Sotuanduso

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Don't be so freaked out. It's only 2 AM in my timezone.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Exodus 20:2-17? Deuteronomy 5:6-21? They're exactly what Sunday School told me they were (and what I've found through reading the Bible on my own,) and there are exactly 10. Is there supposed to be some kind of gotcha there? "You shall not murder" is written there plain as day. What are you trying to say?

Are you trying to draw attention to the fact that God's judgment is fearsome? Because that's a thing, God is both fearsome and forgiving. His wrath is justified because His judgment is unerring, while we shouldn't pass judgment because we are flawed. His forgiveness is offered because He doesn't want to see us go to Hell, while many do anyways because they don't accept it.

I guess a lot of people try to sugercoat the Bible and downplay God's judgment because it's not fun to tell people hard truths, but that's not a fair portrayal, and it can lead to crises of faith when people have an image of a super chill pacifist God and then read about things like Noah's ark.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm not convinced downvoting comments has any effect on YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Slavery: Not condoned, not condemned, just regulated. See here for details. But that's a fair argument to make.

Incest: Only condoned in the early generations of humanity when it was necessary, directly condemned afterwards. I guess I can see how you'd be confused if you heard about it secondhand, but any familiarity with the cases in question ought to show this. Incest in and of itself (discounting other problems like rape and pedophilia it tends to coincide with) is a problem primarily because it leads to a higher incidence of genetic defects, and there were no genetic defects in the first batch of humans as God created them perfectly.

Murder: Obviously against the ten commandments. I don't know what you're talking about. Is it the death penalty? Are you trying to gish gallop me? I don't mind answering your points, but I'd appreciate it if you be more specific so I don't have to guess what you're referring to in order to address it.

Divine right: In the strictest sense, that God gives authorities their right to rule, sure, but they're not above accountability like divine right typically says. The Bible says to follow the laws of men only where they do not conflict with the laws of God.

Genocide: That's a tricky one, where the Israelites were to wipe out the Canaanites. I don't have a good answer for it. What I do know is that God's judgment is righteous, and that this one case is not justification for genocides at human convenience (though non-Christians might interpret it that way, including but not limited to a certain state. I'm not defending them.)

Also, just so we're clear, incest is gross, but it's not fascist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The names and PFPs still give it away if you know about them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Hehe, that's funny. So everyone thinks it's this profound thing, but he was actually just talking about the size of office paper?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (7 children)

They're not just "casually" stealing comments. They steal a random comment from the video, then have a bunch of other bots give it a bunch of thumbs up so that it appears towards the top and accumulates more upvotes than most human comments make. 95% of the time it seems, the real comment has one or two upvotes and is buried so far you have to scroll multiple pages to reach it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Well, if you wanna call the religion evil, you do you I guess, but at least be accurate about it. The Bible doesn't condone fascism (in fact, much of the point of the New Testament is that laws are not the way to save people,) so using christofascist as a term to refer to Christianity in general is diluting the definition of fascism. If you wanna use that term to refer to the people who use Christian branding as an excuse to push fascist laws, that's fine, just don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Are we using christofascist as a way to call Christianity fascist now, or did I miss some fascist messaging in VeggieTales?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, yeah, nah, this whole thing is a circle. But not a real circle, more like a freaky circle.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

At least it doesn't look like it shrunk too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I guess we doin Hatsune Miku now.

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