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I'm currently watching a YouTube video on parallels between the pantheons of Hellenic paganism and Hinduism, and it just struck me that certain African religions might be distant descendants of Indo-European ones instead of the more geographically accessible religion
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Addendum:
I should add the ancient Egyptians believed the sky was female, and the Dahomey equally had that idea present in their religion, but for the Dahomey, the sky deity was the chief deity but for the Egyptians, the chief deity was still male. The sky was
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To the "arguments aren't evidence" crowd:
How do you establish that something counts as proof of the truth of a claim without postulating any link between the claim and the proof by arguments?
Articulated evidence is basically just a suite of arguments. Even empiricism
a knife could be marked with blood, and appear at a scene? Well, you need to establish the more probable cause through arguments, which are just contents of how your mind interprets the relationship or interactions between objects and the world. Even the results
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I've never seen a trans person (especially trans women) who's not obsessed with sexual deviancy. I'm in a Telegram group where theists and atheists debate, and there happens to be a transwoman among us. I've never seen him coherently defend atheism. He rarely makes a full
If she plays songs as well to your hearing, report her too. If she doesn't, then maybe respect her concerns.
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Saying Joseph was actually Jesus' biological father is more respectable than this nonsense. A new atheist buying into anti-Christian polemic is not shocking at all.
Christians regard it as mere polemic, but it is a trillion times more likely that Jesus’ real father was Panthera, the Roman soldier, than that Mary gave birth as a virgin.
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I think a lot of people underestimate how mysterious it is that life exists at all. Not just that, the universe is structured in such a way that the life that it produces can flourish against all odds.
