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originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: Ophiuchus 13
I believe, having studied the history both ancient and modern, of this species, that the fascists are rising again, and that their puppets, including the current leaders of Britain and America, among others, are here specifically to "legitimise" their disgusting, inhuman position before the unwary electorate. I believe time will soon come, where just as before, the fascists will have to be mown down like wheat before a thresher, in order to protect the rest of the human race from their propaganda, the reach of their hands, or the injustice they insert into the law of the lands they manage.
originally posted by: Myollinir
If someone came into your own house, and started yelling that they should be paid and you should follow their rules, and you kick them the hell out of your house, does that make you a fascist?
That actually makes more sense if 4 years ago you’d have done a Google Images search for “Isis” and found an abundance of pictures on the first page relating to Ancient Egypt. Considering that because Horus is likened to Christ then it could be said that Isis is like Mary, and it would be stating the obvious to say that the Mother Mary is a highly-revered Biblical character, for she is holy indeed. Fast-forward to the current day and you do not want to be entering that search query because a lot of the results will be disturbingly graphic. I am absolutely inclined to suggest that this is a deliberate attack on our memory of the Egyptian Goddess, and thus potentially an attack on historical, divine women in general.
It's not your boat too???
originally posted by: FamCore
originally posted by: butcherguy
I saw a video that I guy I know took of the Lake Champlain monster, so I believe in Champ.
I was out on Lake Champlain last night on my spouse's boat! Didn't see him/her, but I always look!
While we are being played constantly by the gov't, there seems to be plenty of evidence that Saddam Hussein used WMDs against the Kurds in northern Iraq as well as against Iran...
originally posted by: Cobaltic1978
The axis of evil.
Which included Iran and Iraq. 2 countries that were at loggerheads under Saddam Hussein's rule, suddenly forming an alliance to bring down Western society.
WMD's in Iraq and the subsequent invasion of the country, they found nothing because they never existed.
That actually woke me up to the fact we are being played BIG time.
originally posted by: CJCrawley
I'm not completely sold on any CT, but I think the following may be true:
Education for schoolkids has been deliberately dumbed down
Hitler didn't die in the bunker
Man did not go to the moon
Lady Di was murdered because it was believed she was pregnant
Jill Dando was murdered to stop her exposing an elite paedophile ring which included Royalty
Germany was secretly armed by the West in the 1930s with the express purpose of invading Russia
The Bilderbergers are secretly conspiring to take over the planet and instate a single, all powerful world government
Madeleine McCann died in Praia De Luz in 2007 and the parents deliberately faked the abduction story. The McCanns are influential people and the British government have their back
Osama Bin Laden was not executed by US navy seals (he died of natural causes many years earlier)
There are far more Muslims in the UK than official figures claim
“LOOK out,” wrote the apostle Paul to Christians living in the latter half of the first century C.E. What was he warning against? “Perhaps there may be someone who will carry you off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men.”—Colossians 2:8.
Despite Paul’s warning, from the middle of the second century C.E., some Christians began using concepts borrowed from ancient philosophers in order to explain their beliefs. Why? They wanted to be accepted by the educated people of the Roman Empire and thus make more converts.
Justin Martyr, one of the most famous of these Christians, believed that God’s Spokesman had manifested himself to Greek philosophers long before the arrival of Jesus. According to Justin and like-minded teachers, the contribution of philosophy and mythology to Christianity made this form of religion truly universal.
Justin Martyr’s form of Christianity became very successful in gaining converts. However, the adoption of one myth led to the creation of others and produced what is now commonly believed to be Christian doctrine. To expose these myths, compare what the following reference works say with what the Bible actually teaches.
What is the origin of the myth?
“The early Christian philosophers adopted the Greek concept of the soul’s immortality and thought of the soul as being created by God and infused into the body at conception.”—The New Encyclopædia Britannica (1988), Volume 11, page 25.
What does the Bible say?
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul raised questions: Where do souls go after death? What happens to the souls of the wicked? When nominal Christians adopted the myth of the immortal soul, this led them to accept another myth—the teaching of hellfire.
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FACT:
At death a person ceases to exist
What is the origin of the myth?
“Of all classical Greek philosophers, the one who has had the greatest influence on traditional views of Hell is Plato.”—Histoire des enfers (The History of Hell), by Georges Minois, page 50.
“From the middle of the 2nd century AD Christians who had some training in Greek philosophy began to feel the need to express their faith in its terms . . . The philosophy that suited them best was Platonism [the teachings of Plato].”—The New Encyclopædia Britannica (1988), Volume 25, page 890.
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What does the Bible say?
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FACT:
God does not punish people in hell
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Over time, the early church changed its view of its own role on the earth. With what result? “The institutional church increasingly replaced the expected Kingdom of God,” states The New Encyclopædia Britannica. The church began solidifying its power by becoming mixed up in politics, ignoring Jesus’ explicit statements that his followers were to be “no part of the world.” (John 15:19; 17:14-16; 18:36) Under the influence of the Roman Emperor Constantine, the church compromised some of its beliefs, one of which involved the very nature of God.
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What is the origin of the myth?
“The impression could arise that the Trinitarian dogma is in the last analysis a late 4th-century invention. In a sense, this is true . . . The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century.”—New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967), Volume 14, page 299.
“The Council of Nicaea met on May 20, 325 [C.E.]. Constantine himself presided, actively guiding the discussions, and personally proposed . . . the crucial formula expressing the relation of Christ to God in the creed issued by the council, ‘of one substance with the Father.’ . . . Overawed by the emperor, the bishops, with two exceptions only, signed the creed, many of them much against their inclination.”—Encyclopædia Britannica (1970), Volume 6, page 386.
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The dogma that Constantine championed was intended to put an end to dissensions within the fourth-century Church. However, it actually raised another issue: Was Mary, the woman who bore Jesus, “the Mother of God”?
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What is the origin of the myth?
“Veneration of the mother of God received its impetus when . . . the pagan masses streamed into the church. . . . Their piety and religious consciousness [that of pagans converted to Christianity] had been formed for millennia through the cult of the ‘great mother’ goddess and the ‘divine virgin.’”—The New Encyclopædia Britannica (1988), Volume 16, pages 326 and 327.
What does the Bible say?
“You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. . . . And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God.”—Italics ours; Luke 1:31-35, The New Jerusalem Bible.
That passage of Scripture clearly states that Mary was the mother of the “Son of God,” not of God himself. Could she have carried within her the One whom ‘the heavens themselves cannot contain’? (1 Kings 8:27) She never made such a claim. It is the teaching about the Trinity that has sown confusion over the identity of Mary. By proclaiming her Theotokos (a Greek word meaning “God-bearer”), or “Mother of God,” the Council of Ephesus, in 431 C.E., set the stage for Mary worship. The city of Ephesus where this church council was held had for centuries been at the heart of idol worship celebrating the fertility goddess Artemis.
So it was that many aspects of the worship of the image of Artemis that “fell from heaven,” such as processions, were integrated into Mary worship. (Acts 19:35) Another practice that crept into Christian teaching was the use of images of Mary and others in worship.
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FACT:
Mary was the mother of the Son of God, not of God himself. The Trinity myth gave birth to the worship of Mary as the Mother of God
originally posted by: TobyFlenderson
a reply to: Ophiuchus 13
The Holy Roman Empire and Roman Catholic Church conspired to eliminate the feminine aspect of the triune deity. This has been so effective as to eliminate this aspect from Western Culture almost completely for more than 2 thousand years. It has had enormous repercussions in the development of the Western Civilization and has lead to much war mongering and heartless capitalism.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus 13
Interesting post thus far
I feel somehow humanity has a ancient connection with planet MARS...
Not sure how or what that connection is.
originally posted by: CuriousPaddy
I believe in lost advanced civilisations and that we have had to start over atleast once but maybe more