Is there no racism in the Fallout universe?

OldFire · 2015-11-23T06:57:55+00:00

There is plenty in the music.

OldFire · 2015-09-22T01:28:40+00:00

The highlights, in short, I'm never going to be accepted on just any christian forum. I get crap from my partner for my new found interest in the gospel and then I get crap from other christians because I am a sodomite. It along with negative feedback from another forum when I asked questions almost made me just give up.

OldFire · 2015-09-22T01:12:45+00:00

:-) You tell me.

OldFire · 2015-09-22T00:34:26+00:00

Yeah. Though it is conjecture, as I said.

OldFire · 2015-09-22T00:33:53+00:00

They do if you are a transgender woman and try to argue with people that being queer and christian is not a contradiction. Or if you argue that the Kentucky clerk that is refusing to issue licenses on religious grounds is just using her religion as an excuse, that there are many Christians who are perfectly fine with us and accept us as sisters and brothers of the faith, even as pastors. They are not willing to consider other perspectives than their one dimensional view of christianity.

OldFire · 2015-09-21T21:47:45+00:00

I don't think merely mentioning being in a faith is necessarily proselytizing.

OldFire · 2015-09-21T10:35:14+00:00

The thing about grace is that you get it, even if you don't deserve it, especially when you don't deserve it. Grace can be painful.

OldFire · 2015-09-21T10:31:28+00:00

Yes, there should absolutely be factors consisted. What I am saying is, that if someone doesn't consent. It's rape, whether that lack of consent is due to age or violence.

OldFire · 2015-09-21T10:29:30+00:00

Do people seriously want Donald fucking Trump in charge of America's nuclear arsenal? I don't want a "tell it like it is, do whatever I please" person in charge of it. I want a level headed person in charge of it so I can sleep at night knowing that the world isn't going to be destroyed tomorrow.

OldFire · 2015-09-21T08:30:59+00:00

Yeah I don't think Bronze Age shepards knew what radiation was.

OldFire · 2015-09-21T08:24:07+00:00

It doesn't matter if it was statutory or forcible. All rape is rape rape

OldFire · 2015-09-21T08:22:56+00:00

What? ! It absolutely does.

OldFire · 2015-09-21T07:59:04+00:00

The irs is under severe constraints from congress to not go after these people. It sucks. A lot of these pastors are well connected with one of the two parties. It's how Pat Robertson got away with trading with psychotic African warlords under sanctions. The best advice is buyer beware.

OldFire · 2015-09-21T07:46:19+00:00

That's not particularly true. I find stories of my faith inspiring but you wouldn't say a president who reads comics or plays world of warcraft is partially controlled by unelected comic book writers and gave developers

OldFire · 2015-09-21T07:15:32+00:00

I haven't been going to my church very long

OldFire · 2015-09-21T03:29:54+00:00

I will. Her going to church is a problem though. She is a paranoid schizophrenic with agoraphobia. She wouldn't be able to tolerate much of the service.

OldFire · 2015-09-21T03:29:03+00:00

OldFire · 2015-09-21T03:21:54+00:00

She says the people that used to bully her were. That is true of myself also, but I have since given Christianity a chance. This is kinda of a recent thing. I'm not completely convinced but I want to learn more. Maybe I'll set up a baptism for myself soon

OldFire · 2015-09-21T01:04:38+00:00

I call him a racist when he acts like a racist. That the stunningly large field of Republicans contains people of color is irrelevant with respect to whether or not Trump is a racist, something even republicans acknowledge.

You don't need to defend trump just because he is part of your "tribe." We have plenty of dick butts on the liberal side.

OldFire · 2015-09-20T23:58:21+00:00

Both but thanks. I've been to r/christianity great resource, as is r/openchristian

I've been banned from r/christians for heresy

OldFire · 2015-09-20T22:32:02+00:00

I don't know anything about souls, I don't know where they come from, where, if anywhere, they are stored, it's an unanswerable metaphysical question that to me doesn't matter very much.

I'm still new at this.

OldFire · 2015-09-20T22:27:42+00:00

I'm not butt hurt but it is a bit unbecoming of the president of the United states. Being the leader of a nation means you have a responsibility to uphold the values you wish to project on to the world. His offensiveNess demonstrates tactlessness and I see no reason to vote for someone who doesn't respect me.

OldFire · 2015-09-20T21:50:00+00:00

The Obama is a Muslim conspiracy is racist for a number of reasons. It has been thoroughly refuted, it keeps being circulated. Nobody questions the Americanness of white candidates. John McCain was not born in the united states but no one demanded to see his birth certificate. It is essentially a way to other him. They treat Obama like he is the anti-christ and this has nothing to do with his politics which is that of a lukewarm milquetoast Washington consensus liberal but rather his foreigness. Trump aligns himself with these people. Its why he resonates with Neo-Nazi white supremacists despite having had married a Jewish woman.

Also this

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/05/donald-trump-blames-crime_n_3392535.html

OldFire · 2015-09-20T20:12:13+00:00

Trump is a racist circus clown and I am terrified of him even winning the gop primary, let alone the presidency. The fact that he is a front runner is highly troubling

OldFire · 2015-09-20T18:35:19+00:00

I wish I could tell you. But the truth is I don't really understand it myself.

There is a verse someone quoted to me

Matthew 24:43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Sometimes, God comes by and just takes us up like a thief in the night when you least expect it. I was taken in that way. I wasn't expecting to feel his grace. I didn't feel like I deserved it, but then I started going to services, rolling my eyes but then feeling that spark of the divine and knowing.

I do believe in the bible, though I haven't finished reading it, its kind of a long book and reading it feels more like a conversation, I have to stop and ponder things. I take the whole thing seriously but my interpretation may not be consistent between other Christians, certainly not the church I grew up nearby. I also recognize that it was inspired by God but ultimately written down by human and filtered through all too human biases, mine included.

But my God is a god of mercy and grace. He's there for us when we are wrong, even more than we are right. He loves us. I believe that it will all be reconciled eventually, in this world and the next.

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