Tax the churches indeed.

But a lot of churches aren’t the political propaganda arms of the GOP, you just don’t hear about 'em.

I’m not American but I tend to agree with you. However this article is still quite interesting because it explains why this kind of rhetorics works, even with “normal” people. Sexism is structural and cultural, not only personal.

The “7 moutains mandate” is the cancer of Christian theology. It should be deounced by every denomination.

If I understand the original idiom, the nearest French expression would be “you can’t make a race horse from a donkey” (“tu ne peux pas faire un cheval de course d’un âne”).

Thanks.

I always thought that mini computer.were more power hungry than SBC. Am I wrong?

The universe is very very big. Unimaginably so. But we have absolutely no idea of how probable the appearance of life is, so we have no idea how probable is it for life to exist elsewhere. So my answer for the first question is: I don’t know.

And for the second question, my answer is: haha.

Maybe he should read what he sells.

I’m proud of you.

Don’t change your underwear for two days.

You’re a stereotypical Reddit atheist 😅

All religions by definition disagree with others and believe the core beliefs of the other religions to be false.

Not necessarily. God by definition, as the creator of the universe, does not abide by the universe’s laws. Thus it’s possible to say two opposing things about God which are both true, and nothing you can say can be perfectly true as the limited language can’t describe the unlimited.

“No God before me” can have, and does have in the history of Christianity, three possible interpretations.

• the exclusivist one (Evangelical churches mainly): the Christian God is the only God, you have to confess him directly to be saved.
• the inclusivist one (mainly the Catholic church, and some Protestants), the Christian God is the only God, but you can unknowingly pray him when you pray an other God within other traditions, in other words you can be Christian without knowing it.
• the pluralistic one (other Protestants), most religions are equally valuable, but if you are Christian you should pray only the Christian God.

Of course this is just a model, all positions are deeper than that and most people mix two or even the three models. I don’t know where the Orthodox Churches stand.

For myself, I tend to be somewhere between the second and the third model.

I always marveled at just how many people would switch to English whether we were in Germany or Zimbabwe.

English is an official language of Zimbabwe, and German is in the same language family as English. Try to speak English to commoners in Egypt, Eastern Europe, Vietnam or even France, and it wouldn’t be that easy.

For most of human history, slavery was a normal thing, I’m not sure your argument is a good one.

My mom was raised German christian

I hope not

France, 30s, and I almost always drove manual transmissions. But I rent an automatic, and now I don’t understand why manual cars still exist.

Randomly typed letters made Zloubida think of some famous (and ridiculous) French song, thus Zloubida thought fun to choose this word as user name.

Thus you know the name of the biggest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly? You know, the one with an Irish name.

I’m pastor in France. Nothing techy…