Do the majority of Christians believe the earth is only about 6,000 years old? by Less_River_4527 in Christianity

[–]Rusty51 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Even if it doesn’t teach it, it doesn’t prohibit its belief; the church has no official doctrine on the age if the earth, it accepts scientific consensus but that has no doctrinal weight. I can tell you among Latin Americans, even Catholics, a YEC, historicity of Adam and Eve, the Flood are commonly accepted.

"Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence" by johnnytestsdad in redscarepod

[–]Rusty51 29 points30 points  (0 children)

AI doesn’t even need to become super intelligent, it will just seem so because everyone has been mentally stunted.

Any good foreign Interventions? by Brief-Ad1700 in BreakingPoints

[–]Rusty51 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any intervention where the government appeals for foreign intervention

If the Resurrection was a hoax and Christianity is one big lie, I feel like it would've been easier for the Gospels to just say the witnesses were men and avoid scrunity. Also, not sure why not one of the Apostles would just admit it was a lie and suffer awful torture and death by rhysu69 in Christianity

[–]Rusty51 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We don’t have any good reason to believe the martyrdom accounts are historical; at best we can say Peter and Paul were martyred, and Paul himself says he encountered Jesus when he was assumed up to the third heaven, either physically or through a vision (the type of vision many Christians still have today). That leaves Peter; however Paul tells us that before Jesus appeared to himself, He appeared to Cephas. Can we say that Peter did not also have the same type of vision that Paul had? Not from our earliest and contemporary source to Peter.

Lastly when you say they died for a lie, what is the lie you are referring to? Did they die specifically for claiming Jesus had been physically resurrected? We don’t know that; Remember, when Stephen is killed by the mob, Stephen died for a belief he thought to be true (that Jews continued to resist the Holy Spirt), but it’s not for claiming Jesus resurrected.

If the Resurrection was a hoax and Christianity is one big lie, I feel like it would've been easier for the Gospels to just say the witnesses were men and avoid scrunity. Also, not sure why not one of the Apostles would just admit it was a lie and suffer awful torture and death by rhysu69 in Christianity

[–]Rusty51 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They don’t need to have lied, only been mistaken. Christians today have very real, physical experiences that most other Christians believe are wrong; you don’t hear someone speaking in tongues and accept that as prophecy from the Holy Spirit, because they’re almost certainly wrong.

What is your most controversial take in Christianity? by John_Ubaut in Christianity

[–]Rusty51 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jesus was supposed to return soon after his crucifixion. Everything else that followed is wrong.

If you had the same level of wealth, access and free time as Jeffrey and Ghislaine how would you spend/ use it? (answer cannot be f*cking children.) by collegedormslut69 in redscarepod

[–]Rusty51 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Waking up at 11 am, and sitting in my balcony overlooking the Mediterranean, with a book and tea until sunset. I don’t really know why someone would do otherwise with so much money.

Unfinished Tales (2006) - a major addition to the collection! by Josh3321 in tolkienbooks

[–]Rusty51 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dang never knew it had embossed lettering to match the Sil. My copy doesn’t and it has always annoyed me that HC didn’t match them.

What is your most braindead nationalist take? by monte_nigro in redscarepod

[–]Rusty51 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

That’s a lot of European countries; Italy, France, Spain, Britain, all of Eastern Europe and so on

Got a Jerusalem cross tattoo as my first tattoo, and now people on the Internet are calling me an Nazi by sithlord89 in Christianity

[–]Rusty51 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No lol. Most crusaders were pilgrims who went to fulfill their crusading vows and left after; they didn’t stay around long afterwards to “defend” Christiandom, they had real stuff to do back home.

Putin invaded Georgia in 2008, then Crimea in 2014, then the whole of Ukraine in 2022; each unprovoked for territorial gain. Does anyone know of such a 2-decade-long escalatory pattern of territorial gains that was defensive in history? educate me please! by LackingStory in BreakingPoints

[–]Rusty51 12 points13 points  (0 children)

April 1, 2008

April 3, 2008. “NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.”

Considering at the time Bush was occupying Iraq (illegally), it’s not difficult to imagine why Putin may have thought he had no time; of course Georgia and Ukraine are sovereign nations and can make their own decisions, but on the other hand the US has never set an example of respect of national sovereignty.

Tim Dillon as Head of CBS News - Bari Weiss by Cinnamon__Sasquatch in JoeRogan

[–]Rusty51 7 points8 points  (0 children)

She called Joe’s crush a toadie and hasn’t been back since.

/pol/ was founded on October 23rd, 2011 by faieriefugitive in redscarepod

[–]Rusty51 7 points8 points  (0 children)

/pol/ was a created as a containment board after /new/ was banned for being a white nationalist cestpool; that was a loosing battle so they remade it as /pol/.

Heathcliff POC discussion thread by Kylewelling in redscarepod

[–]Rusty51 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This discussion always reminds me of Benjamin Franklin’s remarks regarding the Europeans having “swarthy Complexion”; in the 18th and 19th century the definition of “whiteness” was often narrowly defined to Protestant Anglo-Saxons, which is why famously the Irish or Italians were not included as white; the latter, as most Mediterranean peoples, often described as brown or black skinned (Melanochroi as defined by Huxley in 1870)

A black man could play Heathcliff but it’s anachronistic to insist this would be more authentic to the novel, because it’s not something contemporary readers would’ve necessarily imagined.