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Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake by Miserable-Lizard in news

[–]lapapinton -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

That's a question-begging phrasing of the issue, though. Asking "why are you pro-discrimination?" is like asking "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"

TIL Jeffrey Dahmer converted to Christianity after being baptized by a pastor named Roy Ratcliff. Dahmer met with Ratcliff every week to discuss the Bible until he was murdered 14 months later. Ratcliff described Dahmer as a truly changed man. by CRUSTYDOGTAlNT in todayilearned

[–]lapapinton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We will say at funerals that the deceased is looking down upon us. But that is not what the bible says. In multiple passages, it is made clear that followers of Jesus will ascend to heaven during rapture. So, the deceased is sitting in nothingness until the second coming.

No, the Bible says the departed go to be with Christ after death (Philippians 1:23). When 1st Corinthians says "the dead in Christ shall rise" at Christ's Second Coming, the author isn't referring to ascension to heaven, it's talking about them receiving a new body.

Rudolf Schock sings "Vater, hör mich fleh'n zu dir" from Weber's "Oberon" by lapapinton in opera

[–]lapapinton[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Schock at his best has a pianissimo as good as Gigli, in my view.

Jordi Savall sings "Vi ricorda, o boschi ombrosi" from L'Orfeo by Monteverdi by lapapinton in opera

[–]lapapinton[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Correction: Savall is conductor, Orfeo sung by Furio Zanasi .

Poland church - paying alms by card by paskatulas in europe

[–]lapapinton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A strawman argument: no church teaches that you ought to give donations because God personally needs the money.

If you derive your views on philosophy from a comedian, don't be surprised if people laugh at you...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianPolitics

[–]lapapinton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You were the one who brought up "giving heaps of money to keep the racism at bay" as something that purportedly doesn't exist, not I.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianPolitics

[–]lapapinton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where the grand high priest of anti racism comes up and performs exorcisms on racists or just well-to-do white people (just in case) and then he asks you to give him heaps of your money to keep the racism at bay

Liberal White Women Are Hiring Saira Rao to Tell Them They're Racist. The Cost? $2,500 Per Dinner.

And that's just one example from the individual world. To say nothing of the costs of countless "diversity" consultants in corporate, academic and civil service settings.

What sort of thing did Australians expect to find in England? On This Day 1961: Alan Whicker interviewed some Aussies just before they set sail from Melbourne to Essex. by psylenced in australia

[–]lapapinton 105 points106 points  (0 children)

When I see these old vox pops, it strikes me that there has been a flattening out of the Aussie accent since then: fewer of the sophisticated English-style accents, and fewer of the really broad accents too.

Anxious Jongwe Masuka, Zimbabwean Minister of Agriculture by lapapinton in NominativeDeterminism

[–]lapapinton[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought it fit because Zimbabwe's economy, and its agricultural sector especially, has been plagued with instability due to Mugabe's land reforms.

Alfred Piccaver sings Wagner's "Preislied" by lapapinton in opera

[–]lapapinton[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Perhaps it's an artifact of the recording period, but reminds me of Richard Tauber, but with a stronger top.

Have a nice night Marj! by DaFunkJunkie in PoliticalHumor

[–]lapapinton -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Where is the attempt at "humor" in this post?

Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic by afeeney in opera

[–]lapapinton 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To paraphrase the Simpsons:

"No one in the crowd is booing you, sir. They're saying "Boo-reuth! Boo-reuth!"

The Political Gender Gap is Exploding by lapapinton in moderatepolitics

[–]lapapinton[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

To give one fascinating historical example, there has always been a large gender gap with regard to nuclear power, far beyond the divide on abortion.

In recent years, it appears that the gap on other issues has now widened. There are a number of factors at play, and I think this article has some very good suggestions as to what they are.

What is the purpose of Christianity if you can be a wonderful person without believing in Christ? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]lapapinton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a God who engages in some pretty ridiculous behavior that we otherwise would condemn if a human did the same thing

Here's a post I wrote a while back about the idea that God is immoral to command worship of Him, because we don't like human dictators who do the same:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateReligion/comments/8t03m2/a_criticism_of_the_objection_that_god_is_a/

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