There are a lot of Christians of many different varieties. None of the Christians I know would agree with conservative Americans.

I don’t, but the various books in the Bible were written in specific times and contexts, often times when slavery was common. The bible puts limits on slavery, says at various places to release slaves after 7 years, to pay them, to treat them well.

One place in the NT that deals with slavery (and is pretty controversial because of that), is when Paul sends an escaped slave back to his master, with a letter to the master telling him to treat the slave as a brother, because they’re brothers in Christ, both children of God.

Paul was trying to spread Christianity in Greece, where slavery was very common, and outright condemning it would probably make a lot of Greeks reject it. There are a lot of places where you can see Paul being very pragmatic about stuff as long as it helps spread the Word. So I guess “here’s you’re slave, but remember he’s your brother” is his compromise with slavery.

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Love them? But also counter their false teachings. Loving the people they mislead or hurt, and save them from harm.

As a Christian, I’m utterly disgusted by how these people are perverting my religion that’s supposed to be all about love for others. For your enemy, even.

Feed the poor, shelter the homeless, heal the sick, visit the imprisoned and welcome the foreigner. That’s how we will be judged, according to Matthew 25.

The pervert the words of Jesus. First the Prosperity Gospel, and now this.

Yeah, real shame Maemo never got anywhere. I really liked the idea.

Atop being so negative about slavery, because we want to bring it back.

All these tech giants have their own area where they are the absolute worst, and other areas where they’re not as bad as some of the others.

Apple sucks on app store restrictions, but on the desktop OS, the respect user privacy more than Google and MS do. Google is the absolute worst on ads, tracking and using search to leverage their monopoly, but they’ve also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android. MS makes the worst piece of shit OS and forces everybody to use it while they make it worse, but I’m sure there’s also something they do right.

I like the idea, but I’m annoyed by the inconsistency.

The þ is the th sound in “both”, but not the th sound in “the”; that’s a ð.

Ðough, ðat, ðere Þorough, boþ, þree

Dude, if you’re going to do this, you should really be spelling ‘that’ like ðat.

Why?

This is exactly it. It has always been up to the browser to decide how to render a website. There have always been differences. The idea that a browser can honour or ignore parts of the content has always been part of it.

If anything should be illegal, it should be websites 's constant attempts to bypass user preferences. Some of that shit is plain malware.

Return them. Give someone else the chance to enjoy them too.

My library doesn’t charge late fees for children’s books, but does for other books.

Your argument is that Russian state media is more reliable than a truly independent and thoroughly sources platform with a stellar reputation for quality and accuracy? That is what you want us to believe?

Because nobody is going to believe that.

With his corruption and sexual harassment, joining the Trump camp makes total sense for him.

Maybe he’s not a progressive, but it’s great to finally see a prominent Democrat loudly opposing Trump. Too many are obsessed with undermining their own party while letting the US go to hell.

There is one very specific area of DC where crime is actually rising. Maybe they should do something about that.

Well, at least he didn’t give him Alaska. The bar is that low.

I would really love to see one, but there is none. The Greens and Libertarians aren’t it, and the America Party certainly isn’t it.

There should be a broad party with just these four issues:

• Fix the broken electoral system
• Fight government corruption
• Restore the rule of law (hold powerful criminals accountable)
• Healthcare

Run good, credible candidates for every seat on every level, and I don’t see how you can lose.

Well, unless the media ignores you, which will probably happen.

Republicans rarely have a majority of the congressional votes. They get their majority in Congress from uneven representation and gerrymandering. In proportional representation, they’d lose their majority.