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Up until the 19th century, one of the primary (if not the primary) uses for spice in the preparation and cooking of food, was to mask the taste or odor of food which was just beginning to rot, i.e. just starting to go bad. In the present day, most people enjoy spice in their food. Should we...

Hi Namaste Jesus. most of your questions were answered in the OP. Bad memory. Sorry. Mathew 5:28 . . . was the specific quote used by said individual to denounce this specific film genre. Sounds like a misuse (if not a downright abuse) of Scripture, on this person's part. Maybe you...

Hi Quirkybird. We have absolutely no idea if what Jesus is quoted as saying were actually said by him, or created by his followers at a much later date. Quite true. But if the Matthew quote in question was part of the speculated Q-document, then the likelihood that Jesus actually said...

You might ask: Yeah, okay. But what's the alternative to Patriarchy? I do not support it either, but there is Matriarchy. In the God . . . He? or She? thread, I wrote: There aren't many genuinely matriarchal cultures left in the world. In the Indonesian archipelago, the Minangkabau in the hill...

Hi Quirkybird. The Biblical patriarchs appears to be VERY sexually active! :D Don't laugh! Sexual property is one of the keys to social arrangements in the animal kingdom, amongst all mammal species. You've watched Nature programs on TV, haven't you? The bull elk with the biggest...

Hi LincolnSpector. The idea that "reproductive strategies" are the primary biological force which drives people either toward or away from religion? Wow! The present study used data from 296,959 individuals in around 90 countries from the World Values Survey/European Values Study to test the...

Jesus' words are a living legacy. Not a dead one. Jesus is still talking to us - personally - from upon that hillside.

Hi Namaste Jesus. I am a little bit curious as the importance you place upon "risqué" touches in popular media. And upon why - if you are involved in this business - you just don't apply your own conscience, i.e. why is it so necessary to quote scripture? And why Jesus instead of Moses? (Or...

Is that how you see it? Then I'll not bother you any further with my 'warped' and 'repressed pet fixations'. --Thomas (post #67). Come on, Thomas. Stop self-dramatizing like a sitcom Jewish mother! You're more generous at heart than that kind of peevishness. You pointed out to me, somewhere...

But can I ask you a favor? Please don't play a game with me again as you admit in your post #48. I know there're some who'd enjoy that, and there're some who'd find your little attempt charming. But I'm not one of those people . . . "What possessed her" . . . I always only want...

if it is spontaneous = it isn't "moral" (or "free") Hi Tad. Hi A Cup Of Tea. "Every human life is sacred" is a concept that all decent human beings would understand and embrace, regardless of one's belief or disbelief in God. This is the absolute moral compass our conscience is supposed to...

P.S. Regarding Post #61: If the way Thomas depicts my approach to Jesus - or Tadashi's approach or Namaste Jesus' approach - can be assessed as an accurate picture of where each of us is coming from . . . yes, one could justifiably label it "idolatry." But none of us seem hung up on...

idolatry Perhaps it is good that Thomas is putting this thread back on its original track - "idolatry" - the "thou shalt not" of the Second Commandment. One reason I like the Gospel of Mark so much . . . is that Mark squarely lays out the theological/ideological landscape of Jewish Monotheism...

Speaking of which . . . The only thing wrong with pornography is that most of it is really really bad art. There is a large percentage of males on this planet who biologically have more testosterone coursing through their bloodstream than they know what to do with. This planet would see a lot...

Who was it who said . . . ? I don't know any better feeling waking in the morning and feeling lust for someone who welcomes it. When I pull off my clothes in the bedroom . . . If the guy I am with does not objectify me, he is not going to get it up . . . nor get it off. It's that...

This all reminds me of Jimmy Carter's1976 Playboy interview when he was running for President, where he admits: I have committed adultery in my heart many times. Jimmy Carter knows his Bible and is referencing Matthew 5:28. But people still rolled their eyes. In law enforcement there is...

Thomas, Do I believe in the fact of Jesus' crucifixion? Yes, I do. (The earliest Christian writings - Paul's letters - make this pretty plain.) What I question is the reported conversations upon Calvary (in Luke and John). Under scrutiny, they seem invented for dramatic purposes. I do...

Hi Tad. turn the other cheek go the extra mile love your enemy What I find remarkable about these Q-phrases is that they are counterintuitive. Anti-commandments. Not "eternal" - not created at the "beginning of time" - but fabricated at a specific moment in history as a...

Bultmann's kerygma. Hi Thomas. Seems you are placing me in Bultmann's camp. I can live with that. As I'm sure you are aware, you have oversimplified Bultmann's methodology. (Perhaps downright slandered it.) But, yes, Bultmann does seriously overreach in his historicizing (demythologizing) of...

Thomas, A couple questions/observations about "Golgotha" and "Roman crucifixion": I think you've confused Golgotha with Gehenna. Golgatha: A hill, or mound. I know there is scholarly debate as to its location. Though most assume it was just outside the city walls, near a city gate with some...