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Definitely a religion of love thy neighbor. Oh, and also you are to take your male and female slaves from the nations around you.

A group of friends flew into El Paso today, rented a car and began driving to Marfa for a wedding this weekend. They came upon an odd checkpoint on the highway in a small town called Sierra Blanca. They were removed from the vehicle, placed in a small room and interrogated on what they were...

The #1 criteria for NASA performance reviews is now "faithful support of president's policies" representing 25% of their review, while "merit and competency" is only weighted at 15%. Cool way to run a science organization.

If I had to guess, its probably for two main reasons. First, I feel like the production companies want to wait as long as possible before renewing -- usually after they're sure the previous season is a success. Second, prestige TV in particular has increased production value past where movies...

Pew Research says 80% of the 135 voting cardinals were appointed by Francis

If the OP will allow some leeway on storytime beyond just murderers... In 5th grade I played rec basketball and was selected for the town "all star" team. The team would travel up to a few hours away for weekend tournaments with other all star teams. On one of these trips we pulled into our...

Beautifully illustrated my point. And yet you missed it yourself. More people die because of widespread citizen gun ownership than if guns were controlled. That’s a fact. Analogously, the argument is that more harm is done because of organized religion than if they didn’t exist.

Funny how similar this sounds to the gun safety argument “guns don’t kill people - people do.” Nah, guns kill people.

Christians never change laws to favor their beliefs, right?

Zen's story is 2 years old fyi

I left Sunday. My brother lives in Dorado Beach and they have their own power but trying to get a flight out woulda sucked. That airport is garbage even on a good day.

I wasn't conflating. I made specific mention of beliefs about the fantastical parts of the bible being historical (ie literal).

Good for them. You do know millions and millions and millions of people hold the belief that many or all of those claims are literal, right? Plenty of christians believe plenty of supernatural claims in the bible. Those beliefs have earned mocking characterizations. The belief that snakes...

Hard disagree. In order for society to progress it is imperative that we protect the ability to attack bad ideas in the public square and even mock them if warranted. Not the people but the ideas themselves. And any book making claims of talking snakes, talking donkeys, flat earth, etc. has done...

I guess what I'm saying is for Putin the math made sense to him to invade even when Biden was in office organizing a collective opposition. Now with Trump removing the US from the equation the math would only make even more sense to keep invading and gobbling territory. Nothing Trump is doing is...