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  • There’s a much more famous example, which is actually in the gospels, that details how Christianity and government are related, and that’s when Jesus said “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”

    Why wouldn’t she go for the most famous example, and the one that is actually in Jesus’s words? An example that has been examined and debated more closely than just about anything outside of the gospels. Why did she go for a book that is attributed to Paul, instead of going to Jesus’s words?

    My first theory is that she just doesn’t know the Bible very well. She probably doesn’t understand the contextual meaning of Jesus’s words. My second theory is that it’s a slightly more subtle opinion than the black-and-white world which that sort of asshole thinks she lives in. Jesus is responding to a tricky challenge where the easy answers are either that he supports breaking the law, or he believes religious people should subjugate themselves before their governments.

    And the simplest interpretation of his answer is that earthly authorities have authority over earthly matters. So, it means nearly the same thing as Romans 13.

    Of course, there’s no evidence that Renee Good was breaking any law, either, so




  • As you say, tools are just tools. Even a dumb phone and CD players are “technology.” You can use a hammer to build a house, or you can use it to break into a house and kill the owner. The tool itself really doesn’t hold any sin.

    Some people prefer to use older tools, though. It often gives them more of a feeling of connection, especially if we’re talking about the things they grew up with. So, there’s nothing wrong with choosing older technology just because you feel like it, either.








  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldDo we need more users ?
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    100% agreed. A Reddit clone with Reddit amounts of users will end up almost as bad as Reddit. The thing that makes Reddit worse in that situation is that they are a public company.

    This platform would have to evolve a lot before it can deal with so many users. There has to be some significant innovation and improvement in moderation and administration, or more users would inevitably lead to endemic misinformation and power tripping and all of that shit you see on Reddit.


  • Stupid may not be the right word. I used to listen to his podcast occasionally, and he’s certainly… What’s the right term? “slow witted”?

    Like, he seems like he has trouble keeping up. Maybe it’s the weed he’s smoking.

    He also doesn’t completely lack introspection, but his introspection seems unbelievably shallow. He’s basically just afraid that other people might judge him not to be manly. He’s scared of not being seen as manly, which is ironically pathetic and weak. But he’s demonstrated it repeatedly.

    So, these things together might work to the same end of having him… and I’m going to use maybe the wrong word again… be so stupid that he doesn’t realize how much of a Nazi he’s become. He talks with anybody, and the bad actors he talks to lead him around by the nose, and he lacks the tools to analyze how that has affected him.


  • My sometimes evangelical, sometimes pentecostal aunt, who is in her mid 70s, says that she truly believes that the rapture will happen in her lifetime.

    I think that is why she’s always so excited about wars and how she supports Trump even though he ticks so many “Antichrist” boxes. Because all of that stuff proves to her that we’re in the end times and that she’ll be raptured in her lifetime.

    If we don’t hurry up and end the world, then that would mean that she might die, just as if she’s not the most important person in history, which doesn’t make any sense to her.




  • Trump is so old and unhealthy that it wouldn’t be surprising if he just keeled over and died of natural causes at any point.

    It’s pretty obvious that Trump believes that he’s going to live for a long time and that he’ll remain in control as president or whatever for all of that time. You don’t build a ballroom if you think you’ll be out in three years.

    Vance is like a vulture, circling around waiting for Trump to die so he can swoop in. His best case scenario is that Trump becomes a dictator and he succeeds him. So, Vance will say and do anything right now.