Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that there is no need to stir up fear around nuclear weapons, as Christians are not afraid of the end of the world.
Kirill added that this “does not mean that we should sit by idly”.
“On the contrary, our earthly mission is to be the Lord’s soldiers … to resist evil and defend high moral ideals. This is the goal setting in Russia,” he said.
While I invite anyone to read the source-materials I’ve linked-to, & see the evidence, yourselves…
Kahneman1-mind, imprint->reaction mind, ideology/prejudice/“religion”/programming, pre-vetoes it all, as it isn’t within-ideology “authorized”, right?
Considered-reasoning is Kahneman2 mind ( he called it “system 2”, without identifying, in its name, what the hell context the “system” was meant in, which is why I don’t bother with his labels ), & it actually does dig into evidence, before deciding.
Nobody “owes” … “me”, or ANYbody, really, … considering evidence, before deciding that they “don’t need to” consider any more evidence, right?
It’s normal, it’s done all the time, authority’s better than Empiricism anyday, & that’s good-enough for “normal”, right?
So, whichever side your religion is on, establishment-knows-what-validity-is XOR evidence-based-knowing, … just go with that side’s habit!
What could be the cost of getting that wrong??
( both short-term, on a specific issue, vs long-term, the habit of getting that wrong… )
The evidence does check-out, though…
benJoseph was Essene,
brought-up very differently than what mainstream Jews would have been,
didn’t marry in his teens,
did study/know Eastern stuff that simply had no business being known among conventional Jews,
did leave evidences galore in the later-recorded “New Testament”,
did leave esoteric evidences in “Gospel of Mary”,
& left record in the East, with exactly the same attitude & message he consistently displayed within the Roman Empire in that evidence…
& … establishment disallows ALL of that, & more!
Decide where your integrity resides, & go with that!
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