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  1. RE: mstdn.social/@calmeilles/11713

    They have said the same thing about #Lebanon and #Syria. Their goal is to control all of the #Levant. They want an end to all #Christians and all #Muslims, and any #Jews from #Africa or dark skinned countries. They are an ethnostate enforcing apartheid with our money. We need to end support for Israel. Free #Palestine from the river to the sea.

  2. The First Muslim Migration: Linked by Their Love for Prophet Jesus

    Hearing this, the King affirmed that the Muslim description of Jesus aligned with Christian belief, and the Makkans left Ethiopia in disgrace.

    alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/06/

  3. The First Muslim Migration: Linked by Their Love for Prophet Jesus

    Hearing this, the King affirmed that the Muslim description of Jesus aligned with Christian belief, and the Makkans left Ethiopia in disgrace.

    alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/06/

  4. The First Muslim Migration: Linked by Their Love for Prophet Jesus

    Hearing this, the King affirmed that the Muslim description of Jesus aligned with Christian belief, and the Makkans left Ethiopia in disgrace.

    alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/06/

  5. The First Muslim Migration: Linked by Their Love for Prophet Jesus

    Hearing this, the King affirmed that the Muslim description of Jesus aligned with Christian belief, and the Makkans left Ethiopia in disgrace.

    alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/06/

  6. The First Muslim Migration: Linked by Their Love for Prophet Jesus

    Hearing this, the King affirmed that the Muslim description of Jesus aligned with Christian belief, and the Makkans left Ethiopia in disgrace.

    alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/06/

  7. For the third time in his letters, #Paul spoke of the Corinthian #Christians as the #temple of #God.  They would understand the temple of God could have nothing to do with #idols or their temples. 

    Paul wanted the Corinthian Christians to act like temples of God, resisting #defilement and pursuing #holiness

    We do well to understand ourselves as temples of God in Christ through the #Spirit, and should likewise strive to resist defilement and to pursue holiness.

  8. For the third time in his letters, #Paul spoke of the Corinthian #Christians as the #temple of #God.  They would understand the temple of God could have nothing to do with #idols or their temples. 

    Paul wanted the Corinthian Christians to act like temples of God, resisting #defilement and pursuing #holiness

    We do well to understand ourselves as temples of God in Christ through the #Spirit, and should likewise strive to resist defilement and to pursue holiness.

  9. Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·

    Samaritanism

    Samaritanism is an Abrahamic monotheistic, ethnic religion. It comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, & legal traditions of the Samaritan people.

    Often preferring to be called Israelite Samaritans, who originated from the Hebrews & Israelites. They began to emerge as a relatively distinct group after the Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the Iron Age. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the 4th, & penultimate, stage of ancient Assyrian history.

    Central to their continuity as an Indigenous Heritage in the Holy Land is keeping the Patriarchal & Mosaic covenant as specified in the Samaritan Torah. Samaritans believe this is the original & unchanged version of the Pentateuch (which is the first 5 books of the Hebrew & Christian bible) since Moses & the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

    The Abisha Scroll is traditionally held by the community to be the oldest existing scroll written by Abisha, son of Aaron the priest, around 3,000 years ago based on living tradition. However, Jewish & Christian theologians have made attempts to dispute this claim which proved unsatisfactory.

    Judaism claims Samaritanism developed right alongside their own religion. Samaritanism asserts itself as the true preserved form of the monotheistic faith that the Israelites kept under Moses. Samaritan belief also holds that the Israelites’ original holy site was Mount Gerizim, near Nablus, the State of Palestine (West Bank).

    They also believe that Jerusalem only attained importance under Israelite dissenters who had followed Eli (In the Book of Samuel, Eli was a priest & judge of the Israelites in the city of Shiloh) to the city of Shiloh.

    The Israelites who remained at Mount Gerizim would become the Samaritans in the Kingdom of Judah. Mount Gerizim is revered by Samaritans as the location where the Binding of Isaac occurred. In comparison to the Jewish belief that it occurred at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

    Today there are only about 900 registered communal members. This puts Samaritanism as 1 of the smallest ethnoreligious groups globally in the Abrahamic faiths. Samaritans believe that this is a prophecy fulfilled from the scriptures: “You’ll be left few in number.”

    Though they hope for a future time when a prophet like Moses known as the “Taheb” (Restorer) will perform 3 signs, namely the jar of manna, the staff of Moses, & Cherubim, or the Golden Candlestick.

    This time period they believe is when an era of Divine Favor would return, & the hidden tabernacle of Moses would miraculously be revealed for the Israelite people & Mount Gerizim is restored to its former glory.

    Samaritans trace their history, as a separate entity, to a period soon after the Israelites’ arrival into the “Promised Land.” Samaritan historiography traces the schism to High Priest Eli leaving Mount Gerizim, where stood the 1st Israelite altar in Canaan, & building a competing altar in nearby Shiloh.

    The dissenting group of Israelites who followed Eli to Shiloh would be the ones who, in later years, would head south to settle in Jerusalem (the Jews). Whereas the Israelites who stayed on Mount Gerizim, in Samaria, would become known as the Samaritans.

    Genetic studies in 2004 suggest that Samaritans’ lineages trace back to a common ancestor with Jews in the paternally-inherited Jewish high priesthood (Cohanim) temporally near to the period of the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel. They’re probably descendants of the historical Israelite population. The Cohanim refers to the Jewish priestly class, male descendants of Aaron the priest.

    The Hasmonean king, John Hyrcanus, destroyed the Mount Gerizim Temple & brought Samaria under his control around 120 BCE. This led to a long-lasting sense of mutual hostility between the Jews & Samaritans.

    From this point, the Samaritans likely sought to consciously distance themselves from their Judean brethren. Both peoples came to see the Samaritan faith as a religion distinct from Judaism. By the time of Jesus, Samaritans & Jews deeply disparaged one another, as shown by Jesus’ Parable of the Good Samaritan.

    The main beliefs of Samaritanism are:

    • There’s 1 God, Yahweh, the same God recognized by the Jewish prophets.
    • The Torah is the only true holy book & was given by God to Moses. The Torah was created before the creation of the world & whoever believes in it is assured a part in the world to come. The Torah’s status in Samaritanism as the only holy book causes them to reject the Oral Torah, the Talmud, & all the prophets & scriptures, except for a version of the Book of Joshua (which they don’t hold as Scripture), whose book in the Samaritan community is significantly different from the Book of Joshua in the Jewish “Bible.” Moses is considered to be the last of the line of prophets.
    • Mount Gerizim, not Jerusalem, is the 1 true sanctuary chosen by God. The Samaritans don’t recognize the sanctity of Jerusalem & don’t recognize the Temple Mount, claiming instead that Mount Gerizim was the place where the Binding of Isaac took place.
    • The Apocalypse, called “the day of vengeance,” will be the end of days. When an entity called the Taheb (basically the Jewish Messiah equal) that comes from the tribe of Joseph will come, be a prophet like Moses for 40 years & bring about the return of all the Israelites, following which the dead will be resurrected. The Tahib will then discover the tent of Moses’ Tabernacle on Mount Gerizim, & will be buried next to Joseph when he dies.

    The Samaritans have retained the institution of a high priesthood & the practice of slaughtering & eating lambs on Passover Eve. They celebrated Pesach, Shavuot, & Sukkot. But they use a different method from that used in mainstream Judaism in order to determine the dates annually.

    For example, Yom Teru’ah (the biblical name for Rosh Hashanah), at the beginning of Tishrei (This is the 1st month of the civil year & the 7th month of the ecclesiastical year in the Hebrew calendar.), isn’t considered a New Year as it is in Rabbinic Judaism.

    Their Sabbath is observed weekly by the Samaritan community every week from Friday to Saturday, beginning & ending at sundown. For 24 hours, the families gather together to celebrate the rest day: all electricity with the exception of minimal lighting (kept on the entire day) in the house is disconnected, no work is done, & neither cooking nor driving is allowed.

    The time is devoted to worship which consists of 7 prayer services, reading the weekly Torah portion, spending quality time with family, taking meals, rest & sleep, & visiting other members of the community.

    Passover is particularly important in the Samaritan community, climaxing with the sacrifice of up to 40 sheep.

    The Counting of the Omar remains relatively unchanged. The Counting of the Omar is a ritual in Judaism that consists of a verbal counting of each of the 49 days between the holidays of Passover & Shavuot. However, the week before Shavuot is a unique festival celebrating the continued commitment Samaritanism has maintained since the time of Moses.

    During Sukkot, the Sukkah (the temporary hut built for use during Sukkot) is built INSIDE of houses, instead of OUTSIDE like mainstream Judaism. This Samaritan tradition is traced back to the persecution of the Samaritans during the Byzantine Empire.

    The roof of the Samaritan Sukkah is decorated with citrus fruits & branches of palm, myrtle, & willow trees. This is in accordance with the Samaritan interpretation of the 4 species designated in the Torah for the holiday. The 4 species are 4 plants (the etrog, lulav, hadass, & aravah) mentioned in the Torah as being relevant to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

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    #120BCE #4Species #Aaron #Abisha #AbishaScroll #AbrahamicFaiths #AncientAssyria #Apoclypse #Aravah #BindingOfIsaac #BookOfJoshua #BookOfSamuel #ByzantineEmpire #Canaan #Cherubim #Christians #CitrusFruits #Cohanim #CountingOfTheOmar #Eli #Etrog #GoldenCandlestick #Hadass #Hasmonean #HebrewCalendar #Hebrews #HighPriestEli #HighPriesthood #IndigenousPeoples #IronAge #IsraeliteSamaritans #Israelites #Jerusalem #Jesus #Jewish #JewishProphets #Jews #Joseph #Judah #KingJohnHyrcanus #KingdomOfIsrael #Lulav #Manna #Messiah #MosaicCovenant #Moses #MountGerizim #MountSinai #Myrtle #Nablus #NeoAssyrianEmpire #OralTorah #Palestine #ParableOfTheGoodSamaritan #Passover #PatriarchalCovenant #Pentateuch #Priest #PromisedLand #RabbinicJudaism #RoshHashanah #Sabbath #SamaritanTorah #Samaritanism #Shavuot #Shiloh #StaffOfMoses #Sukkah #Sukkot #Tabernacle #Taheb #Talmud #TempleMount #Tishrei #Torah #WestBank #Willow #Yahweh #YomTeruAh

  10. i hope all #missionaries die i hope all #evangelical #christians die i hope all #tradwife content dies i hope the #mormon #church goes under i hope all mega #churches explode

  11. How the oldest science in the world flourished in Toledo 1,000 years ago.

    An international conference on the origins of galaxies pays tribute to the pioneering scientific cooperation between Muslims, Jews, and Christians that took place in Spain at the end of the Middle Ages.

    mediafaro.org/article/20250515

    #Toledo #Science #Astronomy #Galaxies #Spain #Muslims #Jews #Christians #Ptolemy #AlZarqali #Copernicus #Almagest #MiddleAges #History

  12. Some #theological hills I am willing to die on:
    1) The plenary inspiration of #scripture
    2) At bare minimum, adherence to the #doctrines proclaimed by the first four Councils of the undivided #church must be upheld.
    3) The #eucharist / #lordssupper ought to be celebrated *weekly*.
    4) The #eucharist / #lordssupper , while symbolic, is not merely symbolic but also a true/real encounter/communion with Jesus.
    5) #Baptism *must* be done in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
    6) Baptism is #regenerative
    7) #Liturgical #worship is essential because the #bible itself reveals the Church’s worship as liturgical.
    8) The #unity of the Church is not merely a spiritual reality (i.e. invisible), but a reality that ought to be visible for all the world to see.
    9) Except in the cases of #heresy or wholesale unrepentant #sin within a portion of the Church, rending the Church’s unity is sinful. (So, disagreements over adiaphora are not worthy of division -- no matter how much one love's their pet theological theory)
    10) All #christians must pray for and actively work towards and for the reunification of the Church.

  13. My youngest, who died of non-#COVID natural causes, was a #Satanist. He didn't sacrifice animals or anything. He just thought that #god was acting like some modern-day #Christians who ask, "What would #Jesus do?" #WWJD and then, when someone does it, is all. "Not Like That!" God gives everyone #FreeWill, and when #LucIfer dares to actually /use/ it...

    My view on the topic of #god and #religion:

    The existence of #evil demonstrates that the omni-omni god(s) cannot exist.

    I love how philosophers describe it as, "The Problem of evil." I mean, yes, evil is a problem, but not for the reasons they say it is.

    The existence of god(s) is metaphorical. In coding, god(s) would be the #else condition. Anything that is not known, understood, and explainable by a person, or people as a whole, can be explained by postulating god(s). Because people want to know #Why. And asking why starts as soon as a child can communicate.

    It's like how the #Greeks had to answer why #planets appear to sometimes move beckwards. They didn't know (and couldn't know) the real reason for retrograde motion because they were absolutely certain that the planets orbited around Earth. They invented epicycles, little circles planets made that caused them to appear to be going backwards. God(s) get invented the same way.

    Which is why there is often #religious tension around #science. Because science is a #system for figuring things out, it sometimes figures out that previous answers for Why questions turn out to be wrong. This why Galileo was tortured. He publicly stated that the Greeks were wrong about retrograde motion.

    #Religion happens when a person/group leverages collective #ignorance for personal/group gain.

  14. It would be totally hilarious if due to a translation error if Jesus didn’t want us to be his followers but to actually follow his example. To all be Christs. Each of us. That we’ve been looking for followership when we were all supposed to live the lessons and be leaders with him, not behind him.

    Makes two thousand years of sycophancy kind of a huge blunder, huh? #Christians #translation #AreYouSure #ABitTooLate #EpicOops

  15. In case you want to know why I've completely given up on #Christianity (no reason that you *should*), this is a good summary:

    youtu.be/isp4243WPO0?si=k5kaQH

    BTW: the interviewer question at about the 12m55s mark is spot on.

    I used to be a Christian, but I just can't be any more. At least not here anymore...

    #christianity #christiannationalism #christians #christian #pca #presbyterianchurchofamerica #presbyterians #maga #racism #conservatives #ConservativeCancelCulture #altright

  16. If you have friends that still consider themselves to be #Christians, but are either tormented because they fear they may go to #hell, or are going around trying to convert other people because thery think those people will go to hell, you might want to send them this. And if they ask, "Why was I never taught this in church?", I would answer "that's a really good question, since all preachers that went to a decent #bible college or #seminary should have known all this, yet they continue to preach hell. I wonder what else they know that they aren't telling?"

    Warning: If you are an #exchristian this MIGHT be a bit triggering, because the author still is hanging onto his #Christianity at this point, but once you start seeing how you've been lied to in #church ypu start to notice other things as well, and I suspect given enough time that might happen with him.

    What the Hell: Finding Out “Hell” Isn’t in the Bible
    medium.com/christianish/what-t

  17. Assam: Hindu Group Threatens Christian Schools to Remove Religious Symbols or ‘Face Dire Outcome’

    The ultimatum issued by one Kutumba Surakshya Parishad includes removal of idols and photographs of Jesus and Mary as well as churches located on school complexes.

    #assam #IndianChristians #christians #KutumbaSurakshyaParishad #christianity #CheustianSchools #hindutva #communalism #education #BJPStates #HinduMobs #india

    thewire.in/communalism/assam-h

  18. This is the true color of the "pro-life" #Christians. There are many comments on #Facebook from these "pro-lifers" supporting the murdering of innocent babies, children, and women in Gaza. I am sure these are real accounts, not trolls.

    Is #LinseyGraham a human? Are these people humans? No wonder there was the #Holocaust of #Jews and #Gypsies in #Nazi Germany.

    #prolife #GOP #humanity #Nazism

    thehill.com/homenews/senate/42

  19. You can tell #MattSchlapp and his beard are full of shit because they immediately framed the reporting by the #DailyBeast as an attack on #Christians when, in fact, it's a legitimate story about the #sexualAssault allegations lodged against Matt by numerous men. Attempting to cast #Christianity as the victim is a pathetic bait & switch that highlights their willingness to use their alleged #faith to protect themselves from the consequences of Matt's repugnant actions.

    rawstory.com/matt-schlapp-2664

  20. Siege on Manipur: Hindu Nationalists' War for Ethnic Supremacy

    Across India, experiments to forge the 'Hindu national community' are predicated on the breakage of minoritised Muslims and Christians, and Adivasis and Dalits. What's happening in Manipur is part of a plan operationalised by the Hindu Right decades ago.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #meiteis #kukis #HinduNationalism #hindutva #EthnicCleansing #BJP #christians #minorities #ManipurGovt #BirenSingh #AmitShah #northeast #india

    thewire.in/communalism/siege-o

  21. Feminist icons or violent vigilantes? The contentious role of Meira Paibis in Manipur’s conflict

    Celebrated for long as the torchbearers of Manipur, Meitei women groups now stand accused of blocking the army and egging on violence against Kuki-Zo women.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #MeiraPaibis #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #ViolenceAgainstWomen #MeiteiNationalism #christians #majoritarianism #india

    scroll.in/article/1053761/femi

  22. Double-Engine: The Union and State Government Must Answer for Manipur

    August 3 marks exactly three months since the start of the mayhem in Manipur. Fears of state collusion and complicity in the violence are growing with time. Nandita Haksar writes.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #meiteis #kukis #majoritarianism #christians #churches #BJP #BirenSingh #ManipurGovt #article355 #environment #ForestRights #UnionGovt #india

    thewire.in/politics/double-eng

  23. From Manipur, A Peace Activist’s Account Of State Criminality & Culpability

    In this blow-by-blow account, peace activist Harsh Mander describes his journey to Manipur, where he met Meitei and Kuki families broken by three months of ethnic violence, life inside the camps where hundreds live in despair, unsure if they will ever return to their scorched villages, and the “extreme culpability” of a seemingly partisan state that has done little to help the minority Christians who have been killed and uprooted in greater numbers.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #christians #displacement #ManipurRapes #BirenSingh #ManipurGovt #BJP #HarshMander #JohnDayal #KarwanEMohabbat #activism #india

    article-14.com/post/from-manip

  24. Tipping point

    The violence in Manipur exhibits two symptoms-- The impunity with which Meitei mobs have been allowed to loot police armouries and the instrumental use of rape to announce the end of Kuki citizenship, writes Mukul Kesavan.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #meiteis #kukis #majoritarianism #BirenSingh #rape #ManipurPolice #citizenship #christians #christianity #assam #HimantaBiswaSarma #hindutva #india

    telegraphindia.com/opinion/tip

  25. Manipur: Catholic Bishops' Association Calls Upon 'Governance System' to Uphold Secular Fabric

    Not for the first time have concerns been expressed over attacks on churches and violence against women and children.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #CBCI #CatholicBishops #catholics #christians #kukis #meiteis #ManipurRapes #HumanRights #ManipurGovt #UnionGovt #BJP #india

    thewire.in/rights/catholic-bis

  26. Manipur: Kicked around like a ball, assaulted girl quizzes CM Biren Singh

    ‘How many videos of atrocities against women need to surface for the chief minister to admit that a section of women has been under attack only because of their ethnicity?’

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #rape #GangRape #meiteis #kukis #ViolenceAgainstWomen #ManipurGovt #BJP #BirenSingh #majoritarianism #KukiZos #christians #UnionGovt #india

    telegraphindia.com/north-east/