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Someone who is in a victory parade for Biden, can not by any reasonable measure be interpreted as an appropriate member of a Jury when Trump is on trial.

Prosthetics to recover missing or lost functionality, is a very different concept than transhumanism. Transhumanism seeks to leave physical and biological humanity behind, to become something 'more,' something 'better.'

That presumes a purely materialistic universe.

Probably never? The idea that the Chinese military was 'impressive' in the Korean war is a load of hot nonsense. Fighting directly on your border and having massive numerical advantage isn't an expression of capability, it's an expression of geographical strategic advantage. You don't...

Not when they're voluntarily self-deluding.

It's not 'skilled Jenga,' it's 'foreign investment pouring into your nation by the billion for decades will paper over a lot of problems.'

Pushing people out of an area isn't genocide. It's called displacement. These nations were not subjected to genocide. You can make an argument about the one specific one Saul was ordered to completely wipe out, not simply force out, but that's not the claim you made. If we want to pursue this...

This is one of the great tragedies. And a lot of the political leaders will be dead of old age before it's possible to bring them to trial for this.

First, you are yet again ignoring the 'drive out' part of 'destroy or drive out.' Second, living in the bronze age, how would you have solved the problem?

To quote Husky earlier: "Well yes, but besides the Iranian Takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979... and the 1981 Iraqi Embassy Bombing in Beirut by Iranian... the 1983 US Embassy Bombing in Beirut... the 1983 Bombing of the US Embassy in Kuwait... the 1984 US Embassy Bombing in...

I'm not being coy. I'm looking to see if you actually understand there is a 'why' beyond them 'merely' being pagans. The Perrizites, Jebusites, Canaanites, etc, followed abhorrent practices, and this was explicitly part of why God was having Israel either destroy them or drive them out. What...

Yes, the command was 'destroy or drive out.' That's one of the things. Now what other thing might be key here, perhaps something to do with these pagan gods?

You claim to have read it, then directly contradict yourself. 1. A lot of people in the Bible did bad things. These are generally explicitly called out as bad things, and when not explicitly called out, they are shown to be bad things through the consequences that came from them. 2. You're...

I see someone has been taught the fedora-atheist take on the Old Testament. I'm also curious as to how poorly-read you must be if you think the Bible is one of the most bloodthirsty documents in history. It certainly has some very violent sections in it, but by almost any metric you care to...

The question is a matter of tanker capacity, not a matter of 'can they get through to there?' After the absolute shit-show Russian AA and air force has been in Ukraine, do you really think they're going to pick a fight with Israel, who has one of the most competent air forces in the world? At...

I find this to be a kind of hilarious statement, given the modern conception of 'human rights' was originally based out of the Bible.

It takes a certain amount of shallow immaturity to try to 'open' your marriage so that you can satisfy your lusts with other people. It is very rare for that to combine with the maturity that is needed to keep a relationship together. And that's before you involve the trauma-induced...

Yes, and who has more air power should be pretty obvious.

When were you in college?

I'm curious why you think Iran has a strength advantage over Israel?