Unironically, the idea of God being a perfect judge leads to the idea that it’s okay to kill people because you’re just shipping them to God who will perfectly deal with them.
That’s why so many people still support the death penalty and one reason why idgaf about anyone’s “holy book.”
I oppose fascists and am not a Christian, so, yes?
Which is obviously not to say that I actually am a domestic terrorist, just that Trump erroneously thinks I am.
Absolutely insane that resigning from a higher position in disgrace doesn’t turn the public at large off you, especially when your opponent is running on a platform of helping people.
Well that was a horrible fucking read. The article paints her has a kind, child loving, god loving Catholic whose faith prevented her from destroying donor embryos at an IVF clinic and forcing her to commit fraud just so she can be a mother again.
Chick had 13 kids. Already was a grandma and still trying to have more. Her elder kids own lives were getting disrupted from having to care for her breeder fetish.
She forged her husband’s signature to authorize a surrogate be implanted with donor embryos just so she could feel young again. This led to a prolonged legal battle about the appropriate care of the new babies. That lasted for over 2 years. Their foster parents have filed adoption paperwork; the kids can now read and call their foster parents mom and dad. And this chick is still fighting to gain custody after her multiple crimes to bring these babies about to appease her own selfish desires–she intends to change the kids names.
If your religion is driving you to commit fraud, ruin your marriage, upend the lives of your existing children (who also have children of their own now), and be blinded to your own selfishness then your religion is absolute crap and you need help and an intervention.
But, yeah, I’m supposed to feel sorry for this poor old mother who never got to meet her 14th and 15th baby who are not related to her in any way, were not carried by her, were not raised by her, were not known by her, were not loved by her, etc.
She has 40 years worth of baby supplies, and after she fraudulently brought about the insemination of these last embryos she decided to buy EVEN MORE baby stuff, and has for the past 2 years, continue to buy diapers appropriate to the age of the kids she’s trying to seize–whom she’s never met.
That just screams disorder to me.
Absolutely selfish disgusting behavior.
Republicans really are weak snowflakes.
Twisted
Woke
Toy tyrant … cruely
McCormick simply wanted to honor [fascist Nazi] Kirk … It wasn’t political until the [store manager] made it that way.
No it wasn’t political until an edgy teen decided to “honor” a good fascist Nazi. The manager simply did what all sensible people should do when asked to honor fascist Nazis.
The store bent over and succumbed to the Karen calling corporate management. I kinda feel like I should call corporate management and let them know I don’t like their treatment of fascist Nazis.
Craigslist
Hasn’t changed much at all, and their app is exactly what it needs to be, nothing more–i think the only thing I wasn’t able to do in the app was clear a saved search, but there’s no bloat, no ads, don’t need an account unless you’re posting or saving searches.
Love the whole “didn’t ask, why tf are you talking to me?!” gambit in conjunction with the “you aren’t arguing in gOoD fAiTh, why do you dare make me copy and paste bits of my rant to absolutely demolish your argument instead of reading my divinely inspired prose that seemingly no one in this 100+ comment chain understood?” responses to people pointing out why they are wrong.
Chud just wants to gargle Hitler’s balls and ogle lolis hosted on someone else’s computer and is upset that the (non-governmental) entity ICANN will turn off his DNS if he dares try.
When Congress fails to fund basic programs, it’s not “tough love.” It’s cruelty.
The shutdown is, in part, because Republicans in Congress are trying to end basic programs.
I’m an agnostic atheist.
I saw a lot of pain and hurt caused by the church. People raped by their pastor father and grandfather hiding behind religion. Pastors covering up heinous acts in their own churches and being elevated to positions of power. Constant pedantic infighting, subjugation of women, shunning of others, etc.
None of these instances are necessarily reflexive of errant doctrine rather than evil people, but it did open my eyes to look a little deeper. That reveals things like traditional missions work being used, not for spreading the gospel, but for self aggrandizement/pity and with the effect of westernization rather then genuine converts; biblical inconsistencies calling into question the belief of intrinsic inerrancy; the use of biblical writings as a cudgel rather than a guidebook for ones own life; and the purposeful, blatant misinterpretation of scripture to “prove” preconceived notions (i.e. 1 Corinthians 6:19 being used to mean smoking is a sin rather than as a justification for why one should not sleep with a prostitute as it actually means).
So what do you do when so many people around you who claim to believe in the literal interpretation of scripture don’t actually act like they do? You start finding out about the world.
At some point you have a choice, accept all the evidence before you that the world is old and life evolved over a very long time and religion evolved along with people and society, or you reject the evidence of your eyes and the opinion of experts who know more than you and bury your head in the sand. I couldn’t reject what was provably and evidently true and that was that.
Edit: Original comment was meant to be a reply to OP, I just tapped the wrong button, sorry.
As a former evangelical Christian, I can only talk to the Christian side of things, and will leave other religious texts alone.
The Bible has a few things relevant to this discussion:
(1) Many Christians view the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross as a fulfillment of the old law–essentially invalidating strict adherence obligations to what’s laid out in Leviticus. This brought in a new covenant which (though there are other rules mentioned throughout the new testament) essentially boils down to “love god and love others.” Paul even describes the situation as “all things are lawful, but not all things are edifying (good).” With this view it’s easy to say that God has freed us from moralistic obligations (such as refraining from same sex relationships) as long as we love everyone and direct people to God.
(2) The Bible tells a story of 2 cities being destroyed by god for their wickedness. One of his friends actually bartered with God to save one if something like 5 righteous people could be found in the city, but that quota wasn’t met. Prior to their destruction, however, God sends some masc presenting angels to warn one of his followers to gtfo so he doesn’t die. Upon seeing these sexy new hunks in their city the townsfolk demand the follower of god let them fuck the angels. Instead the follower of god let’s the townsfolk fuck his daughters (women were property, so this substitution protected his new friends at the cost of basically breaking an expensive dish). Some view this as a story of god wiping out the cities for their homosexual tendencies, but it’s more accurately a story of god wiping them out for their practices of sexual domination as an act of humiliation.
(3) The Bible says god created man and woman. Some view this as an affirmation of a strict gender binary. The Bible does not, however, list everything God created with specific detail and it doesn’t draw a distinction between trans and cis folk.
(4) Modern English translations say that a man shouldn’t lie with another man as one lies with a woman. This is viewed by some as an overt condemnation of same sex relationships; however, this can also be interpreted as a condemnation of sexual domination (a la number #2) or a criticism of the ongoing practice of pederasty, when an older man fucks a younger man in an act of manipulation or exploitation. This is embedded in a longer passage about lust and idolatry.
(5) The recognition of marriage as a holy covenant endorsed and before God is reflected in the idea that a man will leave his father and mother and become one flesh with his new bride (a de facto woman). This is used as an example of god’s love for his followers. There’s no condemnation of same sex relationships in this passage, merely a passing statement reflecting the social norms at the time regarding marriage.
(6) There’s the idea in the Bible that all sin is abhorrent to God equally, and that all mankind has sinned and betrayed God equally. That is why the sacrifice arc of Jesus is in the story–a way to redeem the fallen and unify people with God. If same sex relationships are wrong and so is getting drunk, lying, or overeating, than who are we to condemn that practice so long as it doesn’t hurt other people?
There’s a few other comments about the circumstances and practices of the Bible without direct passages.
(1) The Bible is a disparate collection of letters and books written of an age and people for that age and people. It does contain some passages that provide useful advice that’s not necessarily supposed to be taken as divinely inspired doctrine. This is a blatantly heretical take from an evangelical perspective, but is clearly borne out in writings attributed to Paul. His letters were to specific churches to help them deal with specific issues they were dealing with at the time and are obviously not intended to be a governing cannon for all god’s people. He even admits at times that he’s interjecting his own thoughts and not those inspired by god. He is providing good life advice from a position of respect, not of divine authority.
(2) There are countless instances of polygamy and concubines in the Bible that are not strictly condemned aside from optics (like “what’ll people think if the king is a removed?”). Many of god’s favorite people kept harems. There’s also no condemnation of lesbians. King Solomon had 1000 women–you telling me he never once got sucked off while watching some girls go down on each other?
All in all, if the Bible is viewed not as a strict literal list of commands (which reflects the diversity of the text and the circumstances of its creation) there’s sparse condemnation if any.
Texas has significantly higher crime rates than Illinois. Houston (most comparable city by population) has significantly higher crime rates than Chicago.
Trump sent the TX national guard to clean up Chicago (and, I guess, to arrest their democratically elected leadership) not to tamp down on crime, but to flex his authoritarian muscle and demonstrate that he can get away with anything.
That seems much more reasonable than Trump’s plan to turn it into a resort and achieve “peace” by kicking everyone out of the area–an agreement he would personally be in charge of and enforce with a US trained Israeli police force.
Also hardware continues to improve at a rate fast enough that we can just let it chug through software issues for a long time without significant perceived issues.
They are optimists, oblivious, fighters, or have found peace.
I definitely fuck with “ain’t” and “y’all” more ‘n teach’ would’ve liked, but the funnest is multiple contractions like “y’all’ll” or “y’alln’t.”
Providing healthcare is unfortunately not encompassed in “feeding, fueling, and clothing.” 😞
Their Bible translation project is something else…
Charitably? Upscale a thumbnail.
Practically? Almost no reason.
Technically? I work on document viewers and there are times I need to inspect rendering times for “large files.” Being able to produce files of arbitrary size is beneficial for troubleshooting, but falls short of actual customer docs.
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