@SlimHoneycutt@MagnaRepublica@realtimsharp Sorry about that. I skimmed it and noticed you were giving the benefit of the doubt, which I don't. This is because they lack basic understanding of second and third order consequences, and often times don't care to acquire it.
@SlimHoneycutt@MagnaRepublica@realtimsharp It is most definitely the government’s place. How is it government by definition if it cannot enforce its laws to the degree of force used against the people it governs? Stupidity masquerading as agreeableness.
@EszdAll@wendelltalks Correction...they are simply mythic characters in a story created by man to show how people are controlled by their desire to be like God (knowing good and evil to become the ultimate arbiter of right and wrong).
@capitalist_qol@DataRepublican@slatestarcodex "Before Abraham was, I am" (Jn 8:58). He also prays for "the glory that I had with you before the world existed" (Jn 17:5) and says the Father "loved me before the foundation of the world" (17:24). Anyone who existed before creation is either the creator or a created being.