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The do-something point is apt. It's healthy to do things and to see results. "Teach your children well"... to do something. However, to address "despair", note recent developments.
Viktor Orbán was more significant to #MAGA than some of us [i.e. me] realized and he's toast.
#Trump is befuddled about what to do with a war that he started solely to distract from the #Epstein files.
This was negative enough for him, but then he mocked the Pope and posted an AI portrayal of himself as Christ. [No, he wasn't being a doctor in the image.] His support will never drop below a certain level, but it's strained right now. And wait until the next consumer price jump related to the entirely fumbled war.
I'm not expressing support for the Pope here. See my recent post on #Xtian history. However, it's really, really dopey for Trump to piss on -- and even physically threaten -- the Pope as though this will help him [Trump].
The #Ukraine was purported to be doomed to lose to DJT's lover #Putin without U.S.A. support. However, they're doing surprisingly well with the limited aid that the EU is able to provide. Putin will fall and DJT with him.
And #nokings numbers are approaching levels where dictatorships historically can't hold on to power.
The only real threat to the fall of Donald Trump and his ignomius end in prison is #Democrat cave-in leadership. The old guard must go, now, and note that the person saying that is old enough himself. -
The do-something point is apt. It's healthy to do things and to see results. "Teach your children well"... to do something. However, to address "despair", note recent developments.
Viktor Orbán was more significant to #MAGA than some of us [i.e. me] realized and he's toast.
#Trump is befuddled about what to do with a war that he started solely to distract from the #Epstein files.
This was negative enough for him, but then he mocked the Pope and posted an AI portrayal of himself as Christ. [No, he wasn't being a doctor in the image.] His support will never drop below a certain level, but it's strained right now. And wait until the next consumer price jump related to the entirely fumbled war.
I'm not expressing support for the Pope here. See my recent post on #Xtian history. However, it's really, really dopey for Trump to piss on -- and even physically threaten -- the Pope as though this will help him [Trump].
The #Ukraine was purported to be doomed to lose to DJT's lover #Putin without U.S.A. support. However, they're doing surprisingly well with the limited aid that the EU is able to provide. Putin will fall and DJT with him.
And #nokings numbers are approaching levels where dictatorships historically can't hold on to power.
The only real threat to the fall of Donald Trump and his ignomius end in prison is #Democrat cave-in leadership. The old guard must go, now, and note that the person saying that is old enough himself. -
The do-something point is apt. It's healthy to do things and to see results. "Teach your children well"... to do something. However, to address "despair", note recent developments.
Viktor Orbán was more significant to #MAGA than some of us [i.e. me] realized and he's toast.
#Trump is befuddled about what to do with a war that he started solely to distract from the #Epstein files.
This was negative enough for him, but then he mocked the Pope and posted an AI portrayal of himself as Christ. [No, he wasn't being a doctor in the image.] His support will never drop below a certain level, but it's strained right now. And wait until the next consumer price jump related to the entirely fumbled war.
I'm not expressing support for the Pope here. See my recent post on #Xtian history. However, it's really, really dopey for Trump to piss on -- and even physically threaten -- the Pope as though this will help him [Trump].
The #Ukraine was purported to be doomed to lose to DJT's lover #Putin without U.S.A. support. However, they're doing surprisingly well with the limited aid that the EU is able to provide. Putin will fall and DJT with him.
And #nokings numbers are approaching levels where dictatorships historically can't hold on to power.
The only real threat to the fall of Donald Trump and his ignomius end in prison is #Democrat cave-in leadership. The old guard must go, now, and note that the person saying that is old enough himself. -
The do-something point is apt. It's healthy to do things and to see results. "Teach your children well"... to do something. However, to address "despair", note recent developments.
Viktor Orbán was more significant to #MAGA than some of us [i.e. me] realized and he's toast.
#Trump is befuddled about what to do with a war that he started solely to distract from the #Epstein files.
This was negative enough for him, but then he mocked the Pope and posted an AI portrayal of himself as Christ. [No, he wasn't being a doctor in the image.] His support will never drop below a certain level, but it's strained right now. And wait until the next consumer price jump related to the entirely fumbled war.
I'm not expressing support for the Pope here. See my recent post on #Xtian history. However, it's really, really dopey for Trump to piss on -- and even physically threaten -- the Pope as though this will help him [Trump].
The #Ukraine was purported to be doomed to lose to DJT's lover #Putin without U.S.A. support. However, they're doing surprisingly well with the limited aid that the EU is able to provide. Putin will fall and DJT with him.
And #nokings numbers are approaching levels where dictatorships historically can't hold on to power.
The only real threat to the fall of Donald Trump and his ignomius end in prison is #Democrat cave-in leadership. The old guard must go, now, and note that the person saying that is old enough himself. -
The do-something point is apt. It's healthy to do things and to see results. "Teach your children well"... to do something. However, to address "despair", note recent developments.
Viktor Orbán was more significant to #MAGA than some of us [i.e. me] realized and he's toast.
#Trump is befuddled about what to do with a war that he started solely to distract from the #Epstein files.
This was negative enough for him, but then he mocked the Pope and posted an AI portrayal of himself as Christ. [No, he wasn't being a doctor in the image.] His support will never drop below a certain level, but it's strained right now. And wait until the next consumer price jump related to the entirely fumbled war.
I'm not expressing support for the Pope here. See my recent post on #Xtian history. However, it's really, really dopey for Trump to piss on -- and even physically threaten -- the Pope as though this will help him [Trump].
The #Ukraine was purported to be doomed to lose to DJT's lover #Putin without U.S.A. support. However, they're doing surprisingly well with the limited aid that the EU is able to provide. Putin will fall and DJT with him.
And #nokings numbers are approaching levels where dictatorships historically can't hold on to power.
The only real threat to the fall of Donald Trump and his ignomius end in prison is #Democrat cave-in leadership. The old guard must go, now, and note that the person saying that is old enough himself. -
Bob, The Phoney #Xtian
https://photos.app.goo.gl/r3HvFrYxGe6T9AnQ6 -
Bob, The Phoney #Xtian
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Illustration: Hypatia of Alexandria and Giordano Bruno.
If I encounter a #Fundie or an Xtian who speaks gently, I try to speak gently in return. Now that #MAGA is in the picture, as MAGA is distilled hatred, the Everclear of Christianity, gentle isn't always possible. However, I'd like to lay out a few points in this thread with civility in mind.
Part 1. We can all agree that Wikipedia is just a starting point for research.
It isn't true that just anybody can sign up and add whatever they like. That used to be true. In 2008, the situation was over the top and there was an internal [but public] trial to settle one case. For old-timers, I'm referring to the Slender Virgin Naked Shorting scandal. Which, technically, may have contributed to the Crash of 2008. Yay, Wikipedia.
The trial worked primarily to sweep abuses under the rug. FWIW Jimmie Wales offered to discuss the matter with me. When I pointed out that he'd destroyed evidence, he seemed to lose interest in the discussion.
However, if just anybody adds just anything these days to a Wikipedia article, and it's an important subject, the additions are reverted. To survive, the website has become a least common denominator project.
Part 2. No, there is no strong evidence that #Jesus of Nazareth ever even physically existed. He may have physically existed, but claims which go beyond that don't rise even to the level of myth that is consistent among His contemporaries.
The New Testament, the primary source even as myth for the existence of this person, is a set of texts composed up to 90 years after the putative death of Christ. Some of the texts were composed much earlier, 30 years after His death, but those claim to be by a single person, Paul, when [scholars agree] a number of different people wrote them.
To be fair, there is a core set of Pauline texts, about half a dozen, that were probably written by one person. The others are fan fiction, not a pejorative point but accurate enough, that were added to canon later.
The author of the Pauline core set, Paul, is the only named New Testament author who probably existed and probably wrote at least part of the New Testament. And Paul didn't even claim to have met Jesus Christ.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John weren't named formally as New Testament writers until the Second Century A.D. Four people with those names probably existed. But there is no significant reason to believe that they wrote the texts that are attributed to them. Attribution didn't take place until Christ, if He existed, had been dead for at least 120 to 150 years.
Today, we can't agree about what happened 3 months ago even if it's on video. And this was, again, 120 to 150 years.
We haven't even started on contradictions that are common to all imagined stories that grow over time into myth. A good question to ask Xtians is, "How did Judas die?" The response that is usually offered is, "You're only repeating what the Devil says. I can't hear you. Maranatha. Maranatha."
Spoiler alert: Judas both hanged himself and fell from a height and burst open. #Xtian apologists say that it was both, but it's an awkward conflation.
Nor have we gotten to the fact that the most commonly cited non-Church reference to a historic Christ, the one in Josephus's writings, was faked by Christian copyists. There is a claim that a reference existed before the Christians edited the text, but I haven't seen the evidence to this effect.
I realize now that this thread requires a book. Which has actually been written a number of times.
I'm not able to see how this thread started. But the part about how Christians shouldn't cite Christianity, the fact that it exists, as a justification for anything strikes a chord.
My mother's father was a religious leader of the Ukrainian Diaspora 100 years ago. He was the gentlest man alive. This doesn't change the fact that the religion he supported has been the most horrific and brutal force, after Genghis Khan aka Temujin, of the past 2,000 years. So, it's a conundrum.
The Catholic Church began with the rape and murder of Hypatia circa 415 A.D. This was the moment when civilization could have headed down either of two paths: Enlightenment, progress, a move away from the fact of ape origins. Or a millenium of darkness, horror, and torture and murder of the innocent.
It was the second path. Yay, Church.
They allowed Galileo to live. They burned Giordano Bruno to death. They burned countless other men, women, and children to death as well.
"Oh, that was the past" ? A secular organization can come back from that. But not a "religion". If a "religion" behaves as the one and only original Church did, it isn't possible to brush it aside and still be the religion.
I welcome discussion with #Christians who are civil despite the fact of the brutality of Christianity. MAGA, a subset, not so much. I recommend civility to others as well. But the context isn't argument from authority by Christians. -
Illustration: Hypatia of Alexandria and Giordano Bruno.
If I encounter a #Fundie or an Xtian who speaks gently, I try to speak gently in return. Now that #MAGA is in the picture, as MAGA is distilled hatred, the Everclear of Christianity, gentle isn't always possible. However, I'd like to lay out a few points in this thread with civility in mind.
Part 1. We can all agree that Wikipedia is just a starting point for research.
It isn't true that just anybody can sign up and add whatever they like. That used to be true. In 2008, the situation was over the top and there was an internal [but public] trial to settle one case. For old-timers, I'm referring to the Slender Virgin Naked Shorting scandal. Which, technically, may have contributed to the Crash of 2008. Yay, Wikipedia.
The trial worked primarily to sweep abuses under the rug. FWIW Jimmie Wales offered to discuss the matter with me. When I pointed out that he'd destroyed evidence, he seemed to lose interest in the discussion.
However, if just anybody adds just anything these days to a Wikipedia article, and it's an important subject, the additions are reverted. To survive, the website has become a least common denominator project.
Part 2. No, there is no strong evidence that #Jesus of Nazareth ever even physically existed. He may have physically existed, but claims which go beyond that don't rise even to the level of myth that is consistent among His contemporaries.
The New Testament, the primary source even as myth for the existence of this person, is a set of texts composed up to 90 years after the putative death of Christ. Some of the texts were composed much earlier, 30 years after His death, but those claim to be by a single person, Paul, when [scholars agree] a number of different people wrote them.
To be fair, there is a core set of Pauline texts, about half a dozen, that were probably written by one person. The others are fan fiction, not a pejorative point but accurate enough, that were added to canon later.
The author of the Pauline core set, Paul, is the only named New Testament author who probably existed and probably wrote at least part of the New Testament. And Paul didn't even claim to have met Jesus Christ.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John weren't named formally as New Testament writers until the Second Century A.D. Four people with those names probably existed. But there is no significant reason to believe that they wrote the texts that are attributed to them. Attribution didn't take place until Christ, if He existed, had been dead for at least 120 to 150 years.
Today, we can't agree about what happened 3 months ago even if it's on video. And this was, again, 120 to 150 years.
We haven't even started on contradictions that are common to all imagined stories that grow over time into myth. A good question to ask Xtians is, "How did Judas die?" The response that is usually offered is, "You're only repeating what the Devil says. I can't hear you. Maranatha. Maranatha."
Spoiler alert: Judas both hanged himself and fell from a height and burst open. #Xtian apologists say that it was both, but it's an awkward conflation.
Nor have we gotten to the fact that the most commonly cited non-Church reference to a historic Christ, the one in Josephus's writings, was faked by Christian copyists. There is a claim that a reference existed before the Christians edited the text, but I haven't seen the evidence to this effect.
I realize now that this thread requires a book. Which has actually been written a number of times.
I'm not able to see how this thread started. But the part about how Christians shouldn't cite Christianity, the fact that it exists, as a justification for anything strikes a chord.
My mother's father was a religious leader of the Ukrainian Diaspora 100 years ago. He was the gentlest man alive. This doesn't change the fact that the religion he supported has been the most horrific and brutal force, after Genghis Khan aka Temujin, of the past 2,000 years. So, it's a conundrum.
The Catholic Church began with the rape and murder of Hypatia circa 415 A.D. This was the moment when civilization could have headed down either of two paths: Enlightenment, progress, a move away from the fact of ape origins. Or a millenium of darkness, horror, and torture and murder of the innocent.
It was the second path. Yay, Church.
They allowed Galileo to live. They burned Giordano Bruno to death. They burned countless other men, women, and children to death as well.
"Oh, that was the past" ? A secular organization can come back from that. But not a "religion". If a "religion" behaves as the one and only original Church did, it isn't possible to brush it aside and still be the religion.
I welcome discussion with #Christians who are civil despite the fact of the brutality of Christianity. MAGA, a subset, not so much. I recommend civility to others as well. But the context isn't argument from authority by Christians. -
Illustration: Hypatia of Alexandria and Giordano Bruno.
If I encounter a #Fundie or an Xtian who speaks gently, I try to speak gently in return. Now that #MAGA is in the picture, as MAGA is distilled hatred, the Everclear of Christianity, gentle isn't always possible. However, I'd like to lay out a few points in this thread with civility in mind.
Part 1. We can all agree that Wikipedia is just a starting point for research.
It isn't true that just anybody can sign up and add whatever they like. That used to be true. In 2008, the situation was over the top and there was an internal [but public] trial to settle one case. For old-timers, I'm referring to the Slender Virgin Naked Shorting scandal. Which, technically, may have contributed to the Crash of 2008. Yay, Wikipedia.
The trial worked primarily to sweep abuses under the rug. FWIW Jimmie Wales offered to discuss the matter with me. When I pointed out that he'd destroyed evidence, he seemed to lose interest in the discussion.
However, if just anybody adds just anything these days to a Wikipedia article, and it's an important subject, the additions are reverted. To survive, the website has become a least common denominator project.
Part 2. No, there is no strong evidence that #Jesus of Nazareth ever even physically existed. He may have physically existed, but claims which go beyond that don't rise even to the level of myth that is consistent among His contemporaries.
The New Testament, the primary source even as myth for the existence of this person, is a set of texts composed up to 90 years after the putative death of Christ. Some of the texts were composed much earlier, 30 years after His death, but those claim to be by a single person, Paul, when [scholars agree] a number of different people wrote them.
To be fair, there is a core set of Pauline texts, about half a dozen, that were probably written by one person. The others are fan fiction, not a pejorative point but accurate enough, that were added to canon later.
The author of the Pauline core set, Paul, is the only named New Testament author who probably existed and probably wrote at least part of the New Testament. And Paul didn't even claim to have met Jesus Christ.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John weren't named formally as New Testament writers until the Second Century A.D. Four people with those names probably existed. But there is no significant reason to believe that they wrote the texts that are attributed to them. Attribution didn't take place until Christ, if He existed, had been dead for at least 120 to 150 years.
Today, we can't agree about what happened 3 months ago even if it's on video. And this was, again, 120 to 150 years.
We haven't even started on contradictions that are common to all imagined stories that grow over time into myth. A good question to ask Xtians is, "How did Judas die?" The response that is usually offered is, "You're only repeating what the Devil says. I can't hear you. Maranatha. Maranatha."
Spoiler alert: Judas both hanged himself and fell from a height and burst open. #Xtian apologists say that it was both, but it's an awkward conflation.
Nor have we gotten to the fact that the most commonly cited non-Church reference to a historic Christ, the one in Josephus's writings, was faked by Christian copyists. There is a claim that a reference existed before the Christians edited the text, but I haven't seen the evidence to this effect.
I realize now that this thread requires a book. Which has actually been written a number of times.
I'm not able to see how this thread started. But the part about how Christians shouldn't cite Christianity, the fact that it exists, as a justification for anything strikes a chord.
My mother's father was a religious leader of the Ukrainian Diaspora 100 years ago. He was the gentlest man alive. This doesn't change the fact that the religion he supported has been the most horrific and brutal force, after Genghis Khan aka Temujin, of the past 2,000 years. So, it's a conundrum.
The Catholic Church began with the rape and murder of Hypatia circa 415 A.D. This was the moment when civilization could have headed down either of two paths: Enlightenment, progress, a move away from the fact of ape origins. Or a millenium of darkness, horror, and torture and murder of the innocent.
It was the second path. Yay, Church.
They allowed Galileo to live. They burned Giordano Bruno to death. They burned countless other men, women, and children to death as well.
"Oh, that was the past" ? A secular organization can come back from that. But not a "religion". If a "religion" behaves as the one and only original Church did, it isn't possible to brush it aside and still be the religion.
I welcome discussion with #Christians who are civil despite the fact of the brutality of Christianity. MAGA, a subset, not so much. I recommend civility to others as well. But the context isn't argument from authority by Christians. -
2nd-in-command of #SF fire dept and an #AntiVaxxer #DJ are amongst city #firefighters named in #NorthBeach #barbrawl #lawsuit filed by a #Marin law enforcement vet turned #Xtian minister and funeral boat captain. The incident stems from interaction when firefighters apparently groped plaintiff's daughter's buttocks at #OriginalJoe's, and then after her dad addressed men, a firefighter attacked David Gallegioni from behind, and several repeatedly kicked him on floor of Original Joe's while wearing identifiable #SFFD apparel. Despite being named as participant, the deputy chief has denied involvement in incident, saying he was just there watching a game on TV.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/sf-fire-chief-staff-cooperate-probes-assault-bar/4055570/
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20260316/281625311817467
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2nd-in-command of #SF fire dept and an #AntiVaxxer #DJ are amongst city #firefighters named in #NorthBeach #barbrawl #lawsuit filed by a #Marin law enforcement vet turned #Xtian minister and funeral boat captain. The incident stems from interaction when firefighters apparently groped plaintiff's daughter's buttocks at #OriginalJoe's, and then after her dad addressed men, a firefighter attacked David Gallegioni from behind, and several repeatedly kicked him on floor of Original Joe's while wearing identifiable #SFFD apparel. Despite being named as participant, the deputy chief has denied involvement in incident, saying he was just there watching a game on TV.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/sf-fire-chief-staff-cooperate-probes-assault-bar/4055570/
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20260316/281625311817467
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2nd-in-command of #SF fire dept and an #AntiVaxxer #DJ are amongst city #firefighters named in #NorthBeach #barbrawl #lawsuit filed by a #Marin law enforcement vet turned #Xtian minister and funeral boat captain. The incident stems from interaction when firefighters apparently groped plaintiff's daughter's buttocks at #OriginalJoe's, and then after her dad addressed men, a firefighter attacked David Gallegioni from behind, and several repeatedly kicked him on floor of Original Joe's while wearing identifiable #SFFD apparel. Despite being named as participant, the deputy chief has denied involvement in incident, saying he was just there watching a game on TV.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/sf-fire-chief-staff-cooperate-probes-assault-bar/4055570/
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20260316/281625311817467
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2nd-in-command of #SF fire dept and an #AntiVaxxer #DJ are amongst city #firefighters named in #NorthBeach #barbrawl #lawsuit filed by a #Marin law enforcement vet turned #Xtian minister and funeral boat captain. The incident stems from interaction when firefighters apparently groped plaintiff's daughter's buttocks at #OriginalJoe's, and then after her dad addressed men, a firefighter attacked David Gallegioni from behind, and several repeatedly kicked him on floor of Original Joe's while wearing identifiable #SFFD apparel. Despite being named as participant, the deputy chief has denied involvement in incident, saying he was just there watching a game on TV.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/sf-fire-chief-staff-cooperate-probes-assault-bar/4055570/
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20260316/281625311817467
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42 yr old white male madman #Xtian #Terrorist who went on stabbing spree outside #Michigan #WalMart had recently authored a book about his relationship with #JesusChrist and is an apparent #MMA #MartialArts enthusiast.
Knife wielding suspect Bradford
James Gille was stopped by an #ArmedCivilian #OpenCarry enthusiast ...#YouCantMakeThisShitUp #AmuricaFkYeah
https://apnews.com/article/walmart-stabbing-michigan-341fb14f1bc715243b3780a3d7eabda0
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42 yr old white male madman #Xtian #Terrorist who went on stabbing spree outside #Michigan #WalMart had recently authored a book about his relationship with #JesusChrist and is an apparent #MMA #MartialArts enthusiast.
Knife wielding suspect Bradford
James Gille was stopped by an #ArmedCivilian #OpenCarry enthusiast ...#YouCantMakeThisShitUp #AmuricaFkYeah
https://apnews.com/article/walmart-stabbing-michigan-341fb14f1bc715243b3780a3d7eabda0
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Xtian: "Did you know that Jesus died for your sins?"
Me: "Did you know that Gandhi died for yours?"
Xtian: "Um...."
Me: "Did you know that this is Gandhi's walking stick? Did you know that he was against violence?"
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Gandhi #Jesus #Xtian #Christian #Christianity #Xtianity #Colonialism #Christofascism #Fascism #Empire #Imperialism
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Xtian: "Did you know that Jesus died for your sins?"
Me: "Did you know that Gandhi died for yours?"
Xtian: "Um...."
Me: "Did you know that this is Gandhi's walking stick? Did you know that he was against violence?"
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Gandhi #Jesus #Xtian #Christian #Christianity #Xtianity #Colonialism #Christofascism #Fascism #Empire #Imperialism
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Xtian: "Did you know that Jesus died for your sins?"
Me: "Did you know that Gandhi died for yours?"
Xtian: "Um...."
Me: "Did you know that this is Gandhi's walking stick? Did you know that he was against violence?"
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Gandhi #Jesus #Xtian #Christian #Christianity #Xtianity #Colonialism #Christofascism #Fascism #Empire #Imperialism
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Xtian: "Did you know that Jesus died for your sins?"
Me: "Did you know that Gandhi died for yours?"
Xtian: "Um...."
Me: "Did you know that this is Gandhi's walking stick? Did you know that he was against violence?"
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Gandhi #Jesus #Xtian #Christian #Christianity #Xtianity #Colonialism #Christofascism #Fascism #Empire #Imperialism
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Xtian: "Did you know that Jesus died for your sins?"
Me: "Did you know that Gandhi died for yours?"
Xtian: "Um...."
Me: "Did you know that this is Gandhi's walking stick? Did you know that he was against violence?"
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Gandhi #Jesus #Xtian #Christian #Christianity #Xtianity #Colonialism #Christofascism #Fascism #Empire #Imperialism
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In the 1980s, I saw this drama on Pakistani television. It was the story of an ordinary man, who was underpaid and underappreciated at work. Frustrated, he starts skimming money from his workplace. Eventually, suspicions arise and authorities are called in to investigate the fraud. In a panic, this man grabs the money and runs, fleeing on the midnight train.
His train cabin is closed, and he has only one co-passenger. In the middle of the night, they happen to look at each other and he is quite surprised to find that the stranger in his cabin is a spitting image of himself. Both the men chuckle at this remarkable coincidence, and have a long friendly chat. The fleeing man confides in the stranger about his predicament. The stranger says that he would be glad to help, by switching identities, as he is leaving the country shortly and won't be discovered.
Our protagonist is desperate. He is grateful to the stranger for taking the blame, and saving him. He thanks the stranger effusively. They exchange their papers, and they part ways.
The next day, the protagonist goes about a different town, with his new identity. Shortly, he is arrested by the authorities.
"Please, Sir. I am very sorry. I will return the money.", he tells the police.
"What money?", asks a policeman.
"Er....", stammers the man.
"Is this you?", asks the cop, looking up from his new papers.
"Yes.", the man confirms.
"You are under arrest for a series of murders.", says the cop.=================
As a child, I thought this was an allegory for the human condition. We all want to run from our problems, and exchange them from someone else's problems, since we think that the grass is greener on the other side.
As an adult, I realize that this might be an allegory for Xtianity. Some stranger offers to take the blame for your petty crimes, and gets you to be obligated to them. Except, your rap sheet is barely 50 years long, and this guy is complicit in 2000 years of murders, rapes, and other atrocities.
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Religion #Christianity #Xtianity #Christian #Xtian #pakistan #pakistani #story #today #fiction #philosophy #Human
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In the 1980s, I saw this drama on Pakistani television. It was the story of an ordinary man, who was underpaid and underappreciated at work. Frustrated, he starts skimming money from his workplace. Eventually, suspicions arise and authorities are called in to investigate the fraud. In a panic, this man grabs the money and runs, fleeing on the midnight train.
His train cabin is closed, and he has only one co-passenger. In the middle of the night, they happen to look at each other and he is quite surprised to find that the stranger in his cabin is a spitting image of himself. Both the men chuckle at this remarkable coincidence, and have a long friendly chat. The fleeing man confides in the stranger about his predicament. The stranger says that he would be glad to help, by switching identities, as he is leaving the country shortly and won't be discovered.
Our protagonist is desperate. He is grateful to the stranger for taking the blame, and saving him. He thanks the stranger effusively. They exchange their papers, and they part ways.
The next day, the protagonist goes about a different town, with his new identity. Shortly, he is arrested by the authorities.
"Please, Sir. I am very sorry. I will return the money.", he tells the police.
"What money?", asks a policeman.
"Er....", stammers the man.
"Is this you?", asks the cop, looking up from his new papers.
"Yes.", the man confirms.
"You are under arrest for a series of murders.", says the cop.=================
As a child, I thought this was an allegory for the human condition. We all want to run from our problems, and exchange them for someone else's problems, since we think that the grass is greener on the other side.
As an adult, I realize that this might be an allegory for Xtianity. Some stranger offers to take the blame for your petty crimes, and gets you to be obligated to them. Except, your rap sheet is barely 50 years long, and this guy is complicit in 2000 years of murders, rapes, and other atrocities.
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Religion #Christianity #Xtianity #Christian #Xtian #pakistan #pakistani #story #today #fiction #philosophy #Human
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In the 1980s, I saw this drama on Pakistani television. It was the story of an ordinary man, who was underpaid and underappreciated at work. Frustrated, he starts skimming money from his workplace. Eventually, suspicions arise and authorities are called in to investigate the fraud. In a panic, this man grabs the money and runs, fleeing on the midnight train.
His train cabin is closed, and he has only one co-passenger. In the middle of the night, they happen to look at each other and he is quite surprised to find that the stranger in his cabin is a spitting image of himself. Both the men chuckle at this remarkable coincidence, and have a long friendly chat. The fleeing man confides in the stranger about his predicament. The stranger says that he would be glad to help, by switching identities, as he is leaving the country shortly and won't be discovered.
Our protagonist is desperate. He is grateful to the stranger for taking the blame, and saving him. He thanks the stranger effusively. They exchange their papers, and they part ways.
The next day, the protagonist goes about a different town, with his new identity. Shortly, he is arrested by the authorities.
"Please, Sir. I am very sorry. I will return the money.", he tells the police.
"What money?", asks a policeman.
"Er....", stammers the man.
"Is this you?", asks the cop, looking up from his new papers.
"Yes.", the man confirms.
"You are under arrest for a series of murders.", says the cop.=================
As a child, I thought this was an allegory for the human condition. We all want to run from our problems, and exchange them from someone else's problems, since we think that the grass is greener on the other side.
As an adult, I realize that this might be an allegory for Xtianity. Some stranger offers to take the blame for your petty crimes, and gets you to be obligated to them. Except, your rap sheet is barely 50 years long, and this guy is complicit in 2000 years of murders, rapes, and other atrocities.
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Religion #Christianity #Xtianity #Christian #Xtian #pakistan #pakistani #story #today #fiction #philosophy #Human
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In the 1980s, I saw this drama on Pakistani television. It was the story of an ordinary man, who was underpaid and underappreciated at work. Frustrated, he starts skimming money from his workplace. Eventually, suspicions arise and authorities are called in to investigate the fraud. In a panic, this man grabs the money and runs, fleeing on the midnight train.
His train cabin is closed, and he has only one co-passenger. In the middle of the night, they happen to look at each other and he is quite surprised to find that the stranger in his cabin is a spitting image of himself. Both the men chuckle at this remarkable coincidence, and have a long friendly chat. The fleeing man confides in the stranger about his predicament. The stranger says that he would be glad to help, by switching identities, as he is leaving the country shortly and won't be discovered.
Our protagonist is desperate. He is grateful to the stranger for taking the blame, and saving him. He thanks the stranger effusively. They exchange their papers, and they part ways.
The next day, the protagonist goes about a different town, with his new identity. Shortly, he is arrested by the authorities.
"Please, Sir. I am very sorry. I will return the money.", he tells the police.
"What money?", asks a policeman.
"Er....", stammers the man.
"Is this you?", asks the cop, looking up from his new papers.
"Yes.", the man confirms.
"You are under arrest for a series of murders.", says the cop.=================
As a child, I thought this was an allegory for the human condition. We all want to run from our problems, and exchange them for someone else's problems, since we think that the grass is greener on the other side.
As an adult, I realize that this might be an allegory for Xtianity. Some stranger offers to take the blame for your petty crimes, and gets you to be obligated to them. Except, your rap sheet is barely 50 years long, and this guy is complicit in 2000 years of murders, rapes, and other atrocities.
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Religion #Christianity #Xtianity #Christian #Xtian #pakistan #pakistani #story #today #fiction #philosophy #Human
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In the 1980s, I saw this drama on Pakistani television. It was the story of an ordinary man, who was underpaid and underappreciated at work. Frustrated, he starts skimming money from his workplace. Eventually, suspicions arise and authorities are called in to investigate the fraud. In a panic, this man grabs the money and runs, fleeing on the midnight train.
His train cabin is closed, and he has only one co-passenger. In the middle of the night, they happen to look at each other and he is quite surprised to find that the stranger in his cabin is a spitting image of himself. Both the men chuckle at this remarkable coincidence, and have a long friendly chat. The fleeing man confides in the stranger about his predicament. The stranger says that he would be glad to help, by switching identities, as he is leaving the country shortly and won't be discovered.
Our protagonist is desperate. He is grateful to the stranger for taking the blame, and saving him. He thanks the stranger effusively. They exchange their papers, and they part ways.
The next day, the protagonist goes about a different town, with his new identity. Shortly, he is arrested by the authorities.
"Please, Sir. I am very sorry. I will return the money.", he tells the police.
"What money?", asks a policeman.
"Er....", stammers the man.
"Is this you?", asks the cop, looking up from his new papers.
"Yes.", the man confirms.
"You are under arrest for a series of murders.", says the cop.=================
As a child, I thought this was an allegory for the human condition. We all want to run from our problems, and exchange them for someone else's problems, since we think that the grass is greener on the other side.
As an adult, I realize that this might be an allegory for Xtianity. Some stranger offers to take the blame for your petty crimes, and gets you to be obligated to them. Except, your rap sheet is barely 50 years long, and this guy is complicit in 2000 years of murders, rapes, and other atrocities.
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Religion #Christianity #Xtianity #Christian #Xtian #pakistan #pakistani #story #today #fiction #philosophy #Human
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Science: Empiricism & Logic.
Religion: Wish fulfillment & illogic.
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
Funny how Xtians want us all to share the responsibility for their genocidal cult's atrocities. They want to unite all people in this responsibility, till confronted with history. Then, they are suddenly eager to distinguish between Protestant & Catholic branches of mind murder.
THINK, while it is still legal!
#religion #orwell #science #catholic #catholicism #christian #christianity
#skeptic #rationality #xtian -
Science: Empiricism & Logic.
Religion: Wish fulfillment & illogic.
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
Funny how Xtians want us all to share the responsibility for their genocidal cult's atrocities. They want to unite all people in this responsibility, till confronted with history. Then, they are suddenly eager to distinguish between Protestant & Catholic branches of mind murder.
THINK, while it is still legal!
#religion #orwell #science #catholic #catholicism #christian #christianity
#skeptic #rationality #xtian -
Science: Empiricism & Logic.
Religion: Wish fulfillment & illogic.
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
Funny how Xtians want us all to share the responsibility for their genocidal cult's atrocities. They want to unite all people in this responsibility, till confronted with history. Then, they are suddenly eager to distinguish between Protestant & Catholic branches of mind murder.
THINK, while it is still legal!
#religion #orwell #science #catholic #catholicism #christian #christianity
#skeptic #rationality #xtian -
Science: Empiricism & Logic.
Religion: Wish fulfillment & illogic.
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
Funny how Xtians want us all to share the responsibility for their genocidal cult's atrocities. They want to unite all people in this responsibility, till confronted with history. Then, they are suddenly eager to distinguish between Protestant & Catholic branches of mind murder.
THINK, while it is still legal!
#religion #orwell #science #catholic #catholicism #christian #christianity
#skeptic #rationality #xtian -
Science: Empiricism & Logic.
Religion: Wish fulfillment & illogic.
https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
Funny how Xtians want us all to share the responsibility for their genocidal cult's atrocities. They want to unite all people in this responsibility, till confronted with history. Then, they are suddenly eager to distinguish between Protestant & Catholic branches of mind murder.
THINK, while it is still legal!
#religion #orwell #science #catholic #catholicism #christian #christianity
#skeptic #rationality #xtian -
### Luke 7:1-10 ESV - Jesus Heals a Centurion's Servant - Bible Gateway
> Now a centurion had a servant[a] who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%207%3A1-10&version=ESV
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### Luke 7:1-10 ESV - Jesus Heals a Centurion's Servant - Bible Gateway
> Now a centurion had a servant[a] who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%207%3A1-10&version=ESV
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### Luke 7:1-10 ESV - Jesus Heals a Centurion's Servant - Bible Gateway
> Now a centurion had a servant[a] who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%207%3A1-10&version=ESV
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"What if someone who doesn't need it takes it? No one should get any, even the starving, to ensure that doesn't happen.”, an actual statement from a “Christian”(right wing republican).
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"What if someone who doesn't need it takes it? No one should get any, even the starving, to ensure that doesn't happen.”, an actual statement from a “Christian”(right wing republican).
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"What if someone who doesn't need it takes it? No one should get any, even the starving, to ensure that doesn't happen.”, an actual statement from a “Christian”(right wing republican).
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"What if someone who doesn't need it takes it? No one should get any, even the starving, to ensure that doesn't happen.”, an actual statement from a “Christian”(right wing republican).
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"What if someone who doesn't need it takes it? No one should get any, even the starving, to ensure that doesn't happen.”, an actual statement from a “Christian”(right wing republican).
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The Original Gospel of Christ #christ #gospel #xtian https://organicshelter.life/the-original-gospel-of-christ/
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A #HardRight #WhiteNationalist #Xtian #Texas #Oil #Billionaire is doing more than getting people to #PrayForTrump , he's a key figure paying #LarryKudlow and other servants to #mobilize and enforce the #AmericaFirst #PAC agenda on the rest of the country once they retake the reins in #WashingtonDC
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tim-dunn-texas-trump-political-donations-0bbe2dfe
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A #HardRight #WhiteNationalist #Xtian #Texas #Oil #Billionaire is doing more than getting people to #PrayForTrump , he's a key figure paying #LarryKudlow and other servants to #mobilize and enforce the #AmericaFirst #PAC agenda on the rest of the country once they retake the reins in #WashingtonDC
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tim-dunn-texas-trump-political-donations-0bbe2dfe
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A #HardRight #WhiteNationalist #Xtian #Texas #Oil #Billionaire is doing more than getting people to #PrayForTrump , he's a key figure paying #LarryKudlow and other servants to #mobilize and enforce the #AmericaFirst #PAC agenda on the rest of the country once they retake the reins in #WashingtonDC
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tim-dunn-texas-trump-political-donations-0bbe2dfe
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The Earth is the Lord's and Everything In It
by #NRSVIronic or un Ironic, not really sure? #Plunderphonics, #anarcho- #Xtian cut up. Profound, found sound.
This is the healing sounds for the underground.
and
Please don't sue us!#experimentalaudio #experimentalmusic
#experimental
#profound #sound #muteantsounds #netlabelhttps://muteantsoundsnetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-earth-is-the-lords-and-everything-in-it
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The Earth is the Lord's and Everything In It
by #NRSVIronic or un Ironic, not really sure? #Plunderphonics, #anarcho- #Xtian cut up. Profound, found sound.
This is the healing sounds for the underground.
and
Please don't sue us!#experimentalaudio #experimentalmusic
#experimental
#profound #sound #muteantsounds #netlabelhttps://muteantsoundsnetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-earth-is-the-lords-and-everything-in-it