rambot said:

I won't bother to bring up the numerous Christian settlements and groups around the US who do this very thing.

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What about it? The US has less than 1% inbreeding rate. Compare that to EVERY MUSLIM COUNTRY. Then look at non-muslim countries and see what their Muslim population is. You will quickly discover that the higher the Muslim population, the higher the inbreeding.

rambot said:

Hey Folks.

Almost 2 years later and [drumroll]

$1.21 trillion


If you compare trends....well, that's pretty awful.

Good luck Americans! For the richest country, you guys have some spending problems. How are you gonna sort that out? Children of Men kinda thing?

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Is this really the American dream? Debt and more debt?

Sigh

rambot said:

Companies should be paying the workers they have more money.

But they're not and they don't.

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You’re so, so right! Some companies are so tight with their money they cut hours and let people go. Speaking from experience.

Sigh

Oompa Loompa said:

Provide a source quoting the Trump administration admitted that it happened.

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Like... Do you guys watch\read the news or go anywhere on the internet other than these forums? Why are you trying to discuss these things if you have no idea what anyone is talking about without them spoon feeding it to you? You're at least the third poster I've seen ask for "proof" or evidence of things that have been clearly confirmed to be true and all over media.

Oompa Loompa said:

Provide a source quoting the Trump administration admitted that it happened.

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Oof.

Oompa Loompa said:

Have the footage? Or any evidence whatsoever that any accusations actually occured?

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So you're not saying that it was justified or trying to excuse it. You are saying that it might not even have happened. Yet the gutless Sec of Defence has thrown his own admiral under a bus by saying 'Hey, it wasn't me! He's the guy that did it'.

From here: Trump administration is ‘selling out’ admiral to shield Hegseth over boat strikes, officials say

'At a Pentagon briefing on Tuesday, Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon press secretary said that the decision to re-strike the “narco terrorist vessel” was made by Adm Frank M Bradley...'

Do you get that? I guess maybe you haven't been following the news these last couple of days or you'd know about it. The fact that the vessel was blown up a second time is not in dispute. So there were men in the water. The question that you and others have to ask yourselves is whether this can possibly be justified. Maybe a quote might prompt some self reflection:

'Trump said on Sunday he “wouldn’t have wanted that – not a second strike” when asked about the incident...'

So, let's be clear. Do you agree with your president or not? Something tells me that we won't be getting a simple answer to that because you aren't sure who is to blame.

There's been a few threads in the forum as to whether relative morality exists. Well guys, this is a classic example of it. It's a guarantee that it exists. Because you won't say that something is wrong until you know who did it.

iluvatar5150 said:

Did you miss the point of my comments?

The video was presented as him doing something bad, undesirable, or "aggressive." My comments pointed out that he's not doing anything that thousands of other evangelicals before him have done and continue to do every Sunday.


On this point, you're very, very wrong. "Making society as a whole more Christian" is exactly what the 7 Mountain Mandate seeks to do. It's a core tenet of the theology driving a lot of the swell in Christian Nationalism and it's also infused a lot of branches of evangelicalism that aren't explicitly Dominionist.

Dominionism isn't explicitly violent the was that "jihad" is often interpreted, but it does seem to becoming more tolerant of it.

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Oh, my mistake. Apologies.

I’ve never heard of 7 Mountain Mandate. Thanks for the info. Then again, I don’t come from an evangelical or fundamentalist background.

Peace

Oompa Loompa said:

By the way, the State with the lowest average IQ is Mississippi with an average of 97. Still significantly better than just about all Muslim countries. Please, find me one Muslim country with a higher IQ average than Mississippi.

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[pssst. IQ tests have a known cultural bias]

But of course....Dunning Krueger.

Oompa Loompa said:

Muslims are more likely to marry their uncles or cousins. How about we just have a blanket immigration ban from any country who's inbreeding is greater than 2%.

Source added: Inbreeding by Country 2025

The higher the Muslim population, the higher the inbreeding.

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I won't bother to bring up the numerous Christian settlements and groups around the US who do this very thing.

Oompa Loompa said:

Average IQ by Country 2025

www.datapandas.org

Go find me the stats on the IQ in Little Mogadishu compared to the rest of the state and get back to me. With an average IQ of just over 67, I doubt they are sending only their best and brightest.

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By the way, the State with the lowest average IQ is Mississippi with an average of 97. Still significantly better than just about all Muslim countries. Please, find me one Muslim country with a higher IQ average than Mississippi.

RDKirk said:

Actually, you made the assertion, so you need to provide references.

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Post 193.

GoldenBoy89 said:

You were the one that wanted to introduce IQ levels as a comparative metric between different cultures. We can see clearly the Islamic socialist caliphate of Minnesota does quite well compared to the very Christian Bible Belt states of the south.

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Go find me the stats on the IQ in Little Mogadishu compared to the rest of the state and get back to me. With an average IQ of just over 67, I doubt they are sending only their best and brightest.

Oompa Loompa said:

Look! Another red herring! If you disagree with my statement, prove me wrong.

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You were the one that wanted to introduce IQ levels as a comparative metric between different cultures. We can see clearly the Islamic socialist caliphate of Minnesota does quite well compared to the very Christian Bible Belt states of the south.

Interesting conjecture. I guess I'll check back here a year from now, and we'll see if you were right.

eclipsenow said:

There's a sense in which this is all fulfilling the oldest of promises and prophecies, before they even ENTERED the land in the first place!

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To think Isaiah wrote about past events in Chapter 49, or any other scripture is wrong. He was a Prophet not a historian.

eclipsenow said:

Let's try reading it in context

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You are right, I did use Hebrews 12:22-24 wrongly. It refers to the Spiritual Mt Zion.
The assembly of Gods peoples in the physical Land of Zion, is yet to happen. John sees them there in Revelation 7:9

eclipsenow said:

Good, reformed Amil theology.

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Bad denial of what the Prophets say will happen.

ThatRobGuy said:

While it may not interfere with someone learning STEM. It does interfere with "the normal college experience" for some of the students.

And while it may only be a minority who would actually light a dumpster on fire to prevent an Ann Coulter speech from taking place...

Overall, attitudes toward "squashing free speech that I don't like" are more than just a small minority.

UC Berkeley students, faculty evaluate campus free speech climate

While the topic of free speech is intertwined with UC Berkeley’s legacy, it has recently become a particular source of concern on campus and across the nation.

www.dailycal.org

UC Berkeley’s Free Speech Identity Crisis | Berkeley Political Review

“Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.” Michael Knowles “I go to UC Berkeley…” Usually, when a Berkeley student utters these words to those who aren’t lucky enough to attend our university, they are met with...

bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu

A campus culture of more than just a few outliers being intolerant of "anything but the most progressive viewpoint" was evidently enough of a problem, and some Senior faculty recognized it was something that needed to be addressed in the form of a brand new course called "Openness to Opposing Views"

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It sounds like you think Universities should be citadels of some slate of "traditional American values" that you are imagining.

iluvatar5150 said:

On this point, you're very, very wrong. "Making society as a whole more Christian" is exactly what the 7 Mountain Mandate seeks to do. It's a core tenet of the theology driving a lot of the swell in Christian Nationalism and it's also infused a lot of branches of evangelicalism that aren't explicitly Dominionist.

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doing you a solid!

take this link, and go start your own thread. Thank you!

Belk said:

Huh. Well that is an interesting view, but that was not my point. My point is that being mediocre and being a strongman are not mutually exclusive. In point of fact I think they go hand in hand.

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I ALMOST always conquer...as if it's "covering" for something.

The Barbarian said:

I've never observed nuclear fusion in the lab, either. But like macroevolution, scientists have observed it.

Right. This has been observed for a very long time.

It's always funny that YECs pretend that science is about faith, as thought faith were a bad thing. But science can't be about faith, since it depends on evidence. If your faith isn't strong enough to save you, science can't help.
"Macroevolution" means the evolution of new species. If that seems meaningless to you, we've located the problem.

It seems so. You've confused evolution including macroevolution, which is an observed phenomenon, with universal common descent. And that is from genetics, not evolutionary theory. Even Darwin just supposed that God created some number of original living things.

All this confusion is curable, if you're willing to investigate a little.

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Look up the "illusion of truth" fallacy. You'll find it helpful to your apparent confusion.

Oompa Loompa said:

Look! Another red herring! If you disagree with my statement, prove me wrong.

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Actually, you made the assertion, so you need to provide references.

Dave, I appreciate your kind reply. However, I think if you look deeper. the Ezekiel verses parallel the Jeremiah verses in talking about the new covenant for Israel and the earthly kingdom they could expect.

Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

The desire to see everything in the bible (especially the gospels) as applying to us can be very strong. By maintaining a distinction between what is intended for Israel and what is for the body of Christ, we can avoid a lot of confusion. I know it is unconventional and unfamiliar, but then there was a time when not praying to Mary was radical.

GoldenBoy89 said:

You might be onto something there. Look at the average IQ in Louisiana vs say… Minnesota.

Average IQ by State 2025

Discover population, economy, health, and more with the most comprehensive global statistics at your fingertips.

worldpopulationreview.com

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Look! Another red herring! If you disagree with my statement, prove me wrong.

Oompa Loompa said:

Provide a source quoting the Trump administration admitted that it happened.

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JohnClay said:

Brutal Bible Bloodbaths is now available on Steam Early Access. It has a ridiculous amount of blood though otherwise the graphics are like Minecraft since they are not very realistic.

Brutal Bible Bloodbaths on Steam

Based on a shocking Bible passage, use weapons like your magic laser sword to cleanse the promised land with optional blood splatter and body chopping.

store.steampowered.com

It is based on Deuteronomy 20:16-20 - and some boys talk about it - I was wondering if Christians thought the humor was offensive...
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Though I thought the boys seemed to be pretty respectful of God.

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If this Game is for children, have you considered rating it PG?
Not that that would matter, if only atheists are playing this, since they will probably try to make God look as ugly as possible, and not tell them the whole truth.

For example, were the Israelites to love the command, in the sense the young boy thinks?
Proverbs 17:5

...whoever rejoices in the ruin of another will not go unpunished.

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Proverbs 24:17

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,

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Would it therefore please God, if one sits and enjoys doing this... finding delight, and glee, as they slaughter their victims?
Of course not.
While that may not bother atheists, warning people with children who may want to please God about how God feels about the matter, would be to their benefit.

No lover of God would enjoy this game though, for those two reasons.
God (1) hates the one loving violence, and (2) will punish the one that delights in the destruction of individuals.
In fact, God himself does not delight or pleasure in the death of anyone. Ezekiel 18:23, 32

A child being aware of this, and considering God, would most certainly avoid this game, and any like it.

JohnClay said:

This shows footage of a sacrificed toddler being sliced up, worshipping a foreign goddess idol causing soldiers to kill you, chopping clothed temple prostitutes, ordering soldiers to go on a killing spree, a cow corpse spilling blood onto flowers, receiving a quest, being told to chop living chickens' legs but their head was chopped instead of their legs:

Spoiler: Video with lots of blood

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Think of a firing squad.
They line the criminals who received their death sentence, in front of their grave, and on the order, they fire their guns... making sure they don't miss.
It may not be a job they enjoy, but it's a job.

It's not likely they would be grinning as they pull the trigger... although living in a world where many have developed callous hearts, and will sit and enjoy watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the like, there are the odd number that would take pleasure in hanging someone; chopping off their head, and seeing it drop...

Love of darkness is indeed normal today. John 3:19

JohnClay said:

This shows the player chasing people around houses in order to kill them, tidying up after the soldiers by pushing chopped bodies into a pit, and skilfully chopping animals.

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Here is the Bible passage it is based on:
Deuteronomy 20:16-20

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How accurate is your game?
If it's not accurately based on the scriptures, it's not based on the scriptures.
Usually, when endeavoring to make a game or movie based on history, or a document, or book, people do thorough research, so as to not misrepresent the facts.

Joshua 10:28, and Joshua 11:11 are corresponding text, and no one was buried, or pushed into a pit, and there was no need to skillfully chop animal, since they burned the city. So any survivor would be "incinerated".

The Israelites did not only have swords. They had spearmen Numbers 25:7, and they also had archers Genesis 27:4; Genesis 48:21, 22. The archers in David's time, were accurate to a hair's breath, and would not miss.
I can't see them running behind a horse, or cat.

Striking the city with the sword doesn't necessarily mean the sword alone was used.
Joshua 24:11-13 reads

Psalm 44:3 reads

So, there are a few details missing from your game.
Not that they make that much of a difference to what you are aiming to achieve.