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GenericName9999
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@GenericName9991 @JoveIsWatching @philosophymeme0 Nowhere does the Bible say that God is literally able to do anything anyone could conceive of. We see that he had to send Jesus to die rather than just snapping his fingers and ending the law the sin requires a death sacrifice. The Abrahamic God is contained by this law.
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@JoveIsWatching @philosophymeme0 This is generally understood to mean "can do anything"
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@GenericName9991 @philosophymeme0 "Omnipotence is maximal power. Maximal greatness (or perfection) includes omnipotence. According to traditional Western theism, God is maximally great (or perfect), and therefore is omnipotent."
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
This is basic theology 101 stuff.
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@JoveIsWatching @philosophymeme0 I guess if you just redefine omnipotence to not be 'omni'.
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@philosophymeme0 The idea that omnipotence means a will like a human's that can do literally anything it wants is wrong, ergo the rest of this is nonsense.
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@earthbound19 @jessysm1th @LarsTheBadMan People want to believe they're good, and when you can afford to surround yourself with flunkies, its very easy to become convinced of it.
That's what happens with guys like Elon Musk.
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@GenericName9991 @jessysm1th @LarsTheBadMan only stupid people can convince themselves of something that ridiculous. Most rich people are generally above avg intelligence. Theyre just good at bullshitting and manipulating people
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@earthbound19 @jessysm1th @LarsTheBadMan He doesn't want anything because he doesn't exist. But its very easy for powerful people to convince themselves that their religion supports whatever they want to do.
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@jessysm1th @LarsTheBadMan What stops rich people from just believing that god wants them to be rich?
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@LarsTheBadMan The purpose of hell is to scare rich people into behaving; just because they'll never be punished in this world doesn't mean they'll escape punishment in the next. Each time society stops believing in hell, the Epstein class becomes even more tyrannical and depraved.
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@NCorvus58947 @LarsTheBadMan How does it help me that someone who wronged me suffers after they die?
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@ConnerHenshall @LarsTheBadMan To be clear, you're saying god is unable to influence whether or not hell exists?
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@LarsTheBadMan Not even God wanted Hell. But if people choose to be away from God then where else does their soul go?
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@Lennart54613183 @lukeisamazing Sure in a perfect world the Second International parties would've started a Europe wide revolution as soon as the war broke out, but that was never going to happen. 1918 could have.
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@lukeisamazing Taking 1918 and not 1914 is exactly why People hate commies.
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@EmpireTimu23003 @cirnosad Anytime Christians lose a war to Muslims its the Jews fault, right?
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@cirnosad I still remember them working together with Jews to take over Spain. Jerusalem was freed from Jews very often even the First Crusade slaughtered all the Jews in Jerusalem and nearby areas before being invited back after the Christians left.
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@redstar1234245 @cirnosad I think the point is that Sunnis outside of Palestine do little to help them.
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@cirnosad Hamas(an entire sunni movement) has been fighting against Israels illegal occupation and they fought alongside the rebels against Assad in the Syrian civil war
This meme barely makes any sense
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@salad9o90 @cirnosad Hezbollah have fought Israel way more than any non-palestinian Sunni group in decades.
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@StuartRest1688 @Basedertarian We need some useless old pervert to wear a fancy hat or our country is doomed!
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@Basedertarian Obviously the Entente. God Save the King.
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Who are the good guys in Kaiserreich? (In general)
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@XianKatsura @polypocketknife I agree that for most people, religion is just an idenfity marker with no actual beliefs attached.
But you can't blame us for assuming you actually believe the stuff the bible says.
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in a conservative’s ideal america it’s mandatory to identify as a christian but illegal to actually live as jesus taught.
Pubity@pubity
A priest in Florida faces a fine of over $500,000 for feeding the homeless. Rezoning led to Father Bob's soup kitchen being suddenly ruled illegal to run in 2014, but he's kept going for the past 12 years and refuses to stop helping others.
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@XianKatsura @polypocketknife Why is it illegitmate to point out your hypocricy?
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@SpecialPuppy1 The fact that many of them would lose their seats?
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What's stopping Rs from banning gerrymandering nationally?
Patrick Ruffini@PatrickRuffini
The gerrymander would make Northern Virginia the main power base in 5 seats vs. 3.5 today. Taking seats from the working class Shenandoah & Tidewater and giving them to the *richest region in the country.* It's Robin Hood in reverse.
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@GentlemenBrian @Murkythreat @CodyLibolt I conceive of human rights just fine. But you can't have a "nation" or a "country" or whatever without a state.
There's no polity without politics.
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@GenericName9991 @Murkythreat @CodyLibolt The people. The culture. Families. Businesses. You people can't conceive of even human rights existing as something ephemeral yet real unless a state makes it a law.
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@GentlemenBrian @Murkythreat @CodyLibolt My brother, what do you think defines "the country" if not the state?
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@GentlemenBrian @Murkythreat @CodyLibolt It exists right now. Under capitalism the state is the instrument of bourgeois class rule
Why should a worker care if the person who owns the company he works for is a capitalist or the state?
The main difference is that the state has the potential to act in the worker's interest
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@GenericName9991 @Murkythreat @CodyLibolt The state can be a check on the completely imaginary dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. But states are and have been actual dictatorships for millennia. Why would you choose to be under a dictatorship of the state to save you from something that only barely had ever existed?
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@GentlemenBrian @CodyLibolt A centralized economy would be easier than ever to implement with the computers we have now.
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@GenericName9991 @CodyLibolt So....the model that Yugoslavia had for a few decades? The model that failed due to large scale inefficiency and bankruptcy and added to the country's collapse?
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