Why do you deny God's word?
You call yourself Christian, but don't believe the scripture? Earth is young.
>>617203
>Answers in Genesis
usually their material is a lot funnier than this, especially there founder, even watched Ken Ham give a presentation? fucking hilarious.
Christian exegesis of the OT would completely fall apart of everything were literal.
>>617203
It's not about believing in scripture it's about a public system being impartial and educating everyone equally even if they happen to be of a different faith. To do this it has to be secular and not affiliated with any one belief system in particular otherwise we would inevitably be leaving someone out and depriving them of their right to the public education they're enrolled in.
Science is just the middle least offensive least alienating road because the alternative forcefully has to alienate someone and what's more possibly indoctrinate them into believing they're bad and going to some religions hell.
What are you doing with your humanities degree?
>>616965
going to law school
>>616972
Aren't there way too many lawyers?
>>616965
Noting that an unlabelled y-axis means there is no value to your chart.
What are your thoughts on mysticism, /his/? Can be in any religion.
If by "mysticism" you mean things like mantra prayer and meditation and direct experience of God's energy, then I'd say it's always been integral to Christianity, and is perhaps Christianity's greatest influence on religion worldwide.
>>616692
The most interesting part of any religion tbqh
>read history
>imagination runs wild with fantasies of power
>lose interest when I realize I'll never be emperor
Anyone else feel the same?
>>615875
>tfw you will never get to test out your Machiavellian ideals of brutal efficiency as emperor of America
No because history isn't about exercising power
>>615875
I feel like one day I might start up a warband
there is hope yet anon
Historically speaking have people successfully and consistently been able to identify their societies decline? Have historians or even laymen been able to correctly say "our golden age is passed and we're now heading for collapse" with accuracy or is it all just hindsight of later generations with contemporaries basically shooting in the dark?
Do you think we're in a decline right now?
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>>615645
People always think their society is in decline, so in the sense that even a broken clock is right twice a day, it has been predicted successfully.
>>615650
I would assume that at least some of those claims of decline would be accompanied by justifications, maybe even objective ones.
>>615650
/thread
Hi, my name is John Green and this is Crash Course World History
did you know Winston Churchill was actually a Nazi and wanted to invade the entire world after WWII and annex it to his own empire?
did you know that Cortez wanted to colonize the Americas because his father left him for a Mexican maid, thus turning Cortez into a racist, anti-semitic, homophobic, trans-phobic bigot who hated everyone who didn't believe in his neo-nazi beliefs?
You know I really don't get why he's so polarizing. I think he's okay, if anything it's good he's gotten lots of kids and teens into studying history
Why is such a large percentage of organized religion against gay marriage?
I understand that they believe marriage is between a man and women, but why do they spend so much time and money trying to stop same-sex marriage all over the world?
There's the obvious answer of: Same sex marriage leads to more births which means more followers. But gay people aren't going to have children anyway. Why not allow them to be part of their church instead of ostracizing them? Ostracizing them means less members, and people who support same-sex marriage may also leave because they support their gay friends.
I recently got married (my wife is Catholic, I'm not) and I was amazed at how much two things were stressed: 1) Gay marriage is not okay and 2) Don't wrap your dick.
I just don't get it.
Because it is a sin, thou unholy spawn of Satan.
>>615110
people fear that their way of live is at threat
I don't think anyone truly believes that society is going to fall apart, they just believe that things are going to be different in an unforseeable way and people don't really like that.
>>615110
organized religion is about the perpetuation of traditional beliefs.
gay marriage is very nontraditional
I'd like to know more about Poland and Hungary. These are two western countries no one really talk about.
I know Hungary was pretty strong under a capetian king they ruled over a huge part of Europe. I know they managed to win impressive victories about the Turks then got invaded.
As for Poland, I know almost nothing. The Jagiellonian dynasty did seem to have a lot of prestige and they fought againt the Teutonic order...other than that, I don't know what happened.
So I'd like to know more about what these two countries were doing in the middle ages, when they seemed pretty powerful.
>>614777
>These are two western countries no one really talk about.
If they're western then Mongolia is Germanic.
Hungarian is the most unique language in the world. It's not similar to languages around it at all. I think it had something to do with the Mongols scattering their peoples or something. Also same with Finnish
>>614868
>Hungarian is the most unique language in the world.
Not even in Europe.
See Basque. Isolated language group. Hungarians have Finnish and Uralic languages.
How did the British Empire become so based next to other European powers?
By playing the eternal anglo
>>614711
It's on an island and there was a lot of coal to start the industrial revolution
>>614711
>dominate an Island
>have a big ass navy
>Eternal Anglo it up.
Thirty years ago tomorrow. Let's have a Challenger thread.
>have no manned orbital flight capability
>use shuttles to build and maintain infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit
>go to the Moon
NASA is operating in reverse.
"Some of you are alright. Don't go to Cape Canaveral tomorrow."
>>614245
SLS in 2018 my friend.
We Mars now
What's god's higher purpose? What's the meaning of his existence?
God is beyond the principles of existence and non-existence.
>>613616
Probably something bigger and more important than telling a bunch of lowly lifeforms on some rock hurtling through space what they ought to be thinking.
>>613616
Impossible to know.
Perhaps begetting existence is his way of entertaining himself.
Is it true the Levant was full of white people until the replaced them during the Islamic conquests?
>>612573
no
>>612573
No.
>>612573
DEFINE "WHITE PEOPLE".
I heard a guy day Stalin killed 80,000,000 people. I did done research on gulags, holodomor, and purges I think it would be closer to 35,000,000. How many do you think he killed? Do you think his death count is over or under exaggerated?
Also, no Hitler or Mao body counts, unless it correlates with Stalin's.
Doesn't matter how many he killed. All that matters is he won.
>>612155
He won WWII, but his goal was for the world to be communist, so he lost. If anything the world is more of a facist shithole.
>>612160
Define "Facist."
What is your personal philosophy and why do you subscribe to it?
I'll start:
>If there are an infinite number of possible worlds, then there are an infinite number of possible waifus. If there are an infinite number of waifus, then there exists a perfect waifu. Because it is more perfect to exist than not to exist, this perfect waifu must necessarily exist. By dimensional jumping via psychedelics and chaos magick, I hope to one day meet this perfect waifu. I call this philosophy Waifuism.
Life is a test.
In life there's always the right side, the wrong side and the truth.
Don't mess with someone, but not let you be slightest
ITT: Historical figures that reminds us of ourselves
I'll start.
Literally me
Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt.
If you were like Genghis Khan, you wouldn't have time for 4chan, because you'd be spending every waking moment raping, murdering, or riding a horse on your way to go rape and murder.
