@SawtelleAn5682@ChrisRojas4081@ExaminetheDay @TheSkeptic4122 That is true, but I was trying not to delve into the differences between historical arranged marriages and modern voluntary marriages, as well as the origin of the concept of a "dowry".
@ChrisRojas4081@SawtelleAn5682@ExaminetheDay @TheSkeptic4122 because those particular churches decided to set themselves against communism doesn't mean you can't have a pro-communism church.
@ChrisRojas4081@SawtelleAn5682@ExaminetheDay @TheSkeptic4122 Some random reddit post is a genuinely awful source to pull, but the only reason you couldn't be communist and Christian is if the church you're part of decides to kick you out for being communist.
Which, coincidentally, was the position of many churches under the USSR but just
@ChrisRojas4081@SawtelleAn5682@ExaminetheDay @TheSkeptic4122 "The Lord" also said "Be fruitful and multiply".
He said nothing about waiting.
Do you want to try using that logic to justify sex with minors too?
@RobRohrs @Lilith_Atheist Fine tuning?
There's a literal asteroid belt in the solar system because the orbit of planets wasn't regular enough to avoid ripping eachother apart.
@RobRohrs@iamjabberwacky @Lilith_Atheist How exactly does a god just *existing* change morals from "not meaning anything" to now "meaning something"?
Do you only evaluate the meaning of morals based on what happens based on them in an afterlife?
@ChaunceyGardner@TobaccoVanguard Alternative: Quitting consumption of Tobacco and its poisonous derivatives entirely.
Why aren't we investing more into initiatives to make this alternative more practical?
@SystemArtemis@BaSingSeUpdate Where's our Death Star?
Where's our Tie fighters?
Where are the plucky resistance fighters in X-wings?
At the very least we've got to have the Death Star to be the Star Wars Empire, the Death Star is iconic.
@ChrisRojas4081@SawtelleAn5682@ExaminetheDay @TheSkeptic4122 Literally all the priests had to do was stay away from kids under 18, and they couldn't even do that, but you think the soviets are the evil ones here?
Have fun drinking your blood (wine) at Communion I guess.
And paying therapy bills over the whole pretend cannibalism thing.
@ChrisRojas4081@SawtelleAn5682@ExaminetheDay @TheSkeptic4122 overruled soviet law, and that their religion required them to teach their religion to children regardless of soviet law.
@ChrisRojas4081@SawtelleAn5682@ExaminetheDay @TheSkeptic4122 Hey.
I finished reading that book about "The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity".
The soviets were only executing priests who deliberately broke soviet laws against teaching religion to people under the age of 18.
Said priests justified their actions by claiming divine law