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Seems to me you’re looking for a passage that clearly and blatantly states something, in a book that rarely does that.

Then it seems you need to do some research, instead of broad, and thus inaccurate, accusations

What passages explicitly show this?

It’s a false premise to suggest that there is only one version of Christianity. There are over 45,000 denominations worldwide, with over 200 in the US https://www.livescience.com/christianity-denominations.html# My guess would be that the denominations that take root in a country have to do with the culture in that country. Some of the ones in the US are here because the people fled their home countries, where they weren’t able to freely worship. Others took root later. The US has freedoms that aren’t found in some other places, or manifest themselves differently (e.g. our right to free speech is not identical to a similar right in other democracies) So, which denomination(s) are you talking about?

Baloney. Repeating this doesn’t make it true, nor does it explain anything. Copies are inexpensive because you can make as many as you want, with little creativity or originality required. How do you “create” uniqueness? The fact that it’s a one-off makes it unique, by definition. Fraud/deception is not art, but you would be selling the notion of rarity; you could not bilk anyone without that illusion. Thank you for supporting my point.

Christianity does not have exclusive ownership of most of its themes. This is projection.

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Solar and wind will get us most of the way there.

religious ≠ Christian spiritual ≠ Christian

So? Abortion is not a big deal in the Bible. You pasted some other link using the text Bible verses, sure. Urantia is not the Bible.

All of your links lead back to SFN In any event, this is cherry-picking. I can come up with lots of Bible verses that do not say anything about wealth. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. The Urantia book was written in the last century. Is it Christian canon? You talk of the church - what church uses it? How does one become wealthy if there is no desire to become so?

And yet in the US, the policies of the left arguably align better with the tenets of Christianity. Helping the weak, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, welcoming to immigrants, as opposed to the money-grubbing and fear-mongering policies of the right.

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How exactly does it do that? Starting a thread dies not give you permission to troll. It’s great that you have an appreciation for (some) art. But that would seem to be beside the point.

There is no paradox.

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Not true. It depends on how you do it. You can use a bright source. You aren’t required to do a single-photon experiment. Young used the sun shining through a hole

Or anyone who relies on empirical evidence. It will, if the eyes absorbed more than what’s being replaced. The question is if this was a detectable drop. Seeing as how the lifetime of a photon in a room that’s a few meters across is several nanoseconds, a small perturbation wouldn’t be easily detectable. Walls absorb light, too and eyes don’t have a large surface area. 1 W of visible light is of order 10^18 photons.

No, “we” don’t You can do the double-slit with individual photons, but you don’t have to. When the camera detects the photon there is no more photon. The premise on which your conjecture is based is false.

Need I have an argument? Did I claim that everything you said was wrong? I said stop trolling. I see that you have not. provenance Hence my mentions of uniqueness.

Not much, really. Light is made up of photons, which are the quanta of light. The profound difference is the concept of discrete energy, but there’s no indication that this is what you’re referring to.

What’s the biggest number you can get to in Roman numerals?

I said nothing of the sort. I commented on terminology. I’m saying the Church does not speak out about millionaires and billionaires being sinful because there is no concept of millionaires. You’re viewing this incorrectly; in a way that obscures the actual answer. Does the Bible comment on being rich? Yes. Does it comment on wanting wealth? Yes. It says the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. It tells you not to covet other peoples’ belongings. That the greedy won’t get into heaven. You can’t serve both God and money.

Were they called millionaires? (hint: is there a Roman numeral for a million?)