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YHWH was the war god of the Israelite tribes, wasn't he?

Just another consequence of 'small government' and deregulation.

At least there are first-person accounts of Wyatt Earp, Billy and the events at the OK corral, and from disinterested parties, as well. It's my understanding that there are none for Jesus, only second hand reports or reports about his followers and their beliefs, ie: hearsay.

Religion can be a crutch. It offers a set of simplistic, deontologic rules, often with no apparent practical utility. Accepting a set of external rules enables one to dismiss questions of consequence or utility, it obviates the need for an internalized, consequentionist morality. It retards the...

Religious hyperbole. Theological grandiloquence. Bombast. The ancients had no scientific understanding of time, special relativity or the "big bang."

Has nobody ever been to a German sauna? No sexual segregation. A single locker room. Total nudity. Whole families are there: kids, parents, grandparents -- everyone, all naked. Some saunas are really big, with multiple rooms of different temperatures, bars, even cafés. There's nothing sexual...

If the changing room rules require sexual segregation, and women prefer it, then the men should stay out.

What about women walking down the street with their knees exposed? That was shocking, too, at one time. What if the schoolgirls just laughed at Mr trenchcoat, and went back to their games. What's shocking is learned. A century ago parents would have covered their children's eyes at the sight of...

Not as close as the coup attempt against FDR, but there's a growing cadre of delusional 'enemies domestic' I think pose a significant threat to democracy.

Meh... There's something new, remarkable or shocking about ordinary anatomy? I'm not seeing any actual harm here. Ie: Who cares?

All natural systems are in decline; collapsing. Water tables are dropping. Topsoil depth is decreasing. The sea is overfished, polluted and awash in trash, its pH is decreasing and temperature increasing. Marine nurseries like mangrove forests are now luxury hotels. Petroleum reserves are...

By volume of product, by weight, or per calorie?

For the planet's carrying capacity. We're well above that already.

Sounds like it might already have been dismissed.

But did the Roman version have lettuce, tomato and special sauce, or a sesame seed bun?

If the law-and-order, 'get tough', 'war on crime' Republicans had put some funding into jobs and education programs, rather than militarizing the police, perhaps the car wouldn't have been stolen. Don't the stats show that the most effective crime deterrence involves social programs like jobs...

Elephant Butte ["byoot," not "butt"] lake, here in New Mexico, is only 11% full, and the Summer irrigation season is just beginning. I'm picturing the Aral Sea, or the Salton Sea here in the US.

It would be salt; discharged back into the sea, it would create massive, hypersaline dead zones. "Eventual dispersion" doesn't matter. In most places dispersion would be slow: witness the eutrophic dead zones at the mouth of the Mississippi, or in some of the American Great Lakes -- and...