I'm still trying to figure out what you mean by paradise mating. It seems to involve these ideas:
1. You think it is angels bringing you together with women, but they seem to be doing an awful job, since the relationships never work out.
2. You speak about walking hand in hand into Eden. This...
Although personal tastes vary, generalizations can still be made. We are talking here about the top of the bell shaped curve, not the standard deviations. Just like there are certain physical traits such as lack of symmetry that are pretty universally unattractive, there are personality...
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Morals and ethics are commonly used interchangeably, but if you want to parse them, morals refers to personal beliefs about right and wrong, while ethics refers to the guiding principles of a community.
The Marcionites are the only Jesus-believers I know of who absolutely did not use the Old Testament, and they no longer exist.
There are of course those individual Christians who may do this.
I would say that today, all Christians include the Old Testament as part of their canon but a lot of...
There is nothing in the Tanakh that mentions either Gomer or the children as not believing in God. Could it have been? I supposed. But given that they were raised in a culture that assumed God's existence, it would have been very, very unlikely
No.
The closest instance would be Adonijah. The Hebrew word baal (not to be confused with the Canaanite deity Baal) simply means lord. Adonai/Adoni means my lord. So if you accept the synonym argument, might say that Adonijah qualifies.
You continue to make the same mistake of assuming that "God" refers only to the Christian God. Do you think Jews give thanks to Jesus on Thanksgiving?
And many if not most Christian Churches today will also give a nod to civic religion on civic holidays, such as Independence day, even singing...
LOL. Thank you for acknowledging the times don't overlap, meaning they can't be the same celebration.
The celebration that is also on December 25 is Sol Invictus, not Saturnalia. And the problem here is that SOME bishoprics were celebrating the Feast of the Nativity on December 25 BEFORE Sol...
So you think the smarter a person is, the happier they are? Because I've known a lot of very smart cookies in my time, and if there is any trend I've noticed, it is the reverse. The more intelligent a person is, the more disconnected they feel from the rest of humanity, which is an incredibly...
What Biden and NATO want, is for Russia to withdraw, and not further invade Ukraine or any other countries, but to accept its borders as they now exist.
I think you may be referring to the fact the two creation stories, the flood, and the tower of babel have earlier versions in Sumerian myths. But evolving from these earlier myths is not the same thing as saying that they are found in another book. The stories are altered significantly enough...
The day of Thanksgiving that Washington referred to was a single day, not a yearly holiday. Thanksgiving became a regular American holiday in 1863, due to Abraham Lincoln.
I'm not sure why you think it is a Christian holiday. I'm no expert, but I know of no day on any traditional Christian...
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