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Romans 2 exposes one of the most profound contradictions in the Bible. The contradiction actually appears in the Tanakh but it's far more acute in the New Testament because it's about a very specific end point, that is the fate of the soul after death. In this chapter, Paul asserts that salvation is determined by one's deeds. Do right, you sail through the pearly gates, sin a...

The founder of Christianity was not Jesus, but Paul. With the Epistle to the Romans Paul begins to lay the foundation for the development of Christian theology. Later theologists took Paul's writings as authoritative, giving them as much credit as the gospels, although they contain innumerable ideas that appear nowhere in the purported teachings of Jesus. 

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So after further travails and literally years at sea, Paul and his anonymous companion finally make it to Rome. The whole point of this exercise was that Paul insisted on being tried by Caesar, so what happens? The same old shit that happened everywhere else he has gone in the past few years. He talks with the local Jews, some of them believe him and some don't, and that's it...

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 The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themse...

Once again we're in first person, for whatever reason. The self-effacing narrator does not address an obvious problem. The governor has acquitted him, so why does he insist on being tried by Caesar? And given that God is in charge of events, why the travail on the journey, the setbacks and the shipwreck and the starvation? If God wanted to save all their lives, why send the s...