@thejfc@dilanesper Paul said of Jesus that “though he existed in the form of God, [he] did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped.”Philippians 2:6
That doesn’t sound very orthodox to me.
@thejfc@dilanesper If you met the apostle Paul in real life and had a conversation with him about his views, you would almost certainly decide that he is not a Christian either.
Most far-right Gen-Z/Millennials would absolutely loathe the culture if they were transported to the past. They would find it suffocating and find themselves to be outcasts and find it impossible to find like minded people due to shitty telecom tech. Don’t idealize the past.
A weird thing the contemporary world is that the average secular person is very confident they have a rational and scientific worldview, yet they have tons of beliefs that are sort of very obviously mystical or “woo”. But this doesn’t register to them at all.
@KenGardner11 1. Our economy will break before theirs does
2. The regime is able and willing to withstand economic disaster. We do not have the stomach for it.
@Bob_Somebody021 Shoen estates did have private jurisdiction. Originally the Shoen as an institution was imagined as a sort of administrative district in which administration was farmed out to an aristocrat. Only later was it imagined as a type of private property.
The connection between "feudalism" and territorial principalities seems to exist from quite early on but this might literally just be because *in France* territorial principalities were actually conceptualized as fiefs @OttokarHochman
I’ve found *the* single most embarrassing patristic passage—one which everyone in the church found waaay too awkward to discuss until Bayle and Voltaire dug it up.
It’s Augustine’s defense of polyamory.
@medjedowo@FrDylanSchrader Sometimes I wonder if the Book of the Wars of Yahweh that is referenced and cited in the Bible a number of was a sort of lost Israelite Iliad
Do you ever think about how there are probably literary works that are the equivalent of Milton or Dante or Virgil in languages you don't know and have never heard of? Or lost completely to the past? Or to exist in thousands of years from now?
@jj_shabadoo@realKalos The Olympian gods are not humans. It seems to me that Christians must maintain that they are either fictional or they are demons.
A lot of people have the mistaken belief that stuff like demons stealing your semen in your sleep, evil spirits causing disease, healing with prayers, witchcraft, were "peasant beliefs." Very wrong. They were educated beliefs, associated with universities and the church.
I’ve found *the* single most embarrassing patristic passage—one which everyone in the church found waaay too awkward to discuss until Bayle and Voltaire dug it up.
It’s Augustine’s defense of polyamory.
But the reality is, sorry guys, abortion was absolutely a vexing issue for the Church and was really only settled in the 2nd half of the 19th century, despite some texts that argued against it back to a century after Jesus' birth. Before that there were a bunch of debates.