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  • Free will is a thing, after all.

    Is it though? What makes me who I am? We like to portray ourselves as individuals in control, making choices, but when you study the paths of criminals, for example, you often find commonalities. If I'd had a different childhood, if I'd been born to different parents, who knows if I wouldn't have become a murderer? Even without going that far, if I'd been born in a small town in Texas, I'd probably be a brainless MAGA. I can't be proud of something I'm not responsible for.

    So things are obviously more complex, and there are plenty of people born in small towns in Texas who aren't MAGA. But I think no one ever decides to be evil (that's why fighting against evil people is not enough and will never be; it's necessary of course but we should at the same time study the causes of evil, and fight it).

    is because they’re not dead and so they could still repent and change their ways?

    Partly, but not mainly. I do think that anyone can change and repent, but in these cases I don't think they will change, and I don't see what someone who did a genocide could do to repent, even if he changed. No, it's not that.

    My position is based on broader principles. Human beings have inalienable rights and dignity. I personally base these rights and this dignity on theological grounds, but even remaining purely secular, it is essential that what is inalienable stay so, because if these things are taken away from some, then they are no longer inalienable to anyone. This is precisely what Trump, Musk, Netanyahu and the others are trying to achieve: a society divided between human beings and dehumanized people, and such a society always leads to the dehumanization of the same people, even if they were not the original targets.

    I'll take the example of the USSR. They dehumanized the bourgeoisie, the royalists, the kulaks. But soon, it was the minorities, the homosexuals, the artists, the "oddballs," and others who ended up in the Gulag (or in psychiatric asylum), while the new bourgeoisie (the Party cadres) had "reclaimed" their humanity. It's not to protect Trump and Netanyahu that we must always consider them human beings with dignity and rights. It's for the sake of society as a whole, and especially its most vulnerable members.

    But again, this doesn't mean we shouldn't fight them, and fight them hard. It simply means that not everything is permissible in this fight or, fighting evil persons, we will reinforce the causes of evil.

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  • Again, it's not an either/or situation. Musk, Trump and Netanyahu should be fought with everything we've got, but the second one stops considering them as human beings with inalienable rights and dignity, one becomes a part of the problem. Let's not let them transform us; in order to fight them we have to refuse to imitate them.

  • You can do that

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  • Nobody is definitively lost. But one can fight someone else compassionately, it's not an either/or.

  • clippy rule

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  • It's a tool for better correction, not for better writing; the fact that you're mixing the two is proof that you've never learned to write. It's not a big deal; most people don't want to write, just to compose texts, and that's okay.

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  • If you think word processors help you write better, you never learnt to write.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux"

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  • I watched the 3 first episodes. I wasn't thinking I would like this show a lot, as I'm not at all fan of highschool dramas, but I was kind of positively surprised. The “jock” aesthetic is boring (almost all men have biceps as large as thighs…) but it's a part of the genre, so I can't say anything. And despite that, I find the characters interesting, especially Ake. I love her attitude, even if it may be a little over the top (but again, I imagine is a part of the genre…). The questions asked are good ones, and their answers are very “starfleety”. I love the fact that the stakes are (for now) quite low. If you care about the characters, each one is a universe, so you don't need to threaten the actual universe to make hour show interesting, and after three episodes I do care about the characters. All in all, it's not bad Star Trek.

    The only serious criticism I have is that they're trying to do two contradictory things at once, and they're doing it rather poorly. Either it's a grave show about childhood trauma, the search for a mother, the forgiveness one can (or can't) grant to an institution that meant well but made an horrible mistake that destroyed a childhood, or it's a lighthearted show about young people who misbehave and are punished for it. For example, the transition between Caleb's absolutely terrible childhood and the push-up with a pack on his back gag is jarring. You don't feel like laughing at him at this point! I don't say it's not possible, but it should be done with more finesse than that. A lot more.

    But this third episode was all in the lighthearted side if things, and I liked it for that. Starfleet Academy won't become my favourite show, as just like Prodigy I'm just not the demographics (and that's okay, there could be Star Trek for everyone!). But it's fun.

  • Punk as rule

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  • They all did other things for which they were first searched, while Tuck did not.

  • Punk as rule

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  • As a Christian minister, I can say that Friar Tuck is one of my models.

  • It Took 6+ Years For Linux's "New" Mount API To Be Properly Documented In Man Pages

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  • I love groff! But i don't write documentation, so that may be why.

  • When a Christian Makes Contact with an Atheist

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  • No, you're reformulating the verse. I'm asking for context. What was the discussion about?

  • When a Christian Makes Contact with an Atheist

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  • Okay, I'll bait. What's the context of this text? Or in other words: what's Jesus speaking about?

  • When a Christian Makes Contact with an Atheist

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  • What are you doing, citing verses without understanding them in their context, if not “living your truth”?

  • When a Christian Makes Contact with an Atheist

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  • I looked to first link, and the first biblical reference was Luke 16:23. It's a parable… not a description of actual hell… I saw enough to know that it's not theologically serious.

    The rest of your message is cherrypicking. You can't cite verses without providing any context or analysis, staying on the surface of things, and think you make a point. Again, not theologically serious. You should study the Bible praying, make it resonate with the life of the marginalized people that Jesus came to meet, not just choosing the verses that confirm your preconceptions, or you'll make the Bible saying the contrary of what it says by cherrypicking and staying too literal. Nobody can make this work for you.

    Imagine someone who'd come to you and say: “the Bible say that God doesn't exist, look at Ps 14:1 ‘There is no God’!”. Of course this Psalm says the contrary, and it would be easy to prove, just by citing the verse wholly; but what you do is not different, just more subtle.

  • When a Christian Makes Contact with an Atheist

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  • No, we were in highschool when we begun to date. But I was already Christian, and we knew I was going to a faculty of theology a few months later to become a pastor.

    I'm a member of a united Lutheran-Reformed church. I come from a Reformed parish, but serve nowadays in a Lutheran one, and theologically I navigate between the two traditions.

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  • I don't know. The Bible don't speak that much after the afterlife. Jesus mainly spoke about the Kingdom, which is within us and not something otherworldly (Luke 17:21), the Old Testament is almost only interested in how to follow God here and now, even the book of Revelation is, if read correctly, more a veiled criticism of the politics of Roman Empire than a prediction. The only one who spoke a lot about the afterlife is Paul, but if he's clear about who will be saved, he's not about who won't. That's why I spoke about a mystery; but I trust God to make the best decision.

  • When a Christian Makes Contact with an Atheist

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  • As often, the loud minority gives a bad name to the others. People meet a lot of respectful Christians, but doesn't even know they're Christians, as they don't shove it in anyone's throat. They meet a few vocal Christians, and know they're Christians, and then think they're the only ones.

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  • That I could do, if it made sense in the context.

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  • Do you believe your wife will go to hell?

    No. I don't believe in all that “you have to confess Jesus as your personal lord and saviour to avoid hell” crap. It's in fact something not very widespread outside evangelicalism. I believe the Cross is working mysteriously, far outside the frontier of the visible Church. A God who condemns people that doesn't recognize him is not a loving God, it's a pervert. I believe that “to confess Jesus as my personal lord and saviour” is a way to live a better life here and now, and I don't expect an eternal reward for that.

    Is she agnostic or does she believe there is no god?

    I'd say she's agnostic atheist. She doesn't know if God exist, but believes he does not, and in fact doesn't care.

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  • I live in France, where it's illegal to have a religious marriage without having a civil one first. As a pastor, I have to ask a proof that the people I religiously marries are already married civilly. I agree theologically with that, as protestants don't marry people, they bless an already existing marriage.

    So we had both. To be honest, in France, civil marriages are quite dull: it takes 5 minutes, the mayor or their deputy reads the law, asks for consent, makes the people sign, and it's the next couple's turn. It's very administrative. There's a little decorum, but just a little.

    So, even for people without strong belief, the ritual makes the marriage something special. It was the case for my spouse, at least. She's atheist, but she respects my faith, as I respect her atheism; she knew it was important for me, so that made it important for her.

    I would warn you though: if your girlfriend is Catholic, you'll have yo promise to raise your children in the Catholic faith. If your girlfriend is evangelical, they may ask you to testify of your faith. I'd say to discuss this with her first very openly, and test the waters with her priest/pastor. 90% are cool people, with whom you'll be able to be open, and they won't refuse you as long as they don't sense that you opposes the whole thing. 10% are assholes; I'd advice you to look for an other one; if it's the one your girlfriend wants, lie to them (as long as your girlfriend agrees with that). You don't marry for the officiant, you owe them nothing.

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  • No, she never was Christian, nor anything else for that matter.

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    À l'année prochaine, Halloween !

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