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Ezekiel sees God’s genitalia.
“Upward from what looked to be His motnayim (groin) I saw it sparkling like amber; it seemed to be enveloped all around by fire.”
(Quoted from God: An Anatomy.)
Likewise (ibid.) Isaiah sees Yahweh enthroned in the Temple, which is filled by His shul, that is to say His genitalia.
The world isn’t going backwards, it’s just going somewhere that isn’t any life worth living. Certainly not socialism.
And the hikikomori in Japan: an increasing number of young men who never leave their rooms but just rot in them; no friends, no social or sexual life; all “relationships” with fictional AI “virtual girlfriends” on their phones.
BJ -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus
Historical Jesus.
” Richard Dawkins acknowledges that a normal human man named Jesus likely lived, though he firmly rejects the supernatural claims, divinity, and miracles associated with Jesus Christ. In his book The God Delusion, Dawkins initially suggested that the historical case for Jesus not existing at all was plausible, but he has since recognized and conceded the mainstream academic consensus that a historical preacher from Nazareth did walk the earth.Dawkins’ View on the Historical JesusAccepts a human teacher: Dawkins agrees that an itinerant Jewish preacher named Jesus lived in the first century and was eventually crucified.Rejects the divine: He views Jesus as a mortal man, stating that Jesus was a theist because “back then everyone was”.Denies miracles: He completely rejects claims of the resurrection, virgin birth, and turning water into wine as religious myth rather than factual history.Scholarly ContextMainstream consensus: Virtually all professional historians, whether Christian or atheist (such as prominent New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman), agree that Jesus was a historical figure.Mythicism minority: The idea that Jesus never existed at all is treated as a fringe theory by mainstream historians, which is why Dawkins faced criticism from both believers and secular historians for previously suggesting it was a serious academic debate.”
History and geography are now specialist subjects. They used to be basic.
Every child in school received an atlas. Today people travel more, but many cannot point on a map to where they’ve been. Many have no geographical awareness, and no chronological awareness of history.With bookshops long gone, bar one, where I am, there is no joy for me in going to town. My childhood and youth was thrilled by bookshops, especially old used book shops, where one could browse for as long as one wanted.
I will never have an e-reader.
Children today do not know the joy I had in books, and comics. Every Saturday my dad and I would go browsing the bookshops. I would also get an educational children’s magazine called World of Wonder, and also a funny comic. World of Wonder taught me the basics of history, my favourite subject, and I still have the collection. It came with wall charts too on exploration, science and ancient civilisations.
” they do not care if children are killed, pregnants women ”
This is from God: An Anatomy:
…the Jesus of the New Testament Gospels presents marriage and childbirth as a relic of a former age of spiritual ignorance that his death and resurrection would destroy.
By the second century CE this hostility [to sex] had intensified. In … the Acts of Thomas the risen Jesus appears in the bedchamber of a newly married couple on their wedding night urging them not to have sex. “Know that if you refrain from this filthy intercourse you become temples holy and pure, and you will not be involved in the cares of life and children, whose end is destruction.” (Suffer little children indeed!)The expansion of Christian fundamentalism has now, I see from new books and internet videos, at last sparked an academic (at least) exposure of the Jesus myth and of the biblical mythology in general.
” The Real Case: The NarcosatanistsThe Victim: Mark Kilroy, a 21-year-old University of Texas student, was abducted during Spring Break in Matamoros, Mexico.The Cult: The drug-trafficking ring was led by Adolfo Constanzo, who practiced a blend of Palo Mayombe and black magic, rather than the folk saint Santa Muerte (which rose to widespread prominence later in the 1990s and 2000s).The Belief: Constanzo convinced his smuggler followers that human sacrifices and macabre rituals would grant them supernatural invisibility and protection from police bullets.The Raid and Discovery: Police stumbled upon the cult’s remote ranch (Rancho Santa Elena) more or less by accident after a routine drug checkpoint chase. On the property, officers uncovered the remains of 15 people, including Mark Kilroy, alongside signs of brutal ritual mutilation and animal sacrifices.Resolution of the CultThe End of Constanzo: Cornered by police in a Mexico City apartment building weeks later, Constanzo ordered a follower to shoot him and another associate dead to avoid capture.The Convictions: Surviving members, including co-leader Sara Aldrete (dubbed “The Godmother”), were captured and later sentenced to lengthy prison terms.”
Those why buy cannabis and other drugs from illegal sources in S. America don’t realise they are funding animal sacrifice. The smugglers are intensely superstitious and sacrifice animals to “St. Death” to ask for the success of their enterprises.
A few years ago, on the US/Mexican border, they kidnapped a young US man, took him into Mexico and sacrificed him to St. Death, the skull-faced patron saint of cannabis smugglers (to whom marijuana is burnt as incense). There was later a big shooting battle between police and smugglers. At the smugglers’ hideout were found the remains of bloody animal sacrifices and also the bones of the youth.
