Agree mostly. However, President Trump was an NYC businessman and made the rounds at NYC parties for appearances, influence, etc. He's not necessarily 'willingly' attending those parties. He's working when he's there.

Harris? Certainly not working. She's not on her knees.

The official Church line was that people who never got a chance to accept Jesus were off the hook, AFAIK.

Which makes the whole "bring the Word of God to the world" thing weird. You could just get rid of Christianity and therefore save everyone.

I think the counter balance is supposed to be "Jesus died for your sins" thing, and so we have to minimize sin to minimize His suffering.

I think he would give them infinite chances to learn about his creation

Sounds like a plug for reincarnation there, haha.

My Jesuit religion teacher in high school would say all religions are ladders to the same roof. You can make all of them work with the same God expressing Himself different ways if you want to.

solely based on the fact that another black sold them, the Europeans are free of any guilt

Said African, not black. But your racism is leaking.

That's not how burden of proof works.

Reparation for black people should have happened when slavery ended.

what the idiot liberals want to brainwash you with

I mean, you're obviously brainwashed.

Europeans went to Africa and bought African slaves from African slavers. The only "responsible" party is the African nations enslaving each other (which they still do today - Kony 2012).

Yeah, there is a lot to consider in this vein.

Babies are baptized because Church teaching was that unbaptized people go to Hell automatically. Lots of babies used to die, so you baptized them ASAP to prevent them from going to Hell if they died early.

But if God is all-knowing, all-loving and all-powerful... then this makes no sense. An all-knowing and all-loving being would never damn a baby over baptism. An all-powerful being could bring an unbaptized person to Heaven.

So to insist babies should be baptized is to DENY God as all-knowing, all-loving and all-powerful. It is a MORTAL SIN to deny God. It's sacrilege.

There are parts of the Bible that are there for "faith" and parts that are there for "life". The "unclean food" was because for long parts of human history eating certain foods had a high likelihood you were going to die.

Old Testament God didn't care about pigs or shellfish, but a law against them was created because it saved lives.

Later, when those foods were no longer dangerous, they tried to get rid of the law forbidding it, but since they had used God as the excuse the first time, people pushed back.

It's possible that Jesus said those things about those foods, but it's also possible that the Church added them in the 100-200 years after Jesus before the Bible was written.

The point of "divine inspiration" is not that everything in the Bible happened as described, but that it exists (or existed) for a good reason. The difficulty sometimes is determining what is or is not necessary.

A good example there is tattoos. Back in the day, people got a tattoo, it got infected, they died. Thus the Lord says: no tattoos. Today, getting a tattoo is pretty safe in most places. Should we allow tattoos? Probably? But "my body is a temple"... sure, most temples have images and artwork that glorify God, so why not decorate your temple in His name?

I don't have tattoos and don't plan to, but it's a good example of the gray area and original cause/effect intention for these rules.

Shrug. That could be the "get funding" stage. Depends on how wide "people" is.

He's always been ultra-liberal / <your word here>.

You're literally using a defined logical fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

Stop licking windows.

Similar situation for homeless people. There'd be no homeless left if an actual pandemic had happened, because the tent-villages would have been decimated by it before a "vaccine" could even be formed.

when a state law conflicts with a federal law, then... (keyword here legally speaking) GENERALLY federal law will supersede state law

That's because it assumes the federal law in question is... legal. Invalid federal laws don't supercede state laws.

There's a thing I saw a long time ago called "the betting man's take on God". It is a thought experiment that considers the way someone should conduct their life. God either exists or doesn't exist and you can choose to live a Godly life or a God-less life. We have then, 4 outcomes.

1. You believe in God, you're right -- go to heaven / eternal happiness
2. You believe in God, you're wrong -- you lived a moral/good life for nothing / you're dead
3. You don't believe in God, you're right -- you lived a hedonistic life / you're dead
4. You don't believe in God, you're wrong -- you go to hell for eternity

The result is you choose to believe in God, largely because "eternal happiness" outweighs "eternal suffering" and the short-lived experiences in life are meaningless when it comes to missing out on hedonism.

I generally take the same approach to COVID. I believe that COVID was created in a lab with funding Fauci received from the Obama administration. I believe they intended to engineer a highly contagious but mostly safe strain of COVID, SARS, MERS and other diseases to release into the public. The idea being that it would give humans general immunity to such diseases and prevent future pandemics.

I believe they fucked up and either it leaked or someone sold everyone out. Or someone wanted to watch the world burn. Or leftie terrorists who want to change population levels because muh green nonsense. Doesn't matter. I think all this "vaccine" nonsense is the DNC and others trying to "not let a crisis go to waste".

All that being said... COVID either will or won't kill me and I can choose to wear or not wear masks. I think the safest bet is to avoid the 'vaccine' but isolate/mask where I can to avoid infection. I'm not a sheep or a robot, quite the opposite. I'm making the smart play. Masks probably don't really work very well. I'm wearing a (vented) N95 with a neck gaiter over it anyway.

I'm different than most people. I don't really care if I never have to leave the house. I'd rather stay on my homestead anyway. I've saved over an hour a day every day for over a year now not having to commute to work. I don't have to go to random bullshit "parties" or socialize. It's great for how I'd like to live my life. It sucks for all the bar hopping clubber or whatever out there, but, eh. I support them, but I'm not going to go do stuff in public that I don't want to do anyway.

And why some 5000% volume rap trash blasting over it?

His departure had been in the works for some time, one person familiar said. Officials from NIH, the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

No reason given.

“This is the way it ought to be," Collins said about the Food and Drug Administration's decision late last month to limit boosters to certain vulnerable populations for now, despite the Biden administration's pledge that boosters would launch broadly by Sept. 20. "Science sort of playing out in a very transparent way, looking at the data coming from multiple places, our country, other countries, and trying to make the best decision for right now," he said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

Says only vulnerable people should get the vaccine and we should wait for the science to come out.

Suddenly "stepping down" after the longest run in history at his current position.

Yeah I saw something that said she worked at Pinterest then Twitter or something before Facebook.

later days they’ve read every study in the world.

They... did their own research?

Yeah, the "chemical found in yoga mats" thing for Subway really impacted how this sort of thing is told.

You can use "-" to remove search terms. So like googling someone's name "-jan6" would exclude any page that has Jan6 on it.

While an interesting read, this doesn't really have anything to do with Biblical references to the pope being the antichrist.

There is some of that, some other bits to it.

Most people I work with consider me a really smart person. I'm specifically paid for my critical thinkings skills in an IT/engineering/consulting type industry. I know most of the stuff for COVID isn't super accurate, etc.

That said, I also know probability and risk assessment.

I'm not vaccinated, but will still wear an N95 in public and go out less than once a month on average since COVID. For me it is like the "betting man's take on God" which basically says any intelligent person should believe in God because the odds vs outcomes say it is the correct play.

While I have a sub-1% chance of a negative COVID experience, the 1% chance is being dead with the tradeoff being I get to stay home and avoid people, most of whom are terrible morons anyway.

I get to work from home saving 2 hrs a day unpaid commuting. I get to avoid being guilted into social gatherings that I'm bored and uncomfortable at anyway. I get to have stuff delivered to my house or brought out to my car, often for free vs the old days of having to justify a big delivery fee.

I generally avoid talking to people about COVID to avoid the risk of losing my job or being attacked or some shit. If you and I were casual acquaintances you might think I'm a CNN moron because I'm masking and isolating. You'd probably guess I was vaccinated based on my other behavior.

I wonder how many other people like me are out there. When I feel hopeful, I hope there are lots of people like me.

Your breath escapes right through and around the edges of the stupid mask, which is only a compliance and control muzzle.

I had N95 masks for woodworking that I wore from the beginning for this reason... but they were vented, lol. Filter my incoming but not really my outgoing. Put another mask on top to hide that.

DNC-tards see me double masked and think im amazing or w/e while realistically I'm protecting me and not them if the mask is actually doing anything.

It is interesting how people deny those types of claims ever even happened now.

• President Trump suggested masks -- was attacked
• President Trump closed the border -- was sued to re-open
• etc.

So.. if you go to a restaurant with a vax pass installed, you're vaxxed, and get covid = please, in detail, explain how that's the fault of an unvaxxed person.

The propaganda is that "the delta variant came from unvaxxed people" so they believe it only exists because of unvaxxed.

Nevermind that it originated before the vaccine was "ready" and not from the USA.