So I was looking into this idea a little bit more and it turns out a guy named Paul Tillich already had the idea like 70 years ago. Don't you just hate when that happens? It's like when you think of a good invention that will make you rich and then you google it and somebody already made it and it's not even that successful. Anyways apparently he is Lutheran which is crazy because I am Lutheran too. And he has German ancestry and lived in Illinois? I am thinking that I am an incarnation of this guy...I ALSO had a girlfriend named Hannah

RDKirk said:

Who has the fixation on Trump?

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Who ever has to mention him every day and be completely consumed with him lol.

RDKirk said:

Golden Trump statue unveiled at C-PAC

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Are you kidding. The ABC is like the BBC lol. I would not trust them at all. Another State controlled media who push a partisan narrative.

We've already played these baby games when the left tried to tie David Duke to Trump, because of an endorsement.

...Now they want to portray Fuentes as the voice of the party.

essentialsaltes said:

DOGE claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside ‍financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.

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At least I don't have to pay so much for Left-wing propaganda now.

I feel much better now.

Hans Blaster said:

So what. Your post has nothing to do with the Mayor of NYC not having any powers over who does or does not get into the USA.

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He doesn't need those powers. Immigrants come all the time. Now I predict the Muslim ones will head to New York, because the mayor is a Muslim.

...Watch as mosques start popping up like weeds.

PloverWing said:

As an aside:



Do you mean Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist? He's a cool guy, but I had no idea anyone venerated him as a god.

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I don't like him and I refuse to give him the reverence of using his middle name.

Gene2memE said:

Do you not understand the meaning of the term 'OECD nations'?

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Do you think that it matters in the reality of the world, which nations participate in that? The comment was made that socialistic economies are better for the poor than capitalist ones, while excluding a huge number of countries in the data set. That's not useful.

PloverWing said:

I've heard sermons to this effect, but I don't buy it. It weakens the definitions of "god" and "worship" if we just mean "something I value" or "something of very high priority to me".

When I use the word "worship", it includes a sense of the sacred or holy or (to use Rudolf Otto's word) numinous. Financial success might be something a person values and pursues to a fault, but it's hard for me to imagine people seeing money as genuinely numinous. Reddit can be a tremendous time-thief ("Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread?", indeed), but, again, numinous?

By contrast, I think the idols mentioned in the Old Testament really were perceived as embodying spirit-beings, or maybe the numinous aspects of the sun, fertility, the earth, and so on. It's tempting to apply these OT passages to modern activities like shrewd financial investing, but most modern Americans aren't genuine polytheists in the way that the ancients were. They saw gods everywhere. Post-Enlightenment, many Americans see gods nowhere.

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I trust Paul's usage of the word worship. I would also refer to Matthew 6:24.

jacks said:

Sometimes it is hard to distinguish between "false god" and "idol". I tend to think that people make "idols" of many things. That is they place that thing above God in importance. An obvious one is money. Not that they think money is something that is truly a god (false god), rather that it is something they value above all else. (idol).

Hopefully what I said makes some sense...

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I think the parable of the 10 Virgins was partially about this

Fervent said:

There seem to be 2 questions at play, the first being whether it is possible to live as if God does not exist and the second whether simply valuing things elevates them to the point of "worship" and attaining "god" status. The first of these, I believe, is a categorical no. God is such an all-encompassing reality that we cannot effectively deny His existence because something will need to fill the vacuum we create in doing so. But whether this patchwork world picture contains anything that can be called a "god" in and of itself is questionable. So in one sense, the atheist is nothing but a fool trying to live an untenable reality. But is he still an atheist? I would say yes, and so "atheism" as a concept is a sensible one to speak of.

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I would say that an atheist is able to convince himself that there are no gods under an atheist framework. But under a Christian framework, I believe scripture suggests that the things we give our attention to are important, so much so that worship itself can be ultimately boiled down to paying attention to something. This is seen literally in Numbers 21:8–9 and fulfilled by the crucifixion. I believe the things we pay attention to (whether inanimate or animate) are gods, and we should strive to focus on the True God, Jesus Christ, at all times. Under these parameters I hope it should be easy to see why even an atheist could worship multiple gods.

What does pluralist religious education look like. Is it learn prayer and hymes one week, Islam the following week and satanism the week after. To ensure all beliefs are covered and kids have a balanced view.

What about secular religion being pushed in State schools. How come that is never a problem. Kids come home speaking about how they learnt about race, LGBTIQ+ sex and that little boys can become girls. How come this religion is given priority over others lol. Heck some schools don't even tell the parents how they are brain washing their kids.

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Where is China?

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China isn't part of the OECD.

It also depends on how you define 'Child poverty'.

Officially, the child poverty rate is at 0.1% as of 2022. That's based on the international standard (adjusted for PPP) of living in a household that makes at least $2.15 per day (in 2017) dollars.

But, that's also an official Chinese statistic (so potentially dubious) and is also the defined poverty rate for 'low income' countries. Which you can argue that China no longer is.

If you update it for 'lower middle income' ($3.65 per day in 2017 dollars) or 'upper middle income' ($6.85 per day), then the number goes up considerably. The China Household Income Project estimated the share of children living in income poor households (at the $3.65 threshold) was 6.3%. The UNDESA estimate for 2019 was between 5.3% and 7.8% of Chinese children were living in income poor households.

If you go to a broader stat, like "multidimensional poverty" - which covers more than just income, but stuff like development milestones, educational attainment, living standards and access to healthcare - then the estimates for childhood poverty are between 6% at the low end to 18% at the high end.

For context, estimates of childhood multidimensional poverty for the US range from 10% at the low end to 22% at the high end.

essentialsaltes said:

Exactly, the issue is about which views are welcome within the Republican Party. Is it a big tent that can accommodate antisemitism and white supremacy? Or is it a slightly smaller tent?

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It's a mistake to consider Fuentes as within the Republican party tent, since he's just a streamer./ podcaster. He's a free citizen (not a politician) who can classify himself anyway he chooses, even if I and others personally don't like him. Which I don't.

If you do a quick search on the internet, it's primarily the left who gives him the most attention, because it's useful to expose the parts about him they dislike the most. They probably make up the majority of his audience, even.

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The point is they don't have to do anything more than just exist to trigger certain libs.

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Does that principle also apply to conservatives triggered by Gay Days?

That one judge is merely attempting to help Comey and James instead of allowing them to go to trial.

rambot said:

All kinds of interesting things were made known.

Like how many big MAGA infleuncers are not even in America.

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Who are they?

Oompa Loompa said:

January 22, 2025 is now current events?

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I am not posting this in News and Events. I am posting it in American Politics.

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Oh, stop with your censorship nonsense. Nobody needs to be censored, and you know it.

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Exactly, the issue is about which views are welcome within the Republican Party. Is it a big tent that can accommodate antisemitism and white supremacy? Or is it a slightly smaller tent?

ChubbyCherub said:

I appreciate all men are not like this, but many are, and I cannot and will not indiscriminately agree to uphold men's leadership/authority without question and standards

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We don’t have to uphold a man’s authority we are not married to, however, we do have to uphold our husband’s authority based on God’s design. It took me a long time to see that a husband’s position is recognized by God even if that husband is abusive. We don’t have to stay in the abuse; we are allowed to separate ourselves. Sometimes this is not possibly, however, God recognizes the abuse, and when the wife humbles herself to God and ask for help, God removes that man - sometimes to the detriment of the man to break the authority - God takes the man from this life.

But if the woman is not humble, she cannot have the peace she seeks, because God’s law dictates a woman is subject to the man - only a humble and meek heart brings down swift help from God. That’s just how it is.

Jude gives an example of positions and how they are to be honored and respected even if the individual is wicked,
Jude 1:9 KJV
Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

God originally gave Satan a position of honor that the other angels recognized - they would not disrespect Satan because he’s evil, because of the position and honor God gave to him, although he will be punished in the end.

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I also appreciate that some may view this as unbiblical but, as I stated, if Jesus came down and sat in front of me, I'd explain my position with an open heart and I believe He would understand my point of view comes from a pure place rather than a challenge to His authority and word

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No He will not. He requires obedience and honor and respect and a humble spirit. We should not condemn ourselves believing we can ignore what He has put in place because how we feel. Of course He understands how we feel, but God says I change not. So in order for God to remove the authority the man has over the woman, the woman must recognize the authority and humble herself and ask God for help. Then God will help swiftly. But if we ask out of pride and out of our selfishness, our feelings, we will not be helped.

That’s the lesson to learn - humility is the answer!

I would be more concerned about the political strife that permeates the airwaves encouraging participation in the ways of man, not the Kingdom. This nonsense reaches far more than music. Better yet how about when nations push the idea of free enterprise and every man for themselves, thriving on selfshness. I think it goes further than music which in itself is subjective

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The point is they don't have to do anything more than just exist to trigger certain libs.

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Which 'certain libs' do you assert are triggered?

I think Trump's on the side of the Democrats (and our military academy) on this.