"Ares recently addressed this while talking to his son about death, saying how he has been killed many times and, after a stay in Elysium, he he is always reborn. (Ex)xians thinking they know what judaism is from the reading the “old testament” can only make inferences about biblical judaism which is virtually non-existent apart from the obscure Anyway enough of this digression lets get back to Odin versus Jesus.Then I suggest you get some more guest posters in here as your blog has become a great portal for issues such as on philosophy of religion and you can use it to expose others worthy of larger readership and keep that core theme alive through those others.You make an excellent point about the term and the concept, “Judeo-Christian.”You’d be hard-pressed to find the term appearing anywhere in the English language prior to World War II. Many “Old Earth” creationists and theistic evolutionists believe that God directly intervened at some point in history to create the Imago Dei. Again, this is the minority, and I would say heterodox, position.And isn’t it true that as the “mainstream” denominations have moved away from Creationism, and away from Biblical literalism, they have lost adherents to the more Fundamentalist sects?WHEREAS, Public school students are now being indoctrinated in evolution-science, andWHEREAS, Creation-science can be presented solely in terms of scientific evidence without any religious doctrines or concepts, andWHEREAS, Public school students should be taught all the scientific evidence on the subject of the origin of the world and life, andWHEREAS, Academic freedom and free speech should be encouraged rather than inhibited.Therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the Southern Baptist Convention in session in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1982, express our support for the teaching of Scientific Creationism in our public schools.

"Ares recently addressed this while talking to his son about death, saying how he has been killed many times and, after a stay in Elysium, he he is always reborn.

Your claim is false.I admitted that some Christian sects are anti-intellectual, but it is a minority. Young Earth Creationism is driven almost entirely by religious sentiment. I think he articulates my position well, so if you are interested I recommend listening to the podcast.Finally, I’d like to request two things of you, Reginald, 1) an apology for insulting me 2) an admission that your claim “You have to look mighty hard in the Jewish/Christian mythology to find anything good said about wisdom” is false.The current pontiff, Pope Indulgence, seems to be riding the fence on the issue of evolution. He is far from taking a negative attitude towards reason, intelligence, or wisdom. You are arguing, not debating. This is true, but they have always defeated them and forced truce after truce after truce.

I thought that Gallup poll was a good attempt at hard numbers, certainly better than anything you provided. Glory!Lee A.P., thanks for that perfect example of a “rationalist” being anti-intellectual. The Holy Roman Catholic Church is among the biggest of Big Tents. You can read all about it in my popular summary If I could just give this thread a little dignity with some devotional verse…Yes. (By either xians or ex-xians and I think that Abrahamic God is a less biased and more neutral position on this).Now whilst I regard judaism as archaic, antiquated and quite absurd it is a radically different religion to xianity (which has a whole other level of ridiculousness and absurdity all it own), indeed it is, arguably, more similar to buddhism in many ways! You said “You have to look mighty hard in the Jewish/Christian mythology to find anything good said about wisdom.” I looked and I found good things said. They melt. He can be wounded in battle, but his godly life force gives him incredible recuperative abilities.

If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.Are you suggesting that seeming to be wise in this world= wise? "The olympians would wipe the floor with the frost giants and if you disagree then you're stupid. Edited By We see how well they have used that time.- Power: The frost giants themselves are not going to be an issue.

We can quibble over percentages, but you and I both know that neither of us have hard data on this. I would guess that “High Chruch” practicing Christians outnumber evangelicals quite a bit. Perhaps I have a more optimistic view of my fellow man. It’s the same comfort I get from seeing leaves turn red in the fall or seeing the beaches fill with people in the summer. I can believe whatever I want! In the Catholic Bible there is entire books entitled “Wisdom.” This is from the introduction of the The primary purpose of the sacred author was the edification of his co-religionists in a time when they had experienced suffering and oppression, in part at the hands of apostate fellow Jews.