@coal_christian2 I've seen orthodox crosses carved into benches and rocks in a national park, plus they harbor Andrew Wilson who's insufferable. So orthodox wins 🏆
Stop saying “orca” which is a learned modern borrowing from Latin.
The native English borrowing from Latin was Ork but we also called them whale killers because they kill other whales (killer whale is the same name backwards).
Prior to that the Anglo-Norman term was Grampus. Prior to that the Anglo-Saxons likely referred to them as Hwæl-hunda “Whale hounds” referring to their predatory nature (sharks were called sea dogs)
@spiritofman90@Henrik_Palmgren@Imirrr422294@Tom_Rowsell Looks like you're retarded! "Something something, by their fruits" or some shit your favorite rabbi said. Not that you could understand anything anyway with such low iq (the buzzword)
The funniest part about this is noting that it's a very old Jewish superstition. This practice, "bitul", is still preserved in the Talmud—one chops off the nose, fingers, or face of an idol to "nullify" it.
They say it's because nose=air, "spirit", but more truthfully there is an intimate and interesting realization here about the relation between symbolic appearance of images and souls. It actually does work. The ability of the soul to come forth from the idol is in fact "nullified"—just look at it. It's dead! Modern Christians do the same still with burning harry potter etc.
What stops this from being unapologetically pagan simply comes down to what side of the war one is on. The Abrahamic religions are uniquely hostile to the images, hostile to life, whereas all others retain (at least) an awe and fascination to the idea that a statue could be animated. The spiritual Semite, Geist's finest soldier under the auspicious allegiance of Yahweh-Moloch, offers up the body, "anything that moves", to their God: pneuma, logos, nous... thin air!
In this clip, @LogosLeaper introduces the debate over the hypothetical Q source, why scholars used it to explain the Synoptic Problem, and how Mark Goodacre’s case for Luke using Matthew directly raises a bigger question about Gospel dating and how secure it really is.