720.In 1967, the Chinese government formed a team of scientists with the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers chosen. 1967年,中国政府成立了一支科学家团队,...
positions as merchants and money lenders (Christians were not allowed to lend money for many centuries). The social isolation of this Jewish ethnic group in Christian Europe for hundreds of years (they were not allowed to intermarry) allowed the natural selection of these intelligence traits to ...
Christians take it further believing Yahweh wanted Abraham to comprehend the future sacrifice Yahweh would make of his own son, Jesus. For the mythical Abraham and Sarah it was only a test. For the fathers and mothers of the 4,491 dead soldiers and one million Iraqi civilians it was not. ...
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and after them the Christians, who introduced an entirely new element by postulating a goal towards which the historical process is moving…….History thus acquired a meaning and purpose, but at the expense of losing its secular characterThe rationalists of the Enlightenment, who were the founder...
They were particularly famous for visionary projects, spent much of their time in diggings for money which they pretended was hid in the earth; and to this day, large excavations may be seen in the earth, not far from their residence, where they used to spend their time in digging for ...
used as merely a descriptive term for lack of belief in the monotheistic Abrahamic God. In Western society today, this is how the word “atheism” is most commonly used—it simply means “disbelief in God” (where God refers to the Abrahamic God worshipped by Jews, Christians, and Muslims...
A doctrine had become widespread in the early church, in which Christians were claiming to have replaced Israel as God’s chosen people, and to have inherited all the promises made to Israel in God’s Covenant with Abram. Taught as “Replacement Theology,” it also goes by the name “...
Jews, Christians, and Muslims worked together to translate famous works and grow human knowledge in nearly every area, including mathematics, medicine, astronomy, sociology, and geography. The government prized their scholars and paid them salaries equivalent to that of a modern-day sports sta...
attributed to a contemporary of Martin Luther’s,“In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity.”The pastor was talking about variations in dogma and practice among believers (e.g., whether it’s okay if some Christians celebrate Halloween). I immediately adapted it ...