100%. I get news about my yearly raise around the same time as my landlord raises my rent each year.

The percentage raise in rent is about 3x larger than the percentage raise in wages. Every year.

Are you talking about taking Chuck E. Cheese on the road?

Basic music generated for basic people.

If there’s any “fiction” involved, it’s coming from the grifters angling for that grant/investor money.

Jesus explicitly rejected the old laws many times. For example, the un-stoning of the adulteress, new covenant, greatest commandment, etc… It’s all over the gospels.

It’s worth noting that the gospels are intentionally obscured by almost everybody who profits from christianity (including clergy, “new atheists”, etal. who are actually quite similar).

This is objective fact.

No. It’s subjective labeling far removed from facts.

In this case you’re saying it, not hearing it.

You’re a self-proclaimed atheist promoting the worst interpretations of the bible because that’s what comfortable for you.

So why are there directives on how to run a church in the official doctrine of this religion?

B/c the religion was invented by people who run churches.

If they’re only meant to be relevant to Timothy, shouldn’t they have been cut with the rest of the apocrypha?

It seems pretty obvious from the context that the quote is about dis/allowing disruptions during church.

It’s more disingenuous to take quotes out of context.

And no christian has any obligation to bow down to paul. They’re not paulians.

I wouldn’t do all the awful things he does or punish anyone

This kind of wacky belief (god is a magic person who does awful things and punishes people) is a terrible foundation for both religion and atheism.

Yes. Dude is a fraud. Not jesus.

B/c a main point of jesus was pointing out how those old laws are worthless.

Christianity continued this tradition by obviating all those old laws like circumcision, no pork, misogyny, etc. That’s literally why christians don’t follow that stuff. It was rejected like thousands of years ago.

The people who still worship the old testament are mostly jews and phony christians/cultists.

You’re talking about the gospels maybe, not the bible.

The Economist is generally a pretty good news source,

Wew. Gotta be drinking the reactionary/lib pseudo-science sauce to believe this. Literally promoting phrenology. That’s far from the lowest point for this rag.

A primary application of “AI” is providing blackboxes that enable the extremely privileged to wield arbitrary control with impunity.

It’s completely normal for fascists to promote pseudo-science. Always had been.

Indeed their publication is named after one of the worst pseudo-sciences.

People really thinking that paper covered in enslavers and selfishly controlled by the most corrupt people on the planet is going to outlast open, decentralized, global networks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion