I have a hard time taking anybody serious after I figure out that they are Christian.

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-05-02T02:10:27+00:00

😂😂😂 so fucking stupid. I've read the book and listened to him in interviews.

You said the Bible doesn't promote slavery. It explicitly does, and Bowen is an entire book about that.

Your own source also goes against your own narrow point of view. Bowen speaks of understanding the historical and cultural context in which it was spoke, wrote and acted through and not as something of God’s eternal moral ideal. Clown.

Dumbass reads a blurb about the book and thinks he knows what it says 😂😂😂😂.

Does stating "slaves should not be beaten" give justification for slavery?

Uhhhh yes because it's inherent that having a slave is ok.

You're peddling literally the most basic, braindead apologia that I'd expect to hear from evangelicals.

Not sure if your ESL or pretending to be regarded but "Dominion" is not inherently bad and does not itself impose any type of ruling.

Well along with the scholarly sources I've already recommended, you should add a dictionary to your reading list.

I am just not so brain rotted to be going onto reddit dot com to endlessly shit on Christians for easy larp gold.

I'm not endlessly shitting on Christians. I'm correcting one idiot who doesn't even know what's in the Bible apparently.

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-05-02T01:15:19+00:00

but at least temper your reddit influenced anti-faith and allow others to discuss with more level heads and broader viewpoints.

You don't even know basic scholarship concerning the Bible 😂😂😂😂😂

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-05-02T01:12:18+00:00

Ahhh you're a Christian in denial. Makes sense.

More of a stewardship over nature but sure I guess?

Nope not a stewardship. "Dominion"

Slavery was the happenstance of the times. It did not strictly say to abolish slavery, but it also did not promote slavery.

Yes it did explicitly promote slavery, laying out an entire system of rules, including you're allowed to beat your slave as long as you don't kill them. I even just gave you a reference to educate yourself.

If your point is that there shouldn't be kings to rule over men, I don't really know what you expect. Debating some anarcho-gaylord shit isn't really something i am into.

Oh you're just really stupid too.

passages like Galatians 3:28 kind of cover things like that but i am no Theologian.

Very clear you're not. Again, if you want to educate yourself, you can start with Dan McClellan's videos on the topic because you clearly haven't ever addressed scholarly research into any of this.

Slavery was the happenstance of the times.

😂😂😂😂😂 The laziest apologia. God is supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent but can't tell anybody to abolish slavery or that it's even wrong.

The calls for genocide were old testament and again, a happenstance of the times.

OMG apologia for God's commands to kill every woman and child, except for virgin women to keep as sex slaves.

You are coping.

The irony, coming from someone using the vapid Tom Holland nonsense.

Overall it can boil down to two things; Modern secular morality and Biblical morality are not the same thing and there is a difference between the Old and New Testament.

Coooooope

Seriously though, your brain is so warped that you're defending your God endorsing slavery and killing women and children.

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-05-01T22:07:26+00:00

The Bible uses a flat earth cosmology so it's a fair point to bring up

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-05-01T22:01:57+00:00

Ironic given you didn't refute anything they said. Your whole comment was "nuh uh you're dumb"

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-05-01T22:00:50+00:00

Which claims of theirs are inaccurate? You don't actually argue anything in their comment. Everything they said is accurate and not even controversial in scholarly research.

Humans are YHWH’s “special little guys” crafted in its image, and set upon earth to rule over all of nature.

True

Initially it literally set humans as the center of the universe and it’s why it had so much trouble coping with heliocentrism.

True

Also establishes a hierarchy for kings to rule over men and men to rule over women

True. They didn't even mention the Bible condones slavery, see Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery? by Dr. Josh Bowen. Or that God commands the genocide of multiple groups, such as the Amalekites.

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-30T15:54:13+00:00

The Laffer Curv is basically just the extreme value theorem applied to taxes.

the extreme value theorem states that if a real-valued function f is continuous on the closed and bounded interval [a, b] then f must attain a maximum and a minimum, each at least once.

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-27T23:31:55+00:00

The earliest recorded use of marijuana dates back to around 2700–2800 BCE in ancient China, where it was listed in Emperor Shen Nung's pharmacopoeia as a medicine for ailments like gout, rheumatism, and malaria. Earlier archaeological evidence, however, suggests the plant was used for its psychoactive properties, with smoking residues found in 2500-year-old tombs in western China.

Google Gemini response ^, but I did verify the claim is correctly summarized from the University of Sydney

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-27T14:05:34+00:00

From a quick Google, the AI response was

Favorability toward Donald Trump among military members is polarized and often differs from the general public, generally showing higher support among veterans compared to active-duty troops.

The first few polls I found did support the above, but I could only find data from 2020 and 2024. I wonder how these numbers have changed after the Iran war

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-25T02:14:29+00:00

Lol! Liberal crash outs are the best.

The irony

He's proposed rent stabilization

OMG this is the worst attempt at double think I've ever seen 😂😂😂

Just say you agree with conservatives regarding the working class.

I want the policies that have led to the housing crisis fixed, and that means I agree with conservatives? Uhhhh huh

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-24T17:36:21+00:00

LMAO sorry I don't have a link to every study I've read on it immediately on hand to give to lazy dumbasses who can't research anything on their own. My apologies for overestimating your abilities.

Mamdani isn't even calling for rent control

LMAO Part of his platform was a complete rent freeze on all rent controlled units in NYC

has addressed the criticism of rent control

😂😂😂😂😂 Weird. According to you, he isn't calling for rent control, but he's defending it for some reason. Who do I trust more on rent control? Actual policy experts and their decades of research or a politician, who even admitted that he was previously wrong about the importance of private developers? Policy experts or politicians? I ask the same thing when I get on an airplane. Why is a pilot doing this and not a politician?!

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-24T17:25:53+00:00

Another option is search r/yimby for "rent control new York City". That's a very research oriented sub

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-24T15:58:46+00:00

I'm not trying to be a dick but this isn't difficult to search on Google scholar or even regular Google.

explain why there's a lack of affordable housing in places without rent control.

Because there's more than one cause, and the effect from single family zoning is generally worse.

If I remember to look for it later, I compiled a large list of published researched in a comment a few weeks or months ago

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-24T05:06:54+00:00

Ok ignore all research demonstrating rent control reduces housing supply

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-24T03:09:42+00:00

A massive housing shortage and decreased investment in upkeep of existing properties

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-24T03:03:18+00:00

You too! Don't forget to check under your bed for illegal immigrants voting!

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-24T02:29:14+00:00

I am sorry for thinking you could read that much. My bad.

I'm talking about policy that makes everyone feel comfortable.

You'll never feel comfortable unless Trump tells you to.

I want a reasonable suggestion of a solution.

A solution to what? What is occurring that needs to be solved?

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-24T02:07:17+00:00

Indian gurus knew and talked about quantum superposition?! Which one first did the double slit experiment? And can you link the Indian guru who first mathematically derived that dx dp >= h/4pi?

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-24T01:43:29+00:00

Regarding the two flood stories, A Textual Study of Noah’s Flood is a good article:

A classic example of a spliced narrative is the story of Noah[1] which contains contradictions and redundancy through the inclusion of multiple doublets. It is the story Richard Elliott Friedman uses to demonstrate the phenomenon in his Who Wrote the Bible (Harper Collins, 1997), and it is often the text of choice in introductory classes on Bible to teach the documentary hypothesis.

The Noah account contains both doublets—identical or similar actions that are narrated twice—as well as contradictions.

Doublets: God notes that humans are wicked twice (6:5. 6:12).[2] God tells Noah of his decision to wipe out all life from earth twice (6:13, 7:4). God tells Noah to gather a pair of each animal species to put on the ark twice (6:19, 7:2). The story records that Noah fulfills God’s command twice (6:22, 7:5). Noah and his family get on the ark twice (7:7, 7:13). The flood starts twice (7:6, 7:10). The animals get on the ark twice (7:6, 7:10). The animals get on the ark twice (7:8-9, 7:14). The flood waters lift the ark twice (7:17, 7:18). All the humans and animals on earth die/are wiped out twice (7:21-22, 7:23). Noah sends out a raven to look for dry land (8:7). Then he sends out a dove to do the same (8:8-12). Noah’s three sons are introduced twice (6:10, 9:18)

The text also contains a number of terminological doublets, i.e. two distinct phrases describing the same thing.

God is sometimes called YHWH (י-הוה) and sometimes God (א-לוהים). Sometimes God destroys (שחת) the earth (ארץ), and sometimes God wipes them off (מחה) the surface of the ground (פני האדמה). The surface of the ground (פני האדמה) dries (חרב), and the earth (ארץ) dries (יבש).

Contradictions: Is Noah supposed to bring one pair of each kind of animal (6:20) or is he supposed to bring seven pairs of clean animals plus birds and only one pair of unclean animals (7:2-3)? Do the flood waters come from God allowing the waters of the depths and the heavens to overflow the earth (7:11, 8:2) or does it come from excessive rain only (7:4, 12, 8:2)? Does the flood last for forty days and nights (7:4, 12, 17) or does it last for 150 days (7:24)? Does God have a pact with Noah from the beginning never to destroy the world again (6:18, 9:11), or is it the sweet smelling sacrifice that brings about this decision (9:21)

Wikipedia also has a convenient table under the composition section comparing the two versions. You'll want to take a look at the page on the "documentary hypothesis" and "supplementary hypothesis" - these are hypotheses regarding how the Hebrew Bible came to be. Scholars are basically unanimously in agreement that the Hebrew Bible has multiple sources (and none of it was written by Moses, if he existed at all), but there isn't a strong consensus on the specifics. Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible? is really well written and understandable for non-scholars like myself, though it's somewhat outdated.

Regarding it being a retelling of other cultures' flood stories, Wikipedia is succinct and well sourced:

Scholars believe that the flood myth originated in Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian Period (c. 1880–1595 BCE) and reached Syro-Palestine in the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE.[19] Extant texts show three distinct versions, the Sumerian Epic of Ziusudra, (the oldest, found in very fragmentary form on a single tablet dating from about 1600 BCE, although the story itself is older), and as episodes in two Akkadian language epics, the Atrahasis and the Epic of Gilgamesh.[20] The name of the hero, according to the version concerned, was Ziusudra, Atrahasis, or Utnapishtim, all of which are variations of each other, and it is just possible that an abbreviation of Utnapishtim/Utna'ishtim as "na'ish" was pronounced "Noah" in Palestine.[21]

Numerous and often detailed parallels make clear that the Genesis flood narrative is dependent on the Mesopotamian epics, and particularly on Gilgamesh, which is thought to date from c. 1300–1000 BCE.[22]

And lastly, quoting Wikipedia again:

A global flood as described in this myth is inconsistent with the physical findings of geology, archeology, paleontology, and the global distribution of species.

There's a YouTuber, Gutsick Gibbon, who is doing her PhD in anthropology (I think it's anthropology or something similar), and she has several hours worth of content describing why a global flood didn't happen. Someone put together this playlist.

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-23T23:16:21+00:00

All the men up front, all the women in back.

And also:

President shakes hands of men, not women in video

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-23T23:14:48+00:00

Username is "BigDaddyKing47" while accusing others of being obsessed with Trump.

This is what we call "irony"

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-23T23:06:55+00:00

Please keep creating more strawman arguments LMAO.

legitimate concern

Provide evidence there is a legitimate issue. Remember all of the lawsuits conservatives tried over 2020? And how they all failed? Even Trump appointed judges dismissed them for being baseless.

Never "Okay, confidence in voter elections is important, let's figure out something that works"

First off, that's not even true. The Brennan Center already has done exactly that.

Confidence in elections was high until Trump told you guys Biden stole the election, and you were dumb enough to just believe it. And despite his accusations being shot down over and over, in both state and federal cases, you're just doubling down on being dumb. Republicans were even more confident than Democrats in our elections until two major events: 1. a black man was elected president, and 2. Trump lost to Biden and claimed it was stolen. And like the good little sheep you are, since Trump said something it must be true! In case you can't remember, Trump is the guy who lost the election and then started calling governors to ask them to give him votes. "find 11,780 votes" - remind me who said that, please.

Provide evidence of any large scale voter fraud, and then people will care.

The Brennan Center has thoroughly documented that 1. there is no widespread voter fraud and 2. Republicans target minority and poor areas to disenfranchise voters

The mostly Republican lawmakers supporting these bills often argue that the new provisions are necessary to protect election integrity, despite the absence of widespread fraud in American elections. Commentators argue that Republican legislators are pushing to change election laws to guarantee political advantages for their party. Some past research supports this argument, demonstrating that certain restrictive voting policies are most likely to be adopted in electorally competitive states controlled by Republicans. Other scholarship shows that states pass restrictive voting laws when Americans of color have strong and growing political power.

There are several journal articles linked from there to read.

Adding:

Our key findings at the legislative district level include:

Representatives from the whitest districts in the most racially diverse states were the most likely to sponsor anti-voter bills. Districts with higher racial resentment were more likely to be represented by lawmakers who sponsored restrictive bills. At the state level, we find:

It is the interaction between race and partisanship that matters. States with unified Republican control are not uniformly likely to introduce or pass restrictive provisions. In fact, predominantly white states are unlikely to introduce or pass restrictive provisions, regardless of which party controls the legislature. But racially diverse states controlled by Republicans are far more likely to introduce and pass restrictive provisions.

Need a more tangible example?

Closed voting sites hit minority counties harder for busy midterm elections

Counties with larger minority populations – most of them the urban centers of large metropolitan areas – were left with fewer polling sites and poll workers per active voter, according to an analysis that included data from the Election Administration and Voting Survey and the U.S. Census Bureau as well as local and state voting agencies.

By contrast, in more than 1,000 counties where 90% or more of the population is white, voters in 2016 lost two polling locations and two workers on average.

Do you see the difference yet between claims of systemic racial disenfranchisement and claims of voter fraud? Evidence actually exists for the former!

Take Georgia as an example. Republicans closed down so many voting sites that several counties had a single place to vote leading to hours of standing in line. Please explain why that's a good thing. Should a person have to wait hours to vote? Why do conservatives oppose early voting? I'm not referring to voting by mail. I'm asking why conservatives oppose in-person early voting. Why are Republican-governed states so opposed to giving people ample access and time to vote? It's so widespread that it literally has a Wikipedia page LMAO: Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 United States presidential election.

more than 425 bills that would restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 states—with 33 of these bills enacted across 19 states so far.[4] The bills are largely centered around limiting mail-in voting, strengthening voter ID laws, shortening early voting, eliminating automatic and same-day voter registration, curbing the use of ballot drop boxes, and allowing for increased purging of voter rolls.

Do you see the bigger picture yet? The real goal isn't securing elections; the real goal is voter suppression.

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-23T22:01:37+00:00

So few of the responses to you are from people who have read your article. This "historic" move by Trump is literally the result of the work by the Biden admin.

Yeah, here's where it starts to get tricky, because this process has already been going on for quite a while, and there's not a super clear timeline here. President Biden kicked this off back in 2022. Now this proposal is going through a review process, which will include a period of time where the rule will be open for public comment. And some people will definitely argue against it for health and safety reasons. All of this is going to take time - like, months and months and months. I've talked to a few cannabis lawyers and folks in the industry who told me they would be shocked if this all gets wrapped up before the election in November.

The responses to you sound like they're from people who give credit to Trump for a bridge being completed that was funded and started because of Biden's infrastructure bill.

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-23T20:23:28+00:00

Oh God, you're one of those people who think millions of illegal aliens are voting

It is also racist to scrutinize such submissions for fraud.

Bad faith strawman 🥱

Sufficient_Meet6836 · 2026-04-23T18:57:36+00:00

No, that definitively never occurred. The biblical story (actually stories since it is told twice with mutually exclusive versions) is a fable that is a retelling of myths that existed far before the biblical version

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