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Because life never happens and people never start in a good financial place and then lose that place. Parents never desert their families, or die. People never have good jobs and lose them through no fault of their own. BTW, why did you assume that it's women who are single parents and that they would have have kids irresponsibly? Those assumptions, combined with conservative attitudes towards women who accidentally get pregnant and access abortions so they aren't having kids "irresponsibly" sure looks like misogyny. I'll bet you also think that women who get raped need to be examined for fault in dress or location or behavior before the man can be held entirely responsible.
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Sports cost money. Mac and cheese, hotdogs, chips and pop are cheaper than healthier options. Poor people make choices based on how much money they have, and healthy food costs more. Kicking them out to play is harder to do than it used to be because of news reports of kids being molested, kidnapped and killed. Parent's going out with kids to play with them is an option, but for some single parents holding down two jobs, probably not going to happen. The real world doesn't live in the same world as the arrogant and dismissive elites do.
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First a trickle....Now a flood
dialamah replied to Goddess's topic in Health, Science and Technology
I don't know, but the last time you made predictions about mandates never being lifted you were wrong. Keep that in mind when you are prophesying. Yes, scare-mongering. Mandates have not been imposed and the word "required" in the headline is misleading - regardless of what happens. Media is supposed to present facts - not misleading headlines. At the moment, here in BC, I can't get a fourth dose even if I wanted to. Mandates seem pretty far fetched at this point. -
He also taught not to judge and to love others.
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First a trickle....Now a flood
dialamah replied to Goddess's topic in Health, Science and Technology
Read that already. Click bait headline using the word "required". Nowhere does it say it's going to be required, as in "mandated" - only that the definition of "fully vaccinated" will change. In any case, as the article points out, most people aren't even eligible for the 4th dose. This article is pure scare-mongering. -
Government usually ignores the minority.
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If I don't believe in God, I'm hardly going to believe in the devil, so no point in trying to scare me with that. Or maybe you invoke the devil to keep yourself scared.
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Have you somehow missed reports on harassment and beatings LGBTQ+ people experience?
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Well, it's people like you that turn me against Christianity. People like the Christian friends I have who don't call others evil, who don't judge people because they are different, who follow Jesus' command to love others, even non-believers and sinners, are the best examples of Christianity. My Christian friends would never call you evil just because you practice Christianity differently than they do.
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Road Trip Thread- please add safely!
dialamah replied to sharkman's topic in Travel, Leisure and Sports
Enjoying your pics and commentary. -
Way ahead of you on this one.
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And it goes with many people's secular beliefs; just as you have freedom to live and believe as you wish, so do the rest of us. If you think we have to get rid of every symbol of LGBTQ+, then equally we should get rid of every symbol of Christianity - such as Churches, which are supported by government and forced into our neighborhoods. We need to eliminate Christmas and Easter, rather than have them forced on us by Government supported Stat Holidays. This is how the early Christians justified burning people at the stake. You see here how little Christianity has actually changed; thank goodness that secular values do not include such hatred.
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Gay people exist. Transexuals exist. Etc. Therefore they are true. And atheists, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs etc. live in Canada, whether you like it or not. You mean the Western Christian world, that burned people at the stake because they were 'witches'? The world that tortured people for having different beliefs? The world that didn't allow women to vote? To hold property? The world that treated anyone different - as in not white, white and Christian - as lower class, free to oppress? That world? Cause I don't want that world, and however much you try to excuse that past, that is how the "Judeo-Christian" world built itself. I'm glad we're leaving that world behind. That was the Western world up until the 20th Century. Thank goodness that as we've become less Christian as a country, we've become more interested in equal rights for everyone, including women, POC and LGBTQ+. These freedoms and rights were forced upon the Judeo-Christian society by people that saw a better world for everyone, not just white Christians. And those places tend to be highly religious. Religion in any form is exclusionary by definition - because it excludes everyone who doesn't agree with them; once you start excluding people, you can assume they are not acceptable to your God, and to you. Then you can call them evil. As a single example, consider how often you've denied other Christians, because they don't belong to the same sect as you do. Many of these people would agree with you in your choice of who to exclude. But, in the tradition of religion everywhere, you exclude those people and deem them evil because they don't belong to your particular sect of Christianity.
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Would you support government mandated Christian prayer in school? Or would that be state-sponsored brainwashing?
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US Supreme Court strikes down Roe V. Wade
dialamah replied to West's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Men don't have to carry the daily reminder of their rape for nine months, so many of them aren't going to get it. -
She was 49, but never let it be said that facts should get in the way of extreme partianship.
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First a trickle....Now a flood
dialamah replied to Goddess's topic in Health, Science and Technology
NM -- found it. -
US Supreme Court strikes down Roe V. Wade
dialamah replied to West's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
In one of those stories, a woman was indicted for manslaughter because her partner shot her in the belly. The reason she was indicted - because she started the fight. So yeah, it can happen in real life.
