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Your links are just lists of places where the bible uses the word "equality."

No, it lists places where the bible uses the world "equality", AND/OR talks about equality.

And those links are more than adequate to answer your question "Where is equality mentioned in the bible?"

That has nothing to do with the context of the discussion

No, it has everything to do with the context of "the discussion." You are mistaken in what "the discussion" is.

which is biological equivalence between different groups of humans

No, that's the discussion between you and the retarded leftist westerners (most of whom I wager are Christians)

That's not "the discussion" I'm having. I may have replied to you, but that doesn't mean I'm not creating my own discussion. In the discussion I started - and you willingly joined - I said two things:

1) existence of biological differences is strong evidence against God (though for the record, the onus was never one the non-believer to disprove God, no more they have to disprove the existence of Zeus or a teapot on the dark side of the moon)

2) Christians are amusingly ironic, as while they hate godless commies, they themselves believe in highly communist ideas

You didn't really respond to point 1 (since I AGREED with you... I said "indeed comrade" remember? So your questions in the end do not need to be answered), but you seem miffed about point 2, trying to distance Christians from "retarded leftist westerners". THIS is the discussion we're having now.

To respond to your "retarded leftist western" comment, I pointed out - with examples - how "retarded leftist westerners" mostly come from a Christian tradition.

which is absolutely not part of Christian philosophy

Doesn't matter whether it is or isn't. As above, that's not what my discussion is about.

which says that while all humans are loved by God, they are not equivalent or interchangeable.

Which is as I said, that's the thinking straight out of Animal Farm.

You know what causes stupidity? Genetics.

Indeed comrade! Stupidity is caused by genetics. The fact that it does is more proof that there is no god and that the atheist commies are correct all along!

How ironic, the Christians, they hate the godless commies, but their own God is Animal Farm in action: everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others, having genetics that make them stupider. Some are born in Christan nations while others are born under Islam, under Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.

Are their arguments so incredibly powerful and persuasive that anyone who hears them becomes a Nazi?

It's not so much about the Nazi argument being powerful, but that the left believes that people - people on the right in particular - are too stupid and powerless to resist them.

Goes with the whole "think of the children" "need to save people from themselves" mentality

The right don't really help alleviate that image though, what with so many of them being True Conservative Christians. While you may think declaring your faith in Christ is some sort of signal of virtue and integrity, to everybody else that's a signal of the opposite: that you are sheep that can be easily walked over if not manipulated to follow false idols.

This is evident in how many Republicans have submitted themselves to Trump, who is hardly a model of a good Christian. But hey he's "our" guy so you have to cheer him on, if not you must be a RINO if not a godless atheist commie lefty!

Construction? I suppose you have to work somewhere after your Superman virus fails to transfer money correctly from your godless, evil employer.

Firstly, Wegener's work hasn't been the norm for a very, very long time - it was roundly rejected in his lifetime, and only came back into vogue in the 1960s when computer simulations made a much stronger argument for the closeness of the fit.

We're going to take care of that bit of liberal hogwash - but we must be patient. Celebrate our great victory of showing that global warming was a Chinese hoax first, and revel in the power of the human will as designed by God, and doing his work here on earth.

Next, we must take on the devils test of evolution, so that we may reinstall the correct way that the earth was created, all creatures at one, and all in their final form, in 4004 BC.

Then there is the utterly ridiculous Plate tectonics theory. In addition to being only a theory - in other words, a guess, it's common sense obvious to anyone who is right thinking that God created land right where he wanted it. To think otherwise is silly - God put th eland in it's best place, because God doesn't make mistakes. Anyone who thinks that land moves is doing to work of Satan.

Be patient Good Christian citizens - the liberal godless took a long time to plant all these lies - we can't revert back to God's way overnight. But we're getting there, praise the Lord!

Darn right. The security blanket is what is keeping the godless Russkies out of your town.

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There is a new book that witches around the world are drooling over. It's title is Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, and it's Author is Leo Ruickbie. The website is www.witchcraftoutoftheshadows.com. In a dark time of apostasy around the world, witchcraft is sadly rearing it's ugly head like never before. With Harry Potter, Sabrina the Witch, the Witches TV series, the Church of Satan, and so many other godless influences on our young people, it's to no surprise that the Devil is gaining ground quickly. Let may say right from the beginning... WITCHCRAFT OF ALL FORMS IS SATANIC! The witches and Wiccans can deny it all they want, but the Bible is the FINAL AUTHORITY, not the witches. The Word of God is eternal, It never changes because God never changes...

"For I am the LORD, I change not..." â"Malachi 3:6

God says in His Word that WITCHCRAFT IS A SIN...

"For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft..." â"1st Samuel 15:23

The same God that condemned witchcraft in the Old Testament still condemns witchcraft today. God loves all people (including witches), but he hates sin. Psalm 97:10 challenges ALL Christians to HATE SIN...

"Ye that love the LORD, hate evil..." â"Psalm 97:10

I hate witchcraft, but I love all people. It is WRONG to hate people. I don't hate anyone, despite what my enemies would like to believe. I DO hate sin because God has commanded me to hate sin. ALL believers should hate sin. I love Jesus Christ and am faithfully obeying the Bible by exposing witchcraft. Wicca is black witchcraft. ALL witchcraft is black because there is no such thing as "white sin." To claim that there is "white witchcraft" is to claim that there is "white sin." There is NO such thing as a little "white lie," all lying is as dark as the blackness of hell. ALL sin is black, dark and evil. I am just addressing the witches on their own terms, since they like to differentiate between "white" and "black" witchcraft. If that is the case, then ALL witchcraft is very black, evil through and through.

There is a frightening trend amongst witches to attempt to repackage (to redefine) their history. This new book, Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, attempts to do just that. Leo Ruickbie tries to discredit Christianity and the Bible with his flawed reasonings. He tries to explain "where witchcraft came from?," and "where it is going?" I have a one word answer for the curious reader for both question: HELL

Ruickbie claims to have done an "in-depth" investigation into history to survey the dark-side of the human psyche and it's bias against witchcraft over the centuries. He goes on to claim that many of today's modern negative ideas concerning witchcraft originate in ancient myths and religions. In short, Ruickbie is saying that the Bible is flawed having it's origins in ancient myths. The entire premise of the modern day witchcraft movement is that the Bible is NOT God's Word. Of course, they are 100% WRONG! The Bible is God's eternal, inspired, infallible, inerrant, preserved Word. As you can clearly see, there is NO common ground between Christians and witches. Christians believe that the Bible is God's inspired Word, and the witches denounce it as myths and superstitions.

What does the Bible say? The first mention of the word "witch" in the Bible was made by Moses in Exodus 22:18. God had instructed Moses to impose the death penalty for anyone proven guilty of committing the sin of witchcraft. Wow! For a sin to be punishable by death, it must have been pretty serious to God. Notice again the Scripture I quoted to you earlier from 1st Samuel 15:23, "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft..." Witchcraft is equal to rebellion! Witchcraft is rebellion against God. The Bible condemns witches and witchcraft, I don't have to.

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So, you think we should

No, I don't think we "should" anything. I was just describing one possible future. A future which I don't think is unlikely.

I've been told by the religious that the current way of the West (the secular way) is deviant from its Christian roots ("Christian Nation" being a part of the zeitgeist), and that Islam is going to out breed and out last the godless amoral secular governments.

That already exists, it's called Islam. ...
This sounds like a poor solution to the problem of needing simple jobs for simple people.

Well, from my understanding of history and human nature, people will turn to even a poor solution or even a worse solution if they're really sick of what they have now, and believe that any change is better than the status quo.

So again, I think the future I described isn't that unlikely. In a way it's just history repeating itself: people tend to turn to religion when times are bad.

What is a "Christian nation" and how is it different from a nation of Christians?

You tell me. "Christian Nation" is thrown around by Christians. It seems to mean anything they want, depending on the circumstances.

When it's government interference they don't like, "Christian Nation" is thrown around as synonymous with the principles of liberty and individual rights, as if to make Christians more qualified to speak of liberty and "our" "core" values.

But when government does NOT interfere on something that goes against Christian values (say, gay marriage, abortion), "Christian Nation" is thrown around as justification that government should intervene. Those who disagree must be godless sinful commies. "Eat shit, fagot"

It's basically the same way feminists throw around how they "as a woman" are somehow more qualified to speak about gender equality (aka all genders are equal, but some are more equal than others) and if you disagree you must be sexist. "Eat shit, bigot"

And when something like 80% of Evangelical Christians vote for Republican candidates and against socialist policies

This statement is an contradiction. Voting for Republican is not a vote against socialist policies. It's a vote for a different set of socialist policies than that of the Democrats. This cannot be more true today when the Republican POTUS would fail harder as a Christian than all the other Republicans who tried to get the nomination (multiple marriages, he pissed off the Catholic Pope, his wants to block out Mexicans who are mostly Christians, and he's rich so him going to heaven is harder than a camel going through the eye of a needle)

Also, listen to yourself. You are saying that Christians are a group of people whose political positions are largely shaped by the social group they identified with, and that they, as a group, engage in politics which try to promote political positions based on the interests and perspectives of their identified group.

That's identity politics dude. It's the modus operandi of socialists.

And you can't say Christians are only doing this now because those godless commies have been gaining ground. Christians have been part of politics and mingling with government since Constantine stop persecuting them and instead became a patron. They're kinda the reason "separation of church and state" became a desired thing.

are you telling me they're doing Christianity wrong?

Nah, you'll have to tell me. After all, you said I don't understand Christianity. I do however understand what socialism is when I see it. You may think Christianity doesn't *mean* socialism. I'm just pointing that Christianity *is* socialist in their actions.

So does being Jewish give you a pass for being an A*hole? Finally I understand Israeli behaviour.

Special status of Jews resulting from genocide doesn't apply to everyone else. Everyone else is either savages or godless commies.

I say it is all a conspiracy by crooked scientists who are just trying to scare people so that they can all get rich doing climate research. There's no way that man can affect the environment. The smoke must be part of a natural cycle. Or maybe god taking vengeance against those godless communists!

Re: "Get over it."

Ah, no. You've given up, certainly that much is clear. Your participation in democracy will be missed. When the system gets cleaned up it will be without you, and perhaps you may have to explain to your children (assuming you have any) how you threw in the towel when things got difficult. Why you abandoned your values in the face of some resistance.

There was a time in Western Europe when no right-thinking, patriotic, educated and aware citizen could imagine a governing system not based upon a monarchy. All the intrusions into citizen's lives were just part and parcel. The King or Queen were the boss, what could anyone do?

The TLAs want you to "Get over it". That is the role they have assigned to you and you've taken the bait. You are beaten.

Remember McCarthyism? Imagine someone questioning the trials, the Congressional investigations, the blacklists. Imagine a citizen (or even 2 citizens!) standing up to Joe McCarthy. Why, he was a veritable king, an emperor, a god! And who can be for the godless Communists anyway?

Yes, you resent Big Brother now, but soon you will learn to love him. Then the struggle will be over for you. Rest In Peace.

Gays are godless.

The godless religion of political correctness has implemented laws and regulations which make any relationship a deemed partnership with the government, followed by a listing of their rights and your responsibilities under this deemed partnership, enforced by all the lawyers, social workers, swat teams, bureaucrats and administrators the government can pay for with tax dollars and which you must fight off at your own expense. Better not get in a relationship, unless you're rich.

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A Day in the Life of Joe Antigovernment Conservative:

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance -- now Joe gets it, too.

He prepares his morning breakfast: bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.

If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment checks because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime. Joe also forgets that in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the taxpayer funded roads.

He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans.

The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved conservatives have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberal

If so, it would mean anyone who buys a computer and installs Linux Mint (non-South Carolina version) on their PC has now broken the law.

Hey, don't knock Linux Mint South Carolina edition! Actually, it's known in the South as the Linux Mint JULEP edition. I've been using it ever since Version 1.0 ("Anti Abolition"), though it really only came into its own in the third version ("Commendable Calhoun"). The recent LTS versions ("Slightly Secessionist" and "Somewhat Segregationist") are really terrific!

You do have to get used to the quirks, though. I used to use the Gnome edition, but South Carolina deprecated that, since it sounded too much like "genome," and that sounded too close to evolutionist talk. I tried the new desktop environment OPPOSITE-SEXED-SPOUSE (the equivalent of MATE), but ultimately I decided to go with the KKKDE edition.

There are some cool South Carolinian features, such as:

-- "Tux" the Linux penguin is replaced by Cocky the USC Gamecock mascot.
-- The GIMP has a boot-up image of Preston Brooks caning Charles Sumner in the U.S. Congress, with Sumner limping away on his gimpy leg.
-- LibreOffice isn't... quite so "libre," if you know what I mean.
-- In honor of the Baptist teetotalers, WINE is renamed SWEET TEA.
-- My favorite feature -- the messenger Pidgin automatically converts your messages to appropriate creole dialects for the state. Main choices include "Gullah," "Redneck," and "Antebellum Plantation Owner," but if you insist on keeping your standard modern English, there's a selection "Godless Cityfolk" for you.

I'd highly recommend y'all give it a try!

You're 100% right. But what you're missing is the location of the jobs you describe both at Apple and at plenty of other companies. They tend not to be in swing states. So most politicians can't be arsed to even acknowledged them, much less care about them. They tend also to be in blue states such as California or blue enclaves within red ones such as Austin. So when politicians do bother to notice them, for the democrats we're little more than a fundraising source. And as far as the republicans are concerned, these workers are nothing more than a bunch of un-American godless commie mutant traitors who want to abort the baby jesus and make it cry before eating its stem cells; so we can all go burn in hell, or if they're being especially charitable maybe just be kicked out to the other side of the wall.

When do you suppose that's going to start applying to all the "Godless commie mexican jew lizard muslim terrorist traitor" talk that gets leveled at the libs?

You wanted political incorrectness? Congratulations! You Won! Politics is rugby now. So rub some dirt on your precious bruised feelings and grow some damn balls.

> 1) The real thing that led enabling Hitler was the battle with communism.

> #1 is fully and completely applicable, and anyone who pretends it can't apply to the US is kidding themselves

How so? The entire CPUSA has less wealth and power than the little Chinese restaurant down the block from my apartment, and fewer members than the church on the corner. They hold no elected offices and don't even bother to field serious national candidates. The highest ranking leftist in elected office in the US, AFIK, is Kshama Sawant, of the Trotskyst Socialist Alternative party. She has a seat on the Seattle City Council. That's hardly comparable to the double digit vote % the Communists got in most elections in late Wiemar Germany. Communist revolutionaries were involved in the German Revolution and civil war earlier in the Wiemar period; they staged mass strikes and took over major cities and even briefly ran them as Soviets. The German Social-Democratic Party (SPD), the party from which the German Communist Party (KPD) had originated, was still a serious socialist party, committed to the (gradual) elimination of capitalism. It was the biggest and most successful left wing party at the time and had formed several governments. SPD and KPD spend most of the 20s fighting each other, and their failure to unite against fascism until it was too late was a big factor contributing to the rise of Hitler. The US hasn't had anything even remotely like any that since the Seattle General Strike of 1919 and the labor wars (particular among miners) of the 1920s. Even then we never had a leftist organization as big and powerful as the KPD, much less the SPD. The US Communist Party peaked in power in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but by that time they had adopted a "Popular Front" strategy of supporting liberals in order to better fight fascism. It was hardly an anti-government revolutionary tendency. The CIO purged Communists in the wake of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, and Cold War liberals turned against their former supporters during the second Red Scare. The Communist Party never regained it's strength in either the labor movement or mainstream politics.

The US of 2016 doesn't even have a reformist social-democratic center-left, unlike the entire rest of the developed world. The closest we have is lone Independent Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a "democratic socialist", while his actual record in office is that of a mild New Deal progressive.

Labor and economic issues are barely even contested in the US any more. No major pro-worker legislation has occurred since OHSA under Nixon. Union membership is near all time lows, and strikes have declined even more than overall union membership. We have no viable socialist, social-democratic, labor, leftist, or communist party.

To the extent to which Americans even have politics, we debate culture-war issues and identity politics: gay marriage, abortion, that kind of thing--issues that people with real money and power don't really give a fuck about. Corporate America is fine with being a rainbow colored LGBTQQAAZZZ celebration of multiculturalism, feminism, and diversity if it that is the way the wind blows, and where the preferences of formally educated yuppies making up the bulk of the professional-managerial class trend. The same companies were once fine being socially-conservative, back during the Cold War, in order to stand up to "godless communism" and "degenerate leftist" outside agitators. But now the left is dead; there is 0 threat to established wealth and power, and the masters of the universe might as well be as well fell good about their own tolerance and open-mindedness (as they exploit and immiserate with ever growing scope and scale).

Ignoring the culture wars, we have two right-wing pro-Wall St political parties in the US. Basic social-democratic reforms, things that a majority of Americans support: single payer no-user-fee healthcare, a military focused on domestic defense, not overseas adventures, higher taxes on th

Exactly.. There are xray lenses of a sort, but they're big and heavy (long in the axis parallel to propagation because you can't bend the photons very much. detector technology has a way to go.

There have been people proposing XCOMM and XNAV for at least 20 years, and as soon as someone makes a detector with an aperture of 50cm that has overall efficiency over 50% and weighs less than, say, 10 kg, why, deep space comm folks will fall over themselves to use it.

Of course, optical comm has been technologically feasible for quite a while, but strangely, nobody has put up the billions of dollars to build the optical equivalent of the Deep Space Network (DSN). So they do experiments with the Hale telescope on Palomar when they get time slots (they don't do much star photography during the day) to demonstrate feasibility - yowza, bright LEDs on cube-sats, etc.

But remember that DSN cost more than $1B, in the 1960s. And that was to bring back video of American Galactic Warriors with "The Right Stuff" walking on the moon to show those godless commies who the boss was, and who really controlled the high ground.

Who's going to pay for that "fat pipe from deep space"? Ask the scientists with instruments on Mars rovers or Europa orbiters or similar... How much of their instrument budget would they give up to get more data back to earth? The answer will be "we'll live with what we have"