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Hi Thomas. As you well know, Arian Christians were declared a heresy by the Orthodox Catholic Empire and persecuted out of existence in the Empire. It survived only in the German Kingdoms outside of the Empire. Arians like Bishop Arius believed in Jesus but considered him by a different...

Official Christian religions all since 324 CE have defined Christianity by its Athanasian variant, with a Blessed Trinity of Father, son, and Holy Spirit. Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian, Coptic, and Maronite all follow a Trinity. Since Mormonism rejects the doctrine of the Trinity and believes...

Did Dream mistakenly post this on the wrong thread? No offence, I have done that myself. Slàinte mhath, Amergin

Sorry Ben, no stones from me. Your essay was quite interesting. It tends to coincide with much of the new information I have heard on TV documentaries and the archaeology of the Naked Archaeologist. It makes sense. I made several observations. What is a Beloved Apostle? Did Jesus not love the...

Ben, as I understand it the truth is much more complex. Unfortunately the Indo-European Pagan Trinitarian version of Christianity after taking power under Theodosius I and II in 393 (approx.) The merger of Trinitarianism with the Roman Empire led to suppression of all earlier versions of...

I think the Lilith myth might have been invented regarding an early Semitic Warlord's wife who "acted too uppity. Eve was invented to represent the submissive and less intelligent view of women present in Semitic Tribes. Lilith may have been the first "feminist." At least many like to think of...

We are made of dust and gases from old massive star supernovae. On a more practical side, we Homo sapiens descended from some single cells who first stuck together with collagen prior to the Ediacaran (at least 700 million years ago) to start the evolution of multicellular animals. In the...

Correct, humans have been mixing and blending in Africa for at least 200,000 years since achieving sapiens species classification. Those around the Horn of Africa became all living people. All US people are African Americans, pale, brown, or black. I am an African Celt, or African Scot, or...

Afghans, Iranians, and Pashtuns/Pakistanis are not full Indo-Aryans. Indo-Iranians invaded the regions a few millennia ago. There were people already there. They included the Harrapan people, the Dravidians of India, the Caucasians of the Zagros Mountains and upper Mesopotamia. There were...

If Jesus came back and preached his quotes (the red words) in the 4 gospels, the US Republican Party would accuse him of the following. 1. Jesus talks like a socialist and liberal. 2. Jesus fed the starving. 3. Jesus told the rich to give to the poor. (Socialist Wealth redistribution.) 4. Jesus...

Executions in Roman territories were typically crucifixion if the crimes were political, insurrectionists, rebel leaders, or dissidents claiming a royal throne in a Roman occupied territory. In cases of violations of religious law, local customs prevailed. In Roman occupied Israel, criminals who...

God was created in our image. Gods were created in two ways. One was to merge the thousands of spirits that invisibly moved things into a single One God. In that way, it demanded some personalization of that God. God may have been invented by ancient shamans and War Lords. Naturally, their...

Most of those hypotheses are difficult to prove or even find strong evidence. I am 3/4 Scottish Highlander and 1/4 Ulster Irish. I have to concede lack of knowledge to the two linguistic chaps here. Scots Gaelic was my first language in childhood, and learned the German language of English in...

Read the four gospels of the New Testament paying close attention to the teachings of Jesus. You know, the red print, is supposed to be quotes of Jesus. Quote where Jesus praised the wealthy. Quote where Jesus the poor are just lazy and won't work. Quote where Jesus condemned homosexuals. Quote...

I am a follower of Jesus. I admire his moral code, his advocacy for the poor, and his healing of the sick. I admire his "Turn the Other Cheek" metaphor against violence. I admire his compassion for those downcast by society such as lepers, prostitutes, blind beggars, and the second class status...

I participate in the fight for Freedom of and from all Religion in my homeland. I can only advise Americans to avoid the pitfalls of changing Paine/Jefferson/Madison's Secular Constitutional Republic to a Fascist like Plutocracy of Corporations in alliance with Aggressive extremist (Taliban)...

BobX is a Christian apologist or in modern jargon (a spinner of the facts.) His ideas on the Swastika seem plausible. It is not found in Celtic, Roman, or Greek mythology or symbolism. It occurred in Indo-European Teutonic New-Speak "Aryanism" by Hitler in the 1930's. I don't know the exact...

I agree that one of the oldest crosses carved by Homo sapiens is in France. It was a cross in a solar circle. The oldest cross in the Proto-Indo-European cultures was the Swastika in India. Hitler plagiarised the Indian Swastika Cross because he thought it mean true Aryan. The Cross was adopted...

You are saying the true origin of the CHRISTIAN CROSS is Christianity itself. Christ the deified Jesus was according to legend crucified on a cross. Did you realize the redundancy of your comment. I could say that the true origin of the Egyptian Pyramids is Egypt. Amergin

I think the true origins of the Cross symbol goes further back than written records discussed. For example, there was a Celtic Cross with a solar circle in the centre hundreds of years before Christianity. There are cross like figures in Egyptian temples and inscriptions. I think Jesus...