Vatican calls gender fluidity and surrogacy threats to human dignity
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I am so tired of the whole "cool pope" thing with Francis. It's 100% PR.
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I am so tired of the whole "cool pope" thing with Francis. It's 100% PR.
Considering evangelicals and other Christian extremists are gaining power in many countries, I'm not sure that this is a good example.
I'm not sure what 'emerging research trends.' If you mean trends of fewer people going to churches or identifying themselves as religious, that doesn't mean they don't believe whatever translation of the Old Testament they happen to believe is anything but history.
They were saying the same thing during the Enlightenment. They were wrong then too.
No, more things like the increased number of Ashkenazi users of ancestry sites including ancient samples confused by their closest genetic match being 3,700 year old Minoan graves or Iron Age Anatolian samples in parallel to archeology finding increased prevalence of early Iron Age Aegean style pottery made with local clay in supposed Israelite ancestral sites or the discovery of previously unknown Anatolian trade lines around honey production and four horned altars.
A lot of the ancient Greek and Roman historians of antiquity are going to be vindicated a bit for unanimous assertions that have been dismissed by modern perspectives heavily influenced by anchoring and survivorship biases from our sources.
What are you even talking about?
Don't worry about it. It's just academic stuff.
It sounds like irrational stuff if you're tying how religious people are today and will be in the future to the genetic lineage of Ashkenazi Jews.
I'm not sure where you got that from, or why you keep being so hung up on "how religious people are today."
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But I guess you answered my initial question. Learning about the original translations of Biblical texts have had no measurable effect on the world.
"What people think they know about the Old Testament period and history" is markedly different from "how religious people are today and in the future."
But with your last 'quote' there I think you said everything that needed to be said. Good luck with your opinions. I hope they work out for you.