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Chieftain
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Jesus of Nazareth was by all accounts a devout Jew, if one with a few wacky notions about the proper way to practice that devotion. "Dethroning old god" wasn't really part of the program, at least not in so many words. Jupiter and Isis and that crew had to go because they were incompatible with Christianity, not because they were "old" and needed to be improved upon.
Dethroning the old gods of Rome was the program. The notions about spreading the words of god, the "become the salt of the world" thing was the program. It is mentioned inside the Christian bible.
I don't think you know what atheism means as a word, let alone what it's about in a broader sociological context.
That's where you're wrong, atheism is a belief system. There has to be a concept of God in order for one to be aware and realize that there is no God.
You will if you have an incompetent meteorologist or something really catastrophic happens.
Have a look at the OP for my weather thread ("Oh the weather outside is..."). Nobody expected the wind storm we got that day. Trees were uprooted, cars and roofs were smashed, some animals died, and thank goodness nobody died when roofs and siding were blown or ripped off some buildings (including the nursing home where my dad lives).
The thing I might have expected that day was hail; there were hail clouds in the sky, but we didn't get any here. Still, hail can wreck crops in mere minutes.
But as I understand it, the point was made that the Weather Network is a very useful thing that people should pay attention to. As it turns out, my province has implemented some kind of alert system for disasters. It's supposed to let everyone with a cell phone know, and in my case - since I don't own a cell phone but do have the Weather Network as a pinned tab on my computer - when they tested the alert system the other day, I noticed it on that tab.
Since I don't own a cell phone, don't listen to the radio, and rarely watch TV, this is a useful thing to have because I am online for most of the day.
You really think atheism is some new thing that nobody ever heard of until recently? There were people centuries and even millennia ago who didn't believe in gods. Mind you they couldn't say so openly for fear of dire punishments inflicted on anyone who didn't follow the "true religion" or whatever the "state" demanded people worship in that time or place.
I'm not sure why you refer to Christianity as an "organization." There are more varieties of Christianity than I - or most people, probably - know about. Some are more organized than others, and while some openly promote bigotry, not all of them do.
No, I'm not saying that it is a recent fads. However, as an organized belief system, atheism is only surfaced during the 20th century. Christianity is an organization, an institution, a church. They are all similar whether it was Methodist, Calvinist or any other Christian branches, they all inherited traditions from the Catholics nevertheless.
How would you know? What do you know about any of this that makes you confident of such a claim?
It's completely rational because we've correctly categorized the issue as financial crises and depression economics. The solution to the problem is consistent.
The worst case event had multiple precedents and the GFC had the same triggering margin call only a magnitude worse. The GFC was not the second worst ever economic crisis by almost any measure. Not even close. Economic theory provided a correct response to both. Ignoramuses in politics/banking/academia made both worse.
I am with you, it is more irrational and extremely ignorant to not learn from history as it was what you call it, a research data.