isauntervaguely.bsky.social
Dad and husband. Progressive. Retired librarian. Satanist. Science enthusiast. Longhorn.
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Rich assholes who know nothing about creating public policy should not be candidates. Haven't we learned that yet?
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No redemption arc for a Nazi. Enjoy the takedown? Sure. But don't participate in some kind of normalized image for Leon.
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On Earth 1 it is common knowledge. I'm not sure that's true on Earth 2.
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To her it's like the Bowling Green Massacre.
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Exactly what I expected. No interest in even engaging honestly. The fact that the traditional attribution of the gospels is incorrect IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL! Read the Wiki and its citations.
The fact that you have to come to grips with the scholarship isn't my responsibility.
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I'm not doing your homework for you anymore. You're not interested in honest engagement. The gospels are NOT written by the people claimed. They are forgeries, attributed to authors who did not write them.
Accept the truth and at least engage honestly. I haven't said anything controversial.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_... Scholars find numerous problems with the traditional attribution to the Apostle Matthew. The predominant scholarly view is that it was written in the last quarter of the first century by an anonymous Jew familiar with technical legal aspects of scripture.
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A forgery is that which is attributed by deception.
Biblical scholars like Bart Ehrman have documented this in numerous books. I'm acknowledging that the books are academically considered to be anonymous. You're making the claim that they are attributed and original. Scholarship disagrees.
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Nah. All are forgeries. Written in Greek. Originals would have been Aramaic.
They were attributed to people thought to have been involved, but not created by them. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. To say they're like other books fails to address the core of the matter.
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Reverse psychology? I agree it seems odd. Why pretend to be sensible now?
Maybe he got what he wanted (no more investigations into his companies and tens of billions in new contracts) and has second thoughts about wrecking the economy (and his personal credibility)? Too late my dude.
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The gospels are forgeries; they were not written by the named authors. This is known and documented in almost every printed Bible. "Anonymous" authors.
There are no original manuscripts. The oldest copies (which are only partially intact) are between decades to over a century after the fact.
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Definitely the most consistent and solid defender I've ever seen. A force of composure and resolve.
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This is the way. Doing what is right, not what is popular, is especially true in an era with too little education and too much information warfare.
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There are only two outcomes that remain. Armed resistance or total capitulation.
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You can bet Trump and someone like James Earl Ray. I kid you fucking not. That's how these people think.
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This guy should be nowhere near a position of power over others. Amplifying this serial harasser is a disservice to all New Yorkers and to women everywhere.
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Metallica at sunset in Florence. Pretty darn awesome.
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He was a fantastic audiobook narrator. Loved his work with the Pendergast series.
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We are allowing this imbecile to destroy the American government. So humiliating.
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She's helping to engineer that outcome.
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I get what you're saying. I had to profess Christianity as a teenager to survive the Satanic Panic.
Jesus' teachings have been overshadowed by Paul's abstract theology. There's very little of Jesus in modern Christianity.
That said, Christian churches have been incredibly harmful to the world.
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Heartbreaking. It feels like a boulder rolling downhill.
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They don't know what the words mean, but they do know that the cruelty makes them joyous.
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This cruelty is the history of the Church, especially when it has political power. Crusades. Witch hunts. Slavery in the Americas. The list is very long.
Satanism is the belief that religious tyrants have to be opposed. We are the ones who fight for the oppressed.
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Christianity is cruel, abusive, & murderous. Crusades. Witch hunts. Spanish Inquisition. Genocide of indigenous Americans. Slavery. AIDS in Africa. MAGA.
Thousands of years of hate, fueled by Christian churches. Your plea for Hippy Jesus does not change the fact this this cruelty is the norm.
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Just a front for buying new shirts for summer.
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My new summer business.
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Tacos are the 5th food group. We had breakfast tacos for dinner tonight.
You can take me out of Austin and move me to Chicago but don't take away my breakfast tacos!
I don't want to link Trump with tacos, but I'll try focus on the humor.
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He's obviously not going to just shrug his shoulders and accept the ruling. Between this ruling and the TACO nickname, he's going to have a bad night. I love this for him.
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Today he pardons con artists and fraudsters. Tomorrow he will be pardoning sex abusers and child sex traffickers.
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The government is (normally) run by thousands of competent professionals doing their jobs. It's not a one-man show, much to the chagrin of her idiot boss.
Under Biden, no one was the least bit concerned that these professionals would simply stop functioning en masse. But her boss made that happen.
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I am here for all the pettiness.
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Secular government is the foundation of individual liberty. Any church's intrusion into that space results in a diminishment of rights.
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In our community today, the priest who led the "prayer" portion of our Memorial Day event castigated hyphenated Americans. Said that those kind of Americans don't exist. Only Americans.
It was not an attempt at inclusion; it was derisive, divisive. It was clear that the hyphenated ones gotta go.
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Layaway for lunch?
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Setting it on fire and laughing while it burns.
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This regime will not tolerate dissent in any form. Though Harvard mostly capitulated to Trump, it did eventually rebuff some of the demands. And that isn't allowed. Trump demands 100% obedience at minimum, and often insists on public displays of flattery as well.
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I don't have enough expletives in my vocabulary to express my feelings on this one.
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Time to re-read Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.
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This is the answer I would have typed had I not found it. Nicely done!