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I'd be feeling this if I were a native brit right now. The notion of a leadership that barely punishes and largely ignores foreign pedophilic grooming...

It's normal to question and wrestle with God. Misfortune does befall the righteous. Who are we to say that God is wrong though? Or that we know "the g...

My point is that one might say that they know goodness or that they know justice, which, since they know, means that they can tell when things meet or...

Rogue, it's just a very special sort of genocide. It's a genocide where the population is bigger afterwards than before. :lol:

God, like the universe and all that occurs within it, is beyond our understanding. God is understood as being both transcendent and immanent. A "God" ...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GhrAswHbMAAFAPE?format=jpg&name=medium They attempt to terrify her to the last second. I'll refrain from comment on the br...

I'm not a Christian nor do I claim to understand Christianity. A better explanation of the Adam and Eve story might be that biblical writers borrowed ...

I suppose? I don't know enough about the ideas and writings of those groups. I don't know whether they're theistic or non-theistic or what types of co...

Non-theistic systems that will invoke "religious" concepts e.g. karma, rebirth, etc.

Theistic moral systems are simply more sophisticated than atheistic ones. Jews and Christians both have 2000+ years of exploring and writing on moral ...

That number includes the rapists and child murderers who crossed the border into Israel on 10/7. You should be thanking Israel for eliminating them.

1700 Palestinian terrorists, among them mass murderers, in exchange for 33 innocent angels. I'm not seeing how this will create a lasting peace, espec...

That biblical literalists can understand a given part of the bible as metaphor and still be biblical literalists.

From the wikipedia article: "Biblical literalists believe that, unless a passage is clearly intended by the writer as allegory, poetry, or some other ...

Biblical literalism is the approach to interpreting the Bible that takes the text at its most apparent, straightforward meaning. As stated, sometimes ...

As it is written: "God is not a man" (Num. 23:19). Movement implies imperfection.

You're strawmanning biblical/christian literalism. The plain meaning of the text sometimes indicates allegory or metaphor.

So do the sun and the moon really bow down to Joseph? Or does the dream, perhaps, represent something?

Read Genesis.

Daniel's dream was a metaphorical representation of what was going to happen.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/judaism-after-the-temple/

God communicates through dream i.e. metaphor in the Bible multiple times. These metaphors require interpretation. Go re-read Daniel's dream and come b...

It nearly did. I'm talking more about the Romans though. The destruction of the temple and the defeat in two major rebellions caused Jews to radically...

I was a classical liberal once. Maybe I still am. Not sure. It's not always easy to define what a right is. Protest is a right, of course, but what ab...

We need to beat the Islamists into submission. Then they will realize that Allah has granted this, and that they need to self-reflect on their approac...

Then this should be all muslims, at least in theory. Outer jihad is a veritable part of jihad and jihad is a veritable part of Islam. When I look up t...

I don't disagree with any of it. Jihad is a real thing; jihadism, as far as I can tell, is basically a pejorative.

I'm coming across so many different definitions that it's essentially rendering the term meaningless. Jihad is an actual concept within Islam, jihadis...

I think we're running into confusion over the definition of what a "jihadist" is. But to call Jesus a crusader, when the crusaders murdered many innoc...

No, I would not consider Jesus a crusader.

It is a historical question. And of course he did. So I'm asking couldn't Muhammad be considered a jihadist?

Jihad is a religious tenet. Jihadism seems pejorative, so I looked it up and got this: "Jihadism refers to militant Islamic movements that use violenc...

Searching through scripture to determine theological truth/ what is "real" Islam is not a normal or proper function of the US government.

How do we know that these interpretations are radical in the sense of aberrant or misguided vis-a-vis the Quran? Muhammad conquered much land to estab...

I.e. put our fingers in our ears, bury our head in the sand and the problem should go away... right? Right? Instead of looking to syllogism consider l...

...Does Jesus not instruct his disciples to consume his flesh and blood?

The more interesting aspect is the correct understanding of the parables/teachings and their practical applicability, if any. I suppose one must read ...

Fair enough. In the synoptics I can more easily understand Jesus as a law-abiding Jew, but by the time we get to gJohn I have difficult time maintaini...

I get that Jesus is often not to be taken extremely literally. Yet one can be a "eunuch for the kingdom of heaven." Paul possibly considers himself as...

I guess had the Germans won you'd have been absorbed into the Third Reich. So maybe a few of your neighbors go bye-bye and you need to learn German, b...

We can criticize all we want. Criticism comes in different shades. But Israel must succeed. I don't know whether there's ever been a foreign power tha...

I hope the operation goes as humanely as possible. Nor am I under any delusions when it comes to what Israel/Jews are capable of. The Irgun were terri...

Yes, forcible transfers are a crime. Yet if a place is about to be bombed people will typically leave. Israel will typically inform the population. Po...

Then call it justice. If an armed band of foreigner insurgents breach your border and murder even a handful, is a military response an emotional react...

It's not ultra-nationalism. It's not religious extremism. When ~6000 armed monsters breach your border and murder, rape, and torture your civilians (i...

I don't consider the Gaza war to be Israel engaging in realpolitik. Any other country would respond similarly. It is deeply personal to many Israelis ...

I don't buy this. If I tell you "Leo, go out into the world, preach the gospel, and eat what your guests serve you" it's only a matter of time before ...

If I were to learn ~40k civilians were murdered I would be horrified. If I were to learn that ~40k Hamas fighters and administrative staff were killed...

We'll never know but even if he didn't then he didn't transgress morally. If J told his followers to go out among the gentiles/the nations and eat wha...

But wait. The population of India and China is ~4x as much as the US, so suddenly 40k Gazans dead (a good chunk of who are Hamas) becomes 30 million I...