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Given Biblical passages like Acts 2:42-47, how did mainstream American Christianity come to be so opposed to socialism?

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It's 1972, and I'm the leader of my own thriving commune. What is the bare minimum I would have to do to get on the FBI's watch list?

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If I were a late first century BCE Jewish Messiah-watcher, what would my Messianic checklist be?

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Why is a secular spiritually crafted book like "Thus Spake Zarathustra" mostly accepted by academic but a work like Jung's "The Red Book" somewhat mocked and relegated to mumbo-jumbo?

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I'm playing a video game that takes place in France. In it is a throwback hippie guy with a multi-colored VW bus. How far and wide was the hippie movement, it's values and iconography. Come to think of it, how did it get started in the first place and how did it spread?

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Can historians support the Catholic church's claim to apostolic succession?

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What was the context for and impact of Saul D. Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"

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Was China ever given the title Sick Man of Asia the way Japan was prior to the Meiji Restoration?

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Is there anything historically valuable in the geneologies of Jesus found in Matthew and Luke?

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Did the Catholic church of the middle ages actually have some semblance of same-sex unions?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Given Biblical passages like Acts 2:42-47, how did mainstream American Christianity come to be so opposed to socialism?	367
It's 1972, and I'm the leader of my own thriving commune. What is the bare minimum I would have to do to get on the FBI's watch list?	261
If I were a late first century BCE Jewish Messiah-watcher, what would my Messianic checklist be?	98
Why is a secular spiritually crafted book like "Thus Spake Zarathustra" mostly accepted by academic but a work like Jung's "The Red Book" somewhat mocked and relegated to mumbo-jumbo?	17
I'm playing a video game that takes place in France. In it is a throwback hippie guy with a multi-colored VW bus. How far and wide was the hippie movement, it's values and iconography. Come to think of it, how did it get started in the first place and how did it spread?	16
Can historians support the Catholic church's claim to apostolic succession?	10
What was the context for and impact of Saul D. Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"	9
Was China ever given the title Sick Man of Asia the way Japan was prior to the Meiji Restoration?	6
Is there anything historically valuable in the geneologies of Jesus found in Matthew and Luke?	6
Did the Catholic church of the middle ages actually have some semblance of same-sex unions?	6