Recent content by Dissenter

What if someone like Trump set out to have a child like Erika Kirk in a community where she was sure to be persecuted and marginalized unless she got his support? What if the price of his support was a solemn loyalty oath? What if our hypothetical power-hungry millionaire had her marry some...

What about the picture he posted of himself as a Messiah-like figure? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-as-jesus-image/ It dovetails with the fact that most "No Kings" protesters are older. They can't tell the rest of their party why they feel the way they do because younger generations...

From a Bing Copilot search summary: Canonical Status The Book of Enoch, also known as 1 Enoch, is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic text traditionally attributed to the patriarch Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. While it was influential in early Jewish and Christian thought and is even quoted...

Moses seemed to think creation happened 6,000 years before our present. By-and-large, the species he could observe have largely remained fixed since then, so I don't see what your point is. Only if you think Genesis must be taken literally. I don't believe even all scriptural experts think so...

They were a different species, as were Homo denisovus. I don't know quite what you mean by "subhuman." The concept of being human was defined by people with 1-4% Neanderthal ancestry after all. All our ancestors were "cavemen." None of our ancestors were living in subdivisions of...

Oh, I believe in Scripture, but some of it is not meant to be taken in a fundamentalist way. You can only claim you are putting science against science because you gloss over the parts which don't support your fundamentalism. I am not sure what "fossil record of animals and aquatic life" were...

What does any of that have to do with there being no consistent evidence of a worldwide flood in late prehistory? Mitochondrial Eve is thought to have lived 160,000 years ago. It actually only means she is an ancestor to every person alive today. But her teeth genes, for example, are not...

This isn't meant to be a special indictment of any people or ethnicity. Probably every culture is tempted to let the poor have someone else's child every now and then especially in beleaguered communities which might be close to trafficking gangs.

There are over 2,000 allegedly Bible-based Protestant sects in addition to the Catholic and Orthodox churches, so whatever do you mean by "know scripture?" A lotta people know a lot of Scripture as well as the history and context surrounding it, and we are far from a consensus. If the...

Bubonic plague is thought by some archaeologists to have severely reduced the population of Europe between 5300 and 4900 years ago. If it had first spread through what became ancient Egypt, that would have been not long before the start of the ancient Egyptian civilization. Plague is thought...

The theory was that the "flood" or plague came first and some people self-quarantined at sea, then for a while the history of the event was lost. Stories were contrived to explain what happened before the start of most of recorded history because people did verbally recall a mass die-off, and...

Some claim there is evidence water was flowing out of the Black Sea as long as 15,000 years ago, others think the "Black Sea Flood" was a gradual rise. The proponents of the sudden Black Sea Flood theory say it probably happened 7600 years ago, which is too far back even if accounts of how long...

The Church clearly created some rules surrounding conditional salvation. You have posted some of them. They were probably only looking to define and regulate the reality of the fact that a priest can intend what he will and it was so before the first catechism was written down by some scribe...

Can it be they want salvation? Would you not pick up a Protestant bible and read it and love God, if you weren't being saved because some other individual who is as weak and corruptible as you had decided it was the lesser of two evils? Can it be the leaders of this world were not at all...

Why is this divine protection which you suppose limited to those who have accepted the faith? Why doesn't God save Protestants, or Satanists for that matter? Why not Atheists? Have you thought about why God would draw the line at the Church but not the sacraments? I believe God is not...