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  1. Politesse

    Was Jesus a sexual being?

    Oh yeah? The Freemasons may have some thoughts on that!
  2. Politesse

    Was Jesus a sexual being?

    I feel it would have been mentioned in our extant texts if he were a eunuch, as that was an established class with a notorious social role in Roman/Jewish society. But if he was no eunuch, if he had testicles, then he was a "sexual being" with sexual urges and sexual expression, even if that...
  3. Politesse

    Wondering about "anti-maskers".

    If anything, tolerance of public nudity has been regressing over the past few decades, here in the US from whence I am writing. You are not the first to reflect on the irony of the current situation, but alas conservatives are completely immune to recognizing such contradictions in their...
  4. Politesse

    Which Position Intuitvely Makes the Most Sense to You?

    Throw me in with position #2. Our conception of existence is not really "built" to handle a notion like God. I note that if #1 is preferred, then it is very obvious that God does, in fact, exist. I mean, it is easy enough to demonstrate that God concepts exist, if nothing else in people's minds...
  5. Politesse

    Pope Francis calls tax cuts for the wealthy a 'structure of sin'

    No. I'm talking about morality.
  6. Politesse

    What happened to California's schools?

    Lots of poor neighborhoods whose schools no one wants to fund. You can still get a very quality education in, say, Palo Alto. But Palo Alto is not the whole state.
  7. Politesse

    Pope Francis calls tax cuts for the wealthy a 'structure of sin'

    Hard for anyone, especially a Christian, to argue with his point. You cannot love God or love your neighbor if your first love is a visible symbol of accumulation beyond need.
  8. Politesse

    Are there heathen groups that take pride without racism ?

    Shout out to the Alliance for Inclusive Heathenry and Heathens United Against Racism. Odin wanders far.
  9. Politesse

    "It’s Good That the United Methodist Church is Breaking Up Over Anti-LGBTQ Hate"

    It was bound to happen. Echoes of 1844.
  10. Politesse

    "Big Tent" Paganism is Collapsing?

    Pantheacon, critical to the development of big-tent Paganism on the West Coast of my country, is meeting for the last time this month, and its organizers cite factional squabbling and debates as a major reason why. It cannot be a good sign if you want to imagine an ecumenical future.
  11. Politesse

    MUST prophets be tortured before dying?

    A hypothetical question: Many religions highly revere individuals who were put through great suffering and privations before they died as martyrs. Jesus, Giordano Bruno, the Bab, Joseph Smith. My question is, how important is this, ultimately, to such traditions? If Jesus had died quietly...
  12. Politesse

    The Nicene Council

    Many of his teaching were declaimed at a later council, about 75 years after Nicaea. Origen himself as a person never was and still has not been, at least not by the wider church community. Anti-Gnostic they certainly were.
  13. Politesse

    Apostle Paul?

    Because his private letters are worshiped as the Word of God, a title which should rightly belong to Christ alone. If Paul were just another early theologian, like a Clement or an Irenaus who only theology geeks and historians ever talk about, I would have no great grudge against the man. But...
  14. Politesse

    Trumps wall -- breached

    Sure. Walls, however...
  15. Politesse

    Is Jesus literally the Son of God for you?

    Yes. We all have no true creator but God, and are sons and daughters of God. More literally than we are descendants of our biological parents, who had no more ability to "create" us than they did to "create" themselves. You and your parents and your parents' parents all breathe by the will and...
  16. Politesse

    Catholicism broke up the Western Family

    Well, slaves had been considered a part of the household under the Greco-Roman hegemony. So the changes to the traditional family can't be all bad. Seriously though, I don't think the article makes a heck of a lot of sense. For one thing, the meaning of the term incestum actually covered a much...
  17. Politesse

    Trumps wall -- breached

    You know I've heard that said, even in my own history classes as a child, but there have long been plenty of Chinese folks abroad. Indeed, the borders that the PRC claims now well exceed the boundaries suggested by the various Great Walls. Just ask Tibet.
  18. Politesse

    Why does the Bible say that the sun moves?

    Assuming he were absolutely stationary, he would not be able to land anywhere; the earth itself would have moved about 130,000 kilometers along its orbit, and the solar system itself will have moved another 160,000 km or so around the galactic center point, leaving him either smashed into its...
  19. Politesse

    Why does the Bible say that the sun moves?

    Because its authors had no knowledge of non-heliocentric astronomical models, let alone a considered position on the merit of the same.
  20. Politesse

    Trumps wall -- breached

    You're saying a defensive measure that has been tactically obsolete since the end of the medieval era somehow failed to work at repelling the will of an illegal but lucrative multi-billion dollar industry? I am shocked. Shocked.
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