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I don't know that it's possible to discuss "woke" effectively with how much it's been used and misued over the years, but frankly I couldn't be happie...
July 23, 2025 at 14:40
I suppose that tracks with "the least shall be the greatest among you" and whatnot. I do not have a lot of direct experience with Catholicism.
July 22, 2025 at 23:29
Perhaps we are arguing semantics then. Interesting.
July 22, 2025 at 23:24
Does the Parable of Laborers not contradict this theory somewhat?
July 22, 2025 at 23:20
I would not think that constraining philosophical beliefs to a specific framework and set of assumptions would make it not philosophy. It may not be *...
July 22, 2025 at 23:17
I'm not sure I would agree. Theology is a subset of philosophy dealing specifically within religious thought, as I see it. Religion was the original p...
July 22, 2025 at 22:37
I would agree, though my understanding was that it was more our fault than his according to doctrine. It's not a requirement, but Christianity hits lo...
July 22, 2025 at 22:22
I think part of the post I made directly before yours has some insight there.
July 22, 2025 at 22:01
Perhaps a bit of a tangent, but one interpretation of Christianity I really liked both before and after losing my faith was C.S. Lewis's interpretatio...
July 22, 2025 at 21:44
I tend to agree with your cyclical reading of the universe, so theoretically the only points where time would "end" would be in the infinite singulari...
July 22, 2025 at 21:35
Thank you; it just tracks too well to not be intentional. The Holy Spirit fulfills most of the functions that people of the time would have likely ass...
July 22, 2025 at 21:26
What if a person derives pleasure from suffering or suffering from pleasure? I'm not sure this is complex enough a theory to account for the human con...
July 22, 2025 at 21:18
1) I mean, I agree that it is very easy to read God's actions as toxic and abusive from the outside; the Christian narrative only really works if you ...
July 22, 2025 at 21:13
The argument would likely be: 1) Because he made us and loves us (he's called "the Father" very intentionally) 2) They would say love without choice i...
July 22, 2025 at 19:36
The argument I was told was that without the ability to choose, humans couldn't have truly loved God. God allegedly gave us free will knowing we would...
July 22, 2025 at 17:30
I was taught that it wasn't so much rules beyond his control so much as the sin-nature makes us incompatible with his pure divinity. The distinction d...
July 22, 2025 at 16:01
Neat! Saving for later. It always made sense to me, as the Holy Spirit seems very feminine coded by the standards of the religion
July 22, 2025 at 15:27
Yeah, the argument is that humans were permanently tainted by the fall, which required the sacrifice of Jesus to make humans redeemable. The logic is ...
July 22, 2025 at 15:21
I would argue (at least some) Christians believe God would prefer no one go to hell, and the sacrifice of Jesus was the alleged evidence of that.
July 22, 2025 at 15:18
Glad I'm not the only person who realized the holy spirit maps to the Christian God's feminine aspect
July 22, 2025 at 15:09
As a former Christian, I was taught that the point was that God is perfect, and, by his nature, cannot allow imperfection/sin into heaven. The sacrifi...
July 22, 2025 at 15:07
The difference is we can control and monitor the number and distribution of refugees and legal immigrants. And no, I disagree about the education angl...
June 20, 2025 at 14:10
Mostly when I say too far I mean they are using showy but ineffective methods by only going after individuals (and sometimes getting it wrong) instead...
June 20, 2025 at 12:17
Something I have often pondered. I have thoughts on that regarding the self and the transmission of ideas. Perhaps what we experience as empathy is be...
June 19, 2025 at 23:04
I will admit, I get a bit heated on this topic due to prior experiences, so I would like to be more fair. I don't like that racists are getting off on...
June 19, 2025 at 22:54
I do believe they are similar yet distinct. The way I see it, "sympathy" is recognizing someone else's situation and that it's not a situation you wou...
June 19, 2025 at 12:34
I just do not accept your assertions, and I am beyond tired of hearing any opposition to illegal immigration as racist. The figures you are quoting ar...
June 19, 2025 at 12:07
Get old without government support or proper cultural assimilation, at that. A recipe for disaster. It's frustrating that the only progressive issues ...
June 16, 2025 at 13:55
It's a difficult conclusion to come to in today's world, but I believe a necessary one. Too often the road to hell is paved with good campaign promise...
June 16, 2025 at 13:53
Agreed, though this seems incredibly short sighted on their part imo with the looming automation and AI revolution currently happening around us. We'r...
June 15, 2025 at 16:46
I believe this to be the case.
June 14, 2025 at 17:07
I might have agreed before 2016, but the powers that be have shown they will do whatever it takes to prevent that from happening.
June 14, 2025 at 14:43
Agreed. Part of my frustration and eventual break with the Democrats is that I have been pulling my hair out since 2016 trying to make them realize th...
June 13, 2025 at 18:35
Agreed again, I just don't see a realistic way forward for that to happen.
June 13, 2025 at 16:58
Agreed. But 3rd parties are rarely what I would call effective at winning. I think this is a problem and at least partially due to suppression from th...
June 13, 2025 at 16:14
I disagree. While admittedly it's unlikely that EVERY politician is irrdeemably evil, I actually find it freeing, as the constant moral litigation of ...
June 13, 2025 at 16:02
Fair, I am open to discussion, I just find the constant back and forth moral litigation of politicians to be a waste of time when I believe that being...
June 13, 2025 at 15:21
This is the same discussion reframed. If it is not already obvious to you why high level politicians inherently tend towards being bad people, I am no...
June 13, 2025 at 15:08
A politician that furthered my goals perfectly would not do those things. If you will not change your approach, I will not respond further. To throw y...
June 13, 2025 at 14:33
Again, I will not do this with you. I think most if not all politicians are morally reprehensible people, so this line of thought is profoundly uncomp...
June 13, 2025 at 14:18
Just seems bad faith to conflate the two, when the very quote you used had him referring to multiple different races of illegal immigrant. I have a ha...
June 13, 2025 at 13:58
Is illegal immigrant a race now?
June 13, 2025 at 12:27
I just said I don't find this kind of back and forth helpful. It exists and we both know it; I refuse to get in to a quote slinging contest with you. ...
June 13, 2025 at 10:53
He should be fired then, but again, I'm sure I could find deplorable people in every administration. Politicians tend to be bad people, in my experien...
June 13, 2025 at 02:27
I think people in every administration have said and done racist things. It is an unfortunate reality that there will probably always be racists, and ...
June 13, 2025 at 02:09
No, I agree, the internal rabbit holing and propaganda on this wide a scale is a uniquely modern problem. The first part was referring to politics alw...
June 13, 2025 at 01:24
Thank you. To be honest, I'm not sure it's correct either, but it seemed like a worthwhile point to consider.
June 13, 2025 at 00:36
In the sake of fairness, I wonder if this is a semantic issue at heart. I've lived in both big cities and small towns; 5 blocks in a big city can be n...
June 13, 2025 at 00:15
Tbf it's not a common term. I'm an old sci-fi nerd, lol. I would probably agree, but further posit we are post-mass media to a degree, as the internet...
June 13, 2025 at 00:06
Aren't there numerous examples of things like that happening in our history already?
June 12, 2025 at 23:55