Lopen's Left Arm @ LopensLeftArm @sh.itjust.works

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No one's asking anyone to pretend he was a good person, or that he never existed. We don't have to do any of that in not celebrating his death.

Younger generations can learn to avoid the mistakes of the past through being educated by those who lived through it and by being exposed to human kindness and compassion instead of retributive hatred.

Dark City is amazing, I recommend that movie whenever I get the chance.

That was such a fantastic episode.

Don't vote for a third party. That's just voting for Trump with extra steps.

Preventing open fascism?

The right person right now is someone who's not Trump. That's Biden, like it or not. Doing anything but voting for Biden is voting for Trump.

Got any grapes?

Rome killed heretics, because Christianity was the state religion, and turned to the Church to speak to what is and is not Christianity. And the Church has condemned things like gnosticism as non-Christian from the very beginning. Don't confuse Rome having an official prescribed acceptable set of religions with some nefarious scheme by the Church. It is the role of the bishops to speak to what the authentic Christian faith is; what the state - in this case, the Roman empire - does with that information, with regard to non-Christian faiths, is it's own business. The Church is under no onus to accept false theology as Christian simply for fear that the Empire will persecute those people if they don't. In fact, she would've been wrong to do so, and unfaithful to her commission by Christ had they compromised the Christian religion that way.

That's one opinion, certainly. I completely disagree that there's no inherent meaning to anything, I think there absolutely is.

TAS is Thing

The Egg

There are only two major churches which have a valid historical claim to be a direct succession of the original Church, the other one being the Roman Catholic Church. On the major points of contention - the filioque and papal supremacy - I found the history of the early Church to be solidly supporting of the Orthodox view.

c/Risa

I'm Eastern Orthodox, I believe it to be the full and complete continuation of the Christian Church from its earliest days.

No, you're not helping your candidate, your candidate is beyond help. They're going to lose. Either Biden is going to win, or Trump is going to win, and if you vote for anyone but Biden, you're complicit in helping Trump.

And? Ever since he left office it's been one piece of shit after another. It shouldn't be too much to ask for a presidential candidate to be something besides "less terrible than the other guy".

Huh?

That person is not a viable candidate, and you've basically just helped out the greater of two evils by refusing to oppose him.

That assumes that there are any viable candidates running that we actually like. That's becoming more and more a pipe dream, haven't seen one since Obama.