That being, Yahweh, does not exist. Gods like him don't exist.

Until they stone witches.

Or kill each other in Ireland.

*newt

Hitler: catholic

Stalin used the trappings if religious organization and set himself up in the role of God.

Muslims hate Jews. Hitler found their ideas ally-worthy.

The Japanese also leader-worshipped.

Christianity today is mostly fine because of a lot of heavy selective bias instead of biblical literalism.

There are ideas superior to Christianity. They've been allowed, despite the religion, to flourish.

Thou shalt not own other human beings.

Don't fuck kids.

There's two.

Not so much forbidden, as "don't get caught."

Not so much a theory as "it was the news a few years ago. It did happen. It had been happening."

And it happens today in several Christian cults, like the Mormons and Jehova's Witnesses.

There are bits and pieces from Christianity that are decent. Except that Christianity tries to claim things as original to it that it stole from others. And It doesn't surprise me that a community dominated by Christianity would have Christians coming up with good ideas: see Isaac Newton.

Nothing in Christianity specifically is pro abolition. It is folks deciding to ignore the bits in the Bible where Jesus said to slaves to obey their masters and so on. Or the OT rules for how to properly own slaves. They got those ideas by focusing on the bits about loving your brother and so on. Again, Christianity improves when you don't try to take it as a whole, and you pilfer it for loose bits of good morality.

Keeping the useless bits, like god and jesus, aren't necessary.

@UnfilteredGarbage Am aware.

OT still forms the basis that the NT uses to try to sound legitimate though.

(NT also includes Revelation, just saying)

Yeah.

Except for when you take slaves of your conquered neighbor tribes. Especially the philistines.

Then it's chattel slavery.

and always has been.

The Bible contains regulations for how to ~~enslave~~ indentured servitude your fellow Jews. But prisoners of war were not given the same dignity.

African slaves were more often captured by neighboring tribes and sold to whites.

Yes it is.

So did the jews.

The slavery in the Bible includes chattel slavery.

...You do know where Israel is and historically was, right?

Anyway.

There are bits in the Bible that, if you choose to focus on them and ignore the other bits, can lead someone to decide slavery is bad. It takes personal interpretation being given primacy over literal or total interpretation. And when Christians do that, and push good morals above what is found in the pages of the book, we get moral progress.

Now, if we keep moving past that and into even better grounds, you'll find less and less of the original material making the cut.

We do see some of those issues on the left.

They're going batshit with their "morality."

I had some Muslims at work attempt to tell me that their religion was superior to Christianity because their holy book hadn't been edited at all since the original writing. Not even a dot or tiddle different.

It really isn't.

I'm aware of those historical facts. I did not even for a moment agree with them.

It's also really weird having a Muslim try to convert me, an atheist, by arguing superiority of Islam over Christianity. It seems like they'd been fed a certain bit of apologetics and couldn't actually think of how to react to someone who agrees with them that Christianity is shit. Just that their book is shit too.

He was legal. He was over here because he interpretted for us in Afghanistan, and the other ragheads wanted to murder him and his family.

~~Not~~ Bad Islam?

See: Ilhan Omar

She makes one trip to ~~Palestine~~ Isreal, gets some flak for being a cunt, then everyone forgets.

I also find it hilarious that Rome named the region after the Jews' hated enemy, the philistines. And folks (on the left) try to act like that's the legitimate country.

@Goodwood of Dank™ I honestly can't tell the different between the mailboxes.

Maybe if I could see her face.

Like a real person.

I have to say though, I feel sorry for Pelosi and the other dems.

They have to endure that shrill, nails on chalkboard voice that Omar has. And they have to pretend to listen to her like good tolerant lefties.

I live in California. I have zero tolerance for Pelosi.

Fuck that whore.

But the religious hats inform the elected servants of what tribe the others are, and thus encourage religious infighting.

The hats being old things, and not good. Agreed.

Well, we see hats in, and we see people not acting as they should.

Also, if you don't think hats matter, you never played TF2.

It was valid to begin with.

Yeah. Like, you're not allowed to call other elected official racist. Oh, oops...

Don't tell me they're doing that in the actual House now? I thought that shit was the highschool Dems club shit?

https://media.tenor.com/images/d61a4ed50d211bb07449fb616c961df2/tenor.gif

I heard Ukraine might be getting better.

Well, hopefully Germany will be losing one of its colonies soon. Start or end of October?

Germany keeps losing colonies, yes. First after WW1, Then after WW2, and soon after Brexit.

They owned Poland and France during WW2.

And?

The EU wasn't. Your point?

Yes it is~

They also tried to improve the French gene pool.

But so did we Americans, sooo...

So, yes. They're colonies.

Now, moving on from my joke.

looool.

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I think the "full" part is pretty subjective. Brits didn't exactly have "full" control of us.

Germany-lite.

No, seriously. What's the difference between Germany and Belgium?

Somone drew some lines on the map and said they're different?

Those lines move around a lot over the centuries.

The US should have borders. Just saying the Europeans are really bad at them.

They do suck at most things involving maps.

Germany keeps trying.

They have one.

Islam.

They're bending over.

Tear'm up from the inside. Groom the European girls to be cumdumpsters for the brown cock. That's Islam's invasion plan this time.

Hopefully UK gets out in time, and cracks down on that shit. We'll need an ally once the brown tide takes over the mainland.

We seemed to do a pretty good job working together before.

Well, now they have a zipline PM. Maybe they can get it done.

Is it genocide or extinction when they're not real humans?

Thank the Romans for that.

@Napoleon Lee Scott No we're not.

lol

Let'm. If they can, they deserve to.

If they don't, we'll steal their shit, reverse engineer it, and catipult ourselves into the stars, and take them over.

There are a few steps along the way, but we'll conquer their homeland eventually.

If we want it.

Hopefully they have cute females.

With soft orifices.

If they kill me in particular, I'd feel honored.

@2 point 2 zero They wouldn't have anything worth stealing then. I can already make an excellent burrito.

Remember the old hunter-gatherer days? Those sucked. We made it through those.