A sinner and a Fediverse Advocate.
Proud citizen of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧 Proud citizen of the European Union 🇪🇺
I hate strawmen.
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The fediverse has the same issue
Flax@feddit.uktoShitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Enough about Mario Day, when do you celebrate LUIGI Day?English
2·4 days ago04/12
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UK Politics@feddit.uk•MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire InternetEnglish
171·4 days agoI think they should just have parental controls enabled on ISP provided routers and mobile contracts by default, and have either a “disable per device” option based on the MAC or a “disable entirely” option, both carrying disclaimers that the network admin/bill payer bear 100% of the responsibility for any children’s actions online if they have any.
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MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works•Geneva gets close to getting why abstinance is not the best course of action here.English
1·4 days agoMy girlfriend gets 2x overtime pay and 3x pay when working holidays… Still trying to figure this country out. I saw the manual farm workers, I have seen that from the windows of a train. This place is so peculiar and interesting
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MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works•Geneva gets close to getting why abstinance is not the best course of action here.English
24·5 days agoHow do you know these camps even exist…
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MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works•Geneva gets close to getting why abstinance is not the best course of action here.English
21·5 days agoTo be fair… People in China can afford a house and put food on the table. Maybe authoritarianism isn’t necessarily the problem here
The UK minted a £10,000 coin once
If it’s 1oz… That’s gold
I hope so… However it would make good lemmy lore if it wasn’t
How heavy was it? Did you get a picture of the other side? Where did you even find that?
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to access home network (eg, VPN) without port forwarding?English
2·9 days agoThank you, I set this up and it works 🙂
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to access home network (eg, VPN) without port forwarding?English
6·10 days agoBecause if my router factory resets, the ports are closed
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Christianity@lemmy.world•Church of England puts the brakes on abandoning the Biblical teaching about marriageEnglish
11·11 days agoForced by law? No. If you read my original post I made this clear:
Worth noting anyone stumbling in here whos non-christian: My views on this topic have little to do with my political views. I believe in religious freedom for the secular world, which includes maintaining the legal recognition of same sex marriage as legalised in the United Kingdom in 2020 by a democratically elected government, but obviously want the Church to adhere to Biblical teachings and not kowtow to the secular world.
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World News@lemmy.world•President of the United States announces death of the Supreme Leader of The Islamic Republic of IranEnglish
112·14 days agoIt’s a primary source for a presidential comment, much better than X, straight from the horses mouth and more aligned with indieweb principles (posting on your own platform, etc)
Nothing of what I said is circular reasoning. Some Buddhists observe some Jesus’ teachings. Generally secular western society observes Jesus’ teachings due to culture. Doesn’t mean everyone who loves their neighbour is a Christian.
In the same logic, I can claim to be a Muslim because Muslim means “one who submits (to God)”. If I were to go into an islamic forum, claim to be a Muslim and then say “I don’t follow the Qur’an” - I wouldn’t have an expectation of them to take me seriously.
Also, Jesus Christ literally built His Church and commanded Sacraments. He also taught about Hell and Judgement. He taught submission to the Scriptures and cited Scriptures Himself.
Jesus commanded this ““sect”” exist and that’s what this Lemmy community is focused on.
I’m not trying to warn you or anything, discussion like this of course is allowed provided it’s respectful and not misleading, you’re being respectful and I very much thank you for that, but just to back up this point about the community and nothing more:
Rule #1.1. The measure for what is considered Christian, as has been the case in the faith since the earliest days, will be the faith proclaimed in the Nicene Creed.
How do you figure? Books have been added and removed for millennia.
That’s just demonstrably false, or a massive misrepresentation at best.
The 27-book canon of the New Testament (and the wider 66 book canon of the Bible) which contain the writings of Saint Paul that I was citing is accepted by every Christian denomination. They have never been under dispute as part of the canon and was solidified, done and dusted by the end of the fourth century (despite us having plenty of evidence of those books being used by the start). While it is true some denominations may have additional books, as well as additional creeds and other important texts, rulings or councils, they all can agree on these 66 books.
Your own sect is not the arbiter of the entirety of the faith. Plenty of sects would disagree with what you’ve written here.
Like what sects? The Nicene Creed (typically this is used as the measuring point between Christianity and heretical spinoff religions) states:
He will return in Glory to judge both the living and the dead, and His Kingdom will have no end.
And even then if you went into the other religions that identify as Christian - such as Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or Christadelphians - they all also hold to the doctrine of there being a Judgement. Heck, this doctrine even made it’s way into Islam!
Sure, different denominations and different religions have different views on what exactly will happen on this judgement day or how exactly it’ll play out, but the fact of the matter is, it is a fact of Christianity that there will be a Judgement, and that carrying out Justice is one of God’s characteristics.
Eh, I’ve got problems with Paul.
This community is centred on Christianity, which accepts the Bible as the universally infallible scripture. Paul wrote a good portion of it. So dismissing Paul, who was personally chosen and appointed by Jesus on the road to Damascus, doesn’t work in a Christianity-centred discourse.
The only reason people who may linger within Christian circles do reject the authority of Paul from what I can tell is just because their carnal desires go against what he writes. Such a thing is called eisegesis - only reading the Bible through your cultural lens first and letting your culture hold authority over the Bible. Eisegesis has no place in Christian discourse.
Romans 12:19
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Apart from a slightly shorter lifespan, what fid Hitler get for the millions he killed? What about those in more recent times who murdered innocent protesters in the USA? Will they ever face justice? Deep inside, the majority of people feel a wrath against these people, those who senselessly killed and/or hurt other people. Human society from all across the world has always attempted some form of justice or judgment system. Justice is something that we all feel needs to be quenched somehow. It’s the same as how would you define love- it’s not observable, it’s not provable, it’s not material, but you can still see the effects love has on a society. The Bible speaks about God’s wrath a lot- and His craving for Justice. That He will deliver it. A god without Justice is a pushover and not a perfect God at all. If you saw a society where people were hurting each other, and the King presiding over it refused to punish anyone because “I’m a loving King no good loving King would punish his subjects” would you say that was a good King?


















Better video
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