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Awesome. Now it just needs to be more affordable while tasting just as good. Right now, the stuff that actually tastes like meat is priced like a bougie, elitist luxury good.

It was the first time any modern president has admitted that the elites of the party are the millionaires (and billionaires) who fund it, which gives them extraordinary political power — perhaps enough to push Biden out of the race.

In truth, the Democratic Party is little more than a national fundraising machine, as is the GOP.

Ding ding ding ding ding.

Political parties are poison to democracy… and our two-party system is nothing more or less than cancer of democracy.

And why do any of these problems exist at all? Capitalism, and the millionaires and billionaires that such a system enables.

I had to read that a couple of times before I understood what you are trying to say. At first glance, it seemed like you were calling democracy itself bourgeois, but I think you meant it as a specific thing that isn’t actual democracy… e.g. it’s an illusion of democracy because capitalism gives the wealthy the ability to steer the whole ship, as it were. Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.

You asked where my plain recitation of scripture comes from, and I answered you. If you don’t like that scripture doesn’t support your wickedness, that’s between you and God, not me. That you can only attack me rather than the scripture itself is telling. 😞

Well, if you have one you should read it some time. But since most english versions are awful at best, and deliberately deceptive at worst, I recommend the one I linked.

Sure thing. It’s called “The Bible”.

If you don’t read Koine or Hebrew, this is a good place to start: https://www.amazon.com/Interlinear-Bible-Hebrew-Greek-English-English-Hebrew/dp/1565639774

Where is this in scripture?

If you don't know who the scribes and Pharisees are, or who their analogues are today... well, like I said before, that explains everything... including your twisted, hateful, anti-Christ beliefs. There's nothing left to be said here. The scripture is as it has always been... written black-and-white in Koine and Hebrew and Aramaic. It's still there, unchanged. Ready to be read, as it always has and always will be. Jesus left behind the teaching... not a political institution that can just add whatever it wants whenever it wants to suit it's purposes.

It's well accepted that Jesus was a historical person. Now how much you believe the miracles/etc attributed to him is a different matter entirely. Either way, the teaching and philosophy attributed to him are extremely powerful, and just as relevant today as they were in 27~30 AD.

When you say “what Church are you a member of” - you are looking for labels. You talk about the age of your cult as if that gives it authority. You are looking for a way to disengage from the topic of scripture so that you can compare institutional history. This is bad faith.

Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi who taught and practiced Judaism. I follow those teachings and the scripture upon which they are based. I do not follow Roman cults or the unscriptural Hellenist paganism they have added. That is the “tradition” you mention.

What Jesus taught is painfully simple: the way you treat others, God takes that personally. Love (respect/honor/obey/take joy in) God and love (respect/honor/obey/take joy in) others as you would God. These are the commandments upon which all other Law is based.

Whatever else you believe is inconsequential, unless it runs afoul of those. I warn you, that twisting scriptures explicitly concerning abuse of others into something else entirely - and the biases and treatment of others that result from such twisted reinterpretations - that is a danger to both you and others.

Woe to you, conservative politicians and religious leaders; you hypocrites! You close off the Kingdom of Heaven to others. It is not enough that that you do not enter, but you block the entrance for others trying to go in!

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Woe to you, conservative politicians and religious leaders. Hypocrites! You travel far and wide (over land and sea) to win one convert, and when you are done with them, they are twice the force of evil that you are.

Be warned. Jesus himself has warned you.

Leviticus 20 - you may not rape (force a sexual relationship upon) a boy of your household the way you would a woman.

The problem you are having is that you have no concept of the culture or context in which scripture sits. As Jesus would say, “you are lost because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.” This has never been a mystery. This interpretation did not appear until around 1000AD as part of the Roman cult’s ongoing attempts to distance themselves from Judaism… the religion that Jesus taught and practiced.

Romans 1:26-27 is explicitly about temple prostitution. Something else that is extremely obvious to anyone with even a little historical context.

2000 years of church teaching: You mean 1000 years of pagan cult teaching? I follow Jesus and I follow scripture. I do not follow scribes and Pharisees or their unscriptural anti-Christ teachings.

Last bit: I am pointing out that this phrase is not scripture. You quoted it as if it was. This is a common problem in the modern church… it does not teach or understand scripture, its context, or its purpose. It’s little more than a political tool meant to keep peasantry in line.

Jesus was meticulous about defining sin, and that it is primarily how you treat others (Matthew 25).

Homosexuality is not a sin and no scripture supports such an interpretation. Paul’s letters also do not support such an interpretation. Any scripture used to defend such an anti-Christ stance is a gross and deliberate mistranslation. (e.g. Leviticus 20)

What Jesus also taught is to live by example, not to judge others, and to not worry about what you perceive other’s shortcomings to be. (Matthew 7)

Also: “Hate the sin, but love the sinner” is not scriptural. It is a corruption of a saying from Augustine, Bishop of Hippo: “with love for mankind and hatred of sins.”

You can see it most recently with the acceptance of the gay agenda splitting the last remaining mainline protestant denominations even though it is clearly a sin.

Friend, this is exactly the kind of thing Jesus called people out for. Right now, you are in the scribes and Pharisees group.