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Please don't imply that members are lying, as that's likely to be perceived as a personal attack. Also, let's leave current events and politics out of this thread otherwise it will get closed - plenty of places elsewhere online to discuss politics.

Tacitus recounts how Vespasian performed miracles in Alexandria before continuing on to Rome to officially become Emperor. :)

Would it be better if there was no interest to be repaid? :)

Welcome back. :) But please drop the AI quotes - we want members to be able to speak for themselves, not have a mindless machine to do it for them. :)

No, it doesn't. You've asked a question which has been taken in good faith to be about the hisoricity of Jesus. Instead of listening to the replies, however, you are simply intent on arguing against others for no other reason that you don't believe, have no interest in an honest discussion, and...

This really only applies to kings and emperors, so outside of that group it can be difficult to prove a figure actually existed. I read a recent debate about Thucydides, whose "History of the Peloponnesian War" is our only account for it, and effectively the only proof it ever occurred. Because...

The problem with the belief in science as a metaphysical system to the exclusion of all others, is the underlying bias specifically against anything of a spiritual nature. So it's not so much "belief" as "anti-belief". For example, before the turn of the century, bumblebees were considered too...

I suspect the point is that faith is enough. After all, what else is there in the absence of absolute, definitive proof - especially to the degree some would demand in modern times. :)

An obvious one is the bias that life is somehow miraculous, so science still resists accepting that the same natural laws that resulted in life on Earth should happen elsewhere in the universe.

No offense, but this reads as a piece of creative writing, rather than an actual exploration of the trickster archetype, so I'll move it to the writing forum. :)

No offence, but that reads as astonishingly naive. If you actually really study science you'll find its driven by social and personal biases. Science can be extremely subjective, and still is. :)

Please remember you've posted to the Christianity board so it's inevitable that you will get responses from Christians. :) In addition, it would be welcome to ask out of honest inquiry, but not if it's an attempt to directly challenge another's faith - something we don't accept here. However...

Is it really that hard to love your neighbour?

Ok, we keep straying into politics and current events here. Let's leave all that for the rest of the internet to deal with and focus on the topic of this discussion - Religion of love?

It's surprising how often you can find this in many areas of academia, let alone the science disciplines. :) I read reports that apparently India focused on using well-tested anti-viral medication to battle covid, rather than the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines, and did well for it. I mention that...

I liked the comment about the difference in psychology between staying up late into the night, vs getting up early each morning to watch the sun rise.

I keep getting short clips about David Bowie appearing on my YouTube feed, and I couldn't help but think of the wisdom and insight from this one about why he stopped taking drugs and drinking:

Oh, you mean the former head of health, Fauci? The one who greenlit illegal experiments on covid viruses in China, then tried to cover that up after the covid pandemic co-incidentally started just outside of that lab? :)

Blasphemy and Free Speech are one of those things that are culturally ingrained in different ways. You only have to look at how Muslim women were attacked in France for wearing burkas that covered their bodies, because it was seen as "un-French" - even though French nuns also cover up for the...

At least if you're an atheist - the more common forms of Hinduism and Buddhism both subscribe to literal reincarnation, do they not? :)