Semester3383

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 17 hours ago

Finland first, New Zealand second. Both have gun rights. Finland has a lot of empty space in the north, and Finns are, in general, not super interested in being highly social, despite historically having pretty solid social safety nets (although I hear the right is rising there, and that may not last). The largest barrier is that Suomi is a very difficult language to learn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So, what you're saying is that the Book of Job disproves the divinity of a god?

This idea rests on the notion that the human ideas of good and evil are universal, and apply to a god. Why should that be the case? What if god has decided that murder is good, and will reward everyone that commits murder with a spot in heaven?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Any sitcom or comedy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Arrive to raids [...] out of uniform.

...This is already happening.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

The beauty of such subtle magic is that you would be happy to be changed in such a way. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I've read history books that aren't full-blown propaganda. If you had read any, you would know that oppression and violence is the foundation of ALL western countries, and most non-western ones as well. The difference being that countries in the EU are more comfortable forgetting that their wealth was built on things like the exploitation of the Congo, the British East India Company, et al.

The founding document of the US though, which is what I was clearly referring to, established certain civil rights that the gov't isn't supposed to infringe. Religious liberty is one of those. This is notably not a right in most non-US countries; many EU countries have state-funded religions, and citizens are often taxes by the gov'ts to pay for those religions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm an atheist and a Satanist. I agree that these people are, by the measure of what the Jesus Christ of the Christian Bible is claimed to have said, hypocrites. At best. And yes, Jesus said that you should pray in private, and that people who pray in public so that they can be seen to pray have already received their reward. (Matthew 6:5 - "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.")

But it's still a foundational civil right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, no. That was never the intent of 1A. Individuals, or groups, are more than welcome to pray in government buildings, as long as they aren't forcing that religious expression on unwilling people, using it as a religious test, or something similar that would amount to the establishment of a state-sponsored religion.

Students can pray in schools; teachers can pray in schools. Teachers can not compel students to participate in prayers, nor are teachers supposed to lead students in prayer (as that's implied compulsion).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Constitutional freedoms--including religion--are a foundation for our country. If that's not what you want, feel free to repeal the constitution, or move to a country that has a state religion instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Perhaps what the potion really does is changes you when you make it so that you become the person that your object of desire will love.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Cruelty and sociopathy.

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