(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
Your tangential and entirely speculative meta-analysis isn’t particularly helpful. Feel free to offer something in relation to the content.
I’m not remotely interested in your distortion of my comment that my views are consistent with mainstream scholarship, nor high-sounding sophistry amounting to ‘we can’t really know anything about anything’.
(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
I do not assert that my views are correct because they are consistent with scholarship. I have committed no fallacy.
(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
Sure. Feel free to point out where you think I’m wrong.
(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
My views on the subject are consistent with scholarship, but not dependent on those sources.
(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
Feel free to present some verifiable facts at some point.
(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
🤦♂️ 🤷♂️
(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
I’m talking about proper scholarship across the board, not just ‘Christian scholarship’ that necessarily incorporates biased and unfalsifiable theological opinions rooted in magical thinking.
(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
🤦♂️ ‘my view’ is consistent with scholarship, reflecting known historical events, and is not at all ‘black-and-white’ thinking, which is nonsensical ad hominem on your part. But you are welcome to your religious (superstitious) interpretations (but they don’t ‘make more sense’ at all).
(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
Sigh. No. There was no ‘one single meaning’ of Babylon all the way through. The story of the ‘tower of Babel’ was adapted from a Sumerian story that the Jews likely first encountered during the Babylonian exile (as they did with what became the stories of ‘Adam & Eve’ and ‘the flood’, from Babylonian folklore). They didn’t invent the story or the meaning. Later, Babylon was used as a metaphor to represent oppression in the Seleucid (in Daniel) and Roman periods (in the ‘gospels’ & Revelation). Later still, after early Christian expectations obviously failed, Christians retroactively assigned different meanings, as you are doing now with your simplistic and naive assessment both of the story and your misguided perceptions of my understanding of the subject.
