Voting system where you only get to vote for a single candidate on the ballot. Basically always means people will vote for the “least worst” candidate

First past the post has entered the chat

Why do Americans always love to jump to conclusions?

Also your latest post is literally this.

A bit hypocritical, no? You’re the one complaining about dead baddies this time.

Something similar kinda happened to me. I was socially inactive. She was very social and regularly meeting up with friends and brought me along with her. I get on with her friends very well actually. She also encouraged me to arrange time so she can meet my friends, too. She really turned my life around. Then she was forced to leave the country because she couldn’t get a visa to stay, as the visa rules were tightened - despite her having a job and a master’s degree.

Punishing sin isn’t a genocide. It’s justice.

Denying yourself, taking up your own cross and following God.

Or Satan just wanted to usurp power

Purrassic Jark

This is actually quite accurate to how Satan works. Satan tries to make himself seem more appealing and palatable to the alternative

zombo.com is still around

source?

Because chavs existed. I saw them. My siblings saw them. There are various news reports. Not all working class people are chavs.

I see them

What is it with a bunch of bad takes being posted on this community recently

In my experience, Chav has never been used to describe a normal working class person. In Northern Ireland, we had our own variant “Spide” or “Smick” which were generally more tame. Less burberry more tracksuits

Dirty tricks, MI6!

Isaiah 53

You know the New Testament is filled with old testament citations of prophecies being fulfilled? One prophecy was even written there so Jesus could fulfill it on the spot.

Luke 4:16-30

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?” And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘“Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’” And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. But passing through their midst, he went away.

The idea of a creator and universe-sustaining God being evil is completely illogical

This is a silly post. The Christian doctrine is that the Bible is the inspired word of God. So if Christianity is true, then yes, the Bible is reliable. Most of the doctrine in the Bible is by God (Jesus is God) or a guy Jesus appeared to in front of two other people and also prophesied to someone else that he should do missionary work. Also gave him His holy spirit to the point he raised dead people to life.

Inventing stuff is quite tricky when a lot of Jesus’ preaching was in crowds which carry numerous written testimonies

That’s completely and historically not true. Popes as we know them generally came about centuries later, by that time the New Testament was already in wide circulation (it was being widely circulated in three continents by the beginning of the second century so editing it after that point would have been impossible)