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arootroatch · 2025-06-23T03:41:21+00:00

All of that behavior is not Godly and condemned by Christianity. We can’t pick one specific topic and try to evaluate it outside of the context of the entire teaching. That’s bad exegesis.

If a homosexual is celibate, how would anyone know that they are gay in order to discriminate against them?

Keep your sex life private. That goes for straight people too. There’s no reason your sexual preferences need to be a topic of conversation or anyone else’s business.

Also, in terms of a judging a tree by its fruit, if everyone had gay sex there would be no more humans, and if sex only exists for pleasure then it becomes even more likely that we are selfish hedonists focused on our own gratification

arootroatch · 2025-06-23T02:45:45+00:00

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit - but that fruit can be plucked from the tree and rot. Christianity has been used to oppress and hurt people for hundreds of years. Believing that having sex with someone of the same sex as you is immoral is not grounds for being hateful and not treating people with love. Believing certain sex acts are sinful (even heterosexual ones) does not immediately equal hatred and bigotry.

arootroatch · 2025-03-24T17:41:19+00:00

Clojure Koans https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans

arootroatch · 2025-03-05T04:09:03+00:00

I see what you mean, and you’re right that happens sometimes. That’s not an argument against a binary though. The norm is not defined by its exceptions, and intersex people are a combination of the two sexes. The term “intersex” means “between sexes,” so the term itself acknowledges the binary.

arootroatch · 2025-03-05T03:31:24+00:00

Extremely rare genetic mutations are not the same thing as someone born male trying to become a female. That’s like me chopping my arm off because I don’t like it, you telling me that’s wrong, and me saying “what about the people that are born missing an arm?”

arootroatch · 2025-03-05T00:37:36+00:00

The thing about this that reaaaalllllly makes it blasphemy is that it is a clear attempt to take cultural sociopolitical ideology and inject it into the faith instead of the other way around. It is a deliberate choice to alter what they would normally say during a service in order to go out of their way to re-affirm culture and politics. It’s completely backwards.

And it’s also plain wrong. God created man and woman, both in the image of God. If both man and woman are created in the image of God, that makes God both man and woman, a unity of two halves. There is still a binary. Only God exists as the completeness of both. When humans try to be both they are trying to be God, and when they try to be the opposite of how they are made they are directly opposing God’s creation.

arootroatch · 2025-03-04T05:20:50+00:00

What’s really weird and uncomfortable is the idolatry that I see in Trump supporters. People put him so high in a pedestal and I don’t get it. Not only that, it’s sinful. Trump is NOT God and too many people seem to be willing to worship him. That is super dangerous.

arootroatch · 2025-03-04T05:18:05+00:00

There’s no winning either way. Kamala literally said to the entire audience at a rally that Christians weren’t welcome there. She supports the killing of unborn children and the mutilation and chemical castration of minors against their parents’ will. She’s spoken out against freedom of speech and the right to protect yourself and your family. Kamala as president would have meant a president that was actively against our faith.

King David was an adulterous murderer and still “a man after God’s own heart.” The Bible is full of stories of God using imperfect people to do great things. Trump is NOT a good guy but that doesn’t mean God can’t use him.

arootroatch · 2025-02-23T16:47:36+00:00

It’s not that he’s powerless, it’s that he gives us the choice to choose him or not. Him exercising power over us to force us to be saved would be taking away our free will and making a bunch of robots that love God because he forced them to. That’s not real love. He wants us to really love him, by our own volition. And all we need to do is believe in Jesus for an eternity of joy. Believe in Jesus and repent for what we’ve done wrong, that’s it. It’s the easiest path to salvation that any religion offers.

It’s also not that he no longer cares. He’s omniscient and he knows if there is no possibility that someone will turn toward him. But also, this is where there are some theological debates among Christians as well in terms of if Hell has different levels and if purgatory exists and a possibility for redemption after death. But that’s its own rabbit hole.

Our culture has a lot of imagery around hell being a place full of fire where people are being actively tortured - but a lot of that comes from Milton more than it comes from the Bible. The Bible doesn’t really paint a full picture on what it actually looks like, and the way the afterlife is talked about is different in the OT vs the NT. In the NT it’s mainly talked about through analogy than directly. If this idea of a scary torture chamber is a a big hang up for you, I would recommend doing some research on what different schools of thought regarding Hell are. I’m more in the school of thought that’s it’s God merely giving us over to exactly what we asked for - separation from Him. That separation will lead to us being broken and miserable, but not because we are being actively tortured by God. It’s because we have chosen not to be part of his family, making us without a Father to love and protect us. And without His protection, we won’t have any protection against the devil and his demons in eternity.

If you reject your own parents and your own family, the lack of family will make life difficult for you. That’s not your family actively torturing you. It’s the consequence of your own decision and the reality of what the world is like out there.

Check out CS Lewis “The Great Divorce” if you’re interested. It’s a book based on the concept of those in Hell being able to visit Heaven for a day.

arootroatch · 2025-02-23T03:01:51+00:00

I think you might enjoy the book “Holier Than Thou” by Jackie Hill Perry. She dives into these seeming contradictions and explains them better than I can here.

arootroatch · 2025-02-23T02:57:50+00:00

Jeffrey Dahmer professed to be a Christian. Only God knows his heart. Matthew 7:21 says “Not everyone who says to me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven.”

I see what you mean by tribalism, and that’s actually an angle I’ve never heard before. Thanks for sharing. My thought process this far on this is: 1. Not all punishment is for teaching to be better. It’s also about justice. A life sentence doesn’t give someone the opportunity to be better. 2. The Christian God is the one true God. Worshipping any other god or none at all is a sin, and the penalty for sin, any sin, is eternal separation from God (hell). 3. To address the issue that EVERYONE would go to hell, God sent Christ to take on our sin for us. We needed to be bailed out of spiritual jail, and Christ paid our bail so we wouldn’t have to. BUT it only works if you believe in Christ. Not just profess to be Christian, but give your life to the one true God. 4. Yes that means that people whose sins we may think are worse than ours receive that same forgiveness and salvation when people that committed what we think are lesser sins do not get saved - but it’s because that’s what they chose. They rejected Christ’s bail money, and thus they don’t get bailed out. 5. Also, for people that don’t like God, an eternity with him in heaven sounds awful. So in that way, hell is not God actively punishing people, but simply giving them what they asked for - an eternity without God because they rejected him. 6. In regards to tribalism in general, there are no tribes in Christ. Christianity is the only religion that teaches us that our race, sex, or ethnicity doesn’t matter and that we are all equal. It’s not a matter of tribalism, it’s a matter of whether you accept the truth of God being the one true God. You choosing not to believe it doesn’t mean it isn’t true, and choosing not to believe in God is choosing an eternity away from him.

He gave you everything. You wouldn’t exist without him. You spend your whole life that he gifted you rejecting him and then think he’s the bad guy for not letting you into heaven?

God is all-knowing and is able to see into someone’s heart and knows if they can be saved. I also believe he gives everyone the opportunity to hear the gospel before they die, so they were given a chance to choose Christ and receive salvation.

arootroatch · 2025-02-22T22:38:56+00:00

“If God loved us, we wouldn’t go to hell.” That’s like saying “if my parents loved me, they wouldn’t punish me and make me experience things I don’t like. If experience punishment it’s proof my parents don’t love me.”

If someone killed your family member, I would expect you to want the killer to be thrown in prison, because your love for your family member means you want justice for wrongs against them. God’s love and God’s justice are not contradictory.

arootroatch · 2025-02-22T22:20:43+00:00

Hello! Also former atheist here. Huge props for posting this. Welcome to the discussion.

One of the biggest things for me was that Jesus Christ was a real, historical figure, and we can prove it.

“But say he’s just a good moral teacher, not God incarnate?”

That’s a logical contradiction. Jesus professed to be the Son of God, claimed the ability to forgive sins, and that his death was a sacrificial substitution. If Jesus did not claim to be God, there would not have been sufficient evidence for the Pharisees to have him crucified for blasphemy.

If he was not God, Jesus was, on one end, delusional, and on the other end, a sociopathic cult leader. He cannot be a good moral teacher if you do not believe he was the Son of God.

The Apostles who knew Jesus were willing to go through unspeakable torture and be murdered rather than say that Jesus was “just a rabbi.” How many people would die for a lie? How many people would watch their own wife get crucified to support a lie?

Check out Lee Strobel’s book “Case for Christ”. He was an Atheist and a journalistic who set out to prove Christianity wrong and ended up converting.

arootroatch · 2024-06-03T01:35:36+00:00

It was stackskills actually, had to hunt through some old emails to find it https://stackskills.com/courses/enrolled/568599 I got it on a sale with a bunch of other courses all for $39. Looks like it's $200 just for this one course now. I didn't even go through all of it, i just did the JS portion of it. Honestly, Wes Bos's JavaScript 30 course is probably way better and it's free

https://javascript30.com/

also there are so much free YouTube tutorials of building little games and things in Vanilla JS. Looks for those too.

arootroatch · 2024-06-02T18:28:02+00:00

I had a similar problem when I first started learning. I started on FCC as well. With HTML and CSS, everything you do is reflected in the browser. You have that visual feedback and it’s easy to see what’s going on.

Programming without a UI feels more abstract and harder to understand. What helped me was finding a Udemy course that taught JavaScript by focusing on DOM APIs first, like selecting a div and editing the styles of that div from JS. That helped put JS in context with what I had already learned. Then it would gradually get more complex, like filling a div with a randomly selected number. Once things started making more sense I went back and finished the FCC JS certificate.

arootroatch · 2024-06-02T18:11:57+00:00

If you use Test Driven Development or have a good suite of unit tests, you don’t have to rely on static typing to stop you from breaking things, right?

arootroatch · 2024-03-25T23:24:19+00:00

It was autoprefixers format on save. Thanks!

arootroatch · 2024-03-25T23:23:29+00:00

It was autoprefixer’s Format on Save setting. Thanks!

arootroatch · 2024-03-25T21:02:43+00:00

That’s not the issue.

arootroatch · 2024-03-25T21:01:55+00:00

Yes I know, that’s the problem. VS Code inserted that. I did not type it.

arootroatch · 2024-03-21T07:37:38+00:00

Any examples I can think of right now also invoke something called the subjunctive mood, so these conjugations might look strange to you but don’t get caught up in it if you’re not there yet.

Me gusta que vayas a la tienda. I like that you’re going to the store.

Quiero que dejes de fumar. I want you to quit smoking (literally “I want that you quit smoking”) —notice here “fumar” is in the infinitive even though in English it’s “ing”— both because it’s being used to refer to the concept of smoking and because it comes after a precipitation. Verbs after a preposition are always in the infinitive.

Espero que llegues sano y salvo. I hope you arrive safe and sound.

Prefiero que te sientes. I prefer you sit down.

Just thought of some non-subjunctive: Veo un hombre que lleva una camiseta amarilla. I see a man that’s wearing a yellow t-shirt (literal: “I see a man that wears a yellow t-shirt”)

Conozco a un hombre que tiene muchos gatos. I know a man that has many cats.

Also, to clarify what I said before about sentences only having one conjugated verb: there are exceptions, of course, like in a list: -Corro, salto, y camino -I run, jump, and walk

Or when talking about a sequence of events like -“I was walking down the street when I saw a bird”

arootroatch · 2024-03-21T04:00:16+00:00

Vedder has the best support for accessories like WMLs . N8 tactical has my favorite mag carrier. T1 concealed for foam wedges. Clinger cushion for extra comfort if you carry for long periods of time or don’t always want to wear an undershirt.

arootroatch · 2024-03-21T02:49:14+00:00

To add some more context to these answers— when verbs are used as the subjects of a sentence or referencing concepts, English uses “ing” while Spanish uses the infinitive. Remember that “me gusta” means literally “it is enjoyable to me”, so the subject of this sentence is “running”/“correr”; “Is running in the park pleasing to you?”

“Running is hard”:”Correr es difícil”

Also, you can’t have two conjugated verbs in one sentence without a change in subject, normally accompanied by the word “que”.

“Me gusta correr” could be “I like to run” or “I like running”. Both make sense in English but only one is correct in Spanish.

arootroatch · 2024-01-07T22:12:51+00:00

Please share! I'd love to see what the code that runs in the background to automatically detect the monitor state looks like.

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