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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Goofyhoofy ✸✹🐝🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Kegbreath cuts LDS from list
Date: 06/10/26 7:36 AM
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I don't think it's correct to say that the Abrahamic tradition "acknowledges" (in the present tense) the existence of other gods.

I love how modern Christianity has managed to thread the needle, having multiple gods but one god at the same time. It’s “the Holy Trinity”. It’s God. But hey! It’s also Jesus! And for good measure, it’s the Holy Spirit.

Thou shall have no other gods before me? Make them multiple, but one and the same, even though they’re different. Quite logical, really.

“In the beginning” everything had a god. The god of thunder and lightning. The god of fertility. The god of luck, the god of planting crops, another god of harvesting. One for the underworld, one for your Uncle Harold. Yet more for protection, wealth, and so on. Eventually, and over a longish time that got whittled down to one (“monotheistic”) but that hankering for “other gods” wouldn’t go away, so now it’s THREE, except it’s one…

And the more educated a society, it starts to converge on “none”. Whew! Taken a lot of time to get here, and it’s not done yet, but it’s progress.

In other news, the Mayor of Quincy, MA, a Roman Catholic, commissioned two bronze statues of Saints to be installed on city property. Spent $850,000 of tax money to do it; now tied up in court, of course.

nytimes.com - Quincy mass statues koch mayor
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