Please make it stop. My meter is pegged.
“Levitical” here serves as a Telebangelist dog-whistle for reassuring their audience that it’s OK to call yourself “Judeo-Christian” because you can go on hating Jews.
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Because the Anglo-Saxons were noted for their christian piety.
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“Judeo-Christian” is not actually a thing.
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Thanks for being part of the solution… after all, how will we move forward, if we don’t assume we know better than others and lord it over them in a way that reminds them how superior we are to them… /s
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Pence and his “rabbi” disagree…
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“Sessions” enacted a piece of shit something (really bad this!) as he left
Basically easing police abuse, hindering governmental ability to drive change:
@beschizza @doctorow @xeni I really wanted to make sure you guys saw this. The implications are stunning, and huge.
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And “Biblical marriage” means the union of one man with one or more wives, concubines, handmaids, slaves, etc.
https://robertcargill.com/2011/10/11/what-exactly-is-biblical-marriage/
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If you’re looking for a deity, you could do a hell of a lot worse than her.
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Wow. Do you have to be “biblically married” to “biblically know” someone without committing adultery?
Asking for a friend.
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Why is it the ones who invoke “natural law” invariably mean “laws based on my strict interpretation of the bible”?
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an oldie but goodie
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You mean like the Judges from the Book of Judges?
That worked out real well for the people who were asking for that.
You gotta remember, God has a bit of an ironic sense of humour, and will smite a bitch.
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Not sure if question is rhetorical, but… it’s because they don’t mean the same thing the rest of us do when using those words.
Reminds me a bit of this problem, but with smarter bullshitters.
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A super majority is 2/3 of the Senate. Republicans don’t have that. And they won’t, that’s why they changed the rules so that simple majority is all that’s required to pass anything.
@Brainspore: Indeed - old white men got us where we are. Stop voting for them.
@Melz2: That video is amazing.
@Keith_McClary: The US’s middle-east policy is about oil. Full stop. There are no other considerations.
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So exactly how was moving the embassy in Israel about oil?
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Uh, we mock anti-vaxxers for their refusal to accept empirical data.
We mock climate change deniers for their refusal to accept empirical facts.
Out of curiosity, how is it, then, that some people’s fervent belief in their invisible friends must be respected?
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Because these are long standing social and cultural institutions, unlike anti-vax and climate change denial. These are complicated and deeply rooted beliefs that still inform how our world works, as they are embedded in institutions that stretch back century (for good and ill).
And not everyone believes in faith the same way. Some are indeed dangerous (Islamic State and Pat Robertson come to mind) and some have been liberatory (Dr. King or Malcolm X). Instead of broad sweeping generalizations about the majority of humanity, maybe perhaps you can contain your ire for the people who are actively doing harm in this world because of their belief in something you don’t believe in.
Whether or not we’ll get to a point where religion is not part of humanity, I don’t know (none of us do). But even people who are atheists aren’t free from religiously oriented thinking - transhumanism and the people who are into it are prone to some pretty religious-like thinking (that we’re all going to be uploaded into some computer and live forever).
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I have no problems with “invisible friends”, it’s all that organised religion baggage that is evil. Such as entitlement to real estate where the invisible friends were concocted.
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