The Roman Empire, emperors Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula predate the Greek city states, the Peloponnesian Wars, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander, the Ptolemaic pharaohs, Antiochus Epiphanes and the Maccabean revolution?
Amazing timeline you have there, better notify all the universities they are teaching it backwards...
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In my disgust at the rest of your post,...
Disgust? I insulted your religion and the cult that has grown up around the ghost of Ayn Rand?
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...I forgot to mention it.
No, you are just so obsessed with baiting the religionists you have lost all objectivity; something that is common among the so-called “objectivists.”
Your obvious frustration (which I have seen manifest in others here) runs into a brick wall when confronted by a heterodox atheist like myself.
Instead of having a secular view, many fall into the category of pathetic anti-Christians. What they really want to attack is Judaism, and due to the history of anti-Judaic campaigns, they attack the Christians by proxy. [The same is true for liberal Jews; they have yet to learn their lesson from the Golden Calf and the Maccabean revolution (the Christians would add the crucifiction to that).]
My disgust was not regarding your imagined insult, it was at your obvious baiting. And now I see that you're adding projection to your weak attempt to enter the conversation. I'm not baiting Christians -- I am a Christian.
I've seen your attitude before, the narcissism in your latest comments -- "Your obvious frustration (which I have seen manifest in others here) runs into a brick wall when confronted by a heterodox atheist like myself." -- I have seen many times over the years. It's typical of mensa boards that degenerate into contests about who has the most bizarre sexual "curiosity".
Get over yourself.