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    Default Re: Disbelief of evolution on the rise...but not in the US

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
    Bah! American Evanglicalism, Orthodox, Roman Catholic Church are just torture poor souls with all the trappings of the whore of Babylon!

    Most people that call themselves Christians today aren't really part of the true church. Yes how shockingly intolerant of me, Jesus accepted everyone, right!?

    The only time God's promises are granted through generations of families is when they are part of the original covenant with ethnic Israel. Just like us God-fearing Protestants of Ulster and Scotland! We are the descendents of the lost tribes of Israel! Cú Chullain and then the Culdees have defended us from the pagan Romanists ever since they arrived on the British Isles from Spain! But now the beast is attacking the earthly inheritance of God's chosen people, and the Pope will desecrate the temple mount when he declares a new era of peace in the middle east and shows himself to be the antichrist! And this will coincide with a united Ireland and the break up of the Union. Coincidence?! No, Israel is foreshadowing the final persecution of the God's people by the harlot church, and the fate of all Christians will be synonymous with that of ethnic Israel as the Book of Revelation plays itself out.

    Am I being a crazy enough fundamentalist now?


    You had me for a second...

    Good one though!

    I wouldnt mind you answer my original question though

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    Default Re: Disbelief of evolution on the rise...but not in the US

    I probably shouldn't but the Backroom topics are so boring now (especially that Tribesman is on break)...

    Aemilius Paulus, the content of your posts in their wording and facts cited are quite sloppy.

    You mention Campbell as a source when dealing with the influence of Mithraism on early Christianity (actually you name Campbell explicitly in a related but different avenue, but I am going to go ahead and assume that he was also one of the authors of the "books on comparative religion" you mentioned you had read). Campbell is certainly an authority in the field, however, while you seem to agree with on his conclusion on the Mithratic influence on Christianity, I request you actually go and read his actual exposition on HOW he came to those conclusions. Taking the virgin birth motif for an example, take a look at the "virgin birth" of Mithras as compared to that of Christ. Some other authorities (and pure laymen like myself) look at the inference and judgment made by Campbell to be exceptionally tenuous and questionable...

    The pre-Islamic Arabs did believe and even worship jinns, but they also had straight up gods like Uzza and crew (and the distinction is very significant). Allah to the pre-Islamic Arabs was a god (the major God), not a jinn.

    You've used the word 'logic' extremely loosely in many places, can I call you out to actually explicate what the heck you mean by the following claim?

    Hey, religion never makes any sense, nor conforms to any school of logic ever devised...
    See, I'd argue that religion actually does a pretty nice job of 'conforming' to at least one 'school of logic' (let's say classical logic for ease). Take Nicean Christianity for example, the only difficulties one might run into logically with contradictions are the trinity aspect and perhaps the predestination vs. free will debate. Of course, the theologians throughout the years have loved to talk at length about these and how they don't pose any problems.

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    Default Re: Disbelief of evolution on the rise...but not in the US

    Find that in the Old Testament. The Bible is overtly contradictory anyhow. And the last time I checked, up until recently, fear was the main trump card of a priest proselyting... People nowadays mainly say they "love God", but not too long ago everyone affirmed their piety by insisting they "feared God".
    lol not in the old testament. Old testament is not as "nice" as the new testament

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    The pre-Islamic Arabs did believe and even worship jinns, but they also had straight up gods like Uzza and crew (and the distinction is very significant). Allah to the pre-Islamic Arabs was a god (the major God), not a jinn.
    Allat was a moon god, if I recall.

    lol not in the old testament. Old testament is not as "nice" as the new testament
    Clearly somebody has forgotten Revelations. "Nicety" is relative.
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    Yes...?
    "You might be a redneck if...you watch nascar and drink domestic pisswater instead of heineken"
    Yes substituting domestic pisswater for foreign pisswater isn't always the best.

    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post

    How about the cognitive dissonance involved in accepting the foundation and being upset about the fruits?

    "Oh no, my apple tree grew apples!"
    The foundation for an apple tree is very rarely actually an apple tree. They are far more commonly grafted onto another tree. As such the foundation and the fruit are separate...
    Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
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