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That's not the only way to remove them.

Still fails, because no, Mosaic monotheism was not a development from within Canaanite polytheism at all.

Not very relevant to the Western ideologies of the era under discussion. More relevant here, is that you've allowed yourself to be baited by an argument that was an obvious parody, and intended to be understood as such.

I think we should all remember the distinction between God's promises to Abraham, and the much later covenant at Mt Sinai with Moses and the 12 tribes of Israel. It is the latter thing - the Mosaic Covenant, that had the Levites as the priests who offered sacrifices, that has gone bye-bye with...

Picking and choosing which evidence you want, and throwing away anything that doesn't fit, lets you build any theory you like.

Maybe they were. There was an article I read way back in 2002, where the author was discussing the way that the political establishment was suppressing free speech and discussion about certain topics, and was treating some people as exempt from criticism, more equal than others, etc. The three...

The thread got invaded by Imperial Nippon.

A lot of today's mental health problems are caused by things that would themselves just go away if some sort of civilization-ending collapse happened. Just saying.

Taking the medieval European concept of "nobles" and applying it to people of a totally different culture on the other side of the planet? "When you look only for yourself in the other, you fail to see the other."

Parents raising their children to follow the same beliefs and values that they themselves believe in is natural and normal. Equating that pedophile teachers indoctrinating children into sexual perversion? There's something deeply wrong inside the heads of people who accept that. But Atheists...

Or perhaps more simply: because such people show that it is possible to leave the cult.

Does that mean someone who "identifies" as a refugee?

This. It's not just the trannies. it's a more general leftist thing. Crybully special-interest-group snowflakes of all sorts will often start screaming about "genocide" anytime they aren't given what they want. I remember a conversation that I had decades ago with a crazy street-hobo who was...

Someone clarify something for me: is the shooter in real life a male or a female? I'm not asking what he or she "identifies" as.

Theory one: Biden is a senile old coot who is really that unaware of what is going on around him. Theory two: Biden is a sicko who enjoys trolling people. The senility is an act. Someone like one him will blather on about his bodily functions in public precisely because he knows that normal...

Assuming his deep-state handlers bothered to write one for him? Are they still that thorough nowadays?

Neutering people would be very opposite of what we were talking about.

Because they totally had such modern things as hormone replacement therapy or gender reassignment surgery back in the time when the Jewish Temple was still standing? Really? In any case, they were talking about the people's bodies, in the context of such people being able to have children or...

Okay, let's take a look: Okay, so far it looks like they were describing people who were born intersex - not clearly anatomically differentiated. That's not the same thing at all as the modern notion of people who are clearly physically one sex, deciding that they want to "identify" as the...

All of those look to me like the symptoms of a society that over-prioritizes female happiness. Women start to believe that they have a right to whatever they happen to want. Men observe (correctly) that women in practice have more rights and less responsibilities. The result seems to be...