Manmoth Now • 33%
Are you 14?
Manmoth Now • 66%
patriot act and seeing the continuation of right wing authoritarianism
The Patriot Act was an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill.
Manmoth Now • 60%
You're just redefining terms. It's the same thing. If Twitter or Lemmy wants to block those things that's fine. I would agree that social networks should try to maintain some sense of decency on their platforms. The government shouldn't be involved though.
Manmoth Now • 33%
This is (mostly) a different point and I'm not going to engage with it. Suffice it to say that hate speech isn't a slippery slope it's the bottom of the mountain. If such a policy is ever enacted it will be abused and used to persecute people.
Manmoth Now • 13%
Teslas are impractical, cheaply made and expensive. That's why they aren't selling. Electric vehicles aren't selling in general because they don't make sense for the money. It's a forced meme by special interests.
Manmoth Now • 60%
While not pacifistic Christianity is non-violent. If someone claims to be a Christian and beats up a homosexual for "no reason" then they are sinning. This, also, is completely irrelevant to the argument I was making.
Everyone tries to enforce their views. You, I assume, want to enforce your world view of radical tolerance for [issue here] at the expense of someone elses ability to criticize it. Your neighbor might want to define hate speech as anything that violates Sharia law.
What we have now (which is no restriction on hate speech) is actually the best policy.
Manmoth Now • 33%
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The Orthodox Christian God is all knowing. Evil is the absence of Good. (e.g. darkness is the absence of light)
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Similarly this God is all powerful and has already defeated evil through the sanctification of man's nature through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. Faith and cooperation with the Holy Spirit is how man communes with God.
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Evil is the absence of good. So wherever people sin against God evil exists. Fallen beings exist as well because they too sinned against God but are eternally damned whereas man is redeemable.
God is indescribable and inconceivable. He created a church on Earth so that we can worship him. Worshipping God is good for us not just because God is good to us but because he literally is "good". In a world without God good and evil don't exist.
Manmoth Now • 7%
An army of leftists wouldn't fix anything
Manmoth Now • 17%
The proposals I listed are MUCH bigger issues.
Manmoth Now • 33%
Logic presupposes God. If God operates outside of time he can certainly operate outside of other frameworks we use to perceive the world. The human brain can fit in a bucket. Naturally understanding God is an impossibility.
The epicurian paradox presupposes false premises.
Manmoth Now • 25%
Why doesn't he add term limits for congress? And make stock trading illegal for congress? And ban lobbying? etc etc. This "anti-corruption" bill is really ignoring the elephant(s) in the room.
Manmoth Now • 60%
My point is that it's a moving target that will be abused. The government should not and thankfully cannot regulate speech based on the grounds of "hate". Hate is also not illegal. (At least in the US)
For example, Christians are taught to love the sinner but hate the sin. Homosexuality, drag queens, transgenderism are sins in Christianity. With your new law Christians are now censored because their worldview disagrees with yours.
Whoever has the right to define that term has immense power and that power will be abused just like the other labels in the meme.
Manmoth Now • 100%
The libertarians and social conservatives on the right are usually at odds with one another.
Manmoth Now • 100%
Sweet. I'll check it out.
Manmoth Now • 50%
It should also include "disinformation", "hate speech" and "conspiracy theory".
Not sure why the YT images stopped loading. Inlike this channels thumbnails.
I don't agree with everything in this video, particularly about the denominations objection, but it's otherwise a pretty good apologetics scattershot of atheist objections. Obviously any single objection would require more than a 10 minute meme video to really explain.
Pt. 2 - https://youtu.be/bZfkVvcyrQc?si=5dhkC4lycIZ8ne-h
Metropolitan Jonah (ROCOR) gives an informative lecture on the history of Russian Orthodoxy in America. Ever wonder why there are so many overlapping jurisdictions in North America? American bishops were at a synod in Moscow when Lenin's bolshevik coup started. The bishops were murdered. This decapitated the Orthodox church in America and prevented the fulfillment of unifying differing jurisdictions into a larger body. The results are still visible today. The communists murdered over 250,000 clergy and 20 million Christians over the course of the Soviet era. As a result ROCOR is perhaps one of the strongest anti-communist organizations in the United States today.
"Grandfather Dobri" was a beautiful philanthropist beggar who gave everything be had to the revitalization of churches throughout Bulgaria. While the editing is a bit hokey this documentary tells the story of a powerfully humble Orthodox Christian who truly gave his life over to God.
Sharing an image that outlines the key dates, themes and participation how-to's as we approach Pascha this year. Glory to God!
Posting this as we commemorate the feast of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox church who were murdered and tortured by the atheist, communist regime of the Soviet Union. Over 30,000 have been glorified. Holy New Martyrs of Russia pray for us.
I think the old moderator deleted his account. Kind thanks 🙏 Here is a link to my previous request from November: https://lemmy.ml/post/7916142 And September: https://lemmy.ml/post/5314512
I think the mod deleted his account. Thanks! 🙏