I’ve used this for years now. Love it!

For whatever reason, the link to the article is not functioning. So, here is an alternative article: https://www.salon.com/2019/04/17/scientists-establish-a-link-between-religious-fundamentalism-and-brain-damage_partner/

Ahhhh…that makes sense. Thanks!

I’m not sure that I understand what’s going on here. Would you mind explaining?

I cut the cable back in 2009. Been streaming ever since with no advertisements.

Thank you!

WTF LMFAO!

I believe that these people may be following the political persuasion of the likes of Warren Buffet, Bill & Melinda Gates, and other billionaires who have been championing philanthropy in the past decade.

All of the diseased dragons laying on mountains gold, that Tolkien has written about (and documented here) , are being persuaded among themselves to have a ‘change of heart’.

Even if this is a political stunt or disingenuous, then at least their fortunes are helping a great deal of people.

I understand where you are coming from. If you knew my personal backstory and what I have experienced, then I believe you and others would at least entertain where I am coming from.

People are going to believe whatever they want to believe. That fact is bittersweet and sometimes it saddens me.

Let me put it to you plainly. If there is a ‘god’ or ‘higher power’ that wants human beings to suffer in every way imaginable, then I don’t want to have anything to do with it.

The ineffable has shown me, on several occasions, that this is not the case.

I prepaid for one year in order to join the beta testing (which has ended). Then the founder of Beeper gave me a lifetime free subscription.

I’m not sure, exactly, where they are with the list of people who signed up without prepaying. However, I have noticed a tremendous influx of users over the past several months.

I believe that they would be open to the inclusion of MS Teams. They have been open to just about everything that I’ve thrown at them. They are trying to become the “best chat app on Earth”.

EDIT: I asked the Beeper team about this and their spokesperson responded: “It is on the list to investigate sometime in the future.”

The video clip of this event starts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kfn9Cx_bjI&t=4957s

That makes the headline worrisome! Thanks for the quick reply.

I prefer Beeper as a messaging solution.

What is the ‘far-right’ like in Sweden. Are they like the MAGA nut-bags in the US or just ultra-conservative?

This makes no sense. My point was about the global scholarly consensus that the biblical texts do not address LGBTQ+ issues as they are understood today AND Christendom globally does not consider homosexuality to be a sin.

I don’t think they are the minority though

At the very top of that wiki: “The examples and perspective in this section deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject.”

That was a typo. I meant ‘movie’ and I edited my comment to correct it.

Sex and the Single Savior is one example. You could always just search https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/AskBibleScholars/. All of this has been covered in both subreddits extensively.

What I’m referring to, specifically, is the past decade. In the past ten years, give or take, Christianity & Judaism condemning (from the pulpit) LGBTQ+ persons is a minority position mainly held by fundamentalist and/or conservative groups.

I believe that the earliest form of Christianity also condemned homosexuality…

There, simply, is not any textual evidence to support this. I have studied the early Jesus movement leading up to the second century of Christianity and there is no condemnation toward personal sexual practices.

It’s easy to interpret the paragraph I quoted as them having the wrong opinion, and if they don’t change it they are at risk from getting banned from the server. That doesn’t seem very nice.

I was addressing the false accusations they made against me. This had nothing to do with opinions.

Also, this is not a matter of opinion as I stated above:

This is the scholarly consensus shared worldwide. And it’s not a personal position. It is a scholarly one based on textual analysis.

@Gaywallet has addressed what ‘be(e) nice’ means more eloquently than I could. This is what a large group of us have decided to be our ‘northern star’ or guiding principal when we are here, on Discord, on Matrix, and any other place we interact together.