ok so in 1kings chapters 5-6 is where we have the story of the construction of solomon's most holy temple to god, the supreme god.
it says that to build this magnificent temple they used 30,000 men, 10,000 per month.
another 70,000 common laborers in the hills digging up stone and 80,000 stone cutting laborers.
Solomon's temple; a talent for exaggeration*:
I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them. - 1 Chronicles 22:14 New International Version
*A talent weighs 75 lbs.
scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
Morpheus:
"Im finding it harder and harder to believe that a simple minded county clerk in the middle of bum screw america is still such a hot topic."
You've got tens of millions of right wing Christians who've been fed a steady diet of mock persecution and threats of revolution and this woman is all that it will take to spark the next civil war.
Listen to the 1:04 mark. He speaks for a lot of Christo-fascists in this nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUNf9ecUMok&feature=player_detailpage
scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
Sorry if I misunderstood what you said but you did say, "How does being angry with me show that you know she is playing the martyr?" in response to one of my posts. I assumed you must have misunderstood the cartoon I put up in another post.
scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
Fisherman:
"How do you know she is playing the martyr? How does being angry with me show that you know she is playing the martyr?"
I'm not angry with you. That cartoon was directed at the exchange between you and Viviane.
As for playing the martyr, if she knew beforehand that she was going to jail and if she basked in the publicity amongst her fellow believers who supported her then that's enough of a reason to figure out her motives.
scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
You're lying; I am not! Yes you are...
scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
Fisherperson: "How do you know?"
How do I know she's playing the martyr? She has stated, before she got jailed, that she was willing to go to jail. She's been held up in Fundamentalist Christian circles as a hero for taking a stand.
This issue has been brewing before the mainstream media picked up on it. Go here for more details.
scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
a former lebanese (christian) terrorist once told me a story (meant to be funny) about west asian politics.. a turtle was swimming past the shoreline of the red sea.
on the shore a scorpion calls out,"hey!
give me a lift over to the other side.
for those of you interested in getting to the bottom of the watchtower's teaching on sheol, hades, condition of the dead etc.
; this information is about as good as it gets.
the idea of consciousness after death was widely accepted from israel's earliest times, contrary to what the watchtower would have its members believe.. the lexicographical evidence is so clear that the great princeton scholar, b. b. warfield; stated that with modern hebrew scholars, there is no hesitation to allow with all heartiness that israel from the beginning of its recorded history cherished the most settled conviction of the persistence of the soul in life after death.
Here is how scholars reconstruct ancient Hebrew cosmology. Sheol is labeled "Underworld".
Not shown in this image is how the sun travels from west to east during the night. There was supposed to be a tunnel with an opening on both sides at the left and right (west and east) extremes of the dome where the sun would drop in and travel back to the east. That tunnel would have passed underneath "Sheol".
scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
Simon:
"Do people know the reason for needing a marriage license in the first place?"
I take it that licenses formalize the marriage so that benefits and divorces could be easily handled. Otherwise couples who separate and have property disputes might simply state that they weren't "married" in the first place.
