I’ve worked on DEI company groups before, all employee led. I can see some awkward argument around preferential treatment / reverse racism / whatever stupid term they want to use to cover bigotry. But internal employee groups that help build community are not causing the egg prices to go up. This is a waste of time and resources. Doesn’t the AG have more important tasks, like putting kids in cages or something?

Absolutely.

Our morality today doesn’t stone people as just treatment; it doesn’t stone rapists and victims. That’s the worst of the Bible, and I don’t think that’s where its value comes from. It’s an important holy text for me, among many that help me understand God.

Jesus was magnetic in his time because the notion of love, forgiveness, and caring he preached was radical.

Jesus is quoted as telling believers to sell their belongings and share wealth together. In Matthew, a man who has followed all the commandments wishes to go to heaven, and…

Matthew 19:21, Jesus said to him, ‘If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’

Acts 2:45 talks about early Christian societies being joyous because they would sell everything and share everything.

And yet, capitalism is the moral system?

You’d need to make $500k, every working day, between now and 1/1/1 to make more than Jeff Bezos now. For 2025 years, making $500k every. working. day. 260 days a year. 526,500 days. This is unconscionable.

People that defend these inequalities have not read the Bible, have not listened to Jesus. They are lost.

Mark 7:9

Then he said to them, ‘You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

We can play this game. 1 Peter 3:7, women are the weaker sex. 1 Peter 3:3 also says she shouldn’t wear jewelry, because it damages her gentle and holy standing.

Also 1 Timothy 2:12,

I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent.

Don’t preach to me about a book you haven’t read. I’m a Unitarian Universalist, so I think the Bible is an important text, but dated notions show the human sensibilities rather than the divine perfection of the book.

I don’t think Mrs. Leavitt is weaker or deserving less dignity than a man, but this book does. :/

I know you’re using sheep in the common way we think about it, but this is the goats being lured. The sheep followed Jesus—these people don’t.

I’m reading the New Testament because I want to be able to quote this book better than these so called believers. In Matthew 25, there’s the parable of the sheep and goats. This is the moment of divine judgment, and Jesus asks the sheep, “Did you clothe me? Did you take care of me? Did you visit me in prison? Did you accept me when I was an alien in a foreign land?” The people that did are the sheep, the ones who are accepted to heaven.

The goats, who did not, are damned.

Call these people what they are: the goats. Use their beliefs to educate them how wrong they are. Tell them to read a Bible.

About to be a lot of “accidental” falls out of windows.