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1)If we had to name something as god what would it be in the modern secular society?
Something(could be a few things together) that today fills the same role as god did in the ancient world.
2)If we had to find the thing that is like corporations in the bible, what would it be? Or rather, corporations are an extensions or continuation of what(concept, entity, structure, etc..) that was described or referenced to in the bible?
The bible has had an immense influence on western culture.
Furthermore, the bible can be seen as a concentrated source of different perspectives...
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>>1340571
The internet. It's all knowing (technically), it can change or ruin people's lives (technically) and it has different followers (different websites have different ways of viewing the internet.) We just need to tweek it a bit more to be more suggesting based on our personal tastes and morals.
>>1340571
>Something(could be a few things together) that today fills the same role as god did in the ancient world.
If we're going for a sort of secular holy trinity, I propose the following:
The father: Humanity
The son: The very first true AI we create
the holy ghost: >>1340588
There's a wealth of correspondences to be had - the immaculate birth of the AI, the post-modern theological implications of the death of...
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>>1340588
>>1340642
But god in the bible is sort of a sacred cow..
It symbolizes something eternal, an expression of basic desires for something superior, something to strive for.
What is a sacred cow in our modern world? Maybe us being cynical or distanced is a symptom of something sacred that we do not care to admit as such?
In the jewish and christian world nobody would think to question god's existence. They didnt even realize it was something one could...
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Also, unsung heroes thread.
You tried this thread yesterday, /his/ is not a dense board, be happy with the 5ish replies you got last time.
he was a complete and utter failure who squandered his opportunity on vanity and ridiculous displays of pomp and circumstance, got given a second chance as the pope's political tool and fucked it up again.
what a hero
>>1340463
>believing in noble's propaganda
Did General Winter and General Mud win the war for the Soviets?
>>1340180
No, Herr Overconfidence betrayed Germany
>>1340180
No.
Poor weather hampered the combined arms efficiency that the Germans were so good at, but without actual Soviet troops to actually fight and win, it wouldn't matter if the Stukas can't deliver their bombs accurately or the panzers can't move fast.
And especially in battles like Kursk, and most of the later stuff, the Soviets were more than capable of fighting in the open and winning.
>>1340180
Wehraboos love to go around trying to claim that without the harsh weather Russia would have easily capitulated after the Germans took Moscow or some other important city. While the bad weather certainly made things a lot easier for the soviets by hampering the Germans advance, their ultimate victory would still have been inevitable. In a war of attrition the likes of which was seen on the eastern front, the side with more resources to lose will inevitably win, so no matter how long the Germans fought on they would have been ground down and overwhelmed by Russia's superior manpower and industry regardless of pretty much any other factor. Attacking the USSR was the greatest of Hitler and his cabal of generals many mistakes, and the German and Soviet people payed dearly for that mistake and many others like it.
What's the most hateless, affirmative religion?
The Abrahamic religions are nonstop "Thou shalt not" and life denial, while Eastern religions focus on a meager inward existence that rends the fabric of humanity.
What religion embraces life instead of pushing it away?
>>1340095
There is no separation of the "Abrahamic" God and the "Eastern" God rather a handful of people who have only separated themselves.
There is no God but God.
All religion is for the fabric of humanity. However religion then became a tool to manipulate and seperate God's people while at the same time still enlightening humanity about the connection is has with the divine.
You don't need to go religion shopping mate
>>1340095
Paganism
Daily Brothodox General.
The Orthodox Church in America just released a statement today reaffirming the immorality of homosexuality and transsexualism
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/orthodox-church-in-america-aims-to-protect-itself-from-lawsuits-with-strong
What's your interpretation of this bible verse?
>>1339887
>>1340046
The word for "wind' and the word for "spirit" are the same in both Hebrew and Biblical Greek.
He's saying you can observe the effects of the Spirit, but you cannot observe the Spirit directly, since the spirit is not material. He's also saying you can't predict the Spirit: those who seem righteous might never have the Spirit, whereas the most vile might receive the Spirit.
Did he actually exist?
What first hand historical records are there?
>Pls no Tacitus. He wasn't even alive at the same time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus#Testimonium_Flavianum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessindixie/2014/09/04/an-atheists-defense-of-the-historicity-of-jesus/
>"He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees"
- Bart Ehrman
>"There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more.
- Michael Grant
>"In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.
- Richard Burridge
>>1339975
The Gospels...
Tacitus
Josephus
Paul
I don't like how people think the Gospels and Paul are somehow unreliable.
Its a form of ad-hom fallacy to say that because one has something to gain that they are therefore arguing a certain way instead of arguing to truth.
Take the Gospels as they are, 5 different biblical sources mention Jesus.
Chances are he existed.
>inb4 >muh biblical sources
Lets adhere to reason and no take the fallacious path.
>>1339983
>Josephus
Doesn't mention him except in one obviously fraudulent passage. Since he believed the emperor Titus Flavius was the Messiah, it'd be strange indeed for him to describe Jesus as such.
>Tacitus
All he proves is that during his time, Christians existed.
Did the Christianity destroyed the society and culture of Imperium Romanum? Memes and /pol/-style shitposting aside.
>>1339943
No and it continues to preserve them.
Barbarians did.
>>1339952
I'm talking about ancient Rome, 600 BC - 400 AD.
and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
What is the meaning of this verse?
I already know the reformed interpretation. It has to do with God's sovereign will. But I would know if there is a different, more mystical interpretation, specially from the Catholicuck and Orthocuck sides, but also from any denomination.
This verse just strikes me as deep and spiritual, and yet I can't tell exactly why that is.
>>1339887
>Catholicuck
>Orthocuck
What do you mean by this /pol/tard?
>>1339903
Just sage /pol/tards threads, ignore them
So I just watched this fat fucks movie about Capitalism, and I thought it was overall fairly accurate, albeit hyperbolic.
But one scene that struck me was when he talked to some Catholic priests about capitalism, who all considered capitalism to be evil, and I found that interesting.
How do Christian Americans actually square the teachings of the Bible with Capitalism? Doesn't seem to me to be possible at all given what Jesus said about wealth.
I'm not a Christian, let alone a theist, but it's fascinating how one of the most Christian countries...
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Nice concern trolling, communist
>>1339703
Isn't the answer obvious? 'Christians' in the US believe in capitalism.
How has the perception of zoophilia changed through history?
I like to think that many knights fucked their (female) horses in freetime. It's only logical doing so in order to have a strong bond with your loyal mare who carries you to battles.
>>1339780
>I like to think that many knights fucked their (female) horses in freetime
Why? You must be a deeply disturbed sodomite
I will pray for you.
>One spectacle is said to have included "a hundred tiny blonde girls being raped simultaneously by a horde of baboons."
Times sure have changed.
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
—Matthew 6:27
BASELESS ASSERTION, SUPERSTITIOUS DRECK
WHERE'S YOUR EVIDENCE???
>Quote from Leviticus about blah blah blah detestable blah blah stoning blah blah blah
>He's totally Mithra guise!
>DEUS LO VULT
>The Inquisition, let's begin, the Inquisition, look out sin
>"America is a Christian nation" claptrap
There, /thread.
>>1339653
>When the autism hits hard
Can anyone tell me about Mormon theology and philosophy? How are God and Jesus understood? How does it differ from other forms of Christianity? What does it pick up from other religions or philosophies? What are the mystical elements?
>>1339552
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PXaJxzuDE
This short video explains everything quite well.
>>1339552
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism
You're welcome :^)
Joseph Smith, a convicted conman, got a bunch of people to believe that he found sacred texts that were a 'sequel' to the bible. He never let anybody see the original texts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1zDtn4Zu5Q&feature=youtu.be
Rise or stay asleep.
u choose.
>>1339482
Is this some kind of marketing for Watchdogs 2? Ubisoft has really gone off the deep end this time.
>>1340611
Really, who the fuck wanted another Watchdogs game?
>>1339482
sounds like a cult
I'm going back to bed
There's literally nothing ambiguous about it, and I agree. There is no power on Earth that has acted more responsibly than the United States in the role of being the greatest power.
>>1339473
>There is no power on Earth that has acted more responsibly than the United States in the role of being the greatest power.
>>1339464
He's a cuck.
How rich was him?
Does anyone have an estimate net worth?
He scored a literal fortune just from Mein Kampf copies, probably a billion or something.
He and Goering literally pillaged all the Jewish families in Europe
I think net worth gets very fuzzy when you're an absolute dictator. I mean, he effectively controlled the full resources of the German state, right?
