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This is an old study , but I suppose it's still largely accurate. Surprisingly -- to me -- I actually grew up in the Most Religious County in my state. I did suppose most people in my town 'went to church every Sunday' in the 1970s, and since the RE turnover is the lowest, that level of religiosity ...

DCHindley wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:07 pmCiting a video by Jack Chick is a little discouraging, Steven.

DCHindley wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:33 pmDon't get me wrong, I used to be one myself for about a decade, and had delighted in reading and passing out Chick tracts, although even then I ...

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This begs elaboration. Really. More coloring, please.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/11/r ... ufu/149118

American Pencostalism under a satirical (hipster sitcom) lens. Color me SHOCKED! that on a forum w/ some decidedly low-rent Bible debates why oh why has no one yet mentioned this 'gemstone' (Edelstein)? Too close to home, for some of y'all? **Guffaw** I LOVE THIS!!! jDr7GTNJ2rs zkRX-rq1flo w6W9qoIN-...

As you should be aware, the antiquities market has lately been roiled by a multifaceted 'cancel culture' along several fronts. Major auctions have been terminated abruptly; collections and museums are subject to academic and donor protests and demands to repatriate artefacts for this reason or that....

Genetic analysis of Baboon remains establish Punt's locale: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/10/genetic-analysis-of-baboons-provides-evidence-that-ancient-punt-and-adulis-were-the-same-place/148999 More implications: https://www.businessinsider.com/mysterious-mummified-baboons-egypt-answers-gift-g...

In any case, what we may now recognize as "Judaism" could have developed quite long after the books of Torah were written. Just this morning, in a used bookshop on the LES, I was thumbing through a grotty copy of Norman Gottwald's 1979 The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of ...

The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade celebrated 50 yrs last night. I went. So did +1 mln other ppl. Biggest event I've ever attended: https://www.6sqft.com/2023-village-halloween-parade-50th-anniversary/ Ireland had events running through this past weekend (today): https://www.irishtimes.com/life-...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnY9R96U4AAp_xJ?format=jpg R. Graves, The Hudson Review , Vol. 8 (1955), p.225: Prometheus’s name ‘forethought’, may originate in a Greek misunderstanding of the Sanskrit word pramantha, the swastika, or fire-drill, which he had supposedly invented, since Zeus Prometheus...

The archaeologists at the newfound cemetery unearthed a number of coffins and mummies, including the daughter of Djehuty , a high priest of the god Amun who lived more than 3,500 years ago, according to the statement. Another coffin appears to belong to a woman who was a singer in the temple of Amu...