Ben

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BenDec 7, 2023
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Show threadBenDec 6, 2023
@lednabwm @jhavok @forthy42 @antonioserrata @athyHans @_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @Willow I do not use this format very much, I don't know what it's called even, some sort of group text. So I think this message is from Pooka, since that's the username at the top of the stack here. I went back through this chain as far as I could get and I don't see any questions from Pooka. If there was something that I missed it's far more likely that I failed to use the tech properly than that I simply ignored your question.
BenDec 5, 2023
#TuckFrumpDec 5, 2023
Liz Cheney exposes secret GOP memo that said Trump 'corrupted the political process' https://www.rawstory.com/liz-cheney-exposes-gop-memo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Liz Cheney exposes secret GOP memo that said Trump 'corrupted the political process'

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (WY) dropped several bombshells on Monday night.Speaking to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Cheney walked through some of the bombshells in her book, "Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning," which will drop at midnight Tuesday. The host began with a list of things that she ...

Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism
BenDec 5, 2023
Sheril KirshenbaumDec 5, 2023

Born in 1848, Caroline Still Anderson completed high school at 15. When she enrolled at Oberlin College, she was the only Black student in her class.

Anderson went on to become a physician, driven to improve the social & political conditions of Black people. She also served as a prominent a social reformer in Philadelphian society.

http://stillfamily.library.temple.edu/stillfamily/exhibits/show/william-still/historical-perspective/biography-of-caroline-still-an #HistoryRemix #history #science

Biography of Caroline Still Anderson · William Still: An African-American Abolitionist

Show threadBenDec 5, 2023
@lednabwm @athyHans @jhavok @forthy42 @antonioserrata @_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @Willow one more try. Are you able to consider the possibility that any leader that you consider to be Christian might have been motivated by similar reasoning? Or will you simply revert to your default position that this person did this hateful thing because they are Christian and Christians are hateful? I don't really expect an intelligent answer, not at this point. I just want to see how exceptional a situation you would have to be presented with to override the obvious brainwashing. I don't despise socialism, I don't particularly dislike Russia as a nation. I don't much care for Putin, but that is more about Ukraine than anything else. I have had an interesting time talking with you all. But if the sum of all your brilliant logic can be expressed as all Christian bad, I would just as soon say goodbye. There are literally millions of other people to interact with.
Show threadBenDec 4, 2023
@lednabwm @athyHans @jhavok @forthy42 @antonioserrata @_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @Willow please do not presume to know what I have been taught. I was taught to read. Christians do anything, from planting a garden to engaging in genocide, your lot will have it be entirely because they are Christian. My point was very much simpler than the fantasy castle you have constructed. What do you say when atheists do the same things?
Show threadBenDec 4, 2023
@lednabwm @jhavok @forthy42 @antonioserrata @athyHans @_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @Willow like I said, this time the Christians are the savages and some other people get to play the voice of sanity and reason. It's a really wild script. Most modern anti religious people would see colonialism and all it did as at least mistaken. Then claim that what needs to happen is more or less the same thing because reasons.
Show threadBenDec 4, 2023
@lednabwm @forthy42 @athyHans @jhavok @antonioserrata @_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @Willow I am no apologist for anything. There have been atrocities committed by people who were in some way attached to many and various religions. There have been atrocities committed by people who did not align themselves with any religion. The common factor here, in my opinion, is that some people like to play dictator. If religion is a path to power for them, if that's what works, they will use it. But in other historical contexts other things work. Ethnicity, connection to a place, there are lots of ways to divide people up and get them to fight each other. That is a big part of what makes these schemes work. If one causes group A to fear and despise group B then one can propose a solution and gain power. It's a recurring pattern. Only this time the PR seems focused on presenting the Christians as the idol worshipping savages and some other group as the voice of sanity and reason. Hope it turns out better than last time, but I have my doubts.
BenDec 3, 2023
@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @[email protected] @antonioserrata @athyHans @jhavok @lednabwm valid point. I enjoy the nuts and bolts aspect of it and wish I were better at translating Greek. This is one aspect of this conversation. Some people are very much opposed to the idea of any so called holy book. The fact that scholars in this field can generally agree that most of this stuff is mostly the same gives a good starting point for this type of scholarly endeavor.
Show threadBenDec 2, 2023
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