Shit, it’s the problem over there too…

They literally all worship the same God but too many people are still wanting to kill each other over the details

It was true when Emo Phillips said it, it’s still true today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNX_XiuA78

Even if one religion dominates large sections of the globe, over time it will fracture and create conflict again.

The arrival of the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group in Busan came a day after South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador to protest a major deal between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week.

The agreement pledges mutual defense assistance in the event of war. South Korea says the deal poses a threat to its security and warned that it could consider sending arms to Ukraine to help fight off the Russian invasion as a response — a move that would surely ruin its relations with Moscow.

Hezbollah is also part of the 4+1 treaty involving other Middle East countries and Russia. And Israel is ramping up attacks against them. Russia signing with NK could draw them into that too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq_coalition

Russia is using Israel to threaten WW3. They’ll likely push for parts of Ukraine in exchange to giving Israel land from its Middle East allies.

“I wish that he would be a statesman and do what is right for Israel. We all love Israel,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said recently on CNN about Netanyahu. “We need to help them and not have him stand in the way of that for such a long time.”

She added, “I think it’s going to invite more of what we have seen in terms of discontent among our own.”

1. We don’t “all love Israel”.

2. It’s incredibly concerning leadership understands this hurts the party but won’t even do the right thing for the wrong reasons.

Hell, it’s not even for the wrong reasons. As they keep saying, it’s vital that we stop republicans. But for some reason that’s not enough of a reason to stop supporting genocidal maniacs threatening WW3

There is a very real chance that Biden’s unquestioning support of Israel will lead to WW3.

Bibi knows whatever happens, Biden will always have his back. He can’t get that loyalty from any other US president, he’s counting on every other country recognizing that, but with the way Israel is acting they all assume Israel won’t stop with their current victims.

It’s stand together now, or watch each other fall slowly.

The UCLA Police Department interviewed witnesses and victims in connection to the violence that erupted at the encampment, reviewed security camera footage of the masked man and later identified him as On. Pro-Israeli counterprotesters armed with fireworks, gas irritants, and blunt objects violently attacked students and faculty in the encampment for hours as private security guards and campus police watched from a distance.

But the DA is saying it just happened organically…

Gascón goes on to say that there is “no evidence to suggest that Mr. On was working in collaboration with any other individuals, and our investigation found no proof of conspiracy or any organized effort by Mr. On related to the incident.”

It was just a coincidence the attackers all dressed the same, and wore the same white masks totally a coincidence. /s

He drove himself to Kenosha. Dominic Black acquired the rifle. It’s unclear whether it was Dominic Black or Rittenhouse who drove him home, but his mother was not in the car.

Well, if you’re right maybe you should.link sour es so people believe you?

It takes more than a simple majority to start killing every nonbeliever…

And like I said:

And followers are often naive.

What’s your explanation for saying the Bible forces them to only have some political beliefs and not to support everything?

If they can pick and choose, why should we care what they pick? Either it doesn’t matter to them what the Bible says, or they’re not honest about their motivations and/or goals

They didn’t just wipe out the people who lived there and move in new people…

Large scale immigration didn’t start happening till ethe mid 1800s when ethically European and Jewish people started immigrating enmass.

Partly because the Ottoman empire was friendly to ethnic and religious minorities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Jerusalem

When Rome first took it over, yeah, lots of people (Jewish and otherwise) were killed. But they werent just Jewish, they were also descended ethnically from people who had lived there for centuries.

Converting to a religion doesn’t magically change your ethnicity…

But that’s the only way what you’re saying makes any sense.

I didn’t expect you to read the link, that’s why I quoted part of it…

But I at least hoped you’d read that

If you refuse to read, there’s no point in trying to help you understand anything.

That’s kind of the whole point…

Catholics say they have to be against abortion and LGBT because of what the Bible says, but even worse shit is in there that is being ignored because Catholicism doesn’t have the numbers.

So either you don’t have to follow it, or the organized religion isn’t being honest about what they want

And followers are often naive. Which is why it doesn’t matter when a fringe group says they decided to draw the line at a more time appropriate line.

If some of it isn’t binding, none of it is. And eventually another extremist group will spring from your ideology.

It’s like if people started marching around with swastikas but said it’s cool because they only follow “the good parts” of being a fucking nazi. If we accept them as a valid group, eventually some members will embrace the other shit.

With religions it’s even worse, because you believe an all-powerful entity exists and will follow what you think that entity works. The majority of evil in this world is people who believe they are acting for the greater good.

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Yes, there were plans for if we joined before we joined.

Like, that’s what a functional government does, plan things in case they happen.

Only planning for things you know will happen is absolute insanity.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/great-debate

While it did cross into the majority of Americans (68%) thinking we should join the Allies, it was due to the belief Germany wouldn’t stop with Europe.

Interventionists believed the United States did have good reasons to get involved in World War II, particularly in Europe. The democracies of Western Europe, they argued, were a critical line of defense against Hitler’s fast-growing strength. If no European power remained as a check against Nazi Germany, the United States could become isolated in a world where the seas and a significant amount of territory and resources were controlled by a single powerful dictator. It would be, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt put it, like “living at the point of a gun,” and the buffer provided by the Pacific and Atlantic would be useless.

Pearl Harbor settled the debate on if America would be left alone.

It wasn’t for “various reasons”.

Eh, FDR and other US politicians wanted to enter the war for various reasons, including the oppression of Jews

And some wanted to join the Axis for the same reasons…

Not just their treatment of Jewish people, but all the groups.

The nazis inspiration for their treatment of targeted demographics was literally American treatment of slaves and indigenous peoples after all.

America didn’t join WW2 cause we wanted to wear a cape, the sole reason was Pearl Harbor.

It’s crazy they act like he’s the black sheep…

The mom raised them, and drove him across state lines.

The sister is just as big of a piece of shit, as evident in the video where Kyle curls up into the fetal positions and cries after some guys stopped him from beating a young girl his sister picked a fight with.

They’re all shit people.

It’s probably someone you blocked. If they’re the only reply and everyone responds to them, it’ll show that until someone you haven’t blocked replies.

Then you’ll just see the reply.

You can try by signing out, you’ll see all the replies that way

The concept of there being an “indigenous population” on a land that humanity has occupied and fought over for 10000 years is laughable

Hold up…

You don’t think Africa has any indigenous populations?

You think a random collection of Europeans can say they deserve that land and take it?

Like, that’s apartheid South Africa mate… Even modern South Africa doesn’t defend that anymore, which is why they’re fighting Israel in the courts today.

And stolen? They lost a world war.

What?

Are you saying that you think the native population of Israel fought with the Nazis?

Who told you that?

I don’t think you’re intentionally spreading misinformation, but that’s what you’re doing even if you somehow believe it

I know you’re trying to say those first two lines ironically…

But yeah, that’s right.

Maybe some day you’ll see that, but logic won’t help until you’re ready.

Then you’re just picking and choosing what parts you believe and what parts you don’t.

You believe a higher power provides instructions, but you disregard some of those instructions.

Even if the parts you follow align with modern mores, you’re not following them for logical reasons.

And you can’t seem to understand why that makes people nervous, you just want everyone to pretend you don’t live your life by the guidance of an imaginary friend.

It’s a fucking cult.

Maybe for now it’s not dangerous, but very few are until they get a majority.

But I’m done here, you didn’t arrive at your position based on logic, logic didn’t get you to where you are today, it’s not going to get you out of your cult.

So…

You’re a Christian that doesn’t follow the Bible?

Then you’re just picking and choosing what parts you believe and what parts you don’t.

Who knows what crazy shit does your cult believes? What opinions do you hold based on faith and an old person telling you to hold?

It’s fucking dangerous for everyone else.

Why should people just take your word that you only follow the “good parts” and why should they believe what you think is good is actually moral?

If you’re picking and choosing what parts to follow, you can’t hide behind your religion as a shield.

Because the vast majority of religions oppress people…

And lots of religious people don’t want to fix that, they want to skip to where everyone treats religious people better and ignore how religions treat people.

If you follow an Abrhamic religion and claim to have to be against abortion and LGBTQ because your religion tells you to…

All the Abrhamic religions also say to do horrible shit like kill non-believers. So if they’re saying they have to follow the rules and it’s not their choice, we can look at the other things their religions tell them to do, and assume the reason they’re quite about those parts, is they don’t have the numbers to accomplish those parts.

Yet.

If they want people to be nicer, their primary focus needs to be on fixing their own house first.

It’s like a narcissist demanding everyone forgive them, but they don’t actually apoligize and definitely don’t change the behavior that upset people.

Well, it’s not going to explode because it already has…

But if it’s really so old that it’s lead you should be careful. Is it an antique clock where it has value sentimental or other? If not just toss it.

The mechanism is pretty standard, so if you really want to salvage it, you can replace that (and keep the same hands) but definitely mask up and take it outside to clean the corrosion off. If it’s an antique then this has already happened at least once.