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National health care (and welfare) is the most Christian thing imaginable. That's a big part of how Christianity spread in the Roman empire. And why Christianity exploded in popularity when the Roman state imploded in the 350 AD's. The Christian church just took over those functions when the...

Tom Holland has a theory on western Christianity. Basically, that Christianity isn't so much a belief system as a set of values. As Christianity collapsed in the end of the 20th century people kept having Christian values but stopped being Christian. So... culturally Christian. The collapse of...

I agree. It was a joke. To make it clear, nobody in the centre is an extremist... by definition.

This conversation is over. Enjoy your racist hate.

Well, calling it ethnic cleansing certainly is antisemitism. There's not even a grey area there

I think it comes down to an understanding of the political situation in the Middle-East. Especially understanding the Islamic cultures of the area. We, in the west, often make the mistake of just assuming that the Arabs think like westerners (or Israelis). Or are motivated by the same things...

That's very relatable 😀

I think its self evident. The two seem extremely connected

This is why I think football should be classed as a religion. My personal take on religion is that its npt something you believe in. Its something you do. The problem with defining religion as a belief, is that it only fits two religions that have ever existed, Christianity and Islam. The rest...

Just a detail. The top down social control was invented by Lenin. After already taking power. There's an argument that can be made that its intrinsic to socialism. The evolution of socialism in western Europe has made socialists extremely socialy liberal. Personal freedoms extremism. So I...

"enlightened" leftists used to call themselves social justice warriors or woke. But then stopped when it got turned into an insult

You sound like a centrist extremist

I don't buy that. I remember in therapy and my therapist telling me that avoidant people, instead of working through their emotions, analyse their emotions, put a label on it and then think they're worked through it. But all they've done is avoiding feeling the feeling. This is what I did for...

Not to nitpick but everyone is a "truth seeker". It's like being a "proud breather". Doesn't the self title more imply that they're uniquely truth seeking and that sheeple are not?

I'm starting to warm up to Stephen Jay Gould’s Non-Overlapping Magisteria, assuming we make some adjustments. According to Gould, religion was about meaning, morals and values (and science deals with facts about the natural world). I don't like this as is, because science has plenty to say...

The moniker "truth seeker" on social media. Is that more associated with conspiracy theorists on the left or right? It feels right wing. What is the equivalent on the left? Is there any dead givaways? Or does one need to analyse what they're into?

If you didn’t think it was a famine or risk of a famine you would hardly have mentioned it. Have you accepted that the idea if a famine was a Hamas plant story in order for them to reassert control where Palestinians got their food from? Or are you working on it? Keep in mind the religious...

Its sad that you think the victims are the perpetrators. Its fascinating that the Jews keep losing the propaganda war for 2000 years. People just really like hating them. A cause of a non event? Like not playing tennis is a sport? Hamas only said there was a famine. Gullible antisemites ate...

Its been quiet since Thursday. It can only mean one thing. That he's ascended into the heavens. We shouldn't have doubted his word as the one true God

My analysis has been similar all along to the NATO chief. If Russia wins NATO will have a super long border against an imperialistic and ageessive Russia. Way better to commit troops now and push back Russia, than to have to build large armies in Europe, just in case. Boots on the ground now...