>>More like Aristotle and Plato.
Don't forget Socrates, the corrupter of youth.
Got Hemlock?
>>Not much there to do with temple prostitution.
Right, which of course is why Greek sanctuaries are adorned with monuments of prostitutes.
Posted on 01/22/2012 9:42:58 PM PST by Brian Kopp DPM
>>a theology steeped in Greek philosophy
LOL. The same philosophy that produced religious prostitution in the Delphi district?
Except the norm for Easter is Pascha. Easter is a northern term that happens to sound like these words. Unless you want to contend that Ishtar had a cult temple on the Rhine.
More like Aristotle and Plato. Not much there to do with temple prostitution. Even Epicurus spent more times in his books than with the ladies(boys) or dinner table.
Try hieros and arches.
Try hieros and arches.
Easter/ Oster /Astarte / Ishtar
All variations of the same word - and the same worship of the mother goddess.
It’s self-evident.
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=Easter+Ishtar+Oster+Astarte
Self-evident? or historical accident. Such as our use of Sunday rather than Lord’s day, Like Domingo in Spanish? Yoiu see what you want to see, like some people seeing Christ’s face in an egg.
Where did you get those figures?
They are meaningless without a reputable source.
>>face in an egg.
Since you brought it up, how’bout you tell folks the origin of the Easter Egg?
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=easter+babylonian+goddess
>>Try hieros and arches.
Yawn.
Dennis the Peasant: You can’t expect to wield supreme power just ‘cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
I suppose that means something. Like 2 + 2 =7.
What, not a Monty Python fan?
It means we don’t have Hieros Baabel god-man Kings in America.
Except maybe in Utah.
2 + 2 = 7?
>>2 + 2 = 7?
If you say so. But with that kind of math disability, you obviously can’t be trusted to handle Holy Ordinance.
“...Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk
2 +2 =5?
I’m only using your math.
“That would not, however, be true of Jefferson would it, nor Madison or any man trained in the classics?”
I think that would depend on the context.
In any case, there is no reason to think that Jefferson believed that slavery was divinely sanctioned.
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