First, I'm glad you're doing fine. Really! I hate for any human to die before I have a chance to kill them. Congrats on your recovery!
Let me see if I can explain the debate in way to avoid triggering defenses...
You are more likely to die in a car crash, than you are from COVID. (obviously, you've up and survived it) Now try to imagine that a bunch of people panicked and declared that we had to shut down
everything until cars were made absolutely safe and nobody suffered even a single hang nail because of a mishap while driving a car ever again. Until vehicles were 100% safe, NOBODY is allowed to drive.
You can see how such an effort would be insane, right? That it would be impossible for modern society to function under such a condition, right? Now imagine trying to get people to understand that risk of wrecks are what we have to deal with just to survive gets you replies of downplaying people's deaths, and calling car wrecks a hoax.
At some point, you either have to suck it up and realize life doesn't come with any guarantees - or you bury yourself alive in a metaphorical sense to try and stay safe.
And you yourself demonstrate here how the clash of perspectives burns away all nuance as you angrily reduce people who disagree with you to a caricature of their position - even as you rage at them for doing the same to you.
COVID is real - but it is NOT the zombie virus. It's not even the worst COVID type virus humanity has ever faced.
For fucks sake people, does no one in here understand even a little about Christian doctrine? ALL political leaders are God's "anointed" because there is no leadership not granted by God.
John 19:10-11
So Pilate said to him, “You refuse to speak to me? Don’t you understand that it is in my power either to set you free or to have you executed on the stake?” Yeshua (Jesus) answered, “You would have no power over me if it hadn’t been given to you from above; this is why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
Romans 13:1-4 (CJB)
Everyone is to obey the governing authorities. For there is no authority that is not from God, and the existing authorities have been placed where they are by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authorities is resisting what God has instituted; and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are no terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you like to be unafraid of the person in authority? Then simply do what is good, and you will win his approval; for he is God’s servant, there for your benefit. But if you do what is wrong, be afraid! Because it is not for nothing that he holds the power of the sword; for he is God’s servant, there as an avenger to punish wrongdoers.
And the ruler of the Roman empire when Paul wrote that above letter? Fucking NERO. (probably) And Paul STILL said the above about him. So labeling bad orange man (who is nowhere near as awful as Nero) as anointed by God is not that big of a theological snarl*. Obama would be anointed too. So might Biden. Remember one of the most common uses of the phrase is by David to refer to Saul, a man trying to KILL him.
Roman Catholic Catechism:
1899. The authority required by the moral order derives from God: "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment."
*That's not to say SOME people aren't using the term inappropriately or exceeding its bounds and going over-reverent, but that's between them and God. Be careful about judging a group only by the worst of its members else you find yourself damned by your fellows.
Can you drop me a DM of a video of this? I could use it later.
I wonder if Bin Laden's niece needs any comforting after the election. I'm free right now...
I'd rather be a republican than a dog fucker so hey! Agreement at last.
I've read one book on the matter.
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The greatest lie the USSR ever pulled was that there was anything mutually exclusive about Bolshevism and Fascism.
I know we agree on a lot so I want you to not take this as harsh as it may come across...
But YES.
I don't care if the entire fraud in 2020 comes out to be a nearsighted grandmother in podunk county who accidentally submitted her grocery list. Saying "does it matter" is like saying, "Oh well we can't solve every murder. Does this dead guy really matter?" YES! Even if we can't get 100% perfection, we still need to constantly try and strive for it just because a society that doesn't take murder seriously can't survive.
Likewise, voter fraud is just as serious to the political health of the country. It doesn't matter if it's enough to swing the election or not. The populace NEEDS to see that voting is taken seriously and real efforts are being made to be 100% fair and above board because ANY wavering of that faith and this nation will shatter like a faberge egg.
I thought that was like one of the rules of the internet. no 32 or something?
