"Why Hitler Hated Christianity | Tom Holland

The idea that "there is no Jew or Greek" - that all people are created with inherent dignity - conflicted and destroyed Hitler's ideal of strength and classical civilization."

MTG... MGT is Muslim Girls Training, so obviously not the same thing!

And Massie is getting legit death threats for his disbelief of the Lyin' King.

MGT better mind her Ps and Qs, too.

#6

Killfiled for at least the 3rd time... funny, most revisions are improvements. This one gets steadily more mundane and obtuse.

#8, 9

And how would you know any of that? I mean, you haven't even watched the short vid at the thread link, much less studied the subject.

One reason I like to study the findings of people like Tom Holland is that he has no dog in the fight; he's a scholar of ancient history known for his work on Muhammad, whose story WAS written 2 centuries later, and his work on Augustus Caesar.

Also NT Wright, who was a well-regarded Prof of ancient history before he was Oxford's NT scholar.

#10

"Smith concludes that Allegro's mushroom hypothesis was informed by many trends in twentieth-century mycological study, alongside a desire to discredit Christianity from its inception."

Idiot Trumpers 'think' that there is a Declared Military War going on as in Lincoln's time.

Really, they just suck up to whatever nonsense their Cult Leader tells them to suck up to.

Social Sec provides benefits for many kinds of health care, including mental health.

#1 should be thankful.

#26

"Were nearly half a million registered California voters disqualified from jury duty in one year because they were not citizens?

No."

"We the Bots, in order to form a more Perfect AI, do declare all Hu-mans to be irrelevant."

Coming to a reality near you soon!

- The Bible was written centuries later by people who realized it was a great way to control others.

Decades later... Paul within one or two, the rest within 2 to 4.

What did you think of secular historian Tom Holland's take on cultural Christianity?

#4

If they did, they didn't do a very good job, as Josephus is more often used as not proof than proof, as there are some caveats in his work due to poor or intentionally dishonest scribes.

I've never heard it before, but this conspiracy canard apparently originates in one place and time, a 2005 book.

Edwin Starr - War

(you'll need to restart the link in #1... my Editor sucks)

Part of the conversation that interested me, btw, is that of Cultural Christians... those who live by Jesus' parables of morals and ethics without identifying as believers.

Those sayings only seem like common sense to them.

"I mean, I think basically that most of
us in this country are cultural
Christians just instinctively.

Uh, and I
think there is no one who's more
culturally Christian than the atheist...

who says, "I don't need some, you know,
bronze age sky [music] fairy telling me
how to behave because I just know how to
behave. I'm a good person.

I don't need
the Bible to tell me to care for the
weak and the poor and the refugee...
manifesting the fact that they are the
result of centuries worth of biblical
weathering.

So in a sense, [applause]
in a sense to be a cultural Christian is
still to believe stuff.

It's still to believe stuff that to say
a Roman, a pre-Christian Roman would
have seemed mad and not at all
self-evident."

- Tom Holland (about 5 mins in)

Thread link is a short video... excerpts from a brilliant conversation at the below link:

"In 2024"2025, American political ideology is relatively evenly split, with about 35% identifying as moderate, 35% as conservative, and 27"28% as liberal. While conservative and liberal shares have remained consistent, the proportion of moderates declined from over 40% in the early 1990s to 33"35% recently."

#14

Literally 100's of thousands, most of starvation and disease.

But hey, tax cuts for Oligarchs has it's acceptable losses according to Trumpers.

Come you masters of war

You that build all the guns

You that build the death planes

You that build the big bombs

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know

I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'

But build to destroy

You play with my world

Like it's your little toy

You put a gun in my hand

And you hide from my eyes

And you turn and run farther

When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you set back and watch

When the death count gets higher

You hide in your mansion

As young people's blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatening my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain't worth the blood

That runs in your veins

How much do I know

To talk out of turn

You might say that I'm young

You might say I'm unlearned

But there's one thing I know

Though I'm younger than you

Even Jesus would never

Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question

Is your money that good

Will it buy you forgiveness

Do you think that it could

I think you will find

When your death takes its toll

All the money you made

Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die

And your death'll come soon

I will follow your casket

In the pale afternoon

And I'll watch while you're lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I'll stand o'er your grave

'Til I'm sure that you're dead

Masters of War
Written by: Bob Dylan
Copyright 1963

No paywall version:

Donald Trump dies and goes the Hell....

"This is the question of the of the day in this lawsuit. Where does she live?
They are either going to have to prove that they live in Florida, or accept the fact that she lives in New York.

The first lady does not live with the president of the United States.

Their relationship is remote at best, and I think we can probably say,
well, certainly of a different nature than any, president and first lady has ever had.

Not to mention that, that, to our point, the nature of this is that she lives in New York and he lives somewhere else." - Michael Wolff

;;

Oh, wait... is this what the new voting requirements are all about; he doesn't want her as an illegal immigrant with no driver's license because a changed name to be able to vote?

And who's his main squeeze (yuck!) in the WH?

This guy?:

00:00 - Where Does Melania Live?
04:25 - Why This Case Matters: Trump, Epstein & Legal Leverage
08:50 - Anti-SLAPP Laws and Fighting Back Against the White House
13:15 - Turning the Tables: Suing Melania and the Residency Strategy
17:40 - Trump Tower Living: Separate Apartments and NYC Evidence
22:05 - Florida vs. New York: Driver's Licenses, Voting & Legal Definitions

26:30 - Mar-a-Lago Exile and the Rise of the Election Deniers
30:55 - Kurt Olsen: From "Crazy" Election Lawyer to White House Insider
35:20 - Loyalty Over Competence: The Second Trump Administration
39:45 - Pam Bondi Under Fire: Congress, Contempt & Political Theater
44:10 - Nasty Women, Trump Loyalty & Power Dynamics
48:35 - What Comes Next: Courts, Consequences & Political Fallout

How many John_Savages does the world really need? I already have 2 of them killfiled where I can't smell them.

And isn't that kind of a gay name in Trumper circles anyway? Like some ------------, high heeled, whip-wielding German SS Officer?

- Let moderates decide whether they want a democracy or a kleptocracy.

Yeah, we did that... see what happened?

- the one-size-fits-all solution for Democrats everywhere is foolish at best

Exactly; a more liberal candidate can win in NY and LA, but not in flyover country where the Electoral College votes are... Hillary wasn't liberal enough for some hands-sitters, but even though she won the popular vote, she was too liberal for the Electoral College.

The far far left needs to decide if they want to be politically correct, or if they want to be in power.

As James Talarico notes, real politics isn't left vs right, it's top vs bottom, and that's a message that can win.