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Well, if Uzzah snuffed it for trying to steady the ark I'd hate to guess what might happen to the dude with a crowbar.

LOL Maybe that was implied in 'roads'.

LOL I never saw Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, but I remember now. I thought she looked like Sinead O'Conner and wondered if that might not be deliberate, but then remembered Gibson's dad hates the Pope, too. I don't know much about Aramaic. Before watching the flick, I actually went through...

Hmmm! That's a good take, Quahom. I'll copy and paste that for later.

Well, unless you're just a movie nut I wouldn't recommend it. I would recommend Paulo Pasolini's 'Gospel of Matthew'. Took a homosexual communist to get it right, apparently.

Oh, yeah.. the hairy midget guy. That was cool. Dwarfism is awesome. Satan's mini-me.

The DVD for 'The Passion of the Christ' is coming out no-frills this Tuesday. I had resigned myself to ignoring it (I deliberately viewed a pirated copy so as to avoide giving Mel Gibson my money), but my mom was curious so I may very well rent it at some point in the future for her benefit. I...

Amen. And welcome aboard. About religion in war: I've had many many debates with Christians about that. I tried to write a book about Hitler's Christianity and to the credit of the Christian WW2 apologists I had to give up the manuscript because nailing down his religious views was impossible...

Like Ben kinda mentioned, there's a third part of the equation. Conception of hell itself. By the Vulgate derived creeds, yup. By all accounts of Islam (that I know of), yup. Judaism I don't think believes in hell, but you'll find no favor with God if you don't follow the laws, etc. I look at...

Welcome aboard!

Not a big question... Whenever a Christian missionary or whoever wants to 'refute' Islam they quote supposedly from a book of wisdoms by the Ayatollah. The only 'quotes' I've seen are apparently in favor of pederasty, bestiality, etc. Is the Tahrirolvasyleh a real book, are the quotes real? Is...

Re: I have changed! I look at Zionism like Americanism and Europeanism. It was a horrible idea, but reversing it would be even worse, not to mention impossible. Sorry, off topic.

They (whoever they is) say not. I was reading the many 'reasons' for dating, as ever they're uncertain but some of the components that it was composed of were spoken of early on. Now the GOSPEL of Barnabas, that's young. http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/barnabas.html...

I need to get out more or join the priesthood or something. I can't get my nose out of holy writ. Anyway, the E of B uses numerology to find significance in the number of Abraham's band of soldiers - 318. In Greek numbers that's Tau (the cross) and Iota Eta (abbreviation of Jesus' name). I...

I just now read in a simple article on the net that a 'cross' as a 'tau' was first mentioned in the Epistle of Barnabas. I've read it but never looked at it point by point or looked to see the original language (which I assume was Greek). Its late now, so I'l check it out in the morning.

Well, I'm glad. And I know exactly how you feel. Even if I (or anyone else) was a jerkass don't let it stop you from posting here or anywhere else.

The more I look at it, the less I know. Iranaeous' pre-Constantine description of a five-point cross would've been adverse to pagan ideals, but you don't see a five point cross in worship today. And how he came to that as the means of execution is unknown. The Tammuz tau was one of many pagan...

Re: I have changed! I never even mentioned death threats! LOL I got those too. Except they were from anti-Zionists. And hacking threats, too. Before I knew much about how the internet functioned the hacking threats worried me. Now I know the worst they could've done is ping me to death. I live...

Heck yeah! First of all thanks for coming back. I felt guilty for our disagreement. I was hoping you hadn't got fed up and left. You're the only person who posts here. Anyway, hell didn't seem to come about until the Vulgate when virtually any negative reference to death, misfortune, places in...

I'm still looking for an examination of the latin 'cruc' and its variations, but I found among the apologists reason to be concerned over whether the near-idoltary of the crucifix might be demanded by the holy writ. Why was the holy display of public execution so venerated? That's really a...