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@bobby_jags @IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard Hence Jesus says of Peter, 'upon this rock I will build my church'.

@bobby_jags @IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard The English word 'church' comes from a different root, 'kyriakon', meaning "belonging to the Lord"), which entered English later. But that's what english-speaking christians called the assemblies of believers that Jesus had called for.

Rod Liddle gets it. The left doesn't hate Jews because it hates Israel:

@bobby_jags @IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard Your thinking is very black & white. Occasional exceptions does not invalidate my argument that there was strong pressure on Jews to become moneylenders due to their being prohibited from joining guilds etc and christian religious structures against usury.

@DoomedPoor @IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard You’re well aware that I was right. Which is why you started your tweet with nope. Okay.

@bobby_jags @IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard Tithes and taxes are not usury, which is the pejorative term for charging interest on loans.

@DoomedPoor @IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard They lent money for wars. Pretty lucrative apparently. So no, you are wrong.

@bobby_jags @IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard Yes, before you complete your victory lap, I'm well aware. Nevertheless despite usury being a necessity and christians finding elaborate workarounds (for which they were often denounced), Jews were funnelled into that kind of financing for all the reasons I've already given.

@DoomedPoor @IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard Furthermore they were also able to raise tithes. Not a good day on the internet for you.

@guanchewarrior @jasonhickel A HUNDRED times worse than the Nazis?? 😆 Calm down dude, switch off the internet and go for a walk outside.

@jasonhickel This is why I don't like the "Israel = Nazis" comparisons. Israelis are a hundred times worse. Seriously. I don't think we have ever seen such depraved society in history. Truly evil and psychopathic. There is something very wrong with these people.

I'll never forget how the Israelis bombed al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza in October 2023 and the world was shocked and horrified. Israel denied it, saying they would never commit such a heinous crime. Then they went on to bomb every single hospital in Gaza. Now they are doing the same in Lebanon and Iran. The Israelis have bombed at least 128 medical facilities and ambulances across south Lebanon. In Iran, the US and Israel have bombed 25 hospitals and medical centres. In Lebanon, they are committing double tap strikes to kill medics and rescue workers, just as they did in Gaza. Medics are forced to delay their responses. These monsters are normalizing war crimes that were once unthinkable.

@bobby_jags @IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard Jews were not allowed to lend and charge interest to other Jews and the same applied for Christians. But Jews were allowed to lend with interest to Christians. Jews were banned from many other professions.

@bobby_jags @IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard Nope, not in the Middle Ages. Individual christian’s did, or tried to get around the prohibition by disguising interest payments as something else, put on the hole it was completely against Christian doctrine.

@IoWBobSeely @stephenpollard Jews were forced into that role because of the Christian aversion to usury - lending with interest.

True. Marx hated Jews for what he saw as their role in capitalism. I wrote about it a few years ago in the Spectator. In his 1843 essay, The Jewish Question, Marx, whose father converted from Judaism to Protestantism, equated emancipation from capitalism and Judaism as being one and the same. “Money is the jealous god of Israel” Marx wrote. “The god of the Jews has become secularised and has become the god of the world.” He jumbled together hostility to private property and capitalism, and his personal hatred of Jews as self-interested, rootless and enablers of secret control, updating miserable medieval tropes for the modern world. Once society succeeded in the preconditions of Capital, “the Jew will have become impossible,” perhaps the most profound example of bastardised pseudo-science in modern political history. Marx ended the article with a final, rhetorical flourish. “The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism [again Marx’s italics].” In other words, the destruction of capitalism and Judaism are one and the same in the creation of a purer society. Only when one ceases to exist will the other be liberated from its false consciousness. Anti-Semitism is embodied in Socialism. spectator.com/article/karl-m…

@DavidBeckler1 @TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe Sorry we didn’t buy the freedom of all slaves everywhere and enforce a ban over the entire world. Negligent of us.

@DavidBeckler1 @TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe We stopped our slavery, not America’s.

Today at the UN, 123 nations named the Transatlantic slave trade as humanity’s gravest crime. Britain abstained A Labour government! heirs to an empire that trafficked 3 million Africans, could not say yes to truth The abstention IS the verdict. Starmer, history has clocked you

@DavidBeckler1 @TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe It WAS profitable, free labour always is. Britain effectively bought all the slaves and set them free. Obviously that’s not good enough for you, but I suspect nothing ever could be.

@TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe They paid the owners. The victims were either left to starve or forced into indentured service. Most of those 123 countries didn't engage in the transatlantic slave trade. "It's no longer profitable so we'll stop oppressing people" isn't really a reason to praise someone.

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@EvaSilvertant @HouthiFakisAlis @Qveen_Potato But the ever-increasing number of detransitioners and the steep and steady drop in trans identification amongst young people in recent years shows otherwise.

@EvaSilvertant @HouthiFakisAlis @Qveen_Potato Your claim that some detransition for social/financial(?) reasons and most retransition is a statement of your faith: being trans IS innate therefore detransition is impossible.

The key point from this meta analysis is that while most brain features still resemble natal sex (which is expected because brain sex differences are not binary), trans people consistently show patterns that shift toward their gender identity. In contrast, homosexual individuals show brain patterns similar to their same sex heterosexuality cohorts. This distinction matters because it shows gender identity and sexual orientation are neurologically different phenomenon. Trans neuroscience research repeatedly finds mixed but directionally consistent gender-aligned features, whereas homosexual brain studies mostly show variation within the same-sex population. Tldr: Gender identity research shows measurable neurological alignment with their experienced gender in brain structures.

@EvaSilvertant @HouthiFakisAlis @Qveen_Potato Except of course no one with autism ever changes their mind and 'detransitions'.

@EvaSilvertant @HouthiFakisAlis @Qveen_Potato Genetic testing for autism provides a definitive result only 10-30% of the time, regardless of how much money is spent. The best that can be said is that genes may be a factor in some cases but there's no solid proof, and the same applies to being trans.