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  1. Gallowglass

    Modest is the hottest...?!?

    Yes, but sometimes they are both sick in the mind and see modesty as a challenge. Proof that the woman wants the man to take an "alpha male" position and dominate her.
  2. Gallowglass

    Modest is the hottest...?!?

    I live here. I see it. I volunteer in rape survivor groups with them. But here, have some links. Not all Amish are bad, but there are just as many sick, perverted people in the Plain community as outside of it...
  3. Gallowglass

    The word "cannibal" means something like "priesthood of baal"

    No. First off, Bealltainn is a fire festival. Ba'al was a storm god. Secondly, etymologically, no. It is derived from proto-Celtic belo-te(p)niâ which scholars believed referred to "bright/white fire." It is cognates with the Old English bael, meaning white, and the Slavic baltas and beloye...
  4. Gallowglass

    Modest is the hottest...?!?

    How? Amish women are not allowed to legally report rape in the average case. They are forbidden from doing so by their ordnungs. The only way to know is to volunteer with support groups for victims, and listen to those of us who see it. There are some articles, but they're usually from women...
  5. Gallowglass

    Modest is the hottest...?!?

    You're mistaken. A lot of Amish women are raped by "English" men. IE: Non-Amish, non-Plain men. Why? Because the excessive modesty is seen as a "challenge." Yes, there are Amish women raped by Amish men, but Amish men can and do also rape English women.
  6. Gallowglass

    Greetings and Salutations

    I hope that we are both learning something. I sometimes feel you are judging me, but I hope that is just me being oversensitive. I have a tendency to do that. Except the scripture is quite clear in differentiating when Pharaoh hardened his heart and when God did it. When he did it, you see it...
  7. Gallowglass

    Modest is the hottest...?!?

    But you have nothing to back that up. We have people in this country who specifically target modest women. Rape is about control and dominance. The psychology of rape, how a rapist's mind functions, does not change over cultures. They may use other reasons to do so "She wanted a man to show her...
  8. Gallowglass

    Modest is the hottest...?!?

    In Amish culture, women cover their hair and wear modest clothes. Their rape rate is just as high as the "English" rape rate. These are not Amish women who choose to be immodest. If your suggestion was true, as I stated before, the rate of rape in Amish communities would be lower. It is not. To...
  9. Gallowglass

    Modest is the hottest...?!?

    Modest dress will not change the rape rate. If it did, there would be no or very few rapes within the Amish community. Having lived in Amish country my entire life, and friends with many people in both the Amish, Mennonite and Fancy communities, the rape rate is about the same per number of...
  10. Gallowglass

    Why Do Atheists Preach??

    Ah the people who love to assume only one religion can be right. That's always fun. The only religions that say no other religion can be right are the ones who say that there is an absolute truth and they have it. The Romans married Mercury off to Rosmerta when they found a new religion. They...
  11. Gallowglass

    Greetings and Salutations

    Jesus is referring to the Roman Empire, and to bot the Herods and the Emperor above him. He was referring to the rule over Israel by Gentiles, and the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah, and the historical destruction in that period of Ephraim and Syria. Israel under the Jews as a pure Jewish state has...
  12. Gallowglass

    Greetings and Salutations

    Where do you get that information? It certainly isn't in scripture. How could they know? You said yourself they had never experienced evil. Someone who has never experienced evil has no concept of it. How does this make God good? ANd yet, scripture tells us he did. And who would complain...
  13. Gallowglass

    Greetings and Salutations

    There is quite a bit of nuance. I could right for an hour on why the word choices should amount to cruel over evil. There are pages that can be written on those three words -- but none of those nuances make the Hebrew, the original Biblical Hebrew, say that those spirits come anywhere but from...
  14. Gallowglass

    Is Jesus responsible for what Paul said?

    Also, Isaiah does not say he must remain celibate. According to the law, what is forbidden between two men is anal sex, because it is seen as a "laying with a man, as you would with a woman." There is even an argument that this refers only to the classic "missionary" position. It is a matter of...
  15. Gallowglass

    Why do humans allow suffering?

    But she didn't know it was wrong, and God never told her, just Adam. She had no concept of evil or good.
  16. Gallowglass

    The Atheist Delusion

    You're correct. I should stick with the proper order. In my defense, it was 5:30 in the morning and I haven't slept and because of stupid muscle tremors in my legs. Thanks for the correction.
  17. Gallowglass

    What is a real God?

    1. Real 2. Sentient 3. Self-aware 4. Existing in and able to traverse multiple dimensions and/or planes/and or worlds, depending on which cosmological theories are correct. 5. Able to influence those dimensions/planes/worlds while remaining unseen if desired, but also capable of becoming present...
  18. Gallowglass

    Why Do Atheists Preach??

    You're mixing up atheism, agnosticism, and anti-theism. Agnosticism is the belief that whether or not there is a god or gods is unknowable. Atheism is the belief that no gods exist. Anti-theism is the belief that religions are bad and make people bad, evil, or stupid. And if atheists were...
  19. Gallowglass

    Greetings and Salutations

    I believe it was a reference to the two kings of whom Israel had a fear in Isaiah. He was drawing on imagery from the Tanakh. So...he's a totalitarian ruler, who will destroy people because he did not choose them to believe. And how do the righteous feel about this? So you admit that if...
  20. Gallowglass

    Greetings and Salutations

    That is what the scripture says. I put the Hebrew right up there for you to read. You can dislike it if you wish, but it is right there. Let me help you though. I will isolate it for you. רעה אלהים רוח Transliterated this is ruach Elohim raah Now, Ruach is spirit. Elohim you probably know...
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