It's not a misreading at all. In many fundamentalist sects (such as the one I left) that's the dogmatic truth of those verses.
Everything material is sinful and holding you back.
I have lived with and continue to love many religious people - that does not make them rational. That does not make their religious beliefs OK. With all the love in their hearts they still participate in evil and coercive control of others. They are particularly dangerous in that they believe in their heart of hearts that they are doing the right thing.
This is the reality of religion: it is dangerous, coercive, self propagating brain washing that forces people into shape. It creates panopticons. Window twitching neighbors that snitch and shun.
This is true of all religion. In Christianity it's true of southern baptist and Lutheran's and Christian scientists and episcopalians and Jehovah's Witnesses and 7th day Adventists and Mormons and Catholics and Orthodox and ...
I similarly left Christianity from a far more fundamentalist sect and yes: the coercion is significant on all levels. It's scary once you realize what's been going on.
It's an incredibly controlling form of human culture and not given its due wariness.
Pretty unequivocal: give up everything and serve God.
there is no coercion within Islam to wear a hijab, kinda like how there is no coercion within Christianity to be a virgin.
The fuck there isn't. Coercion in Christian sects is rampant. Your parents finding out you're not a virgin will have you disowned in plenty of Christian households.
People who want to oppress women will do it regardless of means
And people who want to murder will do it regardless of means. That doesn't allow us to throw up our hands and let murder cults exist. Instead we extirpate them, outlaw them, stamp them out both legally and culturally.
To distinguish them, just get their confidence and ask them in a safe environment.
Pragmatically speaking this is, unfortunately, the best we can hope for. I'm not talking about pragmatics here though: I'm talking about fundamentals. Theory. What is a truly polite society?
It's not one where religious coercion is allowed to fester.
And Christians are supposed to give up all early possessions, renounce sex and serve God all their days.
What's your point? Theory means fuck all.
Religions are coercive social structures. You cannot distinguish those doing it willingly from those corrected into "proper behavior". As such a civil society can permit neither.
Re: downvotes - no idea why it's not working, but your anger is obvious enough without it
Choosing to wear a hijab is totally cool, as long as it's not because of a religion.
Religion uses coercion and indoctrination to control people.
It doesn't matter if it's state sanctioned or not: the social contract imposed by religion is violence. It doesn't matter if it's the government threatening jail time or your friends threatening social isolation. It's coercive.
And you can't distinguish between those who do it willingly and those who are forced: so a civil society can permit neither.
Thanks for the breakdown - I see what you mean as far as her campaign linking out to specific proposals. I do think the majority of these promises are contingent on control of congress, which is nowhere near guaranteed.
It has broad strokes across every issue but there are detailed specifics when you open the collapsible folds. Things like bringing back the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Expanding out to a newborn tax credit. Out of pocket maximums for seniors, increasing taxes on earners over 400k/yr - it all looks good to me.
The eye is literally a part of your brain poking out of a hole in your skull. It's really hard to transplant. It's nearly impossible to get sight from a transplanted eye:
There are on average ~7 million cone cells and ~92 million rod cells in the eye, each of which has its own separate nerve connection that runs all the way into the occipital lobe.
This guy would be the first person to ever get vision from a transplant.
If someone has the email account password your security is already fucked. If they don't then there's no way to pop your oauth unless the client is shit. If the client is shit you shouldn't give it your credentials.
Here is a short list of things that Play Services do:
Scan for active malware
Nearby Share
App attestation (Required for banking apps)
Encrypted backup of your data
Autofill
All push notifications
Find my device
Basic telemetry (talked about elsewhere in this thread but it's telling Google who you are and where you are)
Even if you remove all telemetry you'd need to have the services running 24/7 in the background maintaining a socket connection to push notification services.
It's not a misreading at all. In many fundamentalist sects (such as the one I left) that's the dogmatic truth of those verses.
Everything material is sinful and holding you back.
I have lived with and continue to love many religious people - that does not make them rational. That does not make their religious beliefs OK. With all the love in their hearts they still participate in evil and coercive control of others. They are particularly dangerous in that they believe in their heart of hearts that they are doing the right thing.
This is the reality of religion: it is dangerous, coercive, self propagating brain washing that forces people into shape. It creates panopticons. Window twitching neighbors that snitch and shun.
This is true of all religion. In Christianity it's true of southern baptist and Lutheran's and Christian scientists and episcopalians and Jehovah's Witnesses and 7th day Adventists and Mormons and Catholics and Orthodox and ...