Give up the building and start meeting in people's homes/apartments, coffee shops and the like. The rest only holds you back anyway. Imagine good tippers who the wait staff eagerly looks forward to returning regularly - what a reversal that would be from when "Christians" show up after "cHuRcH" and abuse them!
Go back to sleep?
(So we can get more awesome ideas like this, ofc!)
Gordon Freeman, PhD
Love that username alice-in-daisychains.:-)
"Can't even downvote in Ohio"
For those who don't know what this means, but want to, you can read https://www.distractify.com/p/what-does-ohio-mean-slang and https://www.distractify.com/p/only-in-ohio-tiktok-meme.
TLDR it's a phrase that people use now similar to "Florida man".
Plural... burn them all, mu-wha-ha. Despite how they are already literal balls of fire!? ๐ฅ
I shall gently perambulate in some direction other than directly towards it... unless I'm feeling feisty, and wanna try to ride that like a bad cowboy!? ๐ค
I bet you have plans to put some clothes on a bit later in the day, you kinky soul you:-).
It is indeed good to have goals. (In addition to / other than wait to burn alive ofc:-).
Again to be clear, this is separate from being anywhere within a 5-mile range of Walmart, where entirely different rules apply:-). For that, the clothing is more... optional.
Username checks out.
It's a good thing cats have 9 lives, but how many would nuclear fallout burn through?
Still possibly their best hope for survival, man what a depressing thought:-(.
Just like the people who showed up on January 6 claiming to be "patriots", there to "defend" - rather than overthrow by violent means - the Constitution, which many admit to never having read, so too many "christians" (ostensibly meaning "follower of") do the precise opposite of their teachings. Of course you can't have a rational discussion with people like this!?!? You cannot extract blood from a stone. They just don't have it in them to be capable of that. And yes ofc you, having read the book, know better what is in it compared to someone who can't read, or more precisely someone who refuses to.
Whereas people of conscience, regardless of religious - including non- or even anti-religious - affiliation, can discuss pretty much anything. There are real Christians though, just look at their actions and it's extremely easy to tell (just like there are real patriots, desperate the presence of mimics that try to claim that they are while being the polar opposite - many are dedicated civil servants and/or members of the armed forces, both of whom lay their literal life on the line, and the latter also their possible death, though non-armed forces also contribute as well).
All that aside, there are many ways that Jesus claimed to be God. I started listing them out in my head but in looking up some scriptures to back them up (like "I and the Father are one", John 10:29-33; plus He claimed to be able to forgive sins, which only God could do - so to the people of the time, He was being quite clear), found this article that says it a lot better than I could: https://calvarychapel.com/posts/did-jesus-claim-to-be-god/. So I hope that's interesting.
My controversial opinion: one day there will be stupid atheists as well. There aren't really that many right now, bc it's popular right now in atheism to actually examine one's beliefs and decide for one's own self what you believe - however, the same was once true of other religions too, before they got institutionalized, and in another hundred (or thousand) years when atheism has been passed down through enough generations, it too will become corrupted as well.
For now, I find that people of good conscience of all religions - and again, including non- and anti-religious folks too - share a heck of a lot more in common with one another than with the non-thinking sheeple. After all, the book literally commands people who follow it to be skeptical: "Test everything against what you know to be true (aka prove it) and retain only what passes that inspection" (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Also it says stuff like pay the workers their wages, kill the money lenders, don't heap heavy burdens on others without lifting a finger to help (be ye not a Karen), don't judge others, but do hold your own leaders to account (cough fondling little children cough, also that whole felony / insurrection / treason thing). So really, if that breed of "christian" could (sigh, rather "would") read, they would (should) be very upset! ๐ญ
My advice: don't mind them - they only matter in aggregate - just hold yourself to the higher standard that you, as a non-hypocrite, know that you must regardless. Argumentum ad populum et al.