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That presumes a purely materialistic universe.

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...

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?

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...

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

That's generally 'midwestern' American English. It's generally the most accent-neutral version from our country. A lot of the west coast has the same shallow or lack of significant accentation.

Galadriel is a much better role model than Daenerys Targaeryn, especially with what that particular title for her is attached to. There's a difference between naming your son 'Nelson' after Lord Nelson or 'William Teach' after Blackbeard.

There are plenty of decent community colleges in the US. They don't charge you an arm and a leg, and because they're less prestigious and more practical, they are less likely (though far from certain not to) to ram ESG crap down your throat.

This is true for now, but it's getting easier and cheaper to get such fancy gadgets, and the general path such technology takes is that they start getting included in the 'base model' registers as standard after a while. There will always be some space for cashiers who do more than the bare...

Academia, especially the Ivy League, has been giving rise to a new aristocracy. What was once a notable class distinction between blue collar and white collar, has evolved into something where Ivy League graduates often view themselves as so far beyond others... ...Well, so far beyond that we...

You hadn't heard? Some parts of the left have been going on about... I think it was called 'color privilege' for a while now, where people who are 'black' but not 'black enough' have privilege over 'black enough' people.

People have been trying to do that for decades.

The public schooling system is the indoctrination platform for those who have Plans for Society. As such, they can't have the widespread failure and destructiveness be seen as anything other than the result of not enough money.

I agree, and am working on it one story at a time.

No, it's a lot creepier than that. It's people who literally think they're two spirits in one body.

...He is not bragging. He's complaining.

Supply and demand, baby.