uncle bernard

I've studied the Bible at the graduate level with a famous Bible scholar. There is a lot of debate in the scholarly community about authorship, and plenty of room for disagreement, but nobody thinks the gospels were written by guys named Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John or that Moses wrote the whole Pentateuch outside of the Church, who affirms that due to tradition, not textual evidence. This is why the Bible is filled with so many blatant factual contradictions. A character will be introduced multiple times with different backgrounds. That's because the books are made up of multiple sources compiled and edited together by religious communities over time. Whether that impacts the "truth" of the overall text is up to you. For example, Genesis very clearly has multiple authors/source texts. Look no further than the multiple names for God and the very clear influence of the older Mesopotamian epics (Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, Enuma Elish). It's a deeply fascinating subject. I'd recommend starting to read up on the JEDP/Documentary Hypothesis. This account has been complicated/critiqued, but it's the foundation of source criticism and will give you a general feel for how it works. The Hebrew Bible in particular is really cool because you can start to see the shape of real Jewish history in the texts (impact of the Babylonian exile, for example). And the way later books take up and indirectly comment on earlier texts is really interesting too (and something the authors of the Gospels duplicated in their texts). For example, the way that King David's narrative follows Jacob's in Genesis to connect him to the father of the 12 tribes.

He was a contemporary of Jesus and knew followers of Jesus, but he makes no claims to have known Jesus or seen him personally (not included the conversion event), so he would be a secondhand source only repeating what he'd heard. For the record, Jesus definitely existed. There's general consensus about that. What exactly happened to him is up for debate.

Yes, I know the Bible has 66 books according to Protestant canon. Those 66 books were not written by "40 authors." That is not the scholarly consensus. Moses didn't write the Pentateuch, for example.

We don't know the authors of the Gospels. The names were likely added a couple hundred years later as the Christian canon was being established. Luke-Acts was likely written by the same person/people. Most evidence suggests Mark was written first. Matthew and Luke-Acts were written years later based on versions of Mark circulating. Those three make up the "synoptic" gospels because they largely tell the same story. John is its own thing and the youngest. It's possible the author(s) of John knew the synoptic texts, but did not follow their structure. Hard to know. While it's true that Mark was written decades after Christ, I think it's pretty likely that it was using more contemporary sources that were already circulating. The other major author of the New Testament would be Paul, who did not know Jesus. The individual books of the Bible took shape much like the Bible itself - slowly over time as a result of combining various different source materials.

By who? I can tell you right now that is not the consensus among the global Biblical Studies community.

That primary was very telling for the way you understand politics. Many commentators talked about Crockett like she was the far-left radical because she's brash and black. Talarico was viewed as a moderate because he has a more unifying message and is polite (and openly religious). In reality, Talarico is far more progressive than Crockett, who has right wing democrat politics. I think it's a very good thing for the country that the campaign that ran on substance, affirms civil discourse, and didn't act like they were entitled to support from the voters won. Good sign for the future of the Dems (if they learn the right lessons here). Authenticity and belief in actual ideas wins over voters, not cynical branding. Same thing goes for Mamdani in NYC.

And no lessons will be learned.

Were you born yesterday?

lol you don't even know what he's talking about enlighten us

He headlined it buddy lol. The point being, you can't criticize Bad Bunny's lyrics when Kid Rock headlined the conservative show.

Kid Rock - "Cool, Daddy Cool" "Young ladies, young ladies, I like ’em underage/ See, some say that’s statutory/ But I say it’s mandatory." Also Kid Rock: “Why is every guy in America waiting on these chicks to turn 18?” he said during the appearance. “If there’s grass on the field, play ball.”

I just think it's awesome that the TPUSA show featured a song that opens with lyrics complaining about how he only wants to fish, drink beer, and not hear anything he doesn't want to hear (safe space!). You couldn't come up with a better summation of USA conservatives right now lol. They control the entire government, and it's not enough because they can't control the entire culture and have to see and hear people and opinions different from theirs. Spoiled children!

Exactly, so let's just do what we've always done. You were born with a penis, you compete with men. You were born with a vagina, you compete with women.

That's because she doesn't have a womb or ovaries. She still has a vagina. There's a reason she was identified as a female at birth. My overall feelings: everybody should be considered the gender they were identified as at birth unless they want to choose to identify as something different for social reasons later in life. But nobody who was born a woman, lived her whole life as woman, and still wants to be a woman, should be considered a man. You guys are essentially trying to force this person to be transgender against her will. I do think, in general, sports should be categorized based on gender at birth. But banning genetic differences within conventional understandings of gender is such a slippery slope. Does her genetic condition give her an advantage with higher testosterone? Yes, but genetic advantages are an essential part sports. There are other women with those same testosterone levels without the XY genetic mutation. Should they be banned too? Why shouldn't we just categorize sports by testosterone level at that point? Should a man with low testosterone be able to compete with women? Keep it simple!

No, she admitted she has XY chromosomes, but was born with female genitalia and lived her whole life as a woman. If she was born as your child, you would have called her a woman too.

Yes she does. You're the one making stuff up.

Lol, we didn't even know the standard human chromosome pairs until the 1950s. It used to be if you were born with a vagina you were a woman and if you were born with a penis you were a man. Now you're saying that this woman who was born with a vagina and has lived her entire life as a woman is actually a man because she has a genetic mutation.

They're women by every traditional definition of womenhood throughout all human history up until now because you're so obsessed with a different group of people, you're attacking this innocent woman who has done nothing by compete in the body God gave her.

Actually having male genitalia and living your entire life as a man. Guys, these people have always existed. It's a chromosome mutation. Calling these women men is far more radical than any sort of gender redefinition the left is doing. These women have lived as women their entire lives. They've been considered women for all of human history. They're women.

The halftime show isn't about the crowd at the game. It's about the TV audience. It is a bit funny that so many conservatives are calling this choice wokeness. It's nothing more than market-driven logic. He's the biggest music star in the world and the NFL is trying to expand internationally. It already has the domestic audience locked down. Goodell doesn't care about Hispanic representation. He wants eyeballs from Latin America and Spain so he can sell tickets to games in those countries. That's Capitalism!

Had a great spread for our party! Mississippi pot roast with mashed potatoes beef and buffalo chicken sliders buffalo chicken dip veggies/chips and homemade ranch dip caramelized onion dip wings - buffalo and parm-garlic pigs in a blanket baguettes with assorted soft cheeses peanut butter miso cookies strawberry pretzel salad and lots of beer!

Camera work and visuals were sick. Same for the dancing. Music isn't for me, but whatever. Not everything has to be for me!

You are deeply evil. On judgment day God will spit on you and burn you for eternity and that’s better than you deserve.

And to answer the why, because an ICE officer threw an unarmed woman to the ground without provocation. The victim merely stepped forward to prevent him from beating her. Because he’s an actual good person unlike you.