There was an interesting comment I saw earlier today where a Texas pastor mentioned how he doesn’t like to use the word “Christian” any more because it’s come to mean something that is the polar opposite of what Jesus taught. Jesus was a humanist. I can imagine him, Buddha, and Carl Sagan being very good friends.

My point is, you are so preoccupied with labels that the actual ideals and behavior aren’t part of your equation. Therefore your analogy is unrelated to the reality.

As Frederick Douglass put it, American Christianity (or what we today call “Christian Nationalism”) is not Christian. I’d even call it decidedly antichrist.

This reminds me of the words of Frederick Douglass.

…between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Never was there a clearer case of “stealing the livery of the court of heaven ​to, serve the devil in.” I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which every where surround me.

• Frederick Douglass, 1845

The entire thing is worth reading. The “corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land” is clearly the very same that overwhelmingly persists and thrives today… 180 years later.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass,_an_American_Slave/Appendix

The appearance of doing something about a problem is much easier and more politically expedient than actually doing something about a problem.

Nazi-style eugenics is the crux of their entire platform.

We’re also pansexual genderfluid woke leftist trekkie furries. That’s why you love us.

And the 90s were only 10 years ago.

It talks about incestuously raping your male slaves (but female slaves are fine if you follow some extra rules), about raping children, and about temple prostitution. None of those things concern homosexuality, particularly monogamous, consensual, not-of-the-same-household same-sex relationships.

The catholic church has twisted those things into something completely different than what they say. But we have those texts in their original languages and they are pretty darn clear. I’m amazed the church has gotten away with it for so long… but then they do have a policy of “what the church says is as good as scripture” so…

Replace OneDrive with a NAS. You can roll your own with something like OpenMediaVault.

Replace OneNote with Obsidian. It’s not FOSS, but it’s free and cross platform.

Good on them. Those are all solid choices.

I prefer Evolution over Thunderbird, personally. But to be fair, there aren’t any mail clients for Linux that I would say I genuinely like. I’m always open to suggestions, though.

Wikipedia started out as being extremely unreliable. So did Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo, etc. Those things have matured over the 30+ years they’ve been around, but they didn’t start that way. The ability to research, confirm, and corroborate is an important part of life. It always has been and always will be.

Judeo-Christian scriptures are many things, including misogynistic (women are literally considered property), but they are not, and never have been, homophobic. Not defending them, just pointing out one of those fun facts that gets overlooked because people accept what they’re told - including in the form of compromised translations - without ever raising a finger to confirm if it’s accurate. They want to believe it, so they do.

Copyrighting is one of the few forms of IP I support. It’s highly specific and genuinely protects creators.

Patents, on the other hand, need to be destroyed.

And speaking as a tech enthusiast (and if you are on the fediverse right now I’d argue that also applies to you) GenAI has few valid use cases, and almost no valid use-cases under capitalism. I’d argue Meta’s plan to detect NSFL content qualifies, but that’s just old fashioned ML, not GenAI… so my point stands.

I have always been opposed to the concept of “homework”, so I would support this.

It depends. The smells and flavors run quite a gamut.

Smells: gasoline, body odor, hot trash can, tire fire, rotting onions, raccoon decomposing under the house. In the best cases, a sweet rancid musk, like a field of wild fruit at the end of the season, with all the fruit rotting on the ground.

Tastes: Egg custard, vanilla pudding, brie cheese with dates, kerosine-soaked bread, unwashed armpits after a day of hard work in the hot sun.

They’re not wrong, but I heard similar things when search engines first appeared. To be fair, that wasn’t wrong either.

They think lemmy.world and lemmy.ca are “neoliberal”?

The Republican party’s mission. We can’t let the rest of them dodge accountability, too. They are trying to create a story where “it wasn’t us, it was all Elon.” The rest of them are no less guilty. Name them. Name every one of them.

Oh, definitely. But the title of the article makes it sound like a person named “Matthew Miller Israel” was personally in gaza committing war crimes. A modicum of punctuation could have solved it.

It’s not your fault. The original article’s title uses very awkward and unfortunate grammar.

There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always – do not forget this, Winston – always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.’

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And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again. Everything that you have undergone since you have been in our hands – all that will continue, and worse. The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. It will be a world of terror as much as a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism.