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    Why do not christians believe in the Talmud?

    Not quite. Christianity is an offshoot of Second Temple Judaism which branched off to become its own religion. Rabbinic Judaism (what most religious Jews practice today) is its own separate development which emerged around the same time as Christianity. These are two distinct religions and there...
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    Why do not christians believe in the Talmud?

    Christians do not recognize the legitimacy of rabbinic teaching because Christianity isn't a form of Judaism.
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    Missouri Rule Change Would Allow Senators to Challenge Each Other to a Duel

    It's high time we saw a return of such manly virtue. Although the right to duel should be reserved for persons in high office. I would also like to see a return of jousting contests. For too long has the west lacked that aristocratic spirit of old Europe.
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    Was you baptised as a child?

    I think of such 'dialects' as American demotic.
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    Was you baptised as a child?

    English learners have it easy. You don't get to complain about conjugation until you start learning a Romance language.
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    You do not need to be muslim to go to heaven

    Funnily enough, I was browsing the more "esoteric" subreddits not too long ago and I stumbled upon an old post by someone who claimed to have astral projected into a city in the astral world mostly populated by human souls. They claimed the city was filled with restaurants, shops, brothels...
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    Christianity also has also fixed prayer times

    People associate the idea of fixed prayer times with Islam, but the practice goes back not only to the early years of Christianity but to pre-Christian Jewish practice as well.
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    Is it OK to Torture an NPC

    I never bothered with NPCs. I would hunt down Alliance players and slay them wherever I found them. They picked the wrong faction, so I was justified in everything I did to them.
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    Wishing All Christians Here a Spiritually Fulfilling Lent

    I had a small piece of salami with my breakfast yesterday completely forgetting that it was Ash Wednesday. It was only after I had eaten my muffin that I realized what I had done. I still feel guilty about it. I'm going to have to make up for it by being extra diligent this Lent.
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    When You Share a Border with the Pope. EUIV

    I ended up restarting my campaign as it was still in early game. This time I paid up and got on the pope's good books to avoid the excommunication. It won't last though as unifying Italy will involve going to war with the Papal States sooner or later. But by then I'll either control the curia or...
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    When You Share a Border with the Pope. EUIV

    The avarice and ambition of the Holy Father know no satiety. His deranged demands for money and land will never be entertained.
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    Is anglican christians closest to protestantism or catholicism?

    I used to get the best of both worlds when I attended an ordinariate parish. The ordinariates are Anglo-Catholics in communion with Rome. They use a slightly modified form of the High Church Anglo-Catholic liturgy which itself is close in form to the Tridentine Mass but in Early Modern English...
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    why do humans wear clothes?

    What is and is not appropriate in regard to clothing (or the lack of it) is culturally determined. It is simply a reality of most human cultures. My personal theory is that the wearing of clothes developed as a means of protection against the elements. Once a culture gets into the habit of...
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    The trinity is false - I have proof

    This is incorrect. God is three persons with one divine essence. Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not of the essence of God. They are God. All three persons are God in their own right. Christianity does teach that the Trinity is a mystery beyond human reason. But it is not that hard to understand...
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    Differences between Christianism and Christendom

    This narrative is simply false. Christian division is overwhelmingly Protestant. The most ancient forms of Christianity: Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy still exist and comprise the majority of the world's believers. Ancient Christianity has never been lost. It's just not...
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    Spiritual Totalitarianism

    Reason would tell you that you cannot be a Christian and deny core Christian claims. Correct. The Church claims that the pope will never bind the faithful to heresy in either faith or morals. This is due to a divine guarantee given to Saint Peter by Christ. Matthew 16:18-19. This is why pope...
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    Spiritual Totalitarianism

    This is the video if anyone is interested. But it is not in itself important to my post.
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    Spiritual Totalitarianism

    I was listening to a Larry Chapp discussion on YouTube about pope Francis, Fiducia Supplicans and other related issues. I went on to glance at the comment section and saw a post that struck me as a profound statement on a major issue within the Catholic Church. This is what they posted: The...
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    Pope Francis allows priests to bless same-sex couples (not marriage)

    It is one thing to say that Scripture speaks in a way that reflects the culture and understanding of its authors. For example, it would indeed be silly to insist on a flat Earth on the basis that the Old Testament authors assumed it. It is another thing altogether to insist that we can overlook...
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    Pope Francis allows priests to bless same-sex couples (not marriage)

    If Scripture is but the man-made reflection of cultural mores of the time and place of its authorship, then there's no reason to accept any of it. Who cares what Jesus teaches if Jesus if but a character in an old, long irrelevant tome. The Biblical narrative often recounts people doing immoral...
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