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In Russia a greater worry was [lesbians’] link to widely surviving pre-Christian religious practices. So the common term for lesbians was the same as for female leaders in such cults: baby bogomerzskie, which may be translated delightfully and not inaccurately as ‘God-insulting grannies’.
— Oct 28, 2025 02:05PM
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[in the Protevangelium of James]: when the midwife’s friend Salome attempts a manual gynaecological investigation of the mother [Mary], her offending hands miraculously catch fire
— Oct 20, 2025 11:31PM
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Theologians over the centuries, taking their cue from the statements in Gen. 1.26–27 that God made humanity in his own image and likeness, have […] generally ignored or explained away the complication that this same passage goes on to tell us that ‘male and female created he them’: does that mean that God is likewise male and female?
— Oct 18, 2025 06:22AM
