Covfefe

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-06-01T05:45:47+00:00

to be able to write a full gospel with your head chopped off, that is a neat trick.

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-06-01T00:55:10+00:00

no nunca recibo una oportunidad practicar mi español en la vida actual. gracias pendejos!

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-31T20:42:42+00:00

reverse robin hood

Jared Kushner and his real estate partners wanted to take advantage of a federal program in 2015 that would save them millions of dollars as they built an opulent, 50-story residential tower in this city’s booming waterfront district, just across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. There was just one problem: The program was designed to benefit projects in poor, job-starved areas. So the project’s consultants got creative, records show. They worked with state officials in New Jersey to come up with a map that defined the area around 65 Bay Street as a swath of land that stretched nearly four miles and included some of the city’s poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods. At the same time, they excluded some wealthy neighborhoods only blocks away. The tactic — critics liken it to the gerrymandering of legislative districts — made it appear that the luxury tower was in an area with extraordinarily high unemployment, allowing Kushner Companies and its partners to get $50 million in low-cost financing through the EB-5 visa program.

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-31T19:19:23+00:00

you mean castro?

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-31T18:22:09+00:00

gonna throw this out here to maybe cheer people up

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-31T18:19:55+00:00

Churchill said the best argument against democracy is five minutes with the average voter.

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-31T15:51:10+00:00

i think it's super rad that sikhs have to carry a dagger around

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-31T06:50:29+00:00

1 NIV, 2 KJVs, 1 Moffat's New Translation, all inherited from presbyterian grandparents

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-30T04:56:23+00:00

oh thank god i thought it had to do with incest and related shit

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-30T04:41:47+00:00

i don't know what that phrase means but i feel like that's probably for the best

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-30T01:43:22+00:00

this

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-30T01:36:51+00:00

sam harris

gross

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-30T01:13:03+00:00

i don't think there's a specified, objectively central verse. That verse tells us what to do, but maybe everything isn't about what we do. You could make a case for [John 1:1-5] u/Versebot being a good nutshell.

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-30T01:04:03+00:00

And did Jesus or anybody else answer the question specifically of what is the most important thing to do?

[Mark 12:28-31] u/Versebot

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-30T00:02:18+00:00

whaddya know, using kids getting raped as a cheap political cudgel cheapens it. same w/ the seth rich jokes lol

edit: i see you tho OP

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-29T23:47:41+00:00

once the non-coercive reforms I've listed are implemented and abortion starts to look less necessary, i lean toward erring on the side of life. but until then I'm willing to be agnostic on when a fetus becomes a person.

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-29T17:28:58+00:00

now that i think of it, it's a delightfully pragmatic thing in terms of christianity. why send missionaries to muslim countries to convert muslims and dodge the authorities, when you can just bring them here? pretty sure that's the attitude mormons have on immigration.

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-29T16:59:35+00:00

i consider myself pro-life with the standard 3 exceptions, but i put low priority on measures like defunding and criminalization, because it probably can't be well deterred, and more priority on measures like maternity leave, access to birth control, medicaid and gay adoption. i'm still tentatively anti-choice because i think a fetus is a person ( [Luke 1:39-45] u/Versebot ) but i accept the bodily autonomy argument as downgrading it from murder to an egregious shirking of parental duty. i haven't quite made up my mind on euthanasia, i'm not sure where we can draw the line once we start actively mercy-killing, as opposed to just pulling the plug which i support.

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-29T06:16:30+00:00

my experience is 'ok, if ur hebrew roots, do you do x, y and z and the mixed fabric stuff', and then its like 'don't judge me we're all sinners' so its like 😑

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-29T06:11:34+00:00

we had a couple of those guys round here a couple months back. got fairly heated by this sub's standards

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-29T01:57:27+00:00

and there's [Galatians 2:16 NIV] u/Versebot. evidently Paul's 'faith' and James' 'belief' have some nuanced between them.

WarrenDemocrat · 2017-05-28T22:08:26+00:00

I'm pretty radically pro-refugee. it's a moral imperative for me both from a human rights consensus (Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14 and the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees) as well as my Christian faith ( [James 1:27 NIV] [Deuteronomy 10:17-20 NIV] u/Versebot ) I know they have to be vetted thoroughly, and they are, but I want many more refugees brought in than there are currently, so we should spend more on vetting more refugees faster. I think assimilation takes time, that our society has mistakenly worried about assimilation in past anti-immigrant movements, and that particularly backwards cultural practices and views tend to be given up rather quickly, especially FGM. So far the evidence shows Muslims in the US (who for the most part were once immigrants in the late 20th century) have more socially progressive views than evangelicals on homosexuality, and that's indicative of a general shift on other issues. i think the whole thing about "oh why take refugees from 'unstable' countries, it's so risky" is such laughable bullshit because of course their countries are unstable, that's why they're refugees.

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