN.He can call himself a CHAIR, but he doesn't have four legs. He can call himself a CAR but he has not four wheels. An oozing, swollen extra hole he was not born with DOES NOT grasp a penis in a powerful muscular contraction, causing a sensation in the male for which Empires have been lost or won, transcendental poetry written and dynasties founded. A man will never be a woman. He cannot do what I can do. . And if you doubt me, ask a real MAN. THE proof of the pudding is in the eating, so they say...ask him to pick a flavor, Juicy Fruit or Hibicleanse wound cleaner. Yum yum get you some.🤮🤮🤮🤮
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  1619.  @fnotesemay3803  Yes he QUOTES the OT but he does not TEACH OT laws that Jews considered essential to Judaism. Be aware that when he does quote the OT he clarifies what he is saying ( for example about marriage) because these peoples are not familiar nor would the be for 300 years know he quotes Homer and Menander . If you are going to issue a correction it should be supported. In Rome Paul uses the OT BECAUSE HE IS ADDRESSING THE JEWS OF Rome. There was a huge population of Jews in Rome but I am specifically discussing the Ephesians, Galatians Cretans, Corinthians etc. The OT and would not be known to them for about 300 years and that did not concern Paul. He wasn't trying for them to be Jews first or 'grafted unto Israel' etc.why would he? I am a Gentile. I have no Hebrew ancestry. The OT was not given to me OR my people. Prior to the preaching of Paul, of Moses Isaiah or any other, the Egyptians had very similar moral views.We know this by inscriptions. "Hear oh Gods my plea...I Kagammi clothed the naked. I fed the hungry. I protected the orphan. I took no bribe in my duties..." ( tomb of Vizier Kagammi ( circa 2745 BCE). The code of Hammurabi, the Sudras of Buddhism read similarly. Paul knew very well that no civilization however primitive could survive without common sense logic laws that benefitted the law-abiding and preserved peace and civil order. His mission was the propagation of CHRIST. Reinventing the wheel wasn't necessary. Dietary law, circumcision, wearing phylacteries etc. did not concern Paul in the least. Jesus was his concern. It is alright to issue a correction, but if you are going to be rude ( and there is no need to be) then back up your argument with examples.
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  1642.  @Theo973  Thank you for what is arguably rhe biggest crock of horse pucky ever tranmitted electronically. This would be absolutely true IF WE WERE DISCUSSING A BABY.But Junior here us LONG past infancy. Listen Einstein, exactly WHAT MODEL OF CIVILIZATION ON PLANET EARTH HAS EVER EXISTED BASED ON PERPETUAL DEPENDENCY? What the he** benighted kind of morality do you practice that discourages personal responsibility to the extent that adulthood is not acheivable? This is imbecility so great that it just created its own gravity. Did they provide him with home, education, nutrition and a reasonable amount of guidance? Pal, I got no better. And yet i raised my own children and I am overjoyed to admit that none of them is a blowfly maggot eating my flesh. But hey, if you can point out to me ANY society-human or animal-where a parent nurses their young into their own decrepitude and death, then that would be knowledge. I can talk because my son-who didnt talk till he was four and is high functioning Autistic-has the most admirable work record, least absences and is one of the most respected workers I know. My daughter made her share of bad choices but has always been a hard worker, graduated at 36 from nursing school and i couldn't be prouder. Man how much do you hate this poor guy, that you want him to NEVER look in the mirror and say 'I am a human being of worth and accomplisment, a valuable and worthy member of society." You want to focus on his parents for insisting that Baby Boy here stop being an intestinal tape worm and become a functional member of society? Einstein WHO IS GOING TO GIVE THE TEAT TO JUNIOR HERE WHEN HIS PARENTS ARE DEAD? YOU?
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  1683.  @janoselter3743  1 Corinthians 11:23-35says thIS: THAT the Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread: And when He gave thanks he brake it and said Take, eat: this is My body which is broken for you, do this in remembrance of me." Luke22:19 "And he took bread and gave thanks and brake it, and gave unto them saying "This is my body which is given for you, this do in remembrance of Me.'. He quoted THE WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST. VERBATIM. A parable? A parable is a fictionalized account meant to teach a lesson by comparing behaviors or circumstances to illustrate a point. This last supper account is NOT a parable it is describing an EVENT and that event would NOT be acceptable to worshippers of Jehovah in a Synagogue. What parable is this supposed to illustrate? There is nothing in the OT referring to drinking blood or eating flesh as a desirable thing, is there? You cannot establish the dates of the Gospels. No one can. But by AD 175 the canon we recognize today was established by Irenaeus of Lyon. Did PAUL have EXCLUSIVE knowledge of Jesus teachings? Did not the Apostles predate Paul in their dissemination of the Gospel? The Gospel ( with the possible exception of John) was well known enough by Irenaeus to have withstood the test of time and and competing doctrines ( Pelagius, Arrius, Docetism, etc) to be included in the NT as we know it today. Because we have no EXTANT copy that matches or predates the uncial Greek of the Vaticanus and other early Incunabulae you deny that they existed. Are you going to deny or confirm that the Oral Gospel was well disseminated throughout the Empire? Tertullian describes the Christians 155 CE, with conclusive dating. They were active to be a nuisance to him. Allow me to also direct you to the fine work CHRISTIANITY UNDER CLAUDIUS.' ( F.F. Bruce Rylands Pro. of EXEGIS uni. of Manchester free online) A little known letter o Claudius to the governor of Alexandria connects the expulsion of Jews from Rome and Alexandria to a series of riots and demonstrations in Synagogues to about CE 54 ( this letter is in the British Museum). Claudious FORBIDS the travel of Jews from Syria to Alexandria...( Acts: " Antioch where first the brethren we're called CHRISTIAN). The Gospel was apparently well- known enough to give Claudius a migraine. What came first the chicken or the egg? Trick question. The Gospel in fragments, in scrolls, hidden in shoes and women's hairdos. Whether Paul wrote it down first is irrelevant; it was already making saints and martyrs and scholars all over the Roman Empire.
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