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I have a few ~800-year-old Parakamabahu I coins somewhere and you know what, I can't believe it never occurred to me to try using them for bus fare

i mean if there's anyone who's heard all this shit before and knows how to parry it away effortlessly, it's a PCUSA seminarian who grew up surrounded by Southern Baptist evangelical hell.

he's the Bane of Deep South religiosity and neither Cornyn nor Paxton are anywhere close to Batman

it is sort of funny to me that there is a genuine case in academic biblical history that argued Joseph went to bethlehem was to get a lower tax rate

I mean, the best-attested figure from antiquity is probably Ramesses the Great (we have his carefully-labelled body, dozens of things he built, his tomb, documents from his reign...), but his miraculous, single-handed victory against the Hittites at Kadesh is, at best, a rather massaged account.

*it might imply that …

I’m not seeing the perfect example, but IIRC, someone went to the trouble of either inserting or changing a reference to Theseus. But we wouldn’t say that that‘s evidence of Theseus’s existence.

I’m a little unsure of this. It might only that when there‘s serious dispute about the birthplace of a Homeric hero, that hero existed.

Fair point, and interesting comparison, thanks. It needs thinking about.

Has any settler colony with a substantial surviving native population made major concessions without losing a war or at least a major battle, losing its primary strategic backer, or falling into civil war? Maybe South Africa, and New Zealand? But Israel isn’t those.

A bouquet for us all: Floral Still Life with Shells Balthasar van der Ast, 1622 (St Louis Art Museum, MO)

The point generalises smoothly and widely

India may not like doing business with China. But a solar farm imported from China can supply electricity for decades, while a cargo of LNG imported from the United States is burned up in days.

For MY 2023, new vehicle fuel economy increased by 1.1 mpg reaching a record high 27.1 miles mpg.

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and just as goodness is composed of hundreds of menial decent acts, so too is evil composed

In his *first* last year at United, I mean.

A bit like Ronaldo hogging the shooting in his last year at United, yes

Lost in Translation Yoruba in its idiomatic purity lends itself to miscommunication

I laughed myself silly writing this years ago. It contains a paragraph translated directly from Yoruba to English with ridiculous results. But there is a deeper message here. Languages also express the inexpressible. Translation often needs a human mind and soul.

folukeafrica.com/lost-in-tran...

I am glad to see that the Francis/Leo line of ecclesial appointments in the U.S. is showing its worth, and long may they reign

*in, excuse auto-corrupt

David Levering Lewis Endows African Diaspora Fellowship A $1 million gift from the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian establishes a year-long fellowship at the Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography.

The CUNY Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography is launching the David Levering Lewis Fellowship on the African Diaspora, supported by a $1 million gift from the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and a matching $1 million from the Leon Levy Foundation

American right-wing religion is closer to Kimbanguism—a newish, para-Christian religion—than to anything on serious continuity with historic christianity, and the conflicts to come will force the polarisation that makes that conclusion unavoidable