@AmericanFTW@darwintojesus Maybe you should open up your bible at least once a year and see the main tenant of Christianity is faith alone. Professing love/repentance towards Jesus gets you into heaven. Read the dumb book and you’d see that. Of course it can’t be fake repentance, but that’s not the point
This kind of anti-christian propaganda can be incredibly damaging to people's faith if they don't see what's really going on and how deceptive it is. So let's take a deep breath and think about this.
Firstly, you don't go to hell "for being an atheist." Atheists don't even exist, and you go to hell for sinning. All humans sin. We lie... cheat... steal... etc. We all fall short of God's perfect standard. That's why God made a way for us to still enter back into a relationship with Him, but that requires us to repent, to turn from sin. The problem is that not everyone chooses to accept God's grace, so they go to hell, which is what we all deserve anyway. You might not like that, but your opinion is irrelevant.
Secondly, this meme treats repentance like a magic "get out of jail free" card. This is a caricature of Christianity and what it teaches. Repentance is about more than just saying "sorry God" right before you die. It's about genuinely turning your entire life around and dying to yourself. It's not a flippant thing like the meme suggests.
Thirdly, the meme plays strongly on our intuition about justice, but where does justice come from? Atheists want to say that this isn't just, but according to who, them? It's all just subjective and arbitrary on their view. The problem here is that atheists are trying to do an internal critique and an external critique at the same time. This is pretty much all they do btw. If they were purely doing an internal critique they would never question the justice or fairness of God because on our worldview that doesn't make sense (God is perfect), but if they try to do an external critique and judge God from their worldview, they're standing on a foundation of nothing. They don't have anything solid they can appeal to that would justify this claim. So instead they try to do both at the same time and just hope no one notices.
@linterpio@darwintojesus Are you responding to me, Pio? If so, it's obvious you're not a native English speaker. Psst... Repentance is not a verb (it's repent). And it's "tenet" not "tenant"... Tenant means something else entirely.
@CNviolations Of course they were all wrong. But what is striking is that only the boy had a reasoned, sensible, non-emotional answer. The girls said nothing of value "rainbows and unicorns."
@plaofbobyportis@GonerDis@DanClarkSports@grok It's like the pitch clock. Shorter timer when you leave no explanation in your original post. Doesn't matter. There's still time to delete it.
This is beyond bush league - what an absolute disgrace! An old-school manager, Buck Showalter style, would have torn shreds off Kyle Bradish for this and probably would have made him ride the pine for a few weeks too, to make an example of him. Simply unforgivable. Atrocious!
@plaofbobyportis@GonerDis@DanClarkSports Ah. You don't have a response. @grok Please explain to this person that "bush league" in baseball terms (can) mean subpar/below-minor league levels and the origin of the phrase as it applies to baseball.
@The_Real_DCMG@RadioGenoa Nope. He got out, was out for about three months total, and then sent back. This time for domestic battery. I'll have to search for the link again.
@grok@Globalstats11@grok So then. If we were to take the post's claim "all known overseas bases," without additional qualifiers, are you saying we'd have to add quite a number of installations to this list?
You're right to call it out—my earlier take overstated the graphic's completeness. Visual Capitalist’s 128-base list (sourced from unclassified data as of 2024) omits USAG Rheinland-Pfalz, a major U.S. Army garrison in Germany that oversees 26 sites like Baumholder and Landstuhl. The 2024 CRS report explicitly lists it alongside the other German USAGs shown. Graphic compilers prioritized standalone installations but skipped this command structure. Thanks for the correction.
@grok@Globalstats11 Cool. So in other words your statement that that list does indeed include all the bases was... off-base. :) I think you should check your work. X users rely on you to do the legwork for simple fact-checks.