yeather
@yeather@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 17 minutes ago:
Ok Tankie
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 hour ago:
Joseph Stalin violently shut down any resistance to collectivization of farmland, then kidnapped or starved the Ukranian population to prevent a resurgence of Ukranian culture, arts, and science that was rivaling the culture and intelligence of Moscow.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 16 hours ago:
Thomas Jefferson was a Deist, which is about as close to atheism as you could get since atheism was not “founded” in its modern forms yet.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 17 hours ago:
The state has no control over the food at the pantries beyond basic health standards. The state cannot force me to give out bread when I run a soup kitchen. It can encourage me to continue with charitable acts with tax credits and subsidies, but it cannot force me to.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 17 hours ago:
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Because they are religious? You would be hard pressed to find politicians who do not appeal to a higher authority except in countries where religious freedoms are restricted.
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Targeted by smear campaigns from their political opponents who would have smear campaigns running anyways. Credible death threats is a different story and not the norm, politicians recieve death threats from wackos over everything they do.
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What would the state do? It’s a first amendment protected right. If you dislike this practice you can stay in hotels without bibles.
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Anecdotal evidence at best, maybe in the more religious areas of the country in the south this happens, but they are a minority.
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Good job realizing that.
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Yes megachurches do provide some charity to maintain their tax exempt status. There is no defined percentage of revenue you must spend to be a charity. This is a larger issue that affects secular charities as well.
You have really only argued one of your six points.
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- Comment on Hrmmmmm 22 hours ago:
I cannot find a single source about US insisting debt payments be made in food. Most of the kulaks were also imprisoned or deported in the late 1920’s during collectivization. The USSR in the early years had targeted food shortages in Ukraine and the Caucuses to starve the population into submission. There was later a union wide food shortage because Stalin increased the export of wheat without adequately increasing production.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 22 hours ago:
Even if they tend to be run by churches, then they wouldn’t count as state run. Meaning you do not see state-run bread lines / food pantries.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 22 hours ago:
Well let’s break your points down.
1: The president does not need to pretend everything is done in the name of god. One party does this to appeal to a religious base.
2: You do not need to swear into office on a bible, many have sworn in on nothing at all or other holy books.
3: Every hotel is provided a bible (and often a book of mormon) by that company. This is because the company many of these hotels are owned by is a mormon company. Many hotels do not have bibles in them now.
4: Children are not required to pray in the morning, unless you attend a religious school specifically. If you mean the pledge, that is also optional and not done in many schools.
5: In God We Trust is an odd case yes. It was added in the 1950’s to “combat socialism.”
6: Churches are not required to pay taxes because they are also charities that perform good acts for the poor. Other religions claim this benefit as well.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 day ago:
Umazing
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 day ago:
If the food pantries are run by churches, then they are not state run, meaning you do not see state run food pantries.
- Comment on Oh. 1 day ago:
It’s not slavery because the position is voluntary.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 5 days ago:
This is interpreted both ways. The “original” Cult of Yahweh view saw the god Yahweh as El, the head god of the Canaanite pantheon. Later, after the Cult of Yahweh became old Judaism, the comandment was reinterpreted as Yahweh being the only god jews should worship, and then later as the only God, since any other divine being worshipped by others would not be God.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 2 weeks ago:
So your last paragraph is not entirely true. According to most Christian doctrines, the tribes of Israel stopped being a thing with Jesus, and the title now referred to the followers of the church created by Jesus. Second, the 144k is less a concrete number and more a representation of perfection. People considered pure good would recieve the seal of god on their forehead to contrast those of pure bad that recieve the mark of the beast. Third, the 144k are given the role to recruit others to fight with god against the antichrist and the beast. Finally, in Catholic and Orthodox doctrine, the 144k are theorized to be the saints reborn to lead tge rightcheous to victory.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 5 weeks ago:
Infering or not, that is what’s happening.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 5 weeks ago:
The trains were nationalised by the Tory government in 2020, and they also abolished franchising later that year. They also began to set up Great British Railways in 2021. All that’s happening now is the contracts are being withdrawn as they reach their break points.Steel has not been nationalised. The government has taken over the funding of redundancy payments and retraining for the shut down private sector Tata furnaces in Port Talbot, and has taken steps to force the owners of British Steel to keep the idle furnaces in Scunthorpe burning.There has also been no nationalisation in the energy sector. Great British Energy is set up as a way to subsidise projects created and run by the private sector and other public bodies. It will not generate, distribute or retail energy.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 5 weeks ago:
Copying from Ohulancutash:
The trains were nationalised by the Tory government in 2020, and they also abolished franchising later that year. They also began to set up Great British Railways in 2021. All that’s happening now is the contracts are being withdrawn as they reach their break points.Steel has not been nationalised. The government has taken over the funding of redundancy payments and retraining for the shut down private sector Tata furnaces in Port Talbot, and has taken steps to force the owners of British Steel to keep the idle furnaces in Scunthorpe burning.There has also been no nationalisation in the energy sector. Great British Energy is set up as a way to subsidise projects created and run by the private sector and other public bodies. It will not generate, distribute or retail energy.
- Comment on Tylenol is the enemy 1 month ago:
But Landa was always a double agent for the OSS. His actions were authorized to secure his identity as an SS Colonel. Just like our dear leader and his time on the island!
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
Basically a circle when you compare the two problematic groups in America.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
Which is the one group both groups politicians shill for.
Which group currently blackmails both sides of the aisle.
Which group funds politicians on both sides of the aisle to keep American taxpayers sending billion of dollars a year despite their current genocide and souring tensions with the world.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 1 month ago:
No, alligators are lazy, ambush predators that stalk and move slowly. Crocodiles are more versatile, faster, and have more stamina for sledding.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 2 months ago:
I saw a bunch in Japan, along with Vinyl and CD, even saw some 8-track in Tower Records.
- Comment on White Maleman, cooking YouTuber, loves to tell you what to do 2 months ago:
The wrong religion was also conquering lands of the right religion, so the right religion just conquered the lands back.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 2 months ago:
You also have your old military id. Even if expired it should work 99.99% of the time.
- Comment on Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years 2 months ago:
Fallout, Fable, and COD.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 3 months ago:
It’s a good thing England is importing people with this exact cultural view.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 months ago:
Do the relaxed scenario girl and a lower difficulty for an easier time. Drop in a year round grow area, and mountainous area to mine a base into the mountain.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 4 months ago:
I don’t get it
- Comment on Attorney General: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools 4 months ago:
My Republican senators!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
No
