Flax_vert
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- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 1 day ago:
I don’t think it’s the act that’s bad, just the undertones and the guy it’s coming from. Same thing with Mariann Budde 😂
- Comment on Anon wants to be a singer 1 day ago:
I have a vivid memory of my parents trying to teach me to wash my hands and me eating the soap.
- Comment on Anyone know where this is from? 6 days ago:
I’d be paranoid too tbh
- Comment on Harsh UK visa schemes leave Ukrainian families in limbo and torn apart. 6 days ago:
Although there was nothing really to stop them from staying in Germany. Hopefully the war ends soon anyway
- Comment on Harsh UK visa schemes leave Ukrainian families in limbo and torn apart. 6 days ago:
The example given was a lady who was in Germany, went to the UK, then went back to Germany and now can’t get back into the UK. I understand there’s SO MANY problems with our visas and families being separated here, but I think there are far more egregious examples than this.
- Comment on Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by ‘blackout challenge’ 1 week ago:
Archie Battersbee didn’t even film it. This is a case where a child tragically committed suicide and the mother is trying to blame tiktok for some reason.
- Comment on Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by ‘blackout challenge’ 1 week ago:
Archie Battersbee, isn’t that the child that hanged himself after an argument with his mother, allegedly part of a “tiktok challenge” even though there was no camera filming him, and he ended up tragically becoming brain dead yet his mum became irate and made up conspiracy theories to try and claim the hospital wanted to shut off his life support to harvest his organs or some conspiracy stuff? Even though he was unfortunately just a tragically electrified corpse at this point?
I feel like the mother is trying to do stuff like this to try and make herself feel better about potentially accidentally prompting her child to take his own life. I do have sympathy in that it’s unbearable, but her time and resources would be far better spent on suicide awareness.
- Comment on I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay? 2 weeks ago:
Can’t arrest everyone
- Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek 2 weeks ago:
You said the story or Jesus was implausible, then elaborated on the miracles. The miracles are implausible. But if Jesus truly is God, then He could do the implausible. So the miracles don’t render the story as a whole implausible, because the story is claiming that it was God Himself performing said miracles, which would make sense.
- Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek 2 weeks ago:
It is implausible, that’s why it’s so important when Jesus did it
- Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek 2 weeks ago:
Unless there is a God and the person performing them just so happens to be God
- Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek 2 weeks ago:
No? It’s a bit silly to claim miracles don’t happen because they aren’t physically possible. That’s what makes then so miraculous
- Comment on Busses with LED advertising on the side. 2 weeks ago:
LEDs barely use any power
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Congratulations!
- Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek 2 weeks ago:
The miraculous Jesus was something religious scholars had to lobby as canonical for centuries before it was officially recognized.
This is just flat out false. The gospels were still written within the first century and even then, the oldest letter - The epistle to the Galatians - still testifies that Jesus rose from the dead.
Galatians 1:1-5, 12, 15-16 ESV [1] Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— [2] and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: [3] Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, [4] who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, [5] to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
[12] For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
[15] But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, [16] was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
(1 Thessalonians is a contestant for the oldest, but still)
1 Thessalonians 1:10 ESV
[10] and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
The letters carry a miraculous nature
1 Corinthians 15:3-8 ESV
[3] For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, [4] that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, [5] and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. [6] Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. [7] Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. [8] Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
If you got rid of the Gospels and revelation in the New Testament, the Faith remains mainly the same.
- Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek 2 weeks ago:
I would consider all of these events individually implausible, just for starters.
If they were plausible, then there wouldn’t be a religion surrounding the guy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
As a Brit looking in, America is a mess
- Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek 2 weeks ago:
Why isn’t it plausible
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
I know to urge caution, but what do you mean? Like we should punish murder because society sees it as bad as well. But when it comes to a topic such as same sex marriage, I think if it’s what the majority of society want, it should be legal and not hurting anybody, even if it’s not something that the Church should accept within religious life.
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
Yes, because Jesus’ message was going to divide families, because some members won’t accept others who choose to follow Him. It was also to correct other ideas about the messiah uniting everyone and creating peace. The conflict Jesus creates are from those who are intolerant, not Jesus Himself.
It helps to read the verses in their context instead of cherrypicking.
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, Paul tells Christians to leave those outside of the Church to be dealt with by God as well.
1 Corinthians 5:12-13
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
Just because you’re white european doesn’t mean you’re a Christian
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 weeks ago:
That is a stupid speed limit tbh
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 weeks ago:
People do enforce the law. Just occasionally, but that’s enough to scare 90% into submission
- Comment on Why do some people assume all immigrants are illegal and should "go back to where they came from"? Shouldn't that logic apply to all non-Native Americans? 2 weeks ago:
I feel like America is like this especially. I’ve seen them assume too many things about me because of single beliefs I held
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
Good point, especially with 2 Corinthians 9:7
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
Marx generally opposed religion so it sounds like an oxymoron
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
Jesus was literally brown
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
Christianity predates the 1400s
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
Quite frankly, Christianity can be used as a motivator for left wing philosophies helping the poor. If you actually read what Jesus’ said, it’s pretty good and damning for many self proclaimed american “christians”