The SyFy #Dune miniseries was pretty faithful to the source material, and they covered the first three books. That nothing was filmed on location (entirely CGI) was interesting in its own right, even if the CGI was Babylon Five level stuff. Sarandon really chewed the scenery as Princess Wencesia Corrino. My only quibble was they were asking James McAvoy to play what was, in the book, a nine year old boy.
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We watch #Paul himself create a character with the traditional Jewish aversion to blood who nevertheless asks his followers to drink his blood, Greco-Roman mystery cult style, if only in a symbolic sense, and we would normally be inclined to go "AHA! GOTCHA!" but Paul, in his undisputed letters, says he met this same fellow's brother. And the existence of that brother is supported by #Josephus. Then later the proto-orthodox tradition that became preeminent in the #Jesus movement developed a tradition that #Mary was ever-virgin, so they attempted, Stalin-like, to erase James from history. But today mythicists tell us the same adherents of the proto-orthodox view added interpolations mentioning "James the brother of the Lord" to every extant copy of #Galatians and Antiquities of the Jews. That takes us into grand #conspiracy territory, and the same impulse that led to my #atheism makes me critical of Jesus mythicism.
Numbers 25:
3 And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
All the heads.
#Atheism
Matthew: And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Paul: "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible."
Jerusalem Christians: "Again?"
#Atheism
If the #Republican Party can't settle on a Speaker they're happy with for the next year they'll be too busy to impeach Biden or come up with a national ban on abortion. Good luck convincing voters to go with more of this.
@bf74ecd1 Generic erosion. Old age. The body and soul of the other five Washington volcanoes will meet the same fate as all other bodies and all other souls.
Bluesky hid my post with an "adult content" warning, and it was just Michaelangelo's David.
FUCK that.
That's MAGA shit.
Here's a confirmation code if you want it, I'm deleting my account.
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Bluesky hid my post with an "adult content" warning, and it was just Michaelangelo's David.
FUCK that.
That's MAGA shit.
Here's a confirmation code if you want it, I'm deleting my account.
bsky-social-euzso-l7v5q
The 1992 edition of the #Catechism of the #Catholic Church (pp. 2267) said:
If bloodless means are sufficient to defend human lives against an aggressor and to protect public order and the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person.
This made the capital punishment commandments in the Bible more like suggestions. Then in 2018 we got this revision:
Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.
That makes capital punishment commandments of none effect. Naturally, Trump Catholics think #Pope #Francis is the devil.
@633f310e
Jesus (Mark 2:26): "...In the days of ABIATHAR the high priest, [David] entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat..."
1 Samuel 21:2-4 And David said to AHIMELECH the priest, "...Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.” And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread..."
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