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(DIR) Post #B2PsD66ku4xDsI673w by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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What's that logical fallacy about embracing a better earlier time/nostalgia that never really existed? The early "church" was an non-unified hodge poge mess with vastly different beliefs than what modern Christians have. There is no "true Christianity" any more than there's a true Scotsman. I do realize Christianity is an important foundation for modern Western morality. It is the foundation of British Common Law (vs Roman Civil Law). I realize it's importance and the dangers of uprooting Chesterton's fence, but it's also obviously a construction of various mythos.In your world view, did God guide all of those believes into what we have now? Is Eastern Orthodox, with greater emphasis on mysticism but less on direct personal interpretation, still a "true Christianity?"Do you believe God has different rules for different ages, or dispensations? Do you believe in rapture ideology? per-tribulation or post-tribulation?
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Abraham received certain promises & blessings from God under old covenant. These were passed down through Isaac & Jacob to the rest of Israel.This is what's in the text, but isn't reflected in history. There were many many different faiths throughout that entire region that had Abraham in their history, as well as some of the stories that are traditionally considered Jewish today. The idea of religion itself as we know it didn't come about until Christianity. People just believed in different gods or a monotheistic God.On top of that .. David doesn't really exist outside of the Old Testament. There's almost no mention of him as any type of king from the records of any neighboring empires. The whole story of Jews escaping Egypt doesn't exist in any other civilizations. (There was some Canaanites that went back to Egypt and became Pharaohs, which might be where this story originated). Solomon seems to be the first real "king" that's documented elsewhere, but much of the early Jewish history that's in the Bible doesn't fit any of the archeological record.Yahweh was part of another pantheon of Gods in proto-Yahwehism, and early versions of Yahweh have him paired with Asherah, his female consort .. gone from all later texts.
(DIR) Post #B2QOHi3awtYzGMrWdM by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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Yes, exactly. The idea of "original sin" which is a central concept to modern Christianity, didn't come about until Augustine around 400 A.D. That leads eventually to Calvin's concept of "Total Depravity."But the Hebrew people likely didn't have any concept of heaven/hell or a battle between good and evil. The book of Job predates Genesis, and is more closely related to the Epic of Gilgamesh. The word satan in Hebrew is a term that just means adversary. Even in Job, God is part of a pantheon he calls together, and it's unclear if satan is a title or a specific individual, but he is an advocate to God in that story, not a fallen enemy.The entire good v evil aspects likely started getting introduced 400 BC ~ 300 BC on-wards via Zoroastrianism. But this is assumed because they're so similar. There's no direct evidence.The whole Lucifer falling from heaven isn't really in the old testament unless you really stretch versus from Isiah and Ezekiel. This is a concept that came much later and was retroactively interpreted to the old text.
(DIR) Post #B2QhF06FJAZfTwWYNc by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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Religion as a scholarly category is modern, but religion as lived practice is ancient.Yea you just contradicted yourself .. I mean you're contracting yourself a lot but you just did so here specifically. Religion is a retroactive application of a concept (same with Gnosticism. None of those groups considered themselves "Gnostic" .. they just believed what they believed). Temples and priests existed everywhere and they had their gods, but they didn't have the distinct categories of religion and ideology we have today. People believed in gods, and those people over there have their own gods, and people generally though these gods existed.Each nation's gods, and especially later monotheistic God, helped define each people group as "special." It gave them distinct status to go conquer and kill others, reducing them to less than. That was one of the effects of these belief systems that helped expand certain kingdoms and empires.Christianity gained such a strong foothold with the idea everyone could enter into redemption, submitting themselves before one true God. It made everyone special .. well sorta. Not right away. After a few centuries. First they killed a lot of heretics and had many variations of the faith.I feel like we're talking in circles because you keep going back to just the text and propaganda of your religion and are unwilling to address any of the historical dependencies. I'm addressing the reason things ended up they way they are, but you're coming from the perspective it must be true as you know it and working backwards.
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Chance? Timing? Being better at murdering all their rivals? Constantine? There are a thousand possible answers and they all make more sense than its god being "real"
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If Trump had been directly involved they definitely would've cooked him with any evidence they had back in 2020. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣hold up...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Dude he's got dozens of pictures with Epstein. Clinton is in a blue dress in Epstein's painting. Look at all the people we have direct evidence have been to the Island, the ranch in Arizona or are named in the documents that haven't been redacted. A) Nothing will ever happen to any of themB) They're all involved. You don't get into that echelon or government without going to some fucked up Eyes Wide Shut type ritual and told, "fuck this kid, on camera"They're all pedophiles .. at least 1/3 of the senate and congress if not more. That's how sexual blackmail works. Just look at every single person who flipped their vote in 2008 during the TARP bill; literally the most unpopular bill to ever come before congress. Every one of those vote flips likely had their handler call them and say, "You will do as we say or the world will know what you did." Might not be pedo blackmail; might be some other sexual blackmail ... we are all one nation under blackmail. Trump kissed the wall, intentional dropped Epstein and is the puppet of the exact same CIA/MI6/Mossad operation that pupped Biden, Obama and Clinton ... and now they've literally got conservatives to back Federal police over local law enforcement. Yes the liberal protestors are fucking retarded (I bet there are at least a few CIA people in those groups stoking that fire btw), but conservatives are literally advocating for federal police over State's Rights.It's so fucking beyond retarded.
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What does this have to do with diversity? OP was an ICE thing. I'm a US citizen and my parents were legal immigrants.
(DIR) Post #B2Sj9KR3NOnN2SbEkC by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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And you're still obviously retarded. What's your point?
(DIR) Post #B2SkjilAW3OmrIvQzQ by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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I am an American. I've only ever been an American citizen. I've only ever been in American schools and English is my first language.What even is an American to you? Did your family come from a place that's now a reservation or did they descend from British, Italians, Russians, Germans, etc?You can define your own rules that no one else follows and obeys and I guess that's fine for you .... but that still makes you an idiot that lives in a different reality than the 330 million other people here.
(DIR) Post #B2Sko5DWxgVzfSGtgO by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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Permanent residents before I was born. Dad and sister go their citizenship on their own. I didn't sponsor anyone.
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So you're an American Indian then?
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I'm talking about Native American Indians.
(DIR) Post #B2Skqq2npaXTThZFCa by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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I don't care about ICE deporting criminals; that's fine and they're honestly not even deporting that many. It's not enough to be significant. But I also think, even retarded states, should still be able to have their own enforcement efforts not be hindered as well. If they had bad policies, well it's their right to enforce those bad policies and let their state collapse.That being said, this whole ICE thing is a psychological operation. The states are probably fine with it because the leaders are actually federalists and they're playing the propaganda game for their own benefit. I've written how I think various aspects of these are psychological operations:https://battlepenguin.com/politics/2026-will-be-the-year-of-wars/#shooting-of-federal-officers> he'd yeet posse comitatus in the trashposse comitatus has been dead since W. Bush and Obama.
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