So I only learned about the Bible through watered down Sunday School teachings and sermons.
And.. I'm feeling like Christianity isn't as relevant or appealing to me anymore. Or even an effective way of life because God has let me down or hung me out to dry despite me following His Word.
I was wondering how is the Bible from the historical perspective? I want to see things from a new lens. I have read some historians consider YHWH a monster or that there are actually contradictions in the Bible. Can some point me to videos or make posts that will grant me a new perspective?
>>2964575
>So I only learned about the Bible through watered down Sunday School teachings and sermons.
Never read the whole thing cover to cover then?
I'd start there
>>2964575
Historians (at least as part of their academic opinions on history) don't claim Yahweh is a monster, whether he exists and claims about his nature are part of theology and not history at all.
>>2964601
>reading cover to cover
one of the worst ways of reading it tbqh, for NT you should read them together, so rather than mark then luke you should look chronologically, birth of jesus mark , birth of jesus luke , jesus fucking around mark, jesus fucking around luke etc.
Moreover you need context, need to know about bronze age history, bronze age religions, greco-roman civilization etc. A lot of things would not make any sense, If you cant point out corinth on the map or know who nebuchadnezzar is
I think a lot of christians shoot themselves on foot by trying to read bible cover to cover without having any backhand knowledge or context.
What the fuck was it?
A cult grimoire?
Alien writings?
A prank?
Discuss.
What if the writer just had dyslexia?
>>2964358
Could have been anything really. Maybe some scollar thought to himself that it would be cool to whrite his knowlege on those plants (or whatever the fuck it is) in code, maybe it was just a prank. I like to think it's just a guy whrighting his shitty fantasy novel, but he knew that it was cringey as fuck and that his friends would laugh at him if they found the book, so he whrote it in code so they couldnt read. Fuck i made a lot of gramatical errors
It's the key to mankinds mysteries, the source of unlimited energy.
Translations are being held in the Vatican forbidden library!
Why do so many American Christians support Israel instead of Palestine in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? This doesn't make any sense to me. The Jews have an extremely negative view of Jesus, while Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet that should be emulated. Both Muslims and Christians believe that the Judaism's view of Jesus is blasphemous, and there are significantly more Palestinian Christians than there are Jewish Christians. Can someone explain this phenomenon? I also noticed that American Christians tend to view Jews more positively than Muslims for some bizarre reason.
Jews aren't the ones bombing Christians.
>>2964192
Israel is the most holy place on earth for Christians
>birthplace of Jesus
>all the covenants happened here
>this is where the religion started and was practiced
>Jesus was crucified there
Besides Jesus and the 12 apostles were all Jews
Because American Protestant denominations are basically Jews
>Muh circumcision
>Muh old testament (aka Torah)
>Muh chosen people
Mormons are the only American denomination not constantly sipping Jewish bullshit
Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler?
If u fink ere on dur run.
Everyone here agrees. Save this for /pol/, AngloAmerica's status as Rome 2.0 is fully accepted on this board. 3/10 meme for /his/. 10/10 on /pol/.
I used to think Germany could've beaten the UK 1v1 and that they couldn't have beaten the USSR. Now I see it as the opposite. All the Brits really need to do maintain their navy and air force and stall. The German economy will collapse in a few years with no one to loot. Any attempts by them to bomb Britain into submission or navally defeat them are doomed to failure, as the UK has an industry and economy on par with Germany's yet an army 1/5 the size, so they're pretty much always going to have a much stronger navy and air force.
My prediction for how this extended conflict would go. Everything goes how it did until June 1941 of course. Mid 1941 to mid 1943, the Germans and Brits continue to flail at each other in the air, neither accomplishing much other than losing planes but the Brits holding the edge due to ease of replacing losses. German subs are still sinking British ships at high rates. The Brits still kick the Italians and Germans out of North Africa by mid 1943 and drub the Regina Marina, but are unable to continue to Italy due to lacking the resources. Even without the Americans, the Brits are still dominative enough over the Germans and Italians at sea that their victory in the Med is a foregone conclusion. And it doesn't matter how much the Germans focus on North Africa, the logistics bases they have to work with physically will not allow them to go any farther than they did.
Mid 1943 is where everything changes, as by then the Brits should've decisively learned the counters to the German U-boat tactics, as they did in the OTL. Starting from roughly late 1943 the Brits were annihilating the Kriegsmarine's U-boats and Doenitz himself admitted he was losing them for basically no return. This would continue in this timeline, and the Germans would see their odds at sea go from slim to hopeless, and with it any chance of a victory as their navy is crushed. By late 43 with the death of the Scharnost they should also have lost most of their surface fleet.
Were we ever meant to be overpopulated as fuck? Seriously, other things are dying because of us.
>>2963872
Saged.
>>2963872
Of coarse we are, Humans are supposed to live in tall as fuck mega apartments and suburbs and commie block as far as the eye can see.
>>2963872
we are meant to colonize the stars OP
but sadly our science is being corrupted by rightwing religious zealots and leftwing bourgeois degenerates
so were fucking stuck here
Do you like him, /his/?
>>2963720
I hate communism and Marxism, but I like how ruthlessly pragmatic he was. It's hard to deny that he was a pretty smart guy.
>>2963720
bro i havent played a game of yuris revenge in years. my word
>>2963727
Yeah, this. I can respect someone without agreeing with them.
Since most peasants in the Middle Ages were illiterate, can someone tell me what their vocabulary was like?
they'd speak a variety of different dialects with strong regional accents, the more backwards areas might speak a different language like brittonic cumbric or anglo-saxon english, remnants of bygone ages
>>2963252
they spoke whatever dialect was spoken in their village. Before the push for linguistic centralisation in many countries in Europe (France being the most major example), dialects were divergent to the point many could be considered their own languages; on the other hand, there are many languages where dialects still are highly divergent. The reason for the divergence were geographic barriers (mountains, swamps, forests, uncolonised wastelands) as the most contact was between the closest of communities due to the isolated/sedentiary nature of life in the time period. Depending on location (areas bordering other languages, certain cities, lands subject to colonisation), their language/dialect could be infused with a varying number of loanwords.
>>2963276
>>2963286
Very interesting, but does this even answer OP's question?
>Napoleon was a Captain at 22
>I'm still working the same shitty desk job at 26
It's over, isn't it?
Don't forget Caesar wept when he saw a statue of Alexander, because he thought the same thing.
>>2962987
he was born nobility, you were likely born to a middle class family whose buying power shrunk as you grew, thus dooming you to wagecuckholdry. also it's stupid to compare yourself to just anyone. compare yourself to your parents. anyone else is too different for a comparison to mean anything.
>>2962998
>he was born nobility
>Napoleon
Please /his/...
I heard that the French mostly cooperated with the Germans and the Vichy regime, and that resistance was mostly invented postwar by De Gaulle and others to lessen the humiliation the French felt. How true is this?
>>2962873
Only a small portion of the population resisted (but they were pretty effective, disrupting German occupation and helping the british to D-day), only a small portion of the population cooperated (but the Sto, the Charlemagne division... were things and kinda helped the germans). The truth is that the frogs did not care and just sit on their ass until the end of the war.
>>2962873
There were essentially two main sources of resistance from the French after the Nazi's rolled in. Degaulle's forces and the Communists. De Gaulle were basically just military units that refused to surrender and kept fighting. While admirable there are three main problems. The first is that they were as stated before, not a "resistance" in the sense of civilian partisans under enemy occupation but actual soldiers, the second is that they were not even in France. They fought the Axis but did so outside of occupied France. The Third is that a huge proportion of their troops were not actually French but colonial recruits who fought not for France but for the hope that their service might get their colonized home countries concessions from France after the war.
The Communists on the other hand do fit the idea of a "resistance/freedom fighter" and fought from day-one till the Nazi's were gone. The problem here is that De Gaulle (and his western allies) hated Communists and in no way wanted to give them the kind of political leverage being the actual resistance entailed.
Part of the reason for de Gaulle proclaiming the myth that every French citizen was a brave guerrilla instead of someone who meekly submitted besides saving national face, was to take the wind out from the communists.
>>2963011
This. Also de Gaulle certainly did nothing to invent or prop up the resistance given that a large portion of it was communist and another large portion of it was far-right (the traditional far-right, not the nazi one). De Gaulle prefered to emphasize the overseas regular French troops that were under his command.
Why are communists incapable of building a functioning society?
Because it's too advanced for stupid humans.
>>2962835
>functioning society
name 1 (one)
>>2962835
Apparently human nature behaves differently from communist theory.
Why did they US stop being Apartheid state? Like first they where slavers, then apartheid, then suddenly equal rights. Was it because of the pressure from the communists? Did the Soviets laugh at the US for being Apartheid and the US couldn't take the bantz no more?
Also, at what date did the US abolish Apartheid?
>>2962794
After the late 80's to mid 90's segregation came back it's just unspoken.
>>2962799
Well apparently its not enough
>>2962794
>Land of the free
>Open slavery from 1776-1861
>Apartheid from 1861-1964
No wonder people where laughing at the US
Why are some possible causes for Vlad's obsession with impalement
anal fetish
>>2962649
The only motivation was the sheer terror the kebab-ing of a kebab invokes in a kebab
>>2962649
He's copying the method from the Turks
Capes were cool in history. Why does nobody wear them anymore in the military/politics?
>>2961644
Fashions come and go
>>2961644
Same reason you don't see leaders wearing naval style coats and three piece suits literally everywhere. It just grew out of fashion and also more American fashions became popular for both leaders and common people which phased out European style clothing.
>>2961644
Because everybody in modern politics is a fucking faggot
Is it possible to revive the Mayan writing system? Similar to how jews did with hebrew in the 18th and 19th centuries.
>>2961436
We've had this conversation 100 million times already.
The main issue that you'll be facing is that modern mayans literally do not give a single fuck.
>>2961456
>We've had this conversation 100 million times already.
I'm not here everyday so I never saw it
>The main issue that you'll be facing is that modern mayans literally do not give a single fuck.
That's not a problem. You just need to get them interested, and the youth at least have a greater interest now in their culture so there is hope.
>>2961461
>and the youth at least have a greater interest now in their culture
I'm not sure. The elderly can still speak the language, a lot of the younger ones don't.
*blocks your path*
>>2961349
HW was president less than 25 years ago so this is not history
btfo
>>2961349
>"READ MY LIPS"