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@TimOToo61557003 @BrandonStraka I dontw need to registerin Washington state. I can vote for whoever, but just one party. I do use the strategy.

@hookskat @BrandonStraka Register as a Republican, then vote in primary elections to root out the racists and misogynists.

Another voter just walked away — and said it out loud. “I’m officially coming out as a Republican. The Left pushed me to the Right.” “I’m voting Republican across the board. I’m done.” #WalkAway

@Ash1138 Biblical scholarship is often a battle between theology historical criticism. It faces scrutiny because of the lack original manuscripts, and scholars often disagree on whether the texts are eyewitness accounts or later theological reconstructions.

@hookskat What do you mean the scholarship is questionable?

I am very skeptical of anyone who is alive and thinks they met Jesus.

@Ash1138 It took 7 years of study.

@hookskat That's all it took? What do you mean the scholarship is questionable?

@LarsTheBiggest @QuestionAbyss You don't do sarcasm well…..

@QuestionAbyss @hookskat Darn. I studied so hard. I guess I didn’t pass your test. It’s ok. I’ll drop your class. I don’t care for your style.

Did you know that around a million people each year die from parasitic infections, let alone all the other animals that fall prey to parasites? I wonder if parasites were on the ark, and why would god save them…. Or even create them?

@RCragwall How could it be a fact? God isn't even a fact, just a concept concocted by men.

@hookskat God could give a shit about man's morals. He doesn't care. Since it is all God then yeah he gets to do that. Not an excuse. It is a fact.

A perfectly just deity cannot have shifting standards. Since Christian doctrine suggests God can set aside justice for his own purposes, he can't by definition, be acting according to a consistent moral law.

@Ash1138 That the Jesus story was very much like fables before him. That the scholarship of the Bible is questionable. And I was finally able to admit there was nothing there to cling to.

@hookskat What did you discover that lead you to have this view?

@patilshekhar73 @lyssasphere That is true.

@hookskat @lyssasphere I think once we realize we are what we choose to be, we can choose what we want to be as a person. This awareness is what most people don’t have and and often miss the opportunity to be better. Some people choose not to be better.

Do we choose who we become?

@Chad4328 @JstevensDK7 You know that conversation well…. Blah, blah, blah.

@JstevensDK7 @hookskat Blah blah blah

@QuestionAbyss Around 45-50

At what point in your life did you shift from external to internal validation?

@CascadeTheBard No god.

@hookskat 50 years is a long time. What was the line in the sand that caused you to decide to walk away?

@Ash1138 The cognitive dissonance caught up with me. I went in search of why and discovered I was deceived…. By myself and by the church, and my family. I had accepted by faith, what I was taught as truth. It isn't.

@hookskat Did you notice the "?" I know hardly anything about you, so I'm asking questions. One thing I do know: Something made you abandon Christ and it wasn't just a situation of you going from knowing Him and loving Him to forgetting Him for no reason. What was it that turned you?

@polyreformed You want me to argue on your premise of belief? Sorry, I can't do that!

@hookskat This is where you went to irrationally. Because you were arguing the logic of the message about Christ. And because the logic is rock solid. You change to argueing the sources. People please go back and read the thread.

@skypilot1979 Might makes RIGHT…..

@hookskat I’m speak about humanity in general…I don’t know you. I’m saying, whoever makes the rules has the authority to enforce them in the way they believe is appropriate. Determining fairness isn’t within the purview of lesser beings. So, they rebel. It might work, it might not.

@Saywurrd If the definition shifts based on what is 'advantageous' for the narrative, you don't have a standard—you have a variable.

@Saywurrd You claim your manual provides the only consistent standard for justice, yet it defines justice as 'each dying for their own sin' in Deuteronomy 24, then shifts to 'killing children for their grandfather's sin' in 2 Samuel 21…..

@Ash1138 Lol…. You don't think I believed in satan too? Really?

@hookskat In your deception, I wonder if you were ever aware of the Deceiver? He's as real as Jesus, but many churches don't like to talk about him. He's real good at convincing you Jesus isn't there for you. And churches are good at selling a Jesus who's there to give you what you want.

@nadine90336 This too is the typical “fuck you” I get from Christians.

@hookskat Praying for you... May your eyes be opened to all the Lord has done in your life.

@Saywurrd So the Covent laws were not given by god? Moses said they were….

@hookskat “Forever changing” or different applications? Christians distinguish between moral law (rooted in God’s nature) and covenant/civil laws given for specific contexts. If you think there’s a contradiction, name it—otherwise it’s just an assertion.

@nadine90336 Not interesting in playing the blame game with you.

@hookskat What does that look like to you?