Your "argument" is pointless.
Here's some information on pagan celebrations of birthdays. https://1stcenturychristian.com/Birthdays.html
Why should I?
Yes and yes
"Early Christianity would have known when to celebrate the birth of the Lord."
They chose not to celebrate this event, rather other things, like Easter.
Celebrating birthdays was the emperors and kings to laude themselves, ordinary people didn't celebrate birthdays until modern times. At the time of the apostles, to celebrate Jesus' birthday would be a different meaning than today.
Patriotism is, theoretically, every citizen's responsibility.
When the military's advertisements focus on patriotism and show white men ready to defend the nation, and not bullshit women's empowerment and appeals to your pocketbook...then you know a war is planned.
This woman will be in the rear with the gear.
I personally know people who were suckered into joining the military due to things like patriotism after 9/11. Hell, I joined the military myself for several reason, one of which was patriotism.
So...what else ya got?
Unless it says cognitive tests are required in the Constitution, this will never happen.
To Granger credit, she didn't run in 2024, and 2022 was the last time she ran.
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We have a thread winner right here!
I'm shocked, shocked that our military's bad recruitment efforts convinced a black woman to join the military due to monetary reasons and not patriotism.
In other news, rain makes streets wet and dog bites man.
To the victor go the the spoils.
To the victor go the the spoils.
It's the oldest rule in politics mon ami.
No matter how many times this particular silliness is proved wrong, it rises again like a comic book zombie.
Did you know that the original Christmas festival was a holiday celebrated together with Christ’s baptism on January 6? No Sol Invictus (Roman pagan feast of the Invincible Sun) there, I’m afraid, so that can’t be the origin of Christmas. (Armenian Christians still celebrate this single feast on January 6, though because the calendar some of them use is out of sync with the one many of us use, it will fall on our January 19.)
And even when Christmas did get moved to December 25 (getting separated out from the baptism feast), it was not about Sol Invictus, which actually post-dates (you read that right!) the association of Christ’s birth with December 25, being introduced by the emperor Aurelian only in AD 274. Meanwhile, St. Hippolytus said in his commentary on Daniel (written ca. AD 202-211) that Jesus’ birthdate is December 25. (Maybe the pagans stole it from the Christians!)
Rather, December 25 was arrived at because it was exactly nine months after March 25, when the Annunciation was being celebrated, which is the feast of Christ’s conception in the womb of the Virgin Mary.
Christmas on December 25 isn’t a claim that Jesus was born on that day or even an attempt to claim a pagan holiday and make it Christian. It’s about a feast that was set to be nine months before.
https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/asd/2018/12/05/no-christmas-is-not-pagan-just-stop/
Jesus is the reason for the season.
Jesus is the reason for the season.
The Chinese know how to monkey copy, and building a DNA database isn't all that difficult.
https://mindmatters.ai/2021/07/china-is-building-the-worlds-largest-global-dna-database/
Indeed. For most people hooked on opioids, their first dealer was a doctor.
Probably not for cloning, but building a DNA database for "crime solving" and generalized population control. In China, it's for a database for organ harvesting.
Movie made in Hollywood has Jews involved. In other news, water is wet and dog bites man.
They have to prop the market up until at least February, so they can blame it on him.
What's interesting is all the "revisions" by various government agencies showing the economic data for the past two year have been full of lies. Zerohedge has some good articles on this.
Wouldn't we know via radiation readings if it was a tactical nuke?
First Epistle of Peter - [1:13–25] These verses are concerned with the call of God’s people to holiness and to mutual love by reason of their redemption through the blood of Christ (1 Pt 1:18–21).
"17 Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning, 18 realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold 19 but with the precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb. 20 He was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you, 21 who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
As for Paul, it's all over the place again and again. Now I get that Paul wasn't an apostle, but Peter, who was the leader of the apostles makes it clear that Christ's blood, shed on the cross, was our ransom. Sure, you can quibble about the exact meaning of these verses, but Christ's death up on the cross is the starting point. Your behavior, and his grace, after that is what matters.
Sorry to cast doubt here, but the Book of Enoch was lost from antiquity until the mid 1800s, when a translation was found in Ethiopia. Did they even have a copy at the council that decided what books to include in the canon of the Bible?
No longer pagan, yes, but at the time of the early Christians it was pagan.