Gday LuisDantas and all :)
Well, imagine if you will Luis, that something like this happened :
Many Shiite Iranians started moving to Brasil, buying many land and houses over many years.
(Because of their widespread fervent religious belief in an ancient book allegedly written by the great...
Gday all,
Yes,
I think they came from the same place -
The creative imaginations of smart, but normal human beings.
I think both Buddha and Jesus Christ are myths who never existed in history.
(Like Adam, Noah, Moses, Solomon, Hercules, Ajax, Krishna, Jason and many more.)
Both just...
Gday Luis and all :)
Why ?
Because after the Zionists had bought land in the area for some decades,
Israel unilaterally declared themselves a state on the very day that the British Mandate ran out - 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708).
Thus effectively stealing a large chunk of Palestine for...
Gday habiru and all :)
Sorry habiru, but yes, you ARE an ape.
So am I.
So are all humans - and gorillas, chimps, bonobos, orangutans, and gibbons (did I miss anyone?)
(NOT monkeys though - apes are quite different to monkeys.)
We are also primates, mammals, chordates, animals, eucharyotes and...
Gday habiru and all :)
Unfortunately, you have made a mistake there, a common mistake actually. :)
(It's like saying something like this - I learnt Bible stories about Jesus, and 'stories' mean fiction, therefore Jesus is a fiction.)
Let me explain it :)
It appears you have confused the two...
Gday URAVIP2ME and all,
Actually no, I am not saying that at all. :)
In fact the early Christian church was a 'riotous diversity' of beliefs,
and included many differing canons for many centuries.
The first formal canon was by Marcion around 140, who had one Gospel and ten letters of Paul...
Gday all,
It is an all too common claim that the Council of Nicea decided the books of the Bible.
But,
it is not true - it's just an urban legend.
The Council of Nicea argued about Arius and the date of Easter mainly.
The Council did NOT make any pronouncements on the books of the bible...