Question(s) for all of the protestant theologians out there:

If the devil/Satan/Lucifer/etc Fell because he aspired to be like God, then why are humans told to do the same thing? What makes us different/"Better" than literal Angels?

In religions that are outside of Christianity….. are there other stories or tales or legends of deities performing… what the Christian religious would call - miracles?

Right now, I’m not even sure what words to use in a Google search to get started…

still one of my favorite bits i ever got to commit was pretending not to know who jesus is when a street preacher was evangelizing to me. he was like "do you know who jesus is?" and i had so much time before my next bus and i wanted to know what would happen so i said no. and you know what. he had clearly never been told no to that question before because if i hadn't actually known who jesus was, his baffled and fumbling attempt sure wouldn't have told me. literally reversed the roles. now you get to stand here feeling very uncomfortable and wishing you could be somewhere else because guess what buddy, this is my bus stop, im early (and can catch like five other buses from this exact stop), and im now thoroughly invested in hearing about this mysterious jesus figure. you're locked in here with me. im eating the key as we speak. i will kill us both before i let you out of here.

very highly recommend this bit if you can pull it off and if you have time to kill

Feel free to elaborate on which religion in the tags if you answer yes.

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It's wild how many people took Kristen's line of questioning as her saying Tracker isn't taking her religion seriously instead of what I heard her asking which was:

How many of these people would be here if it wasn't religious Coachella?

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I’ve gathered some resources and tips and tricks on self-educating after educational neglect. This is only what I did and what I know helped me. I’m about to graduate college with honors after having no education past the age of 9. I wouldn’t be here without the following. Everything is free, and at/well above the standard for education in the US.

The holy grail: Khan Academy. Nearly every course you could take is available here, in order and by grade level. Their open-source free courses rival some of the college classes I’ve taken. This is your most solid resource.

For inattentive types: Crash Course offers a variety of courses that are snappy, entertaining, and extremely rewarding. They work for my ADHD brain. They also have college prep advice, which is essential if you’re looking to go to higher education with no classroom experience.

To catch up on your reading: There are certain books that you may have read had you gone to school that you’ve missed out on. This list is the most well-rounded and can fill you in on both children’s books and classic novels that are essential or at least extremely helpful to be familiar with. You can find a majority of these easily at a local library (and some for free in PDF form online low key). There are a few higher level classics in here that I’d highly recommend. If it doesn’t work for you, I’d always recommend asking your local librarian.

*BE AWARE* The book list I recommend suggests you read Harry Potter books, and given their transphobic author you may or may not want to read them. If you choose to, I’d highly recommend buying the books secondhand or borrowing from a library to avoid financially supporting a living author with dangerous and damaging views.

TEST, TEST, TEST: Again, Khan Academy is your go-to for this. I don’t personally like standardized testing, but going through SAT and ACT courses was the best way I found to really reveal my gaps so that I could supplement.

Finally: As much as you can, enjoy the process. Education can be thrilling and teach you so much about yourself, and help shape your view of the world. It can get frustrating, but I’d like to encourage you that everyone can learn. No pace is the perfect pace, and your learning style is the right learning style for you. In teaching yourself, be patient, be kind, and indulge in the subjects you really enjoy without neglecting others. You are your teacher. Give yourself what others chose not to.

as a purveyor of christianity, do you think mixing ground communion wafers with a bit of wine and moulding it into a little dough baby would qualify as the second coming?

Well technically I don't have that in my church (at least not regularly) but considering the implications of grounding the flesh and the blood of Christ to form a little wafery amalgamation is a horrifying concept. And no, I don't think it counts as the second coming. That implies that God is only his flesh and nothing else

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i keep thinking about this coz it's such a common trope in media but i can't even guess how common it is in real life so

the unnamed mc believed their curse formed a holy groupmind.

if mc's curse affects everyone the same way, is it too presumptuous to say they may have killed several people? maybe even hundreds if their temple served a larger population?

they may have used their curse haphazardly, convinced distorting the minds of others was somehow a good thing.

but what if the curse doesn't affect everyone in the same way? mr chokey was jeff-the-killer-ified due to it, but maybe that doesn't happen to everyone. if it did, why would any religious organization think it appropriate to use on its patrons? unless it's a very out-there cult, i suppose + it's also not unheard of for sermons to get a little crazy (speaking in tongues, exorcisms, snake churches, etc) so maybe unnamed mc's superiors thought the curse's effects appropriate after all?

so then how many people did they touch? just a few? dozens? hundreds? did all those touched have to be killed, or did they kill others? was every sunday at church a bloodbath???

how much blood is on the unnamed mc's hands????

did the alchemist and the hound have specifics like that in their background? lmk pls!!

I feel silly even asking, but I was wondering, why do jewish people tend to censor the word G-d? Do they also censor it in speech? I really have tried looking it up but I'm getting contradictory answers, and I think it's best to always ask someons of a certain community about their own culture if you can. Have a lovely day!

Hey, it’s not silly at all! Every question is valuable, it’s good to be inquisitive!

There’s much debate on the censoring of G-d, especially in the digital era— do we censor all of G-d’s names and titles? Does it count when recorded via audio? Such is the case for everything Jewish, there’s always an argument over the intricacies. You’ll see Rabbis have varied interpretations and thoughts on the handling of G-d’s names.

G-d is but a title, we do not know Their true name. The Eternal, HaShem (meaning “The Name”), G-d, Lord, the Universe. Whatever you call Them, Him, Her.

The prohibition itself of destroying the Lords name stems from a passage in Dt. 12:3-4, where we are commanded to obliterate the names of idols, "but you shall not do so to the Name of the Lord your G-d." It’s a gesture of respect and honouring G-d, to not write Their name in places where it can be perished or destroyed.

Here’s a piece on the handling of G-d’s name within the digital realm!

And more info here:

never getting over the fact that s4 Cas's arc is literally just a gay metaphor

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The Ultramarines are currently arguing over whether to wear their helmets or not. The arguments boil down to:

We just got attacked by a battlesuit that was invisible to electronic sensors but not to the naked eye, so we should leave our helmets off in case another battlesuit just like it attacks us.

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE BLESSED WISDOM OF OUR LORD AND GENESIRE ROBOUTE GUILLIMAN WHO SAID WE SHOULD WEAR OUR HELMETS IN BATTLE!

Literally no one has contemplated what I like to call Option C:

Most of us should wear our helmets, both for safety reasons and for the built-in sensors. However, several men on the perimeter should keep their helms off, in case we're attacked by more enemies that are invisible to sensors.

Pretty sure I can hear Guilliman rolling in his grave chair from here.

Honestly, good question.