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    Was Earth Flat?

    No. The shape of the Earth is a question of objective fact. We know and have known for thousands of years that the Earth is spherical. The ancient Near East cosmology (shared by the Hebrew Bible) of a flat Earth encompassed by a solid dome firmament is simply wrong. To claim that the shape of...
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    Was Earth Flat?

    But your demarcation between 'home' and the 'outside world' is not a meaningful category of reality itself. Reality is the same both inside and outside of your house. The matter in your house is no more fundamentally complex than the matter outside of it. The forces of physics work just the same...
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    How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden?

    My mother used to have an an old Douay-Rheims Bible that included a chronology giving estimated dates for all the important events of the Biblical narrative. If I recall correctly it began with creation dated to just before 4000BC and continued all the way to the resurrection at about 33AD. I no...
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    Was Earth Flat?

    This makes no sense. Because people can believe in manifestly untrue ideas. No it wasn't. No matter what your ancestors believed.
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    Why are Abrahamic religions so violent? It's the blood.

    A certain 'dharmic' religion burned widows alive on their husbands' funeral pyres unto well into the 19th century.
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    Christian persecution complex. Is there validity to it or not?

    Because I don't want to live in a world where dissent forms progressive/leftist dogmas becomes a thoughtcrime.
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    Christian persecution complex. Is there validity to it or not?

    It is one thing to tell conservative Christians that their beliefs are no longer normative in the culture. That is not persecution. My question is whether or not progressive morality will soon become so ascendant that its dissenters (conservative Christians) will be effectively barred from...
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    Christian persecution complex. Is there validity to it or not?

    Progressivism is becoming the new moral orthodoxy in much of what used to be the (at least nominally) Christian world. As such those who hold to traditional religious beliefs especially in regards to sexual ethics will face an increasing degree of social hostility that will likely get more overt...
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    Aliens, Angels, Nephilim & Hybrids

    It could be argued that scripture never explicitly denies the existence of the so called 'gods', it rather denies said 'gods' their claimed status as divinities. I have seen the notion floating around that the purpose behind their breeding with human women was an attempt the preempt the...
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    Aliens, Angels, Nephilim & Hybrids

    Below is speculation of both a paranormal and religious nature. "They": Addendum to Jesus on Same Sex Marriage. In the above linked thread, user John D. Brey mentions that in antediluvian times the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of men and produced offspring called the...
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    Question about the lake of fire

    It depends how literally you want to take the term 'second death'. Traditional Christianity teaches the immortality of the soul, so at least in that tradition, terms such as the 'second death' have not been read as implying the soul's annihilation but rather the soul's eternal loss of God.
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    On Predestination

    I'm assuming the Thomist view of predestination over the Calvinist. Single predestination over double predestination. I come from a Catholic tradition. Like Calvin, Aquinas teaches that God predestines the elect with no regard to their foreseen merits but purely out of the gratuity of his...
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    On Predestination

    Hypothetical I You are at a swimming pool. You approach the pool and you notice two children who are starting to drown. You are a strong swimmer and you have the time and ability to save both. Instead, you opt to save one and to do nothing to save the other. Consequently, the child you declined...
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    Languages with Case Systems

    There are two pronunciations of Latin: classical and ecclesiastical. In classical V is pronounced as W. In ecclesiastical V is pronounced as V.
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    Languages with Case Systems

    You could go further and argue that Latin never really died. Oh sure, the classical language of Augustus and Cicero may be dead but Latin lives on in its dialects which we today call the Romance languages.
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    Languages with Case Systems

    I have read that standard Italian is based on Florentine Tuscan. Personally, I would hardly resent being a native speaker of the language of Dante. This is the case in French. Tu is the singular and also functions as the familiar form. Vous is the plural and also functions as the polite form...
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    Languages with Case Systems

    I have little experience with the Slavic languages but Latin is similar in that there are three genders and no articles. 'To be' is usually not omitted in the present or any tense. I can forgive it as an occasional typo. I've undoubtedly done it myself and not noticed. But it triggers me when I...
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    Languages with Case Systems

    In English, the grammatical relations of nouns are determined almost entirely by syntax and prepositions. Only pronouns retain case distinctions while nouns retain only a singular/plural distinction. This means that a learner of English needs only to learn two forms of each noun and even then...
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    Francis shakes things up again

    What an inane charade. Oh well, just another nail in the coffin of my declining faith.
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    Poll: An effect of pornography?

    One of the ironies of heavy porn use. It subtracts from the desire to maintain real sexual relationships. I would end the relationship as his porn use of obviously compulsive and is unlikely to get any better.
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