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originally posted by: SulfurMercurySalt
When my pet wolverine #s in my cave I rub his face into his stupid behavior so that he learn ! How are religious nutters diffrent ! Religion has caused more mayhem than satan and death himself ! I give zero slack to stupidity ! Though you are trying to be pragmatic types like you who try to ref between reason and science and caveman belief systems are worse than both the sides fighting ! No one is building bombs because of Horus’s story . The news is just bursting with tales of Aseopists or Homerists that are bombing , raping boys and mutilating women ! Grow a pair ! Get off the veggie burgers ! I don’t care their are people of faith just be silent and quiet about it ! I get it you religious types are all waiting for god to return and punish all who disagree ! So why can’t I punish it is what religion teaches through opposition to nature and reason ! Would you suggest not fighting stupidity in our universities ? Or under your logic the thesis and anti thesis don’t need a dialectic , because god or the non belief of god is good enough !!! Your move Sisyphus or keep on aggrandizing your Jesus story !
originally posted by: SulfurMercurySalt
Stay engaged ! It was was when I tried over and over to prove Hitchens wrong that I started to question my faith ! Dr Joseph Farrell who taught patristics at St Tikons in PA helped me the most ! He WAS a Christian with a doctrine in patristics from Oxford ! (That qualls him as a one of few experts on the formation of the original church and its bible ) Read his book “ Yahwah the Two Faced God “ Then find the only voice you need and that is one that rejects the holy books and their authors ! The mystery of God or the Spirit what ever you want to call it has # to do with religion and only gnosis ! My faith or religion as you will inevitably call it differs in the biggest area of all ! I’m not required to believe any of it and it and it stands in opposition only to the notion that God is better than man ! That which is above is like that which is below ! I’m your smartest friend you have ! I’m a humble narcissist lol good night !! Your ok for a fundy !
originally posted by: DpatC
According to the link below mathematical analysis of the concept of following the star of Bethlehalm clearly demonstrates that whoever wrote the account had no understanding whatsoever of astronomy.
The analysis Takes into account that
∙ It is impossible to look up with sufficient accuracy to bring you within 100 km of the house (α = 1°), and far less 10 km (α = 0.1°);
∙ The speed at which one has to travel to follow the projection of the star on the earth exceeds the speed of sound;
∙ The star would remain above the house in Bethlehem for less than a second;
∙ The time frame during which star could appear above the house in Bethlehem is fractionally small. For Venus this period is 58 seconds every 485 days (±15m from the house);
∙ The chance that the star, the earth and Bethlehem could ever align correctly in space and time is infinitesimally small; and
∙ All of this had to coincide with the birth of Christ,
From the analysis it can be concluded that one can categorically state that the possibility of the Magi having located the birthplace of Christ by following a star is identically zero.
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