Agreed. Unfortunately, this is the modus operandi for many, MANY groups. Say it often enough, with substantial emotion, especially by people in positions of authority, and the need for evidence goes out the window.
Fifty-four percent say the overall health care system has major problems or is in a state of crisis (16 percent).
Only 19 percent are satisfied with the cost of care.
More than half say the quality of health care in the country is only fair (38 percent) or poor (16 percent). It’s the lowest rating of quality since 2001.
I just had spinal surgery — fused, L4 and L5 with a titanium cage. I was in the hospital for only 20 hours before they discharged me. The grand total? $422,000. Something is wrong.
That's just another fake news story Christians use to bolster their case but it's a lie. A women's testimony was accepted in court and there is at least one case of a woman representing herself in divorce.
You'll want proof (but not any proof of a man copying common magiciat tricks of the era and healing blindness with mud made from dirt and his own spit)... According to Valerius Maximus (in Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium 8.3.1), Amaesia was “accused … and pleaded her own case… and was acquitted at the first hearing.”
Valerius Maximus 8.3.2 notes that Afrania, the wife of Senator Licinius Buccio, “always pleaded for herself before the praetor … not because she lacked advocates, but because she abounded in insolence.”
A papyrus from Egypt: BGU 4.1105 (c. 10 BCE) records a petition by Tryphaine, daughter of Dioskourides, against her husband Asklepiades (in Alexandria) describes her complaint of abuse and mis‐treatment of her dowry.
Digest (22.5.18) states: “The fact that the Lex Julia … forbids a woman found guilty (of adultery) to give evidence shows that women have the right to give evidence at a trial.”
Another source points out that in the famous trial of Gaius Verres (70 BCE) multiple women were called as witnesses by Cicero.
The contradictions are well into the thousands and are NOT due to transitions (you probably meant translations) but due to different authors trying to accomplish different things. READ more than apologists works. Educate yourself beyond what a pastor or priest tells you. Don't be so gullible. Start with Nailed by David Fitzgerald and follow up with his three volume "Jesus: Mything in Action" and just try to refute every single one of his points, But I'll bet $100 right now you won't order or read all these books.
