Flax_vert
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- Comment on The impregnable British perimeter 3 hours ago:
Let me just hijack an F-35. I’ve played DCS.
*Yvette, I will not hijack an F-35, nor have I played DCS. This is a joke.
- Comment on I would like to know about websites ending with .onion Is there anybody who can tell me more about this ? 5 hours ago:
I believe you need to have TOR to view them
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 2 days ago:
A very active britposter
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 2 days ago:
I think because Emperor has vanished, might be a factor
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 2 days ago:
Feddit.UK is kinda nice as there’s the little british bubble in Local
- Comment on BBC News - BBC senior staff told to 'step back' from duties following row 4 days ago:
The saga just gets worse and worse. The worst thing the BBC is doing here is apologising. They need a backbone and just say “we broadcasted an event. Not our problem”
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- Comment on Is it mean to use a bird identification app to call birds in closer? 4 days ago:
I eat birds, which is probably less ethical than this
- Comment on The Fediverse Passport: A needed tool. 4 days ago:
I think it’ll be cool for lemmy communities as well to create an aggregate of multiple posts
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 4 days ago:
I’m glad we had the discussion. Although I don’t really see why Christians should be expected to alter their beliefs to suit that of non-Christians (in the same way I have no interest in convincing atheists that homosexuality is morally wrong). I think I have said that homophobia - in terms of actually attacking and/or trying to worsen the quality of life or remove rights from homosexual people is completely wrong.
1 Corinthians 5:12-13
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 4 days ago:
I’ve read the Bible. I don’t just Google it.
I’ll show you a healthcare system which I criticise and advocate to reform.
I’m literally a Protestant. I oppose “seals of confession” which allowed most of this abuse to happen. Abuse can still happen, just like how it can happen in schools and hospitals. I don’t tolerate it.
If you had one witness with red paint on their face, saying “a guy threw red paint on my face”, and then you went on to lool for the guy mentioned, and found him, with an empty bucket of red paint and red paint all over his hands, it would be more believable than having a two guys — one with blue paint on him and one with yellow paint on him — saying “a guy threw red paint on us”, especially when you then don’t find any red paint anywhere, and even the local stores say they don’t even recall ever seeing any.
Except that’s not what’s happening. One guy said “Jesus was executed around Friday morning” and another guy said “Jesus was executed around the afternoon”, and these are two guys from 2000 years ago who’s only method of timekeeping was to look at the sun, and they split the day into quarters, it is a lot more understandable. Now say Jesus was executed at around 11am. That would both qualify as morning and around noon. If anything, it shows that they weren’t corroborating a made up story and actually witnessed something, since they both gave their estimates of the time.
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 4 days ago:
Yes I have read the Bible. I was Baptised and confirmed in my early 20s. A triangle with four angles isn’t a failure of power, it’s a failure of language. We have a four angled shape God can create. It’s called a Quadrilateral.
Rapes happen in hospitals and schools - does that mean proponents of healthcare and education are defending a system that makes it possible? Shame on them, I guess.
If you had a criminal court case, and you only had one witness, it would be less reliable than one with two witnesses.
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 4 days ago:
You posted a graphic with 439 alleged contradictions. I need to verify them actually being contradictions to answer your comment. But I have literally spent my time as I have grown up reading and investigating these alleged contradictions and couldn’t find any holding water. If you want me to arbitrarily pick one for you, I can. I just thought it would be best to let you pick a favourite.
I don’t see how other self professed monotheists raping little boys disproves monotheism. That’s like saying evolution isn’t real because scientists in that field also argued for eugenics. And yes, it does matter to me. Child abuse disgusts me at my core and I would love nothing more than to see these people drowned with a millstone… Although that’s probably too kind to them.
Anyway, Random number generator told me “205”. “At what time of day was Jesus crucified?”
Mark 15:25
And it was the third hour when they crucified him.
John 19:14-16
Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,
Precise timekeeping is a modern innovation. Back then, they divided the day into quarters. Third hour could mean any time in the late morning or afternoon. Sixth hour could mean early or late afternoon. These people were eyeballing the sun.
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 4 days ago:
You literally sent me a graphic I had to zoom in on alleging 439 “contradictions” in the Bible and telling me that my argument is invalid because I am refusing to answer every single one in a lemmy thread. I volunteered to answer any one you propose to me. Just not all 439, for the sake of time.
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 4 days ago:
You’re talking as if the Bible is one book. It isn’t. It’s 66 books. The intention of the likes of 1 Corinthians or Romans as a literal writing and instruction to the Church is different from Genesis which is written legend, or Isaiah which is prophecy. Or Judges which is a record of how badly everyone behaved. It’s like saying that you don’t need to treat the details in a Wikipedia article about Donald Trump as fact because they also have an article on the Mad Hatter from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland which is fiction. “You’re picking and choosing what parts of Wikipedia to believe”
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 4 days ago:
I think there’s a level of literalism that people talk about. The claims made about homosexuality come off as very literal as they’re letters to a congregation. The creation narrative was likely oral tradition written down after many generations, so you can attribute symbolism to it.
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 4 days ago:
Argumentum ad nauseam
- Comment on Why, just why? 4 days ago:
Tbf the conservative party held power for over a decade
- Comment on Why, just why? 4 days ago:
“people fleeing horrific situations that you and I can’t imagine”
I know France is a hole, but I wouldn’t go that far.
- Comment on Why, just why? 4 days ago:
Because people are coming over in boats from france and seeking asylum and are draining the system. That’s why. To them, they basically see a massive sign saying “free handouts, come on over” and useful idiots are falling for their rouse left, right and centre.
I still think asylum seekers should be given benefits and support… Just not the ones coming from safe countries like France or Ireland.
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 4 days ago:
I am not answering 400 supposed “contradictions” on a Lemmy thread 💀
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 5 days ago:
You said the priest required you didn’t, not that you followed through. You also said you converted just to piss people off.
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 5 days ago:
Only for those who take literal meaning and instruction from the Bible
So… Christians
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 5 days ago:
Hold it - so you don’t even believe Jesus rose from the dead? You’ve basically proved my point then that it’s a contradiction.
You don’t believe that Jesus rose from the dead (and thus aren’t even Christian in that case) If that’s the case I think it is safe to assume that you don’t believe Jesus is the very God who determines what love and acceptance are, or right and wrong, all you’re really doing is stuffing your own definition of those words into some warmed over talking points, then stuffing that inside the hollowed out name of “Jesus” so you can tell me I am wrong about what my God teaches.
Since you have to disregard Christianity to make your logic work, it proves my point that talking points such as these are incompatible with Christianity.
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 5 days ago:
So essentially religious appropriation. Got it.
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 5 days ago:
So you converted to Christianity just to have a church wedding?
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 5 days ago:
I know
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 5 days ago:
I already looked at the community and checked it out. It’s got a pride flag with a blue canton bearing a red cross. I know what the pride flag stands for - pride in being in a homosexual relationship. Practicing homosexuality is forbidden in Christianity, so it’s a contradiction to be proud of doing something un-Christian while being a Christian.
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 5 days ago:
Name one contradiction and I’ll address it. Not going to do all 400
- Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity 5 days ago:
You were asking me about a community which was hypothetical. I stated what the hypothetical community in this scenario was about before giving my opinion. A “divorced Christians” community could literally be a number of things.