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One clear example is that the Book of Mormon equates Jesus and the Father. It's kind of unitarian, Jesus just is God. This is different from later mormon theology, which fully dev...
Before the 2nd Punic War there were no marble temples or villas in Rome. In the 180s bce the first marble temple was dedicated. It wasn't until decades later the first citizen buil...
Greek influence did far far more than the Jews at this point. They wouldn't have considered sex to be degeneracy. Before early modernity or so, there wasn't much sense of privacy....
Similar situations are found in India. An elite that far surpasses the average iq of the masses. Consider that the average European iq, in a country like England or France is app...
China was always a nobility, gentry, and mandarin ruling class ruling a mass of peasants(mostly rice farmers) of various ethnicities and languages. Uniformity in language, culture,...
I have seen this idea before and it's just bizarre. The people that focused on asceticism and moksha, patronized and joined religions around it and similar ideas...were the upper c...
So dull. Reddit tier, cringe, cope, seethe. Ways to avoid actually saying something of value. Anyway, what exactly are we supposed to believe? Truly believe the stories? What doe...
Human Sacrifice as a Biblical Practice Many will tell you that the Israelites did not practice human sacrifice to Yahweh. The evidence is to the contrary. There is a bias toward t...