Even if true, status today, the question is what is more amenable to determined that.
Any viable candidate, apart from reding tea leaves, and playing tarots, or invoke religious beliefs that fall in the same category?
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- viole
Did Licona reply to the simplest naturalistic explanation of all? Namely, that all that has been written is just fiction? Completely made up nice stories, possibly written as entertainment for some bored Roman matron? A sort of "Adventures from the colonies"?
Think about it. If the story would...
I am Swede and I fully support the right to burn the Quran, or any other so-called Holy Book, even though I am not really into burning books.
It is freedom of speech. Religious sensitivity, or my opinion about burning dead wood, is far less important than that.
What is mind boggling is that...
Yes, I once converted tap water into Dom Perignon Champagne. And not into some motor oil wine from the colonies like other losers claim. Yuck.
Convinced?
I can write something about it, if you need evidence.
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- viole
whether people care is not particularly useful in any rational discussion. Therefore, equally irrelevant.
The point is that the segment you posted seems to indicate the entailment: paganism ==> cultural degradation. Which is obviously a non sequitur, as I have shown. Someone could have equally...
Could be, but that does not entail cultural stagnation, either. You are making a moral argument that has nothing to do with philosophical, scientific, and more general cultural progress.
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- viole
There is no logical entailment between "creating X", and "wanting something from X".
According to the myth, He must have created carrots, too. I doubt though that He wants something from them.
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- viole
These are just nice stories written in a book, you know?
I wouldn't go crazy to interpret something that could simply be pure fiction, without first showing evidence that it is not fiction. Good luck with that.
Otherwise, it would be like analyzing the true mechanical force that locked...
The problem with Satan, is that when you invoke him, all the bets are off. And if you do not invoke him, then where does evil come from?
For sure that makes any belief system with Satan in it, possibly compromised.
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- viole