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Yeah, I would also rather call it a condition rather than a "mental disorder." Do not stigmatize it as a "mental illness." And this applies across a n...

Transsexualism is in the DSM-5. It is an actual medical condition that one can get diagnosed with. Upon receiving the diagnosis the patient receives a...

I don't see where Jesus ever tell his followers to "masc it up" -- what's ultimately important is whether one is "in christ" or not. Maybe someone is ...

Transsexualism is a condition. A transsexual may present as their assigned gender (especially before they begin HRT), so they may not be transgender a...

Could you clarify your claim here? Are you saying that he rejects the idea of sin? Or that there is no sin in Heaven? Or that all Jewish claims of sin...

I'm convinced if it were ~80 years ago you'd have been a Hitler fanboy given your incredibly non-judgmental attitude towards the manner in which peopl...

I don't know so much about "milking" the trauma when the trauma is still fresh and festering. The brutality of 10/7 was unlike anything many countries...

Interesting you mention this issue of justification, i.e. one being 'made righteous' in the eyes of God or otherwise as in the case of secular moral p...

Sure. I just go one step further: While reading it, I found some of the dialogues on certain topics e.g. disability, to be absolutely amazing to the p...

Theist here: It should be about more than just "getting to heaven." The bible contains unbelievably sophisticated dialogues and discourses between "Go...

Jesus preaches against Pharisaic materialism. The emphasis of the Pharisees was on the world, or as they would have put it, balancing divine obligatio...

I know that in Hebrew (and possibly Aramaic) the word for slave and servant is the same, but Christianity is 1000% servant morality: Jesus tells his f...

Pearl harbor was a surprise attack that killed ~2600. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was a political assassination that killed one. 10/7 was a m...

Maybe Finland could take them in. With ~5.5 million Finns and ~2.2 million Palestinians the Finns will still be in the majority so the country should ...

Of course, but this is an issue everywhere. Finland is a nation of ~5.5 million, what if 6 million Muslims were to appear? The UK is currently 6.5% mu...

And Greece is the homeland of the Greeks; they give special immigration privileges to those with Greek descent. Japan is the homeland of the Japanese ...

I don't think Israel is special in this regard. As an American, Pearl Harbor and 9/11 come to mind as comparable instances casualty-wise -- both of wh...

Oh, I get it- the Jews should just forget about it. No memorials, put it behind them. And definitely don't retaliate against the government that did i...

You ever listen to the phone calls from the murderers on 10/7? "Hey mom, guess what? Killed 10 Jews today!" Some people deserve exactly what's coming ...

Ok but Jews and Palestinians both call Israel home. I am fine with the status quo. The Palestinian governments are not. Right wing Israeli settlers al...

What is the protocol when 1200 are killed, 300 kidnapped, and many other raped? As an American, it is war. Anything else is out of the question.

It's a tricky issue who is justified to a piece of land. Were European settlers arriving in the Americas in the 1600s justified in taking land? In hin...

"I am no fan of Hitler but he perpetrated the Holocaust for obvious reasons." - senior Palestinian official Abu Sido of Fatah, the moderate party.

False. Gazan figures do not distinguish between civilian and fighter.

400,000 muslims dead in yemen. 500k-1 mil dead by assad. 1 mil muslims in concentration camps in china. much greater muslim suffering across the world...

States are relatively recent inventions in the near east. We keep the discussion simpler by just referring to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. "Palestin...

I understand that the history, culture, and religion of a region don't matter to you. What matters is international law and whether it's being followe...

An IDF spokesperson writes in the Wall Street Journal that their military has 'discovered that most homes in Gaza have terror tunnels underneath or we...

Would raping, kidnapping, torturing, and murdering white south african civilians under apartheid be justified resistance? What it comes down to is con...

Keep up the good work of defending genocidal rapists, torturers, and murderers. :up:

Hamas uses children in its armed forces. Even if Israel were to only kill Hamas, children would die.

:100: Hamas could stop the fighting if they choose to release the ~150 people they've stolen from Israel.

But Mikie, the victor kills thousands of children

Emotion and pity is not an argument. I could argue like you, it's not hard: "How could you ever go to war and kill people? OMGGG genocide and child mu...

America killed many more Japanese children in WWII. By virtue of simply choosing to go to war with Japan we guaranteed the deaths of thousands of Japa...

It seems you don't like Israel because Israel is winning. :chin: If it were the other way then what? Would you like Israel more? The weaker side gets ...

You make interesting points. I'll address two: humanitarianism in war and your point about Gaza as "evil." Regarding humanitarianism I would tend to a...

How exactly do you want Israel to respond to 10/7? Are they to scurry off to the UN and demand a resolution against Hamas? Is Israel to first gain per...

A low level which has now exploded back to 1930s levels and targets all Jews worldwide. I don't think so. The hate extends far past the Israeli govern...

Not racism, religious difference. Schopenhauer described the Quran as containing a "remarkable contempt for death" as opposed to Judaism, the oldest o...

What if I were to say, "the US and Britain surely cannot beat the movement called Nazism, but only their present military units"... I suppose I would ...

Prussia was abolished in 1947, deemed a "bearer of militarism and reaction" by the Allies. Could this be genocide? Genocide of the focal point of Germ...

Do you think a culture can ever be so wicked that it deserves to be destroyed?

You can compare Israel-Palestine to the IRA conflict and I can compare it to Nazism. After all, 1200 is a number reminiscent of early Nazi massacres c...

Some of these groups are nationalities, others are religions -- can one not question an ideology? Or should we just immediately accept it if it's a re...

For sure people like Ben Gvir are right-wing extremists. Many if not most of the kibbutzim that Hamas attacked on 10/7 were some of the most left-lean...

It's more than that, at least in the US. I don't know how things are in Finland. Plenty of countries have right wing leadership and are involved with ...

aaannd we've entered into conspiracy theory territory. Or is Netanyahu actually Meir Kahane in disguise, back from the dead?

It very well can be; it depends on the scale. Are we talking just the IDF vs Hamas? Then obviously no. But what if it's Israel versus the muslim world...

The PLA and Hamas are roughly of equal shittiness. The PLA has a martyrs fund that pays out funds to the families of those who kill Israelis. I don't ...