>>5035260

Obviously, Jesus-kun was the first person to ever suggest that humanity is "all one" and part of a higher order.

It's not like Taoism predated that idea or that the creation stories from Germanic tribes of man and woman being born from the same or intertwined trees existed.

Hell - the idea that man and woman were born as equal counterparts is substantially more advanced, spiritually, than the idea woman was born to satisfy man's desire as he had no proper help-meet (proper being the operating word, apparently there had been some experimenting with the other inhabitants of eden and the results were less than ideal).

If anything, it was the germanic and slavic influence on the encroaching byzantine religion which beat it into the more soft and cuddly Christian spiritualism we know, today - the notion of man and woman being partners under God.

While these concepts were not completely new or unique - the germans and slavs were damned certain to highlight those aspects of the scripture and form their culture around them as the religions shifted around them.

>>5035309

Sheesh, it's like talking to a record player.

What if they don't believe what you have convinced yourself they do?

>>5035356

This assumes that god is not evil, or that power only comes from good.

At the end of the day, what is evil? In its most pure and condensed form - absent all other arbitration, what sets a good person or god apart from an evil person or god?

We often assume that a good god would not allow suffering - or alternately rationalize why a good god would allow us to suffer. An evil god, on the other hand, could cause the suffering and then turn around to offer the solution to end that suffering.

Or does god have a good/evil paradigm? Perhaps what makes good/evil is simply how things play out here for us. We say that it is evil to own slaves and abuse them because we don't want to be the slave. But - has God ever reached down to smite someone on the basis of slavery? I suppose that depends on how you view exodus - but god was pretty cool with slavery until christianity and the enlightenment combined with the industrial revolution to rationalize it as evil.

God was also pretty cool with Nebuchadnezzar and the Romans pillaging Israel and scattering them to the winds - with many of the prophets in the bible launching into scathing damnations of Israel. Those are divinely inspired, right?

So why was it a godly and good thing to fight against the Nazis?

We can play this game all day, and do not misunderstand - I believe evil exists and I believe good exist… But the way most of us define good and evil is very "human." Good are the things which benefit and please us; bad are the things which displease us, and evil are the things which seem to harass us.

>>5035369

I always took it to mean "thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" - meaning a prayer to have Earth fall under the domain of the divine. IE - for things to go in accordance with God's plan, such that it would be more like heaven (or, we generally assume that putting God in charge of things would make Earth more like heaven).

>>5035445

…. Seems unusual - though kisses on the cheek are not uncommon in the med and persian parts of the world as a greeting among friends.

Although that shot seems to capture them as if they are about to swap some spit. Yet it could just be in the middle of the cheek-peck. Burst fire mode on cameras has done wonders for photographers looking to find that one shot….

Still, it does seem odd they would openly show even that amount of friendliness. Such an exchange implies a sort of brotherly relationship or other close personal circle. It wouldn't be taken all that lightly, even if RT is trying to put a gay twist on it that isn't there (or… Hell, I dunno - maybe it's as they say… RT has a better record than CNN, but they also like to stir the pot…).