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The US also committed them in WWII, especially in the Pacific theater where US troops rarely took prisoners as the Japanese had a nasty habit of blowi...

The US spoke in similar terms about enemies in Vietnam and Japan. Yet neither were genocides. The population of Gaza has risen by ~2% since last year ...

I agree. My point is that the hostages are part of the justification of Israeli military response in Gaza making it about more than just "revenge" for...

You haven't once mentioned the hostages. It's like they're invisible to you. It's also, in a way, been overshadowed by events in Syria. But when it's ...

Biden is currently the head of the executive branch but here in the US we know he's not running the show. Who is? Beats me. But certainly not Biden wh...

The good thing to do is not necessarily what we want to do. Morality often entails putting our own needs aside for the sake of the group. In any case,...

There are many more Hamas in Gaza than ISIS in Iraq. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't even seem like the US needs to be in Iraq. It just seems ...

Generally, I've found that secular moral systems will permit it (are there exceptions to this?), religious ones will not. If we wish to avoid the issu...

Now that's what I'm talking about. Or how Origen supposedly castrated himself to become a eunuch for the kingdom of heaven. "If your right eye causes ...

Yes ancient writers embellish but that shouldn't lead us to conclude that everything is lies and exaggeration. I'm more sure about some things and les...

Alright I will do you one better. According to both Torah law and rabbinic law, a seminal emission places one in a state of ritual impurity. Yet Jewis...

If we acknowledge that Antiochus IV engaged in a repressive Hellenization program and that the Jews violently resisted it is it crazy to think that th...

Do you consider Peter's revelation a lie/a Pauline invention then?

Yes. But when Jesus says "it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person" he would s...

2 Maccabees recounts an old Jewish man choosing death rather than eating pork during the persecution of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Hard to imagine he cho...

If Jesus did keep kosher, then presumably statements like Matt.15:11 are early Christian beliefs retrojected back to Jesus. After all, why would Peter...

I just sometimes wonder whether Christians envision a Jesus who e.g. kept kosher and wore tzitzit.

Do you understand Jesus as a law-abiding Jew or one who "updated" the law? Did Jesus follow the commandments or did he add/delete existing ones?

What do you like about that parable? Margaret Thatcher's comment on it sticks in my mind.

I don't know what it would mean for a word or a text to be divinely inspired. Can you show me the difference between divinely inspired and not divinel...

It's a shame that atheists dismiss it like this because the book really does have some amazing and corroborated (by other ancient sources) ancient his...

Despite an "allegorical" reading you do acknowledge that the Bible describes real events. Surely you don't deny the babylonian exile? Or that Israel f...

I guess? Christianity today is about belief in Jesus's rising. Even if it never happened, the Nicean Creed still exists and Christians (by definition)...

Now that is cruel. In the US you can get HRT after a 45 minute consultation (although it varies state by state). Making a suicidal population wait yea...

Yet there is still a screening for adults who seek to transition. Yes, and gender identity is the subject here not biological sex. We're moving past t...

Being trans places one on the margins even if everyone is nice to you and you suffer no employment hurdles. Trans folk will watch their cis peers get ...

Exactly. Transsexualism use to claim a medical basis, but the new wave of trans advocacy seems to be pushing to eliminate that, and I can't say that I...

Nearly 30% of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ+. Aside from this, the number of minors seeking gender affirming care nearly tripled between 2017 and 2021 fro...

The point stands that many more much larger humanitarian crises exist around the world yet none generates the attention of Israel-Gaza today. It's not...

The caste system was officially outlawed in 1950 but it still persists in certain parts of India. From what I understand, it is highly controversial i...

Yes, silence. Where are the protests against Assad? Or Yemen? Or Sudan? Americans don't care. No Jews, no news. Now if it was Jews killing those Arabs...

5.4 million killed in Congo. - Silence 500k killed by Assad in Syria. - Silence 500k killed in Sudan. - Silence 400k killed in Yemen. - Silence ~40k k...

Iran, Qatar, and others. Don't take my word it's what leaders in US intel say. Follow the money. Of course Iran has a hand in it.

If you believe these mass protests are purely organic I've got a bridge to sell you.

You don't think the marchers are anti-American? How many more American flags need to be burned for that to be the case?

Mikie, I'm agreeing with you. The Democratic Party needs to go further left and actively embrace the anti-Israel, anti-American masked marchers terror...

I live among the evangelicals in one of the most conservative, evangelical states in the US. I understand the left likes to point the finger at them f...

Of course, because it was the evangelical Christians who lynched Jews on the street of Amsterdam last night. We must blame modern day anti-Semitism on...

By all means, the Democratic Party is welcome to move further to the left next election. Openly embrace the anti-American, anti-Israeli marchers. Make...

It's framed in an extremely inflammatory way. It's one thing to criticize say, the Chinese or Iranian (or Indian) government; it's a whole other thing...

He's talking about Calvinism, a religious movement which turns God into a total psychopath.

How exactly does science quell existential anxiety? The biggest existential question is probably "what happens after death?" which science does not an...

I don't expect them to take out Hezbollah. I would just like to know whether they've taken concrete steps towards completing their purpose. Hezbollah ...

If the blue berets are not going to do their mission (did they even attempt it... at any point?) the least they could do is get out of the way when th...

I'm saying maybe the Palestinians are getting tired of war and just want peace (which would happen if the hostages were returned but Hamas keeps refus...

The UN sat by for years while Hezbollah constructed terror installations when it was in the UN's deliberate mission to disarm them. They were suppose ...

Are you sure about this? Maybe they just want the war to be over and go back to pre-10/7 life. Hundreds of Hamas surrendered today; I think they're ge...

I am curious about that. I think 5 were injured last time I checked. Perhaps a mistake? Fog of war? I don't know. I'd be horrified if Israel viewed th...

Learn to condemn murder.

Article is behind a paywall. It's 40/60 on Polymarket. I'd say bet Kamala but US citizens aren't allowed to use the site. I don't see how Polymarket i...