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In this TL Ayn Rand had a son (born 1931) named Cyrus, after the protagonist of her first novel. Cyrus Rand who was raised in his mother's ideology went into politics in 1953 and was elected US president in 1972, winning against both Nixon, the incumbent Republican US President, and Wallace, his...

Tthe failed assassination of the Hereditary President of the United States during a state visit in the British Dominion of Canada led to a war between the fascist United States of Greater America and the British Empire in which Ottawa was conquered and those members of the Canadian government...

Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus, who in OTL became Roman emperor after the death of Marcus Aurelius, died during the revolt of Avidius Cassius in 175 while his twin Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus, who in OTL died young, succeeded their father in 180. Titus Aurelius continued the policy of...

I disagree. In the case of Moscow you are right. They consider the Belorussians Russians, but I think that the Poles will see this differently. For them Belorussia was a part of Poland stolen by the Russians and the People there were no Russians. And for the Belorussians Polish rule means...

Well Minsk had been part of Poland until the Second Partition of Poland (1793).

A TL about a group of native American superhero calling themselves Navaho Neutrinos and their fight against a supervillain called White Man. Or is it about a young native American daydreaming about being a superhero who is fighting for the native American cause? Or are the Navaho Neutrinos the...

Can we please return to the topic? And speculate what would have happened if Pilate had pardoned Jesus?

It is not that I do not trust your sources, I simply do not trust you.;) I prefer a well researched TV documentary to a hobby historian even if the conclusions presented there are controversal. But I am very sceptical by documentaries sponsored by evangelical churches. BTW there are several...

But, it was not supported by the Bible. According to the BBC documentary series "Sex and the Church" the source of celibacy was not the Bible but the still very popular Greek philospher Pythagoras. Monastrism is also not supported by the Bible. It was imported from India and thus based on...

It proves that they are truly independent and will not listen to demands that their results should not contradict the Christian teachings and traditions.

No, it is not. The letters are slightly problematic, because we know that some of the canon letters are fakes not written by their alleged author. We also know that Paul was a 'fan' of the hellenistic ideal written in the teachings of the great Greek philosophers. And we know that in one letter...

The funny thing is that the New Testament includes no rules in regards of sexuality. The Old Testament does, but it has also many other rules which are observed by no one. Christian sex morals are not based on the Bible on a hellenistic ideal which can be found in the writings of the great Greek...

Celibacy: There is not a single verse in the whole New Testament that supports celibacy. If it were so, we would still have celibate priests and monks in protestantism. But we do not. Essenes: That's not my theory. According to the German Wikipedia article about the Essenes, Roland Bergmeier...

Back to the facts... There is an apocriphal Gospel (the Gospel of Mary) which states that Mary (Maria Magdalena?) was the most important and beloved of all of Jesus disciples which BTW suggests that she was his wife. There are many historians who say that Jesus was persecuted by Roman and not by...

And that's just what I have written. The research must be open-ended and may deliver the result that the Bible is wrong. Something that happened very often in the last 250 years, despite the fact that the Church demanded that the result should be that the Bible is right. And for me it...

And that is not good, because it does not allow research without predetermined results, which BTW had hampered scientific research for centuries because no scientist was allowed to discover something which disagrees with the Bible. BTW without textual criticism we would have no western...

A short TL about a single naval battle in a war between the United Principalities of America (UPA), the Empire of Mexico and the Republic of Texas in 1873. In the Battle of Galveston the Imperial Navy managed to defeat the United Principalities Navy onyl to be crushed by the much smaller Texan...

That's not true. Her brother was mentioned and her husband was also mentioned. EDIT: I believe that the rabbinic tradition of Judaism already existed at this time. Judaism would have not survived if they had to develop it after the destruction of the temple.

First, being a Nazirite was nothing permanent it was only temporary. And it was linked to the Temple. The permanent ascetism we know from other cultures and religions (including Christianity) was never part of Judaism but it can be found in the writings of the Greek philosophers. Remember that...

I doubt that they were corrupted. Remember who Josephus sources were! He just wrote down what he had heard about this new religion. And at that time Paul had already opened this sect to non-jews and shifted the blame from the Romans to the jews because Christianity was now aimed at Romans and...