Forum: Religion and Philosophy
23rd May 2020, 01:20 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
22nd May 2020, 11:34 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
22nd May 2020, 11:21 PM
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You are not being honest, I think.
We are not...
You are not being honest, I think.
We are not talking about a Jesus who was worshipped as a god at the time of Pilate. The deification came later, and you most know that. So it is pointless to...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
22nd May 2020, 07:49 AM
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Very true, but Hubbard's orifice exists, and...
Very true, but Hubbard's orifice exists, and therefore so does Hubbard. If Christianity was pulled out of the orifices of Jesus or Paul, and it exists, then probably these persons existed as well....
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
22nd May 2020, 05:09 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
19th April 2020, 07:53 PM
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I suppose if Paul never existed, writings...
I suppose if Paul never existed, writings attributed to him must be forgeries, but if the best scholars say this, who are these scholars and in which of their writings will I find their opinions to...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
23rd March 2020, 03:23 AM
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
17th March 2020, 08:19 AM
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
9th December 2019, 12:32 PM
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
9th December 2019, 05:10 AM
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The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has some strange...
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has some strange ideas about what constitutes extreme antisemitism. From a recent article
"It was not the first time Corbyn has found himself on the annual list, which...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
9th December 2019, 02:08 AM
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
9th December 2019, 01:35 AM
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Since 1707 Scotlanders have been obliged to do...
Since 1707 Scotlanders have been obliged to do whatever the Englander electorate thinks best. Every single electoral area in Scotland voted against Brexit. So what? It was a UK referendum and the UK...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
12th October 2019, 11:28 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 10:53 PM
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At least, if he lived he had a date and...
At least, if he lived he had a date and circumstance of death. If he never lived, he had no date and no cause of death, or his imagined lifetime could have been in any period at all. As it is, his...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 10:15 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 04:34 PM
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No doubt, but Pliny was commissioned to write a...
No doubt, but Pliny was commissioned to write a report about Christians specifically and he described what he learned through his investigation. Jesus was now a god. What happened hundreds of years...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 12:08 PM
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
6th October 2019, 11:46 AM
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
6th October 2019, 11:39 AM
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This is from my second link.Noam Chomsky has...
This is from my second link.Noam Chomsky has publicly declared his skepticism that Joan Peters even wrote the book, speculating that it might have been authored by some intelligence agency. That may...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
6th October 2019, 11:21 AM
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Here's Chomsky saying it here...
Here's Chomsky saying it here (https://chomsky.info/power01/)a guy named Norman Finkelstein, started reading through the book. He was interested in the history of Zionism, ... and he started checking...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 11:03 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 10:03 AM
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Darat says it Of course we have no such...
Darat says it Of course we have no such information among the tiny amount of stuff left to us from ancient times. The evidence is from many sources, but they have all been canonised into Christian...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 09:07 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 08:01 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 06:50 AM
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I reject the virgin birth story because it is...
I reject the virgin birth story because it is impossible. Even if it was mentioned by Mark I would reject it. However it is one of the elaborations of the Jesus story that was inserted subsequently...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 05:56 AM
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Let me be clear. You believe that Paul's visits...
Let me be clear. You believe that Paul's visits to Jerusalem happened following the destruction of 70 CE, and that it was at that time that Paul met James and Peter, or do you believe that he never...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
6th October 2019, 05:12 AM
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Cosmic Yak, would be enormously helpful if you...
Cosmic Yak, would be enormously helpful if you could provide a link to the source of your quotes.
craig B provides links.
Cosmic Yak blah blah blah.
That's not very nice. Your book is dismissed...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 04:14 AM
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
6th October 2019, 03:57 AM
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Oh yes it is. As in the Merry Monarch etc. "He...
Oh yes it is. As in the Merry Monarch etc. "He was the playboy monarch, naughty but nice, the hero of all who prized urbanity, tolerance, good humour, and the pursuit of pleasure above the more...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 03:39 AM
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
6th October 2019, 03:14 AM
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Have a look at these links then. ...
Have a look at these links then.
https://chomsky.info/power01/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Time_Immemorial
https://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/legacy-peters-immemorial/
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 03:10 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 01:31 AM
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I don't see that at all. If there was a person...
I don't see that at all. If there was a person named Jesus who was baptised by John, went preaching, performed healing acts, such as are non miraculous and commonplace among charismatic preachers. In...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2019, 01:00 AM
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
5th October 2019, 08:59 PM
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
5th October 2019, 08:14 PM
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Replies: 3,447
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In that case it would be the UR. Tourists visit...
In that case it would be the UR. Tourists visit Versailles even if there are no monarchs there, so I think the attractions of monarchs with their heads still attached, as objects for tourists, are...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th October 2019, 07:55 PM
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If reason fails, try provocation and...
If reason fails, try provocation and disparagement. Why not? Because the evidence requires explanation as to its origin, and you attempt none. What if it is conjecture? Are all conjectures equally...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
5th October 2019, 07:20 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th October 2019, 07:07 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th October 2019, 07:04 PM
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No they don't. The eternal virginity dogma...
No they don't. The eternal virginity dogma vanishes at once, and the idea that Mary had one divine child and also at least six mundane ones or that the Holy Ghost had his wicked way with Mary seven...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th October 2019, 01:04 PM
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What message did you intend me to derive from...
What message did you intend me to derive from your linked article? What did you intend your link to illustrate? That you completely disagree with it? MDH Supposes that we can know quite a lot about...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
5th October 2019, 12:28 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th October 2019, 12:01 PM
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Here's a passage from Morna D Hooker's work...
Here's a passage from Morna D Hooker's work linked by you.If we concentrate on the whole rather than the details, however, we shall find that we know quite a lot about Jesus, even though we may not...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th October 2019, 11:56 AM
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Just to preclude the possibility of anyone...
Just to preclude the possibility of anyone adopting that view, I have already pointed out the non-mundane implication of Jesus having at least six siblings. Far from connecting the unbelievable...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th October 2019, 08:31 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th October 2019, 06:47 AM
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
5th October 2019, 04:43 AM
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Replies: 479
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
5th October 2019, 04:40 AM
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Replies: 479
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[QUOTE=Cosmic Yak;12845017]The idea that Jews...
[QUOTE=Cosmic Yak;12845017]The idea that Jews were tolerated by Muslims is fiction.
I cannot recommend this book enough: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/789457.From_Time_Immemorial
It would...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th October 2019, 04:29 AM
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It cuts it for most scholarsThe Christ myth...
It cuts it for most scholarsThe Christ myth theory is a fringe theory, supported by few tenured or emeritus specialists in biblical criticism or cognate disciplines. It is criticised for its outdated...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
4th October 2019, 11:32 PM
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Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,391
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