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Cake day: December 7th, 2024

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  • When I was in my late teens I was visiting family about 1000 miles away. My aunt insisted we go to christmas service at her mega church. Apparently the place was like a massive stadium-esque concert and performance hall with like a recreational and shopping area. My parents paid me to just go along and not alienate our family. So, as we are going up the stairs to the entrance of the chapel, I see, in the lobby, they had a line of ATMs from different banks, they had a kiosk for foreign currency, and a cash register set-up, for tithing. I looked at my dad and said “they invited the money changers into the temple”. My aunt asked what I meant by that, and I recounted a reduction of the Jesus flipping tables stories. Then I pointed to the ATMs, kiosk, and register, and said “money changers, they literally have money changers in the temple”.

    I was then admonished and told it was only an hour, I can keep my thoughts to myself.









  • Your Nazi example doesn’t work. If you had said the only good German, is a dead German, then it would make sense. Being German is an inherent quality that the person had no say in. Being a Nazis was a choice of political affiliation. The vast majority of people who think the only good Nazi is dead one, are making a call based the person’s actions, one that means they support a genocidal ideology. If you support genocide, you are too anti-social to be accepted into society.