Man. You have one incredibly myopic view of history

You are not as intelligent as you tell yourself you are

Enjoy your comfort, bought with the blood of others who you pretend to care about

Some deep reflection on your part would go a long way toward increasing both your happiness and your ability to actually have a beneficial effect on the world

I mean that, although you will probably insist (I’ve noticed that about you and the people you associate yourself with), that the most important thing is that you FEEL like you are “on the right side of history”. Such a comforting phrase for those who refuse to actually do anything other than perform

I am done here

You are taking about the actions your church engages in, right?

NOT the actions YOU PERSONALLY have engaged in

You are convinced that your approach is the correct one, even when it is obviously not working

You could really read the Bible for yourself, and resist what you are being told to think, and see what happens

Your Lord and Savior is telling you, you directly, how to act, and you are not doing his bidding

Ever ask yourself if he is disappointed in you?

The Catholic Church is the front for so much evil in this world. Go on, keep defending evil. Let’s see how that works out

Thank you for spending so much time thinking about a throw away comment I made

Do you still believe that your insistence on being right about an issue that springs from a time long before you were born is going to somehow convince anyone to see things exactly as you demand?

If you cannot even engage in discussion with the hope that it might spur some small semblance of rationality, then perhaps you are contributing to the suffering of people who you may have no direct connection with whatsoever

I guess others dying and suffering to defend a hill that you have never stood on will continue to be fashionable

Good luck to us. We need it

Being of Lebanese descent, I continue to be torn between the fact that 5 Arab nations attacked the state upon its founding, and the subsequent developments in the inhumanity of the Zionists. I can understand Israeli desire to have a homeland. I can understand Palestinian desires to have a homeland. What i find impossible to understand is the steady progress of terrorist tactics on both sides What i am incredibly depressed by is the fact that the Israelis have become so incredibly inhumane I am losing hope in humanity itself

You are in no way the intellectual you think you are

Let’s talk about it the soup kitchen, or on the overnight shift at the homeless shelter… Oh, yeah, you’ve never even set one foot in either of those, because your devotion to the ‘Church father’s’ convinced you that you are following the commands of your Lord and savior, just like the ‘Church fathers’ told you

Simple sheep, out your head back down and stop embarrassing the rest of your flock

What are you even talking about?

See folks, THIS is the level of intellectual discourse that we are dealing with. The inability to even read a simple sentence and connect it with reality is a sign of mental illness in the extreme. The church was poisoned so long ago that the poisoning has become dogma.

Good damn! Some stories are better left untold

“Paul who may have been a murderer” What do you mean “may have been”?

See, folks, THIS is how many layers deep of brainwashing we are dealing with here. It is people like this that give Christianity a bad name. It is almost completely irredeemable.

As a descendant of the first people to convert, I am disappointed

Uh huh. He was looking to trade her in anyway. Trump just have him a perfect excuse. I got a dollar that he will be married to his 20 years junior secretary within 6 months of finalizing the divorce

I’ve been in the field for over 20 years. Managed to dodge the shit, but I DID get my thumbnail bitten off once, and the same guy give a select few of us matching scars on the backs of our hands where he sank his teeth in and then tried to rip the flesh off the bone

Good times

So, if i rip off an AI author, I will only owe royalties to the author the AI ripped off?

“folks, I just spoke with representatatative rhinestone, and he assured me that he is doing a terrific job, and I believe him. This is obviously a deep state FBI sting, and IT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!SLEEPY JOE MUST ANSWER FOR THIS ABUSE OF FEDERAL POWERS AS UNNUMBERATED IN THE CODE OF FEDERAL PENALS! We must all do our part to make America groom again! Thank you for your consideration.”

Hi! I’m not sure if you intended it this way, but your shows up in “discuss online”, and in order for me to comment where the other two comments are, it is asking me to sign in, which I already am

You’ll notice that those 2 comments, including your intro, are not here where this comment is

Is this community somehow separate from Lemmy?

If it is, I can say that my involvement will be zero, unless I can comment with ease, without logging into another system

Sorry I’m confused but I’m sorta new to all of this as well

The speed of things these days is dizzying. One day you own the libs, less than 12 hours later bubba owns your booty

Umm, excuse me, but why are you giving legitimacy to a figure who began his career by having early christian missionaries murdered, and who them went on to become the “leader” of the Christian Church? Does it not, in any way, make you question what is going on here? Saul, who was MOST DEFINITELY NOT a disciple, should have been assigned the duty of caring for the left behind loved ones of the people he had murdered, in order to begin to atone for his sins. If you think he should be forgiven, then you are being an exemplar of the virtues of Christ, so good on you. But to become the LEADER of the church, who to this day is seen as a guide for Christian morality, does not somehow seem wrong to you in any way?

You do understand that 1.4% is a much lower number than we are currently talking about, right? Other than that, I applaud your willingness to take your customers into consideration

If the king don’t like it…

Considering that I ended up getting banished from my personal bubble, I’m betying that I would have ended up on the outside of that wall anyway, so yeah!

This article seems to be based around an assumption that the entire story of what is going on in Ukraine is obvious on its face. What is obvious is that the level of smoke and mirrors employed in this situation is on a generational scale. There are adults who were not alive to witness the last time we witnessed this level of obfuscation, control of the narrative, and use of the age old tactic of distraction

Besides all of that, this article seems to pick and choose its obvious points and disregard many others

All of that is to say that this is part of the overall effort, a position which is further supported by the fact that this article is printed by the esteemed simplicius. You know, that renowned author of insightful commentary that we all know so well