As a counter point Jesus would have also said “What on earth is a ‘government program’?”
As a counter point Jesus would have also said “What on earth is a ‘government program’?”
Erm… it preaches being “slaves for Christ”, with very few safeguards on what are good boundaries for leaders to have over you. I agree on the ideals, but the power dynamics also “treat people terribly”
While I agree with your sentiment, the problem with the Bible is that it doesn’t contain democracy. It only really has examples of god ordained despots. So one can “follow the Bible” and have results that are wack.
Israel was supposed to still be loyal to King David even though he was a liar, murderer and adulterer. Jesus has the opportunity to tell people to reject Caesar but instead choose to more or less tell them to let Caesar be Caesar and keep whatever is God’s separate. It was tacit acknowledgment that sometimes you have to obey evil rulers. (St Paul carries this on in Romans)
So obviously that was necessary in first century Judea. The problem is that’s the only scenario the new testament deals with.
Add to that that all Jesus’ ethics are person based, without a single word of what a government should or shouldn’t do. Minus all the common sense tradition amalgamated in Europe over 1600 years, and you have the religious right of America.
That part of the Old Testament still applies somehow because reasons.
That’s because Romans 1 also says gay sex is bad
Something something Soviet Russia…
Hi Firefox. It’s been a while…
Sometime later … “Gimp does not have a tool for drawing lines or curves but one way to create a straight line effect is hold down shift when…”
looks at camera
You need scale
Can’t scale. Hard drive full.
I wouldn’t put it past them to short their own stock while they make announcements then go long once things settle down…
Well… I look forward to using Unity’s replacement…
Or enriching the world with the knowledge of choice meat cuts, dry cured ham, and chorizo?
The Catholic church has nearly entirely considered abortion a sin since the first century (yes there are exceptions, but a minority). You are thinking of the adoption of “life begins at conception”, which was ruled in 1869. Prior to that the church considered early abortion an immoral sin on par with contraception. What changed in 1869 was the category from sin of contraception to sin of murder. But it was still “sin” beforehand.
Some others in the Anglosphere:
Fred Bloggs - no idea where it’s from. Related to “bog” as in bog standard maybe?
Tom, Dick and Harry - is ages old. Even as far back as Shakespeare you can see the triplet evolving. “Tom, Dicke, and Francis” : Henry IV, Part I
Great idea!
Interesting :) I knew I was winging it…
What’s next is Elon standing at a red light holding a piece of cardboard telling you to buy Twitter Blue or he’ll key your car
Have you tried demanding $1000 of popcorn or you’ll stop eating?
Like a real life Brewster’s Billions
The Torah, the Psalms endlessly praise God as being “good”, the word of the Lord being “perfect” etc
Eg from biblehub.com concordance. References to God being called one of the words for “good”…
of God, himself Nahum 1:7; 2Chronicles 30:18; Psalm 86:5; כי טוב for he is good, kind Psalm 34:9; Psalm 100:5; Psalm 135:3; Jeremiah 33:11; כי טוב כי לעולם חסדוֺ 1 Chronicles 16:34; 2Chronicles 5:13; 7:3; Ezra 3:11; Psalm 106:1; Psalm 107:1; Psalm 118:1; Psalm 118:29; Psalm 136:1; טוב לְ kind to Psalm 73:1; Psalm 145:9; Lamentations 3:25; יד (ה)טובה על Ezra 7:9; Ezra 8:18; Nehemiah 2:8,18; רוחךָ (ה)טובה Nehemiah 9:20; Psalm 143:10; שׁמךָ כי טוב Psalm 52:11; Psalm 54:8; כּי טוב חסדךָ Psalm 69:17; Psalm 109:21; הדבר(ים) הטוב(יםׅ the good, kind word(s) spoken in promise Joshua 21:43; Joshua 23:14,15 (D), 1 Kings 8:56; Jeremiah 29:10; Jeremiah 33:14; Zechariah 1:13.