Thomas_More
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If we want to see socialism, then a nuclear war must never happen. The present suicidal madness of the EU, with not even any evidence that I can see of capitalist interest therein, pushing a US line that the US has itself abandoned, could end us all.
Stavrakopoulou shows that the whole Old Testament “history” up until Ezra is a fabrication. There was no Moses, no David and no Solomon, and no evidence of a first Temple. The Jews were polytheists. El was the creator God, later usurped by Yahweh, who also stole El’s wife Asherah.
As for Moses crossing the Red Sea to escape from Egypt, Egypt ruled all the lands up to the borders of modern Turkey, so they would only have been running from Egypt to Egypt.
If the far right are against the EU’s obsession with war with Russia, are they not then preferable, as Orban was in Hungary?
Thanks.
Kautsky says there were many “Jesuses” but none of them would have exhorted peacefulness. The Mount of Olives was the place where rebels against the Jewish establishment would meet to conspire. In the Gospels Jesus tells his apostles to bring swords.
As far as I can see yet, Christopher Hill, in his book The English Bible, seems to overlook completely the English Catholic Douai-Rheims Bible, which preceded the Authorized Version. The New Testament appeared in 1582 and the Old Testament in 1609.
Who’s the one erecting straw men now? If they produce another remake of The Wickerman you should apply as director.
Cranmer’s hypocrisy:
Google: ” Active Concealment: Cranmer had to hide his marriage to Margaret Osiander, which occurred around 1532, as clerical celibacy was enforced for much of Henry’s reign.
Protestant Reputation: By 1536, Cranmer was already identified as the leader of the reformist faction, and by 1538, he had abandoned the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.
Political Compromise: Despite his personal beliefs, he complied with the conservative Act of Six Articles in 1539, which reinforced Catholic doctrine, and even participated in the persecution of those with more radical views than his own.
Controlled Reform: He was forced to accept the “King’s Book” (1543), which largely restored Catholicism, but was allowed by Henry to compose an English Litany in 1544, preparing the ground for future Protestant changes.
Final Actions: Upon Henry’s death in January 1547, Cranmer was finally free to openly implement the Protestant changes he had prepared. “The permanent standing army was brought in by James II, so yes, it was already there by 1688. The New Model was Cromwell’s own raised force and did not survive him.
I said it’s a waste of time because you simply repeat things without taking any cognisance of my points.
Whether the oppressed are patriotic or not, have the franchise or are ruled autocratically, a nation-state is not their property nor their tool, but is the property and tool of the ruling class.
Of course the modern nation-state today has the ultimate in national brainwashing power to instil “nationhood” among its proletariat, but the nation-state would exist even if coercion were necessary.
Authoritarian countries today are no less nation-states than “democratic” ones are. So are states run by clergy (such as Iran), where the patriotism is inseparable from religious loyalty.So we’ll end the thread then. It’s a waste of time.
By your logic, England wasn’t a nation-state either.
Didn’t George III use thousands of Hanoverian and Hessian troops against the American rebels?
There was no standing army in England until James II. Parliamentarian regiments in the Civil War, like Royalist ones, were privately raised by regional landowners. It was a minority conflict and Puritans were a minority of the English population.
