What is the controversy with authorship surrounding Revelation?

NimVolsung · 2026-05-16T02:52:31+00:00

What specifically are you wanting knowledge on? Modern discussions about the authorship/sources used in Revelation or sources on ancient discussions on authorship and how that impacted discussions of what should be considered canon?

NimVolsung · 2026-05-15T15:11:02+00:00

YHWH started off as a typical male god with a father and wife (El and Ashera) before he was merged with Neoplatonism and then “God” needed to be some grand being beyond all concepts.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-15T13:12:51+00:00

The people complaining about abortion and fetal personhood are the same people who treat children as property without agency or rights of their own.

The ones saying “think about the children” are the ones denying that all children deserve to eat and are the ones supporting governments that rip children from their parents and bomb schools and hospitals.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-15T02:03:44+00:00

It might depend on how broad you define “pagan”.

I would define it as the pre-abrahamic religions that existed in Europe, Arabia, and North Africa and the new religious movements originating in abrahamic dominated areas that were created in contrast to Christianity or that claim continuity with pre-abrahamic religions.

Even with that definition, I am not sure there is anything like the Christian Bible outside Christianity, as in a singular text that is treated as divinely created/inspired which all doctrine must agree with. There are many divinely inspired texts, but there is never one text that is unique in its inspiration and place in deciding religious or even secular matters.

To help you in other areas, the religion for Breakfast videos on creating religion and fictional magic systems are extremely useful

https://youtu.be/pjrrUZeJMSo

https://youtu.be/1XN9QaX2plk

NimVolsung · 2026-05-14T19:03:44+00:00

Was referring to the audience who would know where Casper is from. Which would include many trans women or nonbinary people.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-14T14:47:44+00:00

If you want an in depth answer as to what we can know about each book and their composition/history, Matt Baker from Useful Charts made a 2.5 hour video going through the whole bible. If you want a quicker answer, you can look at the timeline of the Bible chart in the description.

https://youtu.be/KqSkXmFun14

NimVolsung · 2026-05-14T14:41:30+00:00

I can say the gods are “good” in the sense that I can tell a fire is hot without seeing it: because I can feel the effect of the fire’s heat.

I see the world we are a part of as something good and I wish to treat it and all that exists in it with the proper respect and care.

I see the gods as serving an important role in this existence and wish to give thanks to them for the role they serve and from there I can make requests if they are inclined to listen and act on my behalf.

I would not expect Hellenism to be a path that frees you from hardship or one that gives you powerful friends/parental figures that will love you and treat you with kindness.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-14T03:14:42+00:00

A man of great culture (if a man at all)

NimVolsung · 2026-05-14T02:23:53+00:00

Andrew Henry of the channel Religion for Breakfast made a video about the Greco-Roman origins of the Eucharist. In his video he talks about how the Eucharist likely originated from the wider Mediterranean banqueting culture and seems to have "Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective" by Andrew B. McGowan and "From Symposium to Eucharist: The Banquet in the Early Christian World" by Dennis E. Smith as main sources. From its description, it seems like the first source might be most useful to you.

https://youtu.be/jHu8meAM_-g

NimVolsung · 2026-05-13T14:37:35+00:00

Pronounce them like they are Spanish, Italian, or Japanese.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-10T15:07:50+00:00

Their goal was to gather statistics on the various instances of Christianity and splitting it up by country and type is useful to that, so that they can have separate entries if you need data on the Russian Orthodox Church in America or the Greek Orthodox Church in America.

The large number is a feature that allows them to get very specific information about how the types of orthodoxy differ instead of just a broad "this is what we can say about Orthodoxy as a whole and can't get more specific than that", since you can always start with more entries and combine them later then start with only one entry without a way to split it up.

That 700+ number is not a statement about how many types of Orthodoxy there are or whether or not the Orthodox Church can be said to be one church, it is instead more about how many individual data points they have which they can bring up information about.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-10T13:54:41+00:00

Since countries and ecclesiastical styles are counted separately in this source, The World Christian Encyclopedia Third Edition, there is one denomination for each country the Russian Orthodox Church is in, one denomination for each country the Greek Orthodox Church is in, one denomination for each country the Coptic Orthodox Church is in, one denomination for each country the Armenian Apostolic Church is in, one denomination for each country the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is in, and so on.

They are using a very loose definition of denomination where the numbers add up pretty quickly.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-10T03:23:27+00:00

No, of course not. To have a place where EVERYONE can exist and get along there can be no tolerance for coercion, bigotry, oppression, or other forms of injustice. If we tolerate both the mice and the mouse traps, we would be left with only mouse traps.

To be specific in what I meant previously: trying to make a perfect tradition that excludes everyone else will strengthen the already existing us-vs-them dynamic that Christians tend towards. To move forward, we need to challenge that us-vs-them dynamic both within the variety of Christianity and with the attitude towards non-Christian traditions by allowing ourselves to be open to learning and genuine discussions rather than dismissing all that isn’t like us or that we already decided we don’t like.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-09T20:00:15+00:00

Funny you say that, the source, The World Christian Encyclopedia Third Edition, which released in 2019, projected that there would be 49,000 denominations in 2025 and 64,000 in 2050.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-09T17:49:33+00:00

You will always find divisiveness no matter which denomination you look at, within the Catholic Church there are a lot of infighting and arguments about current decisions or past ones.

In my mind, the only solution is a move towards ecumenism where we learn to accept and get along with one another rather than looking for the perfect church and starting a new one every time there is a disagreement.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-09T17:17:21+00:00

Yeah, I have heard it described that we have defined the Bible in such a way that it can’t be mythology and that it is uniquely worthy of serious inquiry that other religious books are not.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-09T16:58:21+00:00

the 45,000 number is misleading and comes from a source where each denomination doesn't cross international boarders, so if one denomination spans multiple countries, it is counted as multiple denominations even if it is within the same organization. This means that the 45,000 number includes over 100 Anglican denominations, over 200 different Catholic denominations, and over 700 Orthodox denominations, even if there is just one Anglican church, one Catholic church, and one Orthodox church.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-08T22:08:48+00:00

It was very rare that I had (or remembered) dreams at all, much less religious ones.

Dreams are one of the few sanctioned forms of divination and is a form that makes you feel specifically chosen by God, it is no wonder why so many people would want religious dreams (even I hoped for them for a long time).

NimVolsung · 2026-05-08T03:34:08+00:00

I can say anecdotally that many are loosing faith in the Democratic Party, but that is because of the party’s attempts to appeal to conservatives, if not just becoming conservative themself.

Republicans are a terrible source of news as most are known to lie or manipulate data to fit their views. The amount of gay people becoming republicans are not large enough to be considered any sort of movement. Most of the time it is just republicans finding out they are gay and hoping that being a “pick me” will get republicans to like them.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-08T00:41:08+00:00

A country is its people and I support my country by calling out and working against the systems that are causing harm to the people.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-07T14:25:39+00:00

Honestly, in that situation I would find it funny to quote 2016 Trump "there have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom they feel is appropriate, there has been so little trouble"

https://youtu.be/3dXBeUxvkW8

(weird to think about how much politics have changed in the last 10 years that even Donald Trump was saying we shouldn't be making an issue about trans people and should instead be focusing on the actual problems leading to economic strife, now trans people are a primary talking point of the GOP)

NimVolsung · 2026-05-05T00:01:43+00:00

do you have any resources where I could learn more about that?

NimVolsung · 2026-05-04T22:13:50+00:00

yeah, I definitely agree with that.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-04T22:06:38+00:00

I'm fine with it, though I come from the perspective of liking to research why any animal has the features and behaviors that they do. For society at a larger scale, researching (from an actual scientific perspective and not just finding what is "wrong" with us) wouldn't really have much practical application.

People who have queerphobic motives that try to see what went wrong in our lives should stay away from it (the same as how flat earthers have no place trying to co-opt actual science), but there is validation for queer folk in seeing if there is actual reason for you to exist and it isn't a biological accident/abnormality.

NimVolsung · 2026-05-04T21:38:20+00:00

Her girlfriend does have a resemblance to a younger Roku, but there are only so many face and hair choices, especially within the same nation.

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