When a deeply corrupt branch is responsible for installing appointments to another branch with no public accountability whatsoever... yeah. One bad apple spoils the barrel, and a solid half of the barrel is nothing but the most pungent, loathsome rot.
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War of the Ring: The Card Game
All the flavor of the gigantic classic, but in a nice quick-setup card game form.
ESH, and it’s the ordinary, innocent people caught in the middle who pay the most greatest price.
You're right. I read $16m per day and grossly miscalculated. It's even worse.
You are correct.
Remember kids, the singular is semite, not semete. Hence, sem_i_tic, with an i.
~~That is $5,8 billion per year.~~
I misread $16m per day. It's $16m per HOUR. $140.2 billion/year.
To be fair, it is a BIG demo. 2-3h worth depending how you play. And the graphics are GREAT.
I'm not especially religious. I was raised in that environment - the vengeful hellfire version, no less - and repeatedly found that it did not hold up to even a little scrutiny. And when I challenged the fact that the scripture I was being told to read outright condemned the behavior, teachings, and interpretations that were being foisted on me at home and on Sundays - it was not those vile teachings that were the problem... it was me.
I'm more an adherent of accuracy in all things, and I will call out things I know to be false. My loves how, around Christmas, I repeatedly remind them that Jesus was most likely born in Sept-Oct and that Christmas and all it's traditions are wildly pagan, and wish them all a Happy Yule.
But yeah, Jesus/Yeshua was a humanist. Even the flipping tables and whipping happened against people who were taking advantage of others. I can imagine him, Carl Sagan, and Siddhartha Gautama getting along famously.
If I am ever attacked by a Sand Witch, I will keep this in mind.
I do not disagree. But I also like to remind people that "The Bible" isn't a singular work. It's a collection of many historical texts by many people over from many different cultures and regions and situations covering a wide variety of topics.
I think there are valuable philosophies to gained, but there are certain things you can point to as "foundational" - and no matter what you are reading you always have to go back to those foundational concepts. Those are:
- The Noachide Laws
- The Teachings of Yeshua
The Noachide Laws essentially boil down to:
- False Gods: Don't worship inanimate objects.
- Blasphemy: If YHWH reveals themself to you, remain reverent.
- Murder: Do not kill unless there is no other choice.
- Dangerous Sexual Behavior: Rape, incest, promiscuity; selfish behaviors that place others at risk.
- Theft: Do not steal.
- Animal Cruelty: Treat animals humanely, particularly those used for food.
- Justice: Establish and maintain courts and systems of justice.
The Teachings of Yeshua boil down to:
- Always show YHWH love, respect, reverence, and deference.
- Always treat others with love, respect, reverence, and deference... even actual enemies.
- Worry about your own shortcomings, not others.
- 2 & 3 are the outcomes of #1, and #1 is the outcome of 2 & 3. They are inextricably linked.
Everything else should be taken a historical document, not an universal omnicontextual moral precept; Yeshua states as much more than once. You do not need to be religious at all to find philosophical value in the foundations... and as far as the scripture is concerned, that is perfectly fine.
Christianity has a core problem in that its holy texts can be interpreted in a myriad of ways.
Only if you completely ignore all context, as modern Christianity has done. With even a little historical and cultural knowledge, the context makes the vast majority of it quite clear. That clarity also stands in stark opposition to a vast swath of modern Christian dogma and teaching, so there is a vested interest to keep the context out of mainstream discussion.
We should not be helping Israel kill more people. You never support terrorism, and when the response to terrorism is more terrorism, you don't support that. Other than sending humanitarian aid to regular people caught in the middle, this is something we should stay the hell out of.