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God's wife
December 22, 2017 at 11:41 am
Although Christians believe that God has a wife (Mary) Biblical scholars agree that he also had one in the OT. It comes partly from reading the Bible and encountering passages referring to other gods, actually the pantheon of Gods to which OT God frequently talks to and also from archeological evidence where they can see that ancient Jews were polytheist and also worshiped statues of Goddess that was OT God's wife.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: God's wife
December 22, 2017 at 12:23 pm
The God character of the Old Testament was simply the series of crazies who ruled the dominant Middle Eastern empire at various times. So being men they all had a herd of women with maybe one specific wife.
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RE: God's wife
December 22, 2017 at 12:51 pm
So god is an asshole with a busty wife. Just like Trump.
Is that why Evangelicals love the orange buffoon so much?
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RE: God's wife
December 22, 2017 at 1:01 pm
Father son and Holy Ghost, you'd think somebody in the Trinity would have a vajayjay . . .
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RE: God's wife
December 22, 2017 at 2:24 pm
(December 22, 2017 at 11:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Although Christians believe that God has a wife (Mary) Biblical scholars agree that he also had one in the OT. It comes partly from reading the Bible and encountering passages referring to other gods, actually the pantheon of Gods to which OT God frequently talks to and also from archeological evidence where they can see that ancient Jews were polytheist and also worshiped statues of Goddess that was OT God's wife.
That was interesting, thanks for that.
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