@LMBFrank@armenpress I understand what you mean. Yet the caveat is that this statue was not built to apease pagans or to facilitate their rituals. Rather, it is a historical, cultural respect. Do you not think that is different fron Paul rebuking Churches facilitating pagan sacrifices? It’s nuanced.
@LMBFrank@armenpress This alarmism is contrary to the Church’s message. This is a cultural move to respect and honor the heritage of the peoplr. Church Fathers themselves greatly respected pagan mythology and used them as allegory in apologetics. This is salafi muslim level
@Sepasd3@armenpress This is a testament to the people’s culture. None of this is an affront to the Father and no one pretends to be worshipping that statue. You see and you react… try to ponder first.
@AngloRestore How is this in comparison to the giant red wood trees cut in America? I assume this is about correlating such behavior to culture or even “race”? That said, Christianity has incorporated ecology and the conservation of nature as quasi-doctrine since the Church Fathers.
@_rolito17@pureMetatron There are several sects that follow different interpretations, but it’s mostly a tradition and somewhat performative. Sometimes they use sabres and cut themselves up.
Sunnis regarded the proto-Shia, as apostates, following a false prophesy, aka heresy.
What are theories on evolutionary significance of Y-DNA paternal lines? They seem to hold great significance in the way culture is spread sociologically, but the overwhelming genetic information is passed down autosomally.
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@AASI_Fuerte8x9@BmacIvc You suggest Aryan Zoroastrianism is downroad from Zagros culture, pointing towards BMAC having been Zagrosian and then becoming essential for Aryan Zoroastrianism?
@AliMans2005@KerkukiAlan@Telegraph@mutludc@DavidHarrisNY Kurds, via J2 ancestry (of which Kurds hold a lot) are indigenous to the whole of the Iranian plateau, especiall north-west, into the Zagros mountains and westward into Mesopotamia. They were neighbours of Assyrians with significant genetic overlap.
@asteraex I don’t understand. Why claim the cultural heritage of 2% of your dna when there are other much more major parts of your genome that are obviously from local J2 people in the Iranian plateau?