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Did the tithes also pay for the upkeep of the clergy?

Also this statement seems to disregard and marginalize the issue. As do the follow up justifications.

Time for reflection here. Does that sound like the attitude of all powerful creator of the universe who made all the living things ? Or does it sound like the attitude of ancient people living in agricultural society that saw much of their food being eaten or spoiled by aforementioned critters.

What will bring the balance in long term is higher living and education standards that are linked to low fertility aided by ever developing technology.

Humans generally go with idea that if something is furry, adorable or loved it will be in heaven with them. If it is cockroach nobody cares. That’s humans. I can’t conceive any reason for God to be so limited and shallow if we start with presumption He created them all.

So all the cockroaches that have ever been squashed are in heaven ? Maybe the loved pets are. Here is hoping for that. Hope you got the grief settled. It is hard always.

Also I remember reading someone charmingly commenting on his Christian sexuality that “everything to do with a butt is a big no no” From context I gathered he was in a traditional relationship. So guess that is issue for some.

Just wait until his daughters hit teens, read that article and say “oh yeah? “

For some they are and for some they are not. I would imagine that for example a gay marital sex for Christians would be loaded with all kind of extra guilt atheists could care less about.

Anything really. Perhaps no sex at all - devoted to God, some sexual practices - I am no longer such a deviant as you, singing gospels with foreplay ? Everything could possibly change. This thread seems bit pointless.

It hasn’t endured eternally. Current estimate is around 14 billion years. Why would you think it has been around forever?

This predicting looks all rage. I predict the Indians won’t ever get their lands back from US government.

Pick up Yoga or Pilates.

So you are advocating for Heat death of the universe - Wikipedia One of the possible ends for cosmos. How does this prove creation ?

Not impossible either. Think of Japanese 80 years ago.

People who labeled themselves Christians sacked Constantinople and premeditated the fall of Eastern Roman Empire to - ironically - Muslim hordes so I wouldn’t get too worked up about this.

I have seen on these forums a claim that they also had a word for a sphere that only means sphere ie ball but that word is not used in the Bible in these contexts. Not interested enough on this nonsense to verify it. I will leave it to philologists.

That’s a hard one. Not like writers of The Bible would have added their own socially preconceived notions of proper sexual conduct of their time when they wrote it?

That’s like saying we shouldn’t won’t believe Albania exists if we haven’t been there. If the news is reasonable and from reasonable sources there is no inherent reason not to believe it. It is really not possible to verify everything by yourself. Also how would you verify you are not living...

Some heathens, what can you expect. Good thing Christians don’t do things like that. Well apart from some Indian Catholics who were drinking toilet water from statue of Jesus and considered it a miracle. After a famous fraud exposer told them it was unfortunately faulty plumbing instead of...