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I guess I'm asking if you can elaborate a little on this one little point (due to the no politics rule it only makes sense not to elaborate on the other points)

A pyramid?

Or something like that. Some of the material he posted in various places was spam and/or otherwise not appropriate, some dealt with by other mods earlier on - troubling material posted here and there at different points. I used the spam function to ban him as that is what I located and don't...

Interesting... can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

Hunh?

If you mean to influence people, sure, although the word propaganda now has further, sometimes sinister implications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

to discuss the idea of interpretation. everybody interprets everything they read. The scriptures are translated into English. Some translations are a little different from others. Even people with the same translation sometimes disagree. That is how hard it can be. It's not like scripture is...

Banned him as a spammer (there were many items I moved in the last half hour and some others moved earlier today)

nazi occultism eh?

But what if someone asks you to clarify what those statements mean?

Oh? Clarify.

Larceny has to do with stealing.

Yes, I ran across the works of Acharya S, also known as DM Murdock, early on when I was first really reading up on world religions including Christian history. If I remember, she was a trained scholar or at least had some advanced education in the classics, but did not have employment in...

I mean I understand challenging faulty or dubious ideas in the interest of not being fooled... Is that what you mean?

To what end?

I don't know for sure. I don't recall my grandfather mentioning it, nor was it mentioned necessarily by other religious people I encountered. Mostly that church. I think the minister may have alluded to something around that as a Wesleyan approach. Maybe there was a particular nuance to unique...

Do you think they were referring to the 66 book Protestant canon of today? Or the Catholic canon with Apocrypha? Or the 88 books of the Ethiopian Bible? Or were they even referring to anything in the NT at all, which was not yet compiled, but were they possibly referring specifically to the...

What do you think interpretation means?

Many do. Some people read more critically and understand the process well enough to look for holes and suspend judgment until more evidence comes out.

Well, not precisely on faith - if they know how to read a research study, did research in grad school, know where to look for errors and shortcoming and understand the scientific reasoning process - they can read the research articles quite critically rather than take the conclusion on faith.