andros_rex @ andros_rex @lemmy.world

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I’m questioning your understanding of Christianity because you aren’t really providing evidence for any claims, you are mostly just angry posting. You seem to have religious trauma, and that is normal growing up evangelical. You assume that any argument you perceive of as “in defense of” Christianity to be being made by a Christian. You are reacting from a place of emotion, not logic.

You are trying to make an argument from authority here. Growing up in a Christian household does not automatically make one an expert on the text of the Bible or the history of Christianity. (Have you read the entire Bible? Which translation?)

You can’t apply “No True Scotsman” to Christianity because it is an ideology with many complicated and mutually exclusive beliefs. Can we call Mormons “Christians”? How is Catholicism different from American Protestant evangelical Christianity (versus say, Jamaican Protestant evangelical Christianity?)

I’m assuming the Christianity which you were raised is the American Protestant evangelical Christianity, which is often less based on theological understandings of the Bible, and more about “sola scriptura” - reading random bits of the text and letting the Holy Spirit tell you what it means.

This has a deeply different character from many other forms of Christianity, and might be understood by some as a perversion of the faith - especially with things like the popularity of “Prosperity Gospel” theology in this community. There’s an abandonment of works to focus entirely on faith - which I think is one of the ultimate failures of this version of the religion.

I will not deny your experience with a form of Christianity, but you cannot generalize it to the whole.

Everyone knows my hairy bearded ass would make everyone’s 11 year old daughter feel totally safe in the women’s restroom.

It was actually a crime for me to piss in the men’s restroom for my last couple years teaching. Misdemeanor - they could have docked my schools funding by 10%.

I’m a criminal mastermind, I commit so many crimes just by breathing now.

They already technically revoked our drivers licenses I think? No idea - if I randomly stop posting I’m probably dead in OK County for “fraud.” (Don’t remember if it’s 7 or 8 deaths so far this year.)

Drummond wants the governors seat. Could be a good stunt to get the MAGA 15 minutes of fame.

Yeah, probably.

But like Kierkegaard’s Knight of Faith, I’m attempting to make the infinite movement and have hope in the impossible. We’ll see if the someone shows up to save Isaac.

Your understanding of Christianity seems more r/atheism and less informed by any actual engagement with the text.

If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18:6

It often interpreted to refer to people who are new to the faith, but I think that it includes children too.

Matthew 25:41-46 is pretty clear on who the “goats” are.

I’m not even a Christian, but that’s a really cute way to understand Matthew 7:1-3, and not really relevant here :)

Dune 2 walked so that StarCraft could run.

Mental health in America is this fucked up mess of paternalistic bullshit. The nature of struggling with mental illness somehow invalidates your ability to advocate for yourself. You are “crazy” so your suggestions on what you think effective care might be do not count. Mental health facilities are allowed to lie to you, too - you are treated like a child.

I would love something like what 988 promises. I have PTSD. I have moments where I have flashbacks, I have nights where I cannot sleep because my body floods me with the panic chemicals. I would love the ability to call a number late at night and have someone listen to me, to maybe gently work my way through visualization exercises, to help calm me down. I’m not so mentally ill that I am a child that can not be trusted to know what I need, I am a person who has suffered severe abuse and has a brain that sometimes sees a certain street sign or smells something and then I am a 14 year old trying to get someone to listen to me. I need help regulating sometimes - I don’t get why this is an impossible ask.

The closest thing I have gotten to that was a random person on Washington’s child protective services line, oddly enough.

It would have been nice to have that comfort last night. Instead I drank.

NASA should never have started subcontracting/giving work to private companies like SpaceX and Boeing. NASA’s talent takes pride in their work and does things well. Private companies are incentivized to cut corners, which you cannot do with spaceflight.

It’s been a problem for a while. Those o-rings that failed with the Challenger? Made by a company run by the FLDS child rape cult.

There’s always big error bars on these dates for that kind of reason. Actual archeologists are going to be careful with their language and say things like “the earliest evidence we have for bows is around 9000 BCE.”

It is most definitely unpopular in real life. I don’t think most people who haven’t interacted with it have any idea how terrible it is.

As I call different mental health agencies to get the sexual abuse of children at a “hospital” investigated, I keep hearing “if you are in crisis, please hang up and dial 988 to speak to a trained crisis counselor” on the voicemail boxes. Funny, I’m trying to get the place that gave me this trauma shut down. What would probably help me never go into crisis again would be someone closing the child torture facility - that would very much soothe my brain.

The ID badge I had when I worked at a middle school had it. There are billboards and posters everywhere advertising it.

“At least institutionalization keeps people alive!” 🤡

People should also in general stop with the “You should speak to a therapist” shit - guess what, therapy ain’t free! It’s never helpful advice.

I know about the types of communities you are talking about, but there is a difference between people who purposefully put animals together to cause them to kill each other for entertainment and taking striking pictures of natural predation.

I just watched a video of an Australian water rat eat the heart of a toad, as an adaptation to prey on invasive species with mostly toxic organs. That is pretty cool, and the shock value helps with the educational aspect.

There’s a difference between that and “let’s put a snake and a spider in the same confined environment to watch them kill each other for fun.” Or god, the monkey torture people.

Animals eat each other, and learning about them will require confronting this fact. I think this photo is educational, not lurid. Most people know very little about spiders, and I hope that my posting this picture got people to think more about the natural world. It is shocking, it does provoke a visceral reaction, but it also prompts questions. I am probably going to use it as a phenomenon to explore the next time I work with a student on biology.

Saw that shit in theatres. As well as Baby Geniuses 2 and Meet the Spartans.

I wish Christians in red states were Christians.

I’ve taken to begging churches in my state to investigate the states systemic refusal to investigate the physical and sexual abuse of children. I’ll see if our “Christians” believe in the words of Christ.

Spiders routinely hold onto 100x more than their weight. Are you basing any of this on a knowledge of invertebrate biology? Ants can do similarly impressive feats - that’s something I will stand firmly by, as someone who’s name is in papers in ant research.

My actual degree is in physics too, and I’ll say that often things that seem counterintuitive are entirely supported by physics ;)

Yeah, but how survivable is making indie games? Unless you make it big, you aren’t paying rent that way.

Here’s one eating a frog.

What specifically about the physics of the situation is making you suspicious? I’ve worked in an invertebrate lab, admittedly primarily with ants, and nothing about this raises alarm bells.

Yeah. My spider book was given to a middle schooler more than a year ago :(