The protestant reformation didn’t do that. In fact, it was the opposite. It was based on the Bible over everything and shedding the idea of a pope who can claim “the rules are whatever I want them to be personally”

Isn’t the law that you can only do it until the baby can survive outside of the womb? Which is around 20 weeks. Sounds pretty reasonable.

Fair enough. I just don’t want to contribute to their self destruction.

That’s the point. So they cannot sell the food for drug/alcohol money

There are plenty of charities that provide food though, so you can give to them or just buy the person food

I’m going to start calling myself “muslim” then, as “muslim” means “one who submits to God”

The alcohol problem is what’s destroying their life

Yeah. If you have the time you could perhaps get a gift card which cannot be spent on alcohol, but even then they might sell it. The most you can really do is give them opened food

To be fair, I cannot think of a better alternative to Email

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately depending how you look at it), basically every street beggar (at least in the UK) has some form of drug or alcohol problem that you’d be funding.

(For context, I say fortunate as there are ways for people who don’t have these problems and are homeless to survive)

The whole point of Christianity isn’t just to “do good”. The foundation is that we aren’t good enough by nature and are flawed by our own fault, but by trusting in and following God, we can be forgiven. Because Jesus literally existed and was executed for our sins.

Email in itself is decentralised. You can set up your own email server and send and receive from it. However, your emails will be often flagged as spam unless you perform some form of black magic and allegedly, you are more vulnerable to spam (although I have been running my own email for months now that’s on the open web and hasn’t been spammed). Some hosts like Hetzner and various ISPs don’t allow you to open the ports needed for email, at least without giving them a ring and explaining why you need it.

They were all executed horribly

There’s quite a bit of contrast between Christianity and Islam in terms of how scripture is presented, as Islam teaches that the Qur’an is literally the words of God. As for Judaism, it’s unfulfilled, and if the New Testament about Jesus is actually true to what happened, then the Jewish prophecies clearly point to Him. Other than that it’s a very elaborate scam made by well educated people which doesn’t really give them any benefit.

He also called me a “fucking asshole” as well which wasn’t very pleasant. Basically he made an appointment for me to come to see him, notification of it was sent in the post as a footnote of a larger letter which didn’t arrive until 2 days after.

I think his wife did. He radiated big “divorced man” energy

I remember a very rude university lecturer called me once when I was in Tesco. He told me to turn off the Tesco self checkout because of background noise. I was in the middle of buying my groceries. Wut.

If we’re including xmpp and matrix, then we should include Email 🤭

Thing is, it goes against man’s desires. The other religions that took off generally allow men to take more than one wife, fight wars, etc. Christianity basically asks of one to be poor and selfless and pure

A slur for indians pretty sure