Franza & Teutonia

@CRegan1964 The term Abrahamic religions is a modern construct. There was war, conquest, slavery everywhere. You're talking about instructions for a slave nation in difficult times Christ and the apostles moral standard exists, for Christians to correct course. Who's Islam's moral standard?

@NToasts The OT set the example for all three Abrahamic faiths. Most Christians wouldn’t describe Jesus as merely “a perfect moral figure”. The institutional Church, small-shoots & individuals have disagreed on or not followed a moral example. cultural environment is a bigger influence

Can someone explain to me why both the Greens and Labour are courting the Muslim vote if Muslims make up only 6% of the population? Labour has abandoned the white, working class, who I'm sure account for more than 6% of the population.

@CRegan1964 So liberalism, let's get sheep and wolves live together and hope the wolves become pacifist and eat grass. Separation of church and state works with religions that dont seek dominations over others. There are now 40M Muslims in Europe, Islam has tried to take the west since 610AD

@NToasts I don’t “want” them to particularly. I just think people have a right & freedom to practice their religion as long as they aren’t harming the community. There should be separation of church & state & no religion should be favoured. Let them all show their faith by their works 🤷‍♀️

@CRegan1964 Tolerance for Islam is just allowing it to propagate and dominate. Why do you want mosques in Europe and Western countries? It's not like Muslims are going extinct, they have their own countries with their own theocracy why do you want them to expand in the west?

@NToasts The narrative of Christians as victims (just because there is more tolerance of other groups) is difficult to sustain in the face of facts. But someone will end up being victims if some insist on magnifying differences and calling for conflict

@CRegan1964 No it's not just politics in Islam, the example prophet Muhammed set was one of violence and conquering neighbouring tribes and commands his followers to do same. Unlike Christians who have a perfect moral figure in Christ. Ignoring that distinction seems deliberate with atheists

@NToasts There has been much violence between Catholics & protestants not too long ago. I’d say we’ve grown out of it but I suspect (like the anti Islam shift) it’s more about the politics

@CRegan1964 You're comparing Christians and the Church acting violently to a religion that explicitly commands violence for adherents with a reward for those who obey The quran was revealed in Muhammad's lifetime unlike the OT commands that were solely for the Jews before Christ's salvation

@NToasts I was a devout Evangelical Christian for 25 years. I have a certificate in theology & have read a lot of theology. I agree Christianity does not currently appear as violent (depends if it quotes the OT) as some sects of Islam. It’s been just as patriarchal over its 2000 yrs

@CRegan1964 You wouldn't give Christians that benefit of the doubt. Somehow a patriarchal, violent religion like Islam is misunderstood, but Christianity deserves scorn. Islam has direct instructions for murdering Kafir, conquering non believers and subjugating women, Christianity does not

@NToasts Some are. Just like many Christians in the past & now. Islam is portrayed incorrectly & ignorantly as uniform, based on its worst examples. But it provides a straw man to rail against. We need enemies apparently. Most institutionalised religions tend toward control & misogyny

@rotundainsights @nytimes @TheAthletic What value?

@nytimes @TheAthletic $300K minimum?! The WNBA just set a new standard finally getting the pay players deserve 💪🏽🏀 Average salary now $600K. This isn’t just a raise it’s recognition of the value these athletes bring 🔥

From @TheAthletic: The new WNBA collective bargaining agreement means minimum salaries are expected to exceed $300,000, with the average player salary reaching about $600,000. "This isn’t merely a raise. It’s a correction." nyti.ms/41iRHEu

@Zitel_304 @nytimes @TheAthletic They're not elite though, they would be crushed by a high school boys team. The WNBA is purely a carve out so women's sports can exist outside male competition. They've not earned that much money

@nytimes @TheAthletic Calling it a "correction" instead of a raise is perfectly stated. Elite athletes no longer having to risk it all playing overseas in the offseason just to make a living is a generational W for the sport.

@WMcsuperfly @alissagolob @PierrePoilievre @joerogan It's almost like certain principles are not negotiable in the context of the value of life. This is not disagreement about tax rates, if the value of life can be boiled down to the absence/presence of suffering anyone can be a candidate for MAID.

@alissagolob @PierrePoilievre @joerogan It's almost like you don't have to accept every thought an individual ever had to like them? What's your point here?

I'm about 15 minutes in to @PierrePoilievre's interview with @joerogan. About 12 minutes in they start talking about MAID, where Poilievre says people "should have the choice". A few minutes later he talks about how his favourite psychologist is Viktor Frankl. Frankl actively opposed assisted-suicide, and knew that seeking to eliminate suffering often ends up eliminating the suffering person. "Every life, in every situation and to the last breath, has a meaning, retains a meaning. This is equally true of the life of a sick person, even the mentally sick. The so-called life not worth living does not exist." - Viktor Frankl

@Leaxandros @DaveKeating Sanchez is the kind of politician who will abandon his nation in the middle of a war to save his skin. These European progressives are not leaders, they're bureaucrats

@DaveKeating Spain is not smaller than Germany, the Kingdom of Spain has been sleeping, but it is on the Rise. It is the only growing European Country. On the other hand, Germany is sinking and fast. I believe the difference is their leaders. Viva Sanchez! Viva España! No mas guerras!

This was the first time the leader of Spain and the leader of Germany met since the latter insulted the former by not defending him in the Oval Office. Sanchez strode right up to confront 🇩🇪Merz, who apparently didn't call the 🇪🇸PM after the Oval Office incident because he 'had the wrong phone number'. The conversation looked tense, even if there were smiles initially. In the background was Irish leader Micheál Martin, who could have given Merz some lessons on how to defend your fellow Europeans to Trump. Earlier in the week on St Patricks Day he defended 🇬🇧PM Keir Starmer while in the Oval Office, after Trump again attacked the British prime minister. It's hard to imagine that Starmer would have done the same for Martin. Some of the leaders of Europe's smaller countries may have something to teach the leaders of Europe's large countries about dignity, self-respect and European solidarity.

@CRegan1964 @ManOfKent15 Do you even understand Islam is further right than any 'far right' winger you can ever think of? They fundamentalist theocrats. Do you get that?

@ManOfKent15 Can someone please explain why the Far Right claim to be so scared of a group that only makes up 6% of the population and spend so much time stoking anger against them?

@CRegan1964 @ManOfKent15 Can someone explain why progressive lefities who claim to be for women's rights, LGBTQ, animal rights can support a religion that subjugates women, kills gay people, is pro dictatorship and supported Nazis against Jews and sacrifices animals in the most brutal ways possible?

@MPG37685458 @disclosetv The Iranian regime considers all 'Christians' the same. It's an ideological war. They told neighbour in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE etc to support them in an Islamic fight against the west. Europe is caught in the silly delusion where they assume their enemy shares their values

@disclosetv Why would that be Europe's war? Europe didn't start it. Europe didn't want it. Europe is a little less slavish to Israel than US. When I say Europe, I mean European politicians. The people of Europe hate Israel, the majority does.

NOW - John Bolton on Trump's war on Iran: "This is Europe's war."

@mattreed1 @TheEconomist It's Tucker platforming them, he has one of the biggest political podcasts in the world

@TheEconomist I don’t think The Economist should give a platform to Carlson.

“I’m not giggling, I’m mad at your politicians.” Speaking to Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, Tucker Carlson says European leaders are “liars” trying to “divert attention” from the “disasters” in their own countries. Click the link to watch the full interview: econ.st/3PwcHoC

@JanSmithjytc @TheEconomist It is so on brand for modern Europeans to be mad at outsiders telling them cold hard truths and ignoring the politicians who actually control their lives and are weakening their nations

@TheEconomist What an awful man, giggling whilst Ukrainians are killed by an invading force. He comes across as infantile. Which adult would not fail to grasp the inappropriateness of this behaviour? Weird.

@NLondonHousewif @KateShemirani Or the baby has down syndrome, might be born blind. Nice to see tacit eugenics being endorsed. People warned about the slippery slope with abortion. The moral standards for western post Christian civilizations is eroding fast

@KateShemirani Late abortions are rare: the child is wanted, has a name and a crib waiting. Then the parents hear some dreadful news. Maybe the baby will be born without a heart or no brain, or is already dead. Making the mother a criminal is not helpful You need to mind your own business

Remove the law, and you remove the boundary. The house of frauds. A house full of eugenicists ? Ask yourself, is this murder? That is the real issue being debated. I’ve worked in these wards. Late-term procedures are not abstract, they are complex, serious, and carry real consequences. If legislation changes, the public deserves absolute clarity on what that means in practice. It means dismembering a full term baby, but if it were born naturally, that baby would survive. My first job was in a gynaecology ward. Providing suction terminations up to 12 weeks. It’s horrific. It rips the baby to pieces. Up to 24 weeks… men are born alive and left to die in the sluice and then there are later abortions and it’s gruesome . We’re talking dismembering. We’re talking puncturing the skull and suctioning out the brain tissue. Now, ask yourself again… Is this murder? Because once the line is blurred, it cannot simply be redrawn.

@hackney_diamond @KateShemirani Yes sure, when the nazis were spreading propaganda pictures and videos of Jews living happily in nice settlements in Poland, that took away from the reality of what was really happening. The wording and presentation of a law doesn't change the raw evil its actually perpetuating

@KateShemirani But the public do have absolute clarity. It’s right there in the legislation, all you have to do is read it. Unfortunately, there’s a mob on Twitter that prefer not to educate themselves, relish in the rage and distortion, then repost it. And the cycle continues…

@JB_CFFire @flowerpotweller I mean this is the clearest evidence there is for God. This demonstrates the existence of objective morality. We can see a nation descend into chaos under atheistic moral relativism. When people disbelieve in a transcendent God, they become evil, like a leaf fall from a tree

@flowerpotweller No they won't, religion is a lie - if there is a god he must be one massive cunt to allow what men are doing to this world.

The House of Lords have voted narrowly in favour of allowing abortion up-to-birth in England & Wales. The only solace is that one day they will meet Jesus.

@botsworth80873 @flowerpotweller Choosing not to believe in the existence of something does not means it doesn't exist

@flowerpotweller When you say ‘they will meet Jesus’ can you please say ‘I believe that…’ because there are billions of people on the planet who don’t believe it, and stating it as a fact is really irritating and irresponsible. Thanks.

@ClareHathaway1 @flowerpotweller There's no difference, non criminalisation is defacto legalisation. If laws passed are not enforced with penalties, they don't exist. Read about the Societ Union. North Korea claims to be a Democratic Republic, this is just Marxist language manipulation to confuse the weak minded

@flowerpotweller You aren't very intelligent, are you? How hard is this to understand! There will be NO changes to current abortion laws. They are just ceasing criminally investigating when babies after 23 weeks are born deceased. There is a huge difference.