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Religiously, I am kind of in a rut (am I alone )
Jatrain replied to Clintonaldo's topic in Cloak Room
And we know God is perfect, how? Because, in collection of stories written by a bunch of goat herders a couple thousand of years ago, they claim him to be? If a person did the things attributed to God you’d call him a monster, rightly so. -
Religiously, I am kind of in a rut (am I alone )
Jatrain replied to Clintonaldo's topic in Cloak Room
Nah. For most, there isn’t some God given epiphany where Christians (or any other religion) are touched and come to their faith. Most Christians are Christian because of where they are born. Most Muslims are Muslim because of where they are born. Most Hindu are Hindu because of where they are born. Rinse and repeat. The rate of conversion is consistent across religions. That would be true if one was God favored over others. -
Religiously, I am kind of in a rut (am I alone )
Jatrain replied to Clintonaldo's topic in Cloak Room
God is perfect? The God who commanded genocide? Who allowed the rape of virgins? Who explicitly prescribed slavery? Who killed children over a bet? That God? -
Maybe they were inflated, maybe they weren’t, no-one here is qualified to judge, but that article gets its info from (1) Honest Reporting, an Israeli pressure group that describes its mission as "combat[ting] ideological prejudice in journalism and the media, as it impacts Israel". It has a decades long history of campaigns designed to silence criticism of Israel. It’s also targeted reporters, resulting in threat to them, from the AP, Reuters, NYT, CNN claiming they had foreknowledge of the Oct 7th attacks and claiming their accomplices with Hamas. And (2) Henry Jackson Society a right wing, neoconservative think tank whose own founder calls it a far right, racist, anti-Muslim propaganda outfit. So just as someone should be very hesitant to believe Hamas numbers, you should be equally hesitant about this article.
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The talking points and bots are out, my feeds are full of “Trump’s tanking the economy on purpose because he’s a genius!”
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What in your mind should she have done to please the Palestinian Americans? Specifically. Condemn Israel completely? Promise to cut all aid? Had she done that would she have won?
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Meh, he’s your standard run of the mill apologist misconstruing actual critical scholarship to fit his particular theological view/agenda. Besting Billy Carson in a debate is the equivalent of high schooler beating a 2nd grader in one on one. For example: claiming that the great Isiah scroll (a Dead Sea scroll) is “word for word” identical to the Masorectic text. No actual scholar would make that claim (in reality well over half of the verses have variance between the two). Huff does it to make an apologetic theological point as to the infallibility and divine transmission of scripture. I.e. “Look how amazing it is that over hundreds and thousands of years that it hasn’t changed even one word!” And it worked, he got a “WOW!” out of Joe.
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This describes the non-profit that my wife works for to a tee. They work in education and public health. Every project has been shut down to scrub every mention of anything that could be construed to involve DEI. They received instructions to remove all pronouns from signatures, not to discuss any issues regarding DEI on company email, and to remove from their personal social media any reference to the company as their employer (along with a plea to please consider the effect on the company and their colleagues when they post on social media). They’ve furloughed those who have USAID related projects and placed everything else federally funded on hold (except to change all materials that may offend the new administration).
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My favorite part is when the “good” God murders all the innocent kids.
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The best part of this is that she straight up lies that she has a warrant and the homeowner calls her on it. If they had really had one they’d be busting the door down, not slinking away.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Jatrain replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Could you be anymore of a pussy? Just name one of your “plenty of examples”. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Jatrain replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Just dropped off a ballot in AZ. Had to walk through a phalanx of Trump supporters tailgating the parking with flags flying. Fucking sad and pathetic. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Jatrain replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
He’ll make a mint off of this by hitting the grifter circuit claiming he was “cancelled”. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Jatrain replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
This tracks with my decidedly unscientific visit to my small, very red hometown in the Kansas Meth Belt a couple of weeks ago. I was very surprised by the lack of enthusiasm for Trump compared to 4 and 8 years ago. He’ll win because of the inertia of life long republicans and the poisoning of the mind against Dems that Fox News has perpetuated in the dominant older population (anybody with ambition/ability leaves and doesn’t come back). Saw more Harris signs than I’ve ever seen for a Dem (including Obama). -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Jatrain replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Anderson Cooper: “Thanks for joining us Charlamange, and now let’s turn to Scott Jennings. Scott, Donald Trump continues to question VP Harris’s ethnicity, how much do you think the ambiguity around her race is hurting her campaign and why do you think she continues to avoid presenting to voters a plan to deal with? Please take as much time as you need to answer by quoting today’s Republican talking points and I’ll be sure not to correct any falsehoods you may say.”
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