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There is no such thing as a "sin of empathy" and the dude who came up with that phrase is a fascist shitbag.
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Reminds me of that story a couple of days ago about the homeless guy that got ran over by a bulldozer when they cleared out his tent to tidy up the city for MLK day. Nothing says you admire MLK like killing some poors, right?
And it happened in Atlanta, near Ebenezer Church of all places
Par for the course for Atlanta though, isn't it? The only thing worse than driving through that city is living there.
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Don’t do the whole “not real Christians “ bullshit. They are Christians, these are the dregs of Christianity, it’s ugly side. Own it and fix it instead of saying “he’s not a REAL Christian” as if they’re the only problem and not the belief system itself.
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This whole thing is really disingenuous. Here's the article. HOWEVER. Look who represented the pastor: First Liberty. They're a law group that only takes ideological cases, cases that would allow Christians to violate laws with impunity. This initial case was covered by The Friendly Atheist (Hemant Mehta) a few months back; it's not a simple case of a kind-hearted pastor trying to help homeless people, and accidentally violating some zoning codes along the way.
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Remember that time a fake socialist was in power and locked up the real socialists‽
Trump is the great Deceiver, like Lucifer he casts a light in darkness, and just like Lucifer all who follow that light expecting to find freedom will only find damnation.
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Country that has never once given a shit about fire codes suddenly discovers an excuse to arbitrarily emiserate dozens of people.
I'd love to talk shit about the current administration too, but I've been in buildings where fire inspectors would cut off the power cords of any space heaters they found because they violated code.
I've never seen a fire inspector in any building I've worked in. Twenty five years on the job and it's never happened.
I believe you, but your anecdote isn’t really evidence of anything.
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The people who hire the fire inspectors don't actually care, but the fire inspectors do. Probably because they've smelled far more charred human flesh than anyone should.
Probably should give a shit about fire codes everywhere else too tbqh
This is a lot like how our government is all concerned about National Security™ when it comes to pretty much anything else, but a bipartisan bill, supported by both of the last 2 presidents, and upheld unanimously by our current dysfunctional Supreme Court, with National Security™ as the excuse, and we still have Tiktok.
Laws are only there so the ruling class can keep us in line and them in power, and they will never be enforced homogenously.
Exactly what do you thinks fines do! If you're rich, fines don't matter... if you're poor, go to jail for not being able to pay a fine.
We only ever got rid of debtor's prison in name.
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What would Jesus do
Jesus turns water into wine. The human body is 70% water. Earth is like 60% water. Jesus was an alcoholic.
TIL Jesus was probably 70% wine instead of 70% water
I used to be the same but then I sobered up somewhat and now I’m only 10% wine. (depending on the day.. usually 0%! Sometimes 90%..)
...huh. Is that why he kept so well?
Does that mean Jesus could cause people to become intoxicated? Assuming he can control how much of the water gets turned into wine so he doesn't just immediately kill the person he could pull off some fun pranks.
I mean.....thats how I took it when I went to catholic school.
Also in catholic school, they never did answer the question of why we drank jesus's blood, and ate his body. Why is that ok? And how did we STILL have so much left to go around so many centuries after his death?
These answers went unanswered to me in 2nd grade. I did get to hang out in the principals office though.
Catholic school wasn’t so bad. I got a good education. And when I went to college I saw all these kids from public high schools who didn’t know shit, asking dumbass questions. For all my general education requirements I hardly had to study anything. Also they should have taught you about trsnsubstsatiation which would answer your question. Even though it’s not “real”, it explains the concept in their belief system.
That's Catholic education for you - fill kids heads with abject nonsense, go full authoritarian when they ask for clarification, then later cry about lack of mass attendance when they grow up and want nothing to do with your institution
........dude, were you IN my class? Or....ya know......what's going on here? How are you narriating my childhood 30+ years later???
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Kinda surprised Americans don’t worship Constantine.
Isn't that the name of the Keanu Reeves movie about the guy who killed himself and now he's damned for all time and works for the Church, and the Archangel Gabriel was there, but he was played by a woman who kinda looks like the "perfect" chick from Fifth Element?
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If they cared about history before 1776 they would.
The world was created only about 3000 years ago. There was no world before AMERICA