yeather
@yeather@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 2 hours ago:
Oh, yes I suppose that could be. The way I see it Newton would not have been admitted if he could not keep up.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 1 day ago:
Also, Newton was not born with the connection, he made them in Grantham. He had a very strained relationship with his mother and step father and was raised by his grandmother.
- Comment on We'll just ignore that 5 days ago:
Oy vey calling out pedophiles is antiseptic.
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 week ago:
The more South you go the less divisive it gets.
- Comment on "I hope we have an LGBTQ+ president" 1 week ago:
To be fair to Buchanan, his fiance left him because of the Panic of 1819, died a few weeks later, and then he could not attend her funeral. Dude got triple punched by depression and stated it was the reason he never married after.
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- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
Joseph Stalin violently shut down any resistance to collectivization of farmland, then kidnapped or starved the Ukranian population to prevent a resurgence of Ukranian culture, arts, and science that was rivaling the culture and intelligence of Moscow.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
Thomas Jefferson was a Deist, which is about as close to atheism as you could get since atheism was not “founded” in its modern forms yet.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
The state has no control over the food at the pantries beyond basic health standards. The state cannot force me to give out bread when I run a soup kitchen. It can encourage me to continue with charitable acts with tax credits and subsidies, but it cannot force me to.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
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Because they are religious? You would be hard pressed to find politicians who do not appeal to a higher authority except in countries where religious freedoms are restricted.
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Targeted by smear campaigns from their political opponents who would have smear campaigns running anyways. Credible death threats is a different story and not the norm, politicians recieve death threats from wackos over everything they do.
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What would the state do? It’s a first amendment protected right. If you dislike this practice you can stay in hotels without bibles.
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Anecdotal evidence at best, maybe in the more religious areas of the country in the south this happens, but they are a minority.
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Good job realizing that.
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Yes megachurches do provide some charity to maintain their tax exempt status. There is no defined percentage of revenue you must spend to be a charity. This is a larger issue that affects secular charities as well.
You have really only argued one of your six points.
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- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
I cannot find a single source about US insisting debt payments be made in food. Most of the kulaks were also imprisoned or deported in the late 1920’s during collectivization. The USSR in the early years had targeted food shortages in Ukraine and the Caucuses to starve the population into submission. There was later a union wide food shortage because Stalin increased the export of wheat without adequately increasing production.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
Even if they tend to be run by churches, then they wouldn’t count as state run. Meaning you do not see state-run bread lines / food pantries.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
Well let’s break your points down.
1: The president does not need to pretend everything is done in the name of god. One party does this to appeal to a religious base.
2: You do not need to swear into office on a bible, many have sworn in on nothing at all or other holy books.
3: Every hotel is provided a bible (and often a book of mormon) by that company. This is because the company many of these hotels are owned by is a mormon company. Many hotels do not have bibles in them now.
4: Children are not required to pray in the morning, unless you attend a religious school specifically. If you mean the pledge, that is also optional and not done in many schools.
5: In God We Trust is an odd case yes. It was added in the 1950’s to “combat socialism.”
6: Churches are not required to pay taxes because they are also charities that perform good acts for the poor. Other religions claim this benefit as well.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
If the food pantries are run by churches, then they are not state run, meaning you do not see state run food pantries.
- Comment on Oh. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not slavery because the position is voluntary.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 5 weeks ago:
So your last paragraph is not entirely true. According to most Christian doctrines, the tribes of Israel stopped being a thing with Jesus, and the title now referred to the followers of the church created by Jesus. Second, the 144k is less a concrete number and more a representation of perfection. People considered pure good would recieve the seal of god on their forehead to contrast those of pure bad that recieve the mark of the beast. Third, the 144k are given the role to recruit others to fight with god against the antichrist and the beast. Finally, in Catholic and Orthodox doctrine, the 144k are theorized to be the saints reborn to lead tge rightcheous to victory.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 month ago:
Infering or not, that is what’s happening.