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POPSRemains of a 2,000-year-old synagogue found more: "The artist apparently went to Jerusalem to see with his own eyes this sacred candelabra," she said. The synagogue built sometime between 50 BC and 100 AD is one of only seven known to date back to the Second Temple period. Its 120-square-metre (143-square-yard) main hall has a mosaic floor and a square stone adorned with the menorah set atop a pedestal with a triangular base, which is flanked on either side by amphoras, the antiquities department said.
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POPSMisogynistic Mad Libs More: In which woman (bonus if not remotely a feminist) can independent act , yet Ronald Reagan is allowed to die! As the Bible says, verse (bonus points if it mentions submission, Eve, or the Virgin Mary; minus points for Mary Magdalene) . And as ill-defined group such as "some people" have warned, vague alarmist statement . What will happen to the men of the world if these weird, outdated term for "women" are allowed to take control? What will happen to our values? The only solution is for women like female public figure who is not Ann Coulter to get back in the small, restrictive space so that they can return to euphemism for breastfeeding and men can return to euphemism for bludgeoning . :lol:
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POPSWas Jesus A Yogi? 10 Things I learned from the Discovery Channel 1. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were not written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. 2. Jesus was probably not a Caucasian man. Well I figured that one out on my own. It's annoying how he's always shown as a lanky white boy with Calvin Klein modeling potential. 3. Jesus was a yogi. 4. Some bully with a sword (Constantine) decided which gospels stayed and which were banished. He then made sure the banished ones were destroyed along with the people who continued to read them. 5. Judas and Mary Magdalene also had gospels. 6. Banana peels really are slippery. (from Mythbusters) 7. It's impossible to get tired of watching Planet Earth. 8. Dirty Jobs is an awesome show. 9. Jesus is the most widely depicted figure in the history of art. 10. You should never microwave an egg.
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POPS The Story Of Easter --- Jesus Is Risen Easter is the story of humanity’s ascent to Divinity. This was the great turning point that transformed the story of Jesus which seemed to have ended with His tragic death on the Cross on Friday evening.
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POPSWomen Establishing the Early Christian Church Women were also prominent as martyrs and suffered violently from torture and painful execution by wild animals and paid gladiators. In fact, the earliest writing definitely by a woman is the prison diary of Perpetua, a relatively wealthy matron and nursing mother who was put to death in Carthage at the beginning of the third century on the charge of being a Christian. In it, she records her testimony before the local Roman ruler and her defiance of her father's pleas that she recant. She tells of the support and fellowship among the confessors in prison, including other women.
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POPSEl Greco-Can I Conquer Technology And perhaps related to such unexpectedly sexual insertions within conventional Christian imagery, the painting below, The Knight with His Handon His Breast, displaying a very obvious esoteric hand signal, meant presumably for those with eyes to see, not that it's exactly concealed. And in the Disrobing of Christ below, Christ is displaying the same hand sign, as is the female in the left foreground. And the same unnatural hand gesture recurs repeatedly through Greco's works, such as below in The Penitent Magdalene. Unnatural in the sense that is a consciously made sign, not a natural or comfortable spread of the hand.
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POPSArchaeologist debate Jesus documentary Sources outside the Bible and common sense indicate that Jesus' body could never be found. Wouldn't Rome have hauled it around to dispel the movement had there been one? And why would the disciples die for a hoax? Jesus was a VERY common name, finding a name doesn't mean anything - the facts are against the documentary.
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POPSMary Magdalene Ben Witherington makes these statements in his blog about the Jesus Family Tomb book. He is a professional Christian and is complaining about the facts offered by the authors, Charles Pellegrino and Simcha Jacobivici, a pair of ancient history sensationalists out to make money. Yet this tiny part of the professional Christian response is just as mendacious. How does he know all the early Christians in Jerusalem spoke only Aramaic, and had no Greek? Since this country had been in the Greek sphere of influence for over three centuries, it seems most unlikely. If they did speak only Aramaic, it was a deliberate choice, not because they had no Greek. As for Mary Magdalene growing up in a Jewish fishing village called Migdal, this is pure invention. No one knows what “Magdalene” means, and so it is pure conjecture that it refers to any town. If it refers to Migdal at all, it could be translated as “Mary the Tower”, implying her fortitude, or even her towering stature.
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POPSThe Last Man Stading Excellent article shows compeling evidence that the fourth gospel (John) could have been written by Lazarus (the one Jesus resurrected)
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