What's really interesting is that you continue to conflate ritual purity with physical cleanliness - an anachronism from the late 19th century common among SDAers. In the same spirit, SDA weido W.K. Kellogg invented sugar laden kosher breakfast cereals that are hardly healthful. St. Paul was...
Navalnya's saccharine and fawning treatment by western governments prove the central allegations against Navalny were true - he was a traitor and stooge of hostile foreign powers.
Like I've said before Ray-gun style fusionism/trickle down economics has run its course. Only now are people starting to wake up to it a bit because Globohomo, Inc. started pushing woke bullshit, but there are plenty of morons still peddling the hyper-idealized fantasy version of capitalism...
The Kione verb used in that passage (Luke 3:14) is διασείσητε which literally means "shake thoroughly/violently" [ δια "thorough/complete" + σείση "shake/quake' ]. It's quite clear that St. John the Baptist is telling the soldiers nothing more than not to extort money from civilians. In...