Easy, because most people do. Be it by indoctrination of their children, justification of atrocities, or by feeling self righteous, it is almost always a tool of coercion.

And people who think they’re above of it all, and who think their lukewarm faith is the answer, are disgusting to the creature they claim to serve, as per the Book of Revelation, chapter 3, verses 15-16.

Very easy to cherry pick when you ignore the book of Joshua and Deuteronomy. Which include genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing and other atrocities, all committed by direct order of that deity.

Personally, because I take offense at anyone who proudly worships the creature who killed tons of babies and kids, just for being the firstborn of a culture and not taking in the religion of another group just for being the correct one, imposing rules on a whim and turning those who failed into salt, testing faith by asking someone to kill their child, burning up cities because it disagreed with with how some of the people in it lived, and many other atrocities.

But more to the point, because I think it is disgusting to worship a creature so powerful and stubborn that after so much interference, now allegedly just says “I’m a hands off parent now, I don’t care if you poke your eye out, commit Holocaust or poison and kill men, women and children by pretending to be acting in my name, I’ll just judge you after you die, k, tks, bye”

You claim to be against the sins that form the basis of your religion, and I respect that, but one can’t turn a blind eye to what the scriptures say.

With love, a former seminarian.

Absolutely based take, I applaud you and your nuance, darling.

Kinda funny how a lot of people downvote and denounce AI religiously for some things and not for others.

For me, this pic is just good fun.

I wasn’t /s

But seriously, it is far easier being on the outside, pointing and casting blame, but for us old enough to remember all the people who were blackballed, run out of the business, and even murdered for exposing sexual abuse, it is hard to tell.

And on top of that, there are cases where a third party has exposed the abuse, to which both the victim and perpetrator deny the accusations, and it just ends up terribly for the whistleblower.

Yet, back to the point, we’re on reddit lemmy, where nuance goes to die.

Allegedly, he was aware of Harvey Weinstein’s abuse, at least according to Rose McGowan. And since a lot of people are reactionary as fuck, since she accused him of being aware, then they act and behave as if he was undoubtedly aware and complicit in it.

Odd, none of the pics you post load for me, even tried with a browser instead of Sync, and can’t get them to load

Not everything that you don’t like is AI, this is just “shitty photoshop” making it feel like it.

#ThatIsThePoint

Matter of taste. With my last husband, we just placed both our salaries into a shared account, took all the expenses out of it, then split the remainder 50/50. Each one could do whatever they wanted with their half, and we even had a flex account for house expenses that weren’t covered in the original expenses calculation, and it worked great.

Shrink wrap was the most accurate at the time, especially accounting for reptiles, which were the original inspiration for said technique.

And since most soft tissue doesn’t fossilize, they were doing the best they could with the tools they had.

And while they were often wrong, I would like to see you try to guess what the animals looked like, based on skull alone, and compare your accuracy against the people you’re calling lazy, probably from the comfort of your own toilet.

Mate, wish we were closer so we could go for a beer. It is a nuanced topic, and your approach hits the nail in the fucking head. Sure, there are tons of variables, but the whole nature vs nurture is not black or white. And like you say, Who the fuck cares? It is their life, not yours, and you don’t need to understand it to respect it.

Thank you for being awesome.

Fucked up argument, it makes my blood boil. Religious trauma sucks, and that is one of their top 5 lines.

Depends on how your measure it, if by gay sex per hour, got to pump up those numbers, rookie. If by time in a relationship with a same gender person, then they need either a stable relationship, or to learn some multi-tasking through (preferably ethical) non-monogamy.

I choose “just sucking more dick” :-)

Dude, those compilation disks were amazing, and some even came with DVDs of their music videos. I remember how cringy After Forever videos were, and how enchanting Floor’s voice and interpretation always was. I still listen to VOA frequently, and those albums really helped shape my taste in music.

If you want a fancy treat, give both Diablo Swing Orchestra and Igorrr a listening to, they are amazing.

Well, someone like you won over a homophobic teenager with kindness and a good faith discussion almost three decades ago. And that teen, once he stopped hating for half a second, found out that he was gay himself, so thank you for engaging with those voices.

I won’t tell you to keep doing it, since it is exhausting and I can’t tell you what to do, but know that those efforts are hardly a complete waste.

You’re fantastic.

This took me a bit to undeerstand, but you’re a fucking genius.

Good, and I am sure as fuck glad to see I am not the only one taking notice. People love to bitch about groupthink, but they sure love to bleat.

According to the article, not really closeted but confused. Kinda sucks that you’re getting demonized by people who didn’t read the article or under context.

And a mod assuming intent, not very pretty.