BenVimes

"The vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives," so goes the old hymn.

This is something that needs to be grappled with, because it's such a fundamental thing. On a philosophical level, Christian conservatives in the US don't recognize their double standards as hypocrisy.

I thought long and hard about this, and my best explanation is that it comes back to one of the defining elements of Christianity, something that sets it apart from other major religions: that people are to be judged based on their beliefs and not their actions. Yahweh's grace is available to, "the vilest offender who truly believes," as the old hymn goes.

This is why AOC is condemned as a harlot for dancing to music in university, while Lauren Boebert is forgiven for going to second base with her date in public. AOC doesn't believe the same things the Christian conservatives do, while Boebert (presumably) does.

It seems this view, that belief informs morality, is so ingrained in the politics of the USA (and probably other places) that it even affects non-Christian strata.

We have two cat, both female, and neither goes by their registered name.

One was mine from before I moved in with my partner. Her actual name is masculine and uncapitalized. But we only use that name for vet visits, and to differentiate her from our other cat. Otherwise, she is just Kitty, or "Wow," after the sound she typically makes.

The other cat we adopted together, and has a female name that is properly capitalized. We normally call her one of dozens of nicknames, though most of those are derived from her name and not just random terms of endearment.

Bit of trivia: the mid-life refit program for Canada's Iroquois-class destroyer was called TRUMP: Tribal Refit and Update Modernisation Program.

That program happened in the 1980s, so Mr. Trump is 40ish years late to claim the name.

This was the problem, though I don't know how I ended up in the situation I was in, as I was stuck on v1.0.301. When I checked the Google Play Store after seeing your comment, there was no update available, and the app page still had v1.0.301 as the latest version. I had no reason to suspect that my app was out-of-date until your post.

For posterity, I also had to join and then leave the beta program before v1.0.309 became available.

Orgo was the one core course where we couldn't bring any supplementary material to the tests - no textbook, no handwritten notes, no molecular kits. But they still stapled a periodic table to the back of the test.

Yeah I don't get it either. My degree is in chemical engineering, and I always had a periodic table available for every test going to back to grade 11 chemistry.

In high school, my teacher gave us a printed copy on the first day of class and said, "This is your best friend." We could bring that page into any test. He also allowed some handwritten notes and alterations to the page, notably a list of polyatomic ions, and colour coding of certain elements. But if you forgot your personal copy, he'd give you a blank one before the test.

In university, I wasn't allowed to bring a loose sheet with the table on it, but one was stapled to the back of every test and exam if it was required (you don't really need chemical properties to do fluid mechanics and heat transfer). Also, most tests were open book, and most of my textbooks had a periodic table printed on the inside cover anyhow.

I'm having a problem with comment sorting too. I have it set to Top, but every post loads with Hot instead.

I'm on version 0.19.13.

I once had a delayed reaction version of this. My alarm went off at 6:00AM, and I decided to close my eyes for 5 more minutes. But, didn't wake up again until 7:05.

However, I didn't notice that 65 minutes had passed because I only looked at the minutes portion of my clock and assumed everything was good. It wasn't until I got a somewhat frantic phonecall asking where I was that I realized my mistake.

Sounds like some North Korea envy.

Zero tolerance policies aren't meant to protect students, and they aren't even meant to protect bullies. They're meant to protect teachers and principals, mostly from having to face scrutiny for how they handle bullying. They can just punish all parties equally and wash their hands of the matter, and any criticism can be deflected by saying, "zero tolerance; everyone was treated the same."

I don't disagree that one can generally talk about books in that way, but given what I know about how biblical authorship, I think it's an incorrect (or as you say, misleading) way of describing the Bible specifically.

Of all the books that became canon in the Christian Bible, the most recent ones were written in the late 1st/early 2nd century CE. The later edits were additions, deletions, or alterations to these existing works rather than entirely new books on their own, and by the time those edits were made the books were already being used as scripture in Christian communities.

I'd liken it to The Hobbit. The first edition was published in 1937. In order to align more with The Lord of the Rings, a 2nd edition was published in 1951, and it contained significant changes to the the characterization of Gollum and the function of the One Ring. However, despite those changes, I would never say that, "The Hobbit was written in 1951."

My final note: you can see in my first post that I agreed with the sentiment of the post I was responding to: that, "Christ would likely not quote documents written after his existence," as you said. Many words have been put into the mouth of Jesus of Nazareth, because everything written about him came after he was too dead to make corrections.