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Politesse replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.I'm not taking any position beyond what was clearly stated in my posts, so what's the confusion? We don't start every conversation with... -
Politesse replied to the thread Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules.Oh, I think the infantile drive-by posts are very instructive. Might as well take the white gloves off.
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I feel this is your largest failing in the conversation as you prematurely end biology at the organs and chromosomes. We know people are... -
Politesse replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Why would my personal beliefs be relevant to anything but an irrelevant ad hominem attack? If your claims cannot be substantiated with...
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Politesse replied to the thread The Manhood Trap.Perhaps. But is an economics class really one of those places? Does it need to be? Should it be? Actual young Americans have for the...
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Politesse replied to the thread The Manhood Trap.When you are accustomed to only seeing biological men in a given space, seeing biological women there as well is inherently and...
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Politesse replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Some did, at the time. Though Paul vehemently disapproved. In the first of his preseved letters to the Corinthian church, he wrote...
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Politesse replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Not just in Acts, many of his letters mention fundraising. He seems to have supported himself as he traveled with his original trade (he...
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Politesse replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.As Paul himself observes, perhaps we should never expect to see such things except "as through a looking-glass, dimly."
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Politesse replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Also, what you call "parsing a few soundbites", I call "discussing the only available evidence relevant to the claim". I know not...
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Politesse replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Firstly, Paul did not write The Acts of the Apostles, from whence came the pasage I was discussing, nor was the passage about him. Or...
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Politesse replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.This is likewise not exactly a quotation, and likely not a reference. The line in the play is "Do not kick against the goads lest you...
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Politesse replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity."For we are also his offspring", is the quotation? Peter is preaching to an Athenian audience and quotes a Greek poet? That seems like a...
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Politesse replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.There are way more than two branches of Islam, and hundreds of variations on Buddhism. Indeed, plenty of Buddhists would readily...