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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/02/everything-youve-been-told-is-a-lie-inside-the-wellness-to-facism-pipeline

No, it's the opposite; it's more and more clear that changes to the brain cause changes to the personality, and that there is no aspect of thought that is not a function of the brain. No neuroscientist even thinks about any supernatural causes for anything in the brain; they think about souls...

The original statement was that Christianity spread by and was enforced by violence, not merely that its history contained violence. Both Buddhism and Hindusim are older than Christianity, and Hinduism has about half as many followers (while Buddhism has half that many); "sheer volume" cannot...

Tenet. And I disagree. The central tenet of Christianity is "Jesus died to 'save' people from the hell he'll send you to if you don't believe this". With the belief that he didn't stay dead and him being the son of God being the next most important ones.

The average Christian believes that the Bible says whatever their priest/pastor tells them it says, even if they have read that part and not seen it. I mean, how else do supposedly "Bible-only" sects believe in concepts like original sin, the serpent being Satan, the idea that Biblical "kinds"...

She's probably a retool of Windblade.

When asked to define what he means by God he'll start an incoherent ramble that sounds more like pantheism than anything else. He doesn't believe in a personal god; but he literally said that he thinks atheists should still indoctrinate their kids into Christianity because, being an...

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/berlin-holocaust-monument-vandalised/

This could have also gone in the AI thread: https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

Yes, people writing derivative works are usually familiar with the ones they're referencing (but see again that part where Jesus rides two donkeys because the author of Matthew misunderstood the older text), but that doesn't mean it goes both ways. The Book of Mormon references the Bible a lot...

If "playing an character that isn't the same religion as you" is against your religion, you're in a cult.

This seems timely for this topic:

"I finally actually read the Bible" is actually one of the most common reasons people give for why they left Christianity anyway. Half the people who claim to "believe the Bible" would fail a quiz about what the Bible actually says.

No, he is not. He is the type of person who is good at sounding smarter than he really is to people who aren't familiar with the subject he's talking about at the time. He does that deliberately. He panders to Christian nationalists because there isn't much of an American far-right without...

The fact that a non-combatant would have to do anything specific to be spared illustrates the violence of the invaders, not the faith of the traitor. Also, the author of that story had never even heard of Jesus.

Neo Beast Wars Neo Core: Stampy Armordillo Bump (Maximal Axolotl) (Maximal Sea Angel) (Predacon Microraptor) (Predacon Trilobite) Deluxe: Star Upper (Maximal Sloth) Scuba Ikard Saberback Hardhead (NOT retooled from any version of Dinobot) (Predacon Anomalocaris) Voyager: Big Convoy Longrack...

From the front page: https://www.allspark.com/likely-legacy-leaks-loom-large-for-uni-wave-1/