You do realize that belief in god is a man made concept.historian said:
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good."
Psalm 14:1
You do realize that belief in god is a man made concept.historian said:
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good."
Psalm 14:1
TexasScientist said:Only if you redefine legitimate to exclude critical credentialed researchers and scholars. Ask the Baylor Religion Department. They'll help you out.historian said:
You keep making statements of opinion as if they were fact. That's hardly "scientific" or scholarly! While some "scholars" might claim the Gospel of John was written anonymously, most legitimate Bible scholars don't. They make all kinds of ridiculous claims about Jesus and His ministry, about His disciple, about Paul, and much else. These false narratives are often repeated by atheists, charlatans, people with an axe to grind, Christ-haters, & others but they always collapse under the facts, especially as presented in scripture.
For at least 150+ years (probably much more), various "experts" have been trying to cast doubts about various aspects of scripture: the accounts of the creation, the flood, other historic events, the authorship of various books, the biographies of persons in the Bible, and almost everything else. Most of their claims have been soundly refuted by genuine scholarship that takes the text seriously. Over the years, including recently, there have been several dramatic archaeological finds and other scholarship that confirm the biblical accounts of events 3,000 or 4,000 years ago.
To be honest, most of the efforts to contradict the Bible & its history are a rabbit hole, a silly waste of time for anyone who takes it seriously.
The evidence of reality, science and history tell us the biblical accounts of creation, both accounts, and the flood story was borrowed and embellished from ancient Canaanite and older cultures.
The rabbit hole is believing in impossible, and far-fetched myths.
TexasScientist said:You do realize that belief in god is a man made concept.historian said:
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good."
Psalm 14:1
I'm not aware of any objective scholarship that vests a god with the ability to talk, or any objective evidence that any god has ever spoken to anyone. Most people that hear things including god have various degrees of psychological disorders. Academia is the place where ideas, and hypothesis can be questioned, tested, and either accepted or rejected depending upon reproducible results. In academia everything is open to question. There are always people with fringe ideas and crazy nonsensical beliefs. Their "kookiness" is no more "kooky" than adopting the mythological beliefs of ancient primitive people.historian said:TexasScientist said:Only if you redefine legitimate to exclude critical credentialed researchers and scholars. Ask the Baylor Religion Department. They'll help you out.historian said:
You keep making statements of opinion as if they were fact. That's hardly "scientific" or scholarly! While some "scholars" might claim the Gospel of John was written anonymously, most legitimate Bible scholars don't. They make all kinds of ridiculous claims about Jesus and His ministry, about His disciple, about Paul, and much else. These false narratives are often repeated by atheists, charlatans, people with an axe to grind, Christ-haters, & others but they always collapse under the facts, especially as presented in scripture.
For at least 150+ years (probably much more), various "experts" have been trying to cast doubts about various aspects of scripture: the accounts of the creation, the flood, other historic events, the authorship of various books, the biographies of persons in the Bible, and almost everything else. Most of their claims have been soundly refuted by genuine scholarship that takes the text seriously. Over the years, including recently, there have been several dramatic archaeological finds and other scholarship that confirm the biblical accounts of events 3,000 or 4,000 years ago.
To be honest, most of the efforts to contradict the Bible & its history are a rabbit hole, a silly waste of time for anyone who takes it seriously.
The evidence of reality, science and history tell us the biblical accounts of creation, both accounts, and the flood story was borrowed and embellished from ancient Canaanite and older cultures.
The rabbit hole is believing in impossible, and far-fetched myths.
If that's what those "credentialed scholars" think then their credentials aren't worth much. A so-called Bible scholar who calls God a liar is a fool and probably does not know as much as he or she thinks. Academia has declined much over the past 50-60 years with crazy ideas, unproven theories, and blatant lies masquerading as scholarship l.
Elevating scientists, scholars, and anyone else who thinks education alone makes one smart is the true rabbit hole, someone following far fetched myths. It's amazing the crazy nonsense the self proclaimed intelligentsia believe. The climate cult, trans insanity, gender studies, basically all the kookiness we've seen from the Ivies lately, all the various forms of Marxism (including cultural), "Queers for Palestine", and so on.
They repeatedly prove Orwell correct:
"Some ideas are so absurd only an intellectual will believe them."
Sounds good to an apologist, but there is no basis to support such an over the top statement.historian said:TexasScientist said:You do realize that belief in god is a man made concept.historian said:
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good."
Psalm 14:1
Actually it's a concept from God. Belief in God is also basic common sense and self evident fact.
"For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse." Romans 1:19-20
I know two FSOs that work at NATO and they're both radical leftists. I would hope they're not representative of the rest of the Americans working there. I toured NATO a couple of years ago and they had CNN on every TV in the cafeteria. They're very vocally anti Trump.whiterock said:Red has his eye on the ball here. NATO is a tremendous stabilizing force in EUrope, greatly lessening geopolitical tensions within the alliance by freezing borders where they are and largely removing the dynamic of "spheres of influence." Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania are no longer just shatterzone states between greater powers - Turkey, Italy, and Germany. They are all allied together rather than pieces of constantly shifting blocks of alliances whose dynamics threaten larger powers.Redbrickbear said:The_barBEARian said:Redbrickbear said:Realitybites said:
We need to get out of NATO. Culturally, demographically, and politically those nations are nothing like the ones we agreed to give Truman doctrine protections to almost 80 years ago.
I disagree
Being in NATO allows the Western World to have a powerful alliance network
And that also prevents outsiders from coming into Europe and causing trouble. (Russia)
And it prevents the massive rearming of the European powers and their old bitter rivalries (UK vs France, France vs Germany, Germany vs Poland, Turkey vs all the non-Muslim Balkan states, etc.)
The NATO allies are all supposed to spend 2% of GDP on defense (most don't hit that number)...but it keeps everyone spending around the same proportionally.
If NATO goes away then the UK, France, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Poland all start to rearm at a fast pace to become the big military dog in Europe. And we get dangerously close to a 1914 world again of rival alliance networks and large military spending campaigns.
That world is not good for America or the average European.
The USA and the EU States need to be in a general positive military alliance....especially as we face the big challenges of the future.
Rivalry and war in Europe eventually sucks us in....and its not good for anyone but the non-Western rivals who gain from the West infighting
At this point NATO is a major hinderance to native Europeans purging their countries of the 3rd world invaders and rainbow globalists who are on the cusp of making them extinct. Britain, France, Sweden, and Belgium are already lost forever... and the rest of Europe isnt far behind.
Nationalism needs to thrive.
NATO needs to die.
Realitybites is right.
That is the EU bureaucracy
Not NATO
NATO truly does not have anything to do with setting European migration policies (leftwing or rightwing)
And if NATO went away tomorrow there is not a totally impossible scenario where Muslim Turkey under Erdogan starts actually invading other European-Balkans countries. (they have dangerous neo-Ottoman tendencies)
TexasScientist said:I'm not aware of any objective scholarship that vests a god with the ability to talk, or any objective evidence that any god has ever spoken to anyone. Most people that hear things including god have various degrees of psychological disorders. Academia is the place where ideas, and hypothesis can be questioned, tested, and either accepted or rejected depending upon reproducible results. In academia everything is open to question. There are always people with fringe ideas and crazy nonsensical beliefs. Their "kookiness" is no more "kooky" than adopting the mythological beliefs of ancient primitive people.historian said:TexasScientist said:Only if you redefine legitimate to exclude critical credentialed researchers and scholars. Ask the Baylor Religion Department. They'll help you out.historian said:
You keep making statements of opinion as if they were fact. That's hardly "scientific" or scholarly! While some "scholars" might claim the Gospel of John was written anonymously, most legitimate Bible scholars don't. They make all kinds of ridiculous claims about Jesus and His ministry, about His disciple, about Paul, and much else. These false narratives are often repeated by atheists, charlatans, people with an axe to grind, Christ-haters, & others but they always collapse under the facts, especially as presented in scripture.
For at least 150+ years (probably much more), various "experts" have been trying to cast doubts about various aspects of scripture: the accounts of the creation, the flood, other historic events, the authorship of various books, the biographies of persons in the Bible, and almost everything else. Most of their claims have been soundly refuted by genuine scholarship that takes the text seriously. Over the years, including recently, there have been several dramatic archaeological finds and other scholarship that confirm the biblical accounts of events 3,000 or 4,000 years ago.
To be honest, most of the efforts to contradict the Bible & its history are a rabbit hole, a silly waste of time for anyone who takes it seriously.
The evidence of reality, science and history tell us the biblical accounts of creation, both accounts, and the flood story was borrowed and embellished from ancient Canaanite and older cultures.
The rabbit hole is believing in impossible, and far-fetched myths.
If that's what those "credentialed scholars" think then their credentials aren't worth much. A so-called Bible scholar who calls God a liar is a fool and probably does not know as much as he or she thinks. Academia has declined much over the past 50-60 years with crazy ideas, unproven theories, and blatant lies masquerading as scholarship l.
Elevating scientists, scholars, and anyone else who thinks education alone makes one smart is the true rabbit hole, someone following far fetched myths. It's amazing the crazy nonsense the self proclaimed intelligentsia believe. The climate cult, trans insanity, gender studies, basically all the kookiness we've seen from the Ivies lately, all the various forms of Marxism (including cultural), "Queers for Palestine", and so on.
They repeatedly prove Orwell correct:
"Some ideas are so absurd only an intellectual will believe them."
Objective critical thinking, objective analysis, and academia is what has taken our species out of the dark ages to the present technological standard of living we enjoy today. Religion is mired in ignorance.
TexasScientist said:Sounds good to an apologist, but there is no basis to support such an over the top statement.historian said:TexasScientist said:You do realize that belief in god is a man made concept.historian said:
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good."
Psalm 14:1
Actually it's a concept from God. Belief in God is also basic common sense and self evident fact.
"For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse." Romans 1:19-20
You realize you're quoting someone whose beliefs are the product of a primitive culture that believed in myths and the supernatural to try and understand their plight. The evidence of reality belies those claims and reveals them as primitive beliefs of primitive people who were trying to make sense of their circumstance in the world.
yep. and Mark Rutte, the new NATO Sec. Gen. is a leftist nutter, too. No question that the Nato bureaucracy would react reflexively and fairly uniformly to a change agent like Trump.Doc Holliday said:I know two FSOs that work at NATO and they're both radical leftists. I would hope they're not representative of the rest of the Americans working there. I toured NATO a couple of years ago and they had CNN on every TV in the cafeteria. They're very vocally anti Trump.whiterock said:Red has his eye on the ball here. NATO is a tremendous stabilizing force in EUrope, greatly lessening geopolitical tensions within the alliance by freezing borders where they are and largely removing the dynamic of "spheres of influence." Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania are no longer just shatterzone states between greater powers - Turkey, Italy, and Germany. They are all allied together rather than pieces of constantly shifting blocks of alliances whose dynamics threaten larger powers.Redbrickbear said:The_barBEARian said:Redbrickbear said:Realitybites said:
We need to get out of NATO. Culturally, demographically, and politically those nations are nothing like the ones we agreed to give Truman doctrine protections to almost 80 years ago.
I disagree
Being in NATO allows the Western World to have a powerful alliance network
And that also prevents outsiders from coming into Europe and causing trouble. (Russia)
And it prevents the massive rearming of the European powers and their old bitter rivalries (UK vs France, France vs Germany, Germany vs Poland, Turkey vs all the non-Muslim Balkan states, etc.)
The NATO allies are all supposed to spend 2% of GDP on defense (most don't hit that number)...but it keeps everyone spending around the same proportionally.
If NATO goes away then the UK, France, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Poland all start to rearm at a fast pace to become the big military dog in Europe. And we get dangerously close to a 1914 world again of rival alliance networks and large military spending campaigns.
That world is not good for America or the average European.
The USA and the EU States need to be in a general positive military alliance....especially as we face the big challenges of the future.
Rivalry and war in Europe eventually sucks us in....and its not good for anyone but the non-Western rivals who gain from the West infighting
At this point NATO is a major hinderance to native Europeans purging their countries of the 3rd world invaders and rainbow globalists who are on the cusp of making them extinct. Britain, France, Sweden, and Belgium are already lost forever... and the rest of Europe isnt far behind.
Nationalism needs to thrive.
NATO needs to die.
Realitybites is right.
That is the EU bureaucracy
Not NATO
NATO truly does not have anything to do with setting European migration policies (leftwing or rightwing)
And if NATO went away tomorrow there is not a totally impossible scenario where Muslim Turkey under Erdogan starts actually invading other European-Balkans countries. (they have dangerous neo-Ottoman tendencies)
BREAKING: Ukraine Just Pulled Off One of the Most Daring Strikes in Modern Warfare
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) June 1, 2025
In what can only be described as a stunning act of covert military ingenuity, Ukraine has reportedly struck 41 Russian bombers across four separate air bases, some located as far as 4,400… pic.twitter.com/7qp4foXAX1
boognish_bear said:BREAKING: Ukraine Just Pulled Off One of the Most Daring Strikes in Modern Warfare
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) June 1, 2025
In what can only be described as a stunning act of covert military ingenuity, Ukraine has reportedly struck 41 Russian bombers across four separate air bases, some located as far as 4,400… pic.twitter.com/7qp4foXAX1
Russian man enters one of Ukraine’s drone trucks.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 1, 2025
Moments later, the trucks self-destruction mechanism ignites and the truck explodes. pic.twitter.com/vXsokRvDOb
Ouch!boognish_bear said:
Not sure why that dude would walk into thatRussian man enters one of Ukraine’s drone trucks.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 1, 2025
Moments later, the trucks self-destruction mechanism ignites and the truck explodes. pic.twitter.com/vXsokRvDOb
What exactly just hit 4 russian airfields and destroyed over 40 strategic bombers? THIS 👇👇👇
— Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 (@frontlinekit) June 1, 2025
13/15 inch FPV Kamikaze drones.
At $430 a piece you can take out a strategic bomber worth $100 MILLION DOLLARS. pic.twitter.com/TrAdotjIjA
❗️Operation Spiderweb was personally led by Zelensky and everything was planned for over a year, — FT pic.twitter.com/Dlics4VosG
— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) June 1, 2025
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 1, 2025
Ukraine launched another large swarm of suicide drones against Russia moments ago pic.twitter.com/smLcuhN24i
Aircraft carriers of the world
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) June 1, 2025
USA
UK
France
Ukraine pic.twitter.com/yN0eEuDinE
whiterock said:yep. and Mark Rutte, the new NATO Sec. Gen. is a leftist nutter, too. No question that the Nato bureaucracy would react reflexively and fairly uniformly to a change agent like Trump.Doc Holliday said:I know two FSOs that work at NATO and they're both radical leftists. I would hope they're not representative of the rest of the Americans working there. I toured NATO a couple of years ago and they had CNN on every TV in the cafeteria. They're very vocally anti Trump.whiterock said:Red has his eye on the ball here. NATO is a tremendous stabilizing force in EUrope, greatly lessening geopolitical tensions within the alliance by freezing borders where they are and largely removing the dynamic of "spheres of influence." Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania are no longer just shatterzone states between greater powers - Turkey, Italy, and Germany. They are all allied together rather than pieces of constantly shifting blocks of alliances whose dynamics threaten larger powers.Redbrickbear said:The_barBEARian said:Redbrickbear said:Realitybites said:
We need to get out of NATO. Culturally, demographically, and politically those nations are nothing like the ones we agreed to give Truman doctrine protections to almost 80 years ago.
I disagree
Being in NATO allows the Western World to have a powerful alliance network
And that also prevents outsiders from coming into Europe and causing trouble. (Russia)
And it prevents the massive rearming of the European powers and their old bitter rivalries (UK vs France, France vs Germany, Germany vs Poland, Turkey vs all the non-Muslim Balkan states, etc.)
The NATO allies are all supposed to spend 2% of GDP on defense (most don't hit that number)...but it keeps everyone spending around the same proportionally.
If NATO goes away then the UK, France, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Poland all start to rearm at a fast pace to become the big military dog in Europe. And we get dangerously close to a 1914 world again of rival alliance networks and large military spending campaigns.
That world is not good for America or the average European.
The USA and the EU States need to be in a general positive military alliance....especially as we face the big challenges of the future.
Rivalry and war in Europe eventually sucks us in....and its not good for anyone but the non-Western rivals who gain from the West infighting
At this point NATO is a major hinderance to native Europeans purging their countries of the 3rd world invaders and rainbow globalists who are on the cusp of making them extinct. Britain, France, Sweden, and Belgium are already lost forever... and the rest of Europe isnt far behind.
Nationalism needs to thrive.
NATO needs to die.
Realitybites is right.
That is the EU bureaucracy
Not NATO
NATO truly does not have anything to do with setting European migration policies (leftwing or rightwing)
And if NATO went away tomorrow there is not a totally impossible scenario where Muslim Turkey under Erdogan starts actually invading other European-Balkans countries. (they have dangerous neo-Ottoman tendencies)
But none of that changes the impact of the alliance on itself. It greatly relieves millennia-old rivalries. the first Nato SG, Lord Ismay, put it succinctly:
"...(the purpose of Nato is)"to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."
That is the subtext to German unwillingness to meet their Nato spending obligations, and also why the rest of Nato has never made an issue of it.
boognish_bear said:Aircraft carriers of the world
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) June 1, 2025
USA
UK
France
Ukraine pic.twitter.com/yN0eEuDinE
The rioting invaders in Paris last night left nobody alone.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 1, 2025
Attacking young girls trying to get home
Mass deportations ASAP.
pic.twitter.com/v2hWplS2bt
Let’s drop the charade, this isn’t a Ukraine-Russia conflict.
— Richard (@ricwe123) June 1, 2025
It’s a full-blown NATO war on Russia, with Ukraine as the disposable pawn.
Those strikes on Russian bombers, rail lines, airfields, and bridges weren’t just Ukraine acting alone, they were coordinated, funded and… pic.twitter.com/JCj4bEHm5B
The_barBEARian said:Let’s drop the charade, this isn’t a Ukraine-Russia conflict.
— Richard (@ricwe123) June 1, 2025
It’s a full-blown NATO war on Russia, with Ukraine as the disposable pawn.
Those strikes on Russian bombers, rail lines, airfields, and bridges weren’t just Ukraine acting alone, they were coordinated, funded and… pic.twitter.com/JCj4bEHm5B
ATTENTION!
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) June 1, 2025
So, it appears Zelenskyy gave the go ahead to attack parked Russian nuclear capable bombers without informing @realDonaldTrump (if true that our President was not consulted nor informed, this isn’t simply a breach of protocol. It’s a geopolitical insult and a warning… pic.twitter.com/L976NhwFy6
The start of WWIII...The_barBEARian said:Let’s drop the charade, this isn’t a Ukraine-Russia conflict.
— Richard (@ricwe123) June 1, 2025
It’s a full-blown NATO war on Russia, with Ukraine as the disposable pawn.
Those strikes on Russian bombers, rail lines, airfields, and bridges weren’t just Ukraine acting alone, they were coordinated, funded and… pic.twitter.com/JCj4bEHm5B
Assassin said:The start of WWIII...The_barBEARian said:Let’s drop the charade, this isn’t a Ukraine-Russia conflict.
— Richard (@ricwe123) June 1, 2025
It’s a full-blown NATO war on Russia, with Ukraine as the disposable pawn.
Those strikes on Russian bombers, rail lines, airfields, and bridges weren’t just Ukraine acting alone, they were coordinated, funded and… pic.twitter.com/JCj4bEHm5B
Ukraine did not notify the Trump administration in advance of the drone attacks on Russian airbases
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 1, 2025
-Axios pic.twitter.com/ss5DjVWAS4
on the eve of "peace talks" pic.twitter.com/kb3gnM6XVQ
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) June 2, 2025
Doing my best to set aside my rooting interest for Ukraine, I completely disagree with Flynn here.The_barBEARian said:ATTENTION!
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) June 1, 2025
So, it appears Zelenskyy gave the go ahead to attack parked Russian nuclear capable bombers without informing @realDonaldTrump (if true that our President was not consulted nor informed, this isn’t simply a breach of protocol. It’s a geopolitical insult and a warning… pic.twitter.com/L976NhwFy6
sombear said:Doing my best to set aside my rooting interest for Ukraine, I completely disagree with Flynn here.The_barBEARian said:ATTENTION!
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) June 1, 2025
So, it appears Zelenskyy gave the go ahead to attack parked Russian nuclear capable bombers without informing @realDonaldTrump (if true that our President was not consulted nor informed, this isn’t simply a breach of protocol. It’s a geopolitical insult and a warning… pic.twitter.com/L976NhwFy6
One, Ukraine had to keep this tight. I would trust Trump, but I would not trust some in his administratiion.
Two, and more importantly from a U.S. perspective, had Ukraine told us, the story would have been this was a U.S. attack.
I'm pretty confident saying the administration would not have wanted to know.
JUST IN: 🇬🇧 Prime Minister Starmer declares the United Kingdom is moving to "war-fighting readiness." pic.twitter.com/8XrpF3pTWD
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) June 2, 2025
JUST IN: 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia and Ukraine begin peace negotiations in Istanbul, Türkiye. pic.twitter.com/tMpZM4DO10
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) June 2, 2025
boognish_bear said:JUST IN: 🇬🇧 Prime Minister Starmer declares the United Kingdom is moving to "war-fighting readiness." pic.twitter.com/8XrpF3pTWD
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) June 2, 2025
boognish_bear said:Aircraft carriers of the world
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) June 1, 2025
USA
UK
France
Ukraine pic.twitter.com/yN0eEuDinE
🚨🚨🚨 Zelensky issues a warning to Europe🚨🚨🚨
— Bricktop_NAFO (@Bricktop_NAFO) June 2, 2025
''Ask your intelligence what Russia is preparing this summer from the territory of Belarus. Europe needs to prepare now''
- President Zelensky pic.twitter.com/hmlnMufuL9