And what if you don’t have the qualifications?

Strawman time! Oh boy!

Because it’s legal. You cannot get a prostitute to safety without substantial proof that they’re being forced

Sex workers who work legally need to be eligible to work in the country they reside in and they are protected by workers laws.

That makes it even worse. If you stop engaging in prostitution, you get fired and your working visa is revoked. Also, you’re assuming all victims of human trafficking are immigrants/don’t have the right to work in the country. At least in the UK, unless if you’re a student or a tourist, if you don’t have a right to work there, you probably don’t havw a right to be there either.

Also when sex work is illegal it’s mostly done by organised crime and and the right amount of money and leverage employed at the right spots can get the police / the state to look the other way.

Maybe this applies to countries with corruption issues and lack of morals.

Essentially, if police come across a brothel and the women (who are coerced) claim they are there consensually, they cannot do much. If it’s illegal, then they can actually get them to safety so they can tell them they were forced. If they weren’t, they can just drop the charges. This is basically what Northern Ireland has been doing- and the only people who have been convicted were also convicted of perpetuating human trafficking (they weren’t a victim)

Nonces are going to nonce

Also, legalising prostitution makes protecting women from being trafficked harder

Imagine being downed by beanis[comrade/them]@hexbear.net

AI :(

Tbf a lot of it ends up in !comics@lemmy.world for some reason

They’re just posting slop unfortunately. Actual humans wanting to have a discussion are welcome here

More Lemmy Evangelists??? I have competition…

Sounds like an easy job in that case, no?

Granted, when I was in bad relationships before, I posted about it online when I wanted permission to end it, too.

I’ve noticed this on reddit.

There’s a lot of misogynists/misandrists/incels online.

A demigod is half human and half god. This isn’t the case for Jesus. Jesus is fully human and fully God. The Virgin Birth was also prophecied in Hebrew

The Winter Solstice is on the 21st of December. Christmas is on the 25th of December (actually the 6th of January, if you use the old calendar.)

Christmas trees aren’t pagan, they are German and Jesus’ birth is celebrated 9 months after His conception, which was placed on the 25th of March to roughly line up with His death, as it was believed that Holy men died on the anniversary of their conception.

https://historyforatheists.com/2024/12/pagan-christmas-again/

We don’t know for certain that it wasn’t the actual day. It very well could have been.

The earliest writing about Jesus (1 Thessalonians) refers to Jesus as God’s son and it was only written 20 years after Jesus was crucified. That’s not “long after” in terms of ancient writings, legends typically take longer than living memory to develop.

Also Christianity was persecuted by pagans and was very anti pagan. If the early Christians, presuming some financial motivation, wanted to create a cult and had no issue pandering to Paganism, why not make it polytheistic? Why not worship the emperor of Rome? To compare your argument to swiss cheese would be too charitable.

None of that stuff is Pagan. The Easter egg carries Christian symbolism. Eggs were popular as they were hard boiled on the lead-up to easter due to Lent. The Rabbit was from a German Easter-Hare tradition, likely due to Easter being in Spring.

Sure, you can argue that Easter is being secularised like Christmas and Halloween is. That doesn’t make it Pagan.

Osiris’ resurrection narrative is completely different to Jesus’. The Baal cults are mentioned in the Bible as well as the polytheism that broke out with Yahweh being added to pagan pantheons. So there isn’t really a problem here- Kind of like how some Shinto Japanese practices incorporated Christian practices into them. Doesn’t make Christianity Shinto.

The flood story appearing in numerous eastern cultures would be expected if the flood actually happened, so if anything, it adds credibility to the narrative that there was.a significant flood.

Which snake myth are you referring to? I see several about Norse and Siberian, far away from the Hebrew Israelites.

What was your claim, then? You just name dropped Osiris and told me to research it without any further explanation.

The article you provided is written by a creative writer for an interesting website - it doesn’t even make a scholarly backed claim that the Christmas tree is pagan. In fact, it backs up what I was saying:

The Origin Of The Christmas Tree In Europe Although many countries have declared themselves the home of the Christmas tree, historians have said it’s likely that the real first tree was erected in 16th-century Alsace, in modern-day France. At the time, however, Alsace was a part of German territory, and so the tradition technically belongs to the Germans. Historical records show that a Christmas tree was indeed put up in the Strasbourg Cathedral in 1539, and the tradition quickly became popular throughout the region.

So sure, it is possible that pagans decorated their house with trees common in northern europe during their winter festivals, and then Christians decided to erect a single winter tree in their house later on. It doesn’t mean they’re related. Many religions incorporate fire into practices and burning things without actually being linked to each other.

Yule, a scandinavian festival, used to be celebrated later in winter, typically December to February. They then changed the date to fit in with Christianity, not the other way around. In addition, we have earlier records for Christmas than we do for Yule.

Here’s some better sourced reading on the topic:

https://historyforatheists.com/2024/12/pagan-christmas-again/#Yule