The police cannot effectively do their jobs if immigrants are afraid to talk to them.

I think you need to learn what non-problematic drinking is. Most people do not have a problem and your responses ITT are quite childish and ignorant

That would be an extraordinarily rude response to those statements and I would seek to stay way the fuck away from anyone with that obvious of a behavioral issue.

It’s really fucked up how many over racists there are on Lemmy. Why are you doenvoted for this?

“I drink infrequently”

“I drink a few drinks a month”

“I dont drink more than a few times a year.”

Nah, there are lots of ways to do this

Go read all of Matthew 10. It might take 2 minutes tops. It’s very clear. It isn’t violent in a “imma kick your ass violent” it is about breaking apart families that refuse to follow Christ which IMO is a different problem.

John 14 makes sense in context and at the time it was written the Church was poor.

I think your perception of John is colored by a misunderstanding if the place slaves had in society and how they were viewed. Jewish slavery laws are NOTHING like chattel slavery. Slaves were humans and while less than their master it isn’t as evil as a modern American might think. Literally every society had slavery at this time.

The don’t look off to you because you don’t see them in their fuller context and you seem to not understand how specific things like slavery were different.

Im not in LEO. I just googled the qualifications. I would imagine they run some form of check to make sure everything is valid but IDK.

“U.S. citizenship Have a valid driver’s license. Be eligible to carry a firearm. Previous experience in a primary (rigorous) law enforcement position. Successfully completed basic law enforcement training. For males born after 12/31/1959, Selective Service registration is required.”

That’s your qualifications. The fact that you have previous primary LEO experience is when you were tested.

ICE agents, from my understanding, aren’t doing anything that other police aren’t doing from a day to day tasks perspective so they don’t require new testing/training.

Also they don’t mess with radiology and it lets doctors have a way of being contacted that doesn’t give patients their number.

This is more “there’s thousands of people following a guy who was crucified named Yeshua” vs “we have proof of a guy named Yeshua”.

What historians seemingly agree upon is that there was a guy who preached something that was probably reformist in nature named Yeshua. We don’t have much more than that.

I grew up Christian and no longer believe but with the exception of Matthew 15:21-28, which you only quote a piece of, you are taking these out of context.

Matthew 10 is Jesus sending his apostles to preach his word. The bit about not bringing peace but a sword is a reference to the changes he promised and the suffering he tells the apostles they will face for preaching his word. This is also where Jesus tells them to separate from family that turns their back on Jesus’ word.

It’s not an endorsement of violence.

John 14:6 is properly read in context. You cannot follow a path different than the one Christ set and get to heaven. The guy who constantly steals, cheats, abuses people, and only pursues wealth or the praise of others isn’t a “good guy” in most religions. This isn’t as controversial as you make it out to be.

Luke 12:47-48 is part of a parable which discusses how since you cannot know when Jesus would return you always need to be ready.

This isn’t an endorsement of slavery nor is it a refutation of it, rather, it is part of a metaphor and wasn’t taken literally. If you got this one off a website or infographic rather than your own knowledge of the texts it’s a trash tier source. If this came from your own knowledge WTF this is one of the most famous passages in the whole book you shouldn’t be fucking this one up if you know the NT.

The last part is the only thing actually taken correctly in context. Jesus wasn’t there for the gentiles. The idea he was here for all comes from all the Paul related writings aka the gentile who never met Jesus IRL.

When you see something that looks as off as these quotes do you should look at the larger passage because they rarely mean what the atheists think they do.

We have no idea if he was apocalyptic. We suspect he was a reformer as reformist movements were popular at the time.

I faced a year in jail over .05 grams and a one hitter back in the 1990s. Im white so I was fine but the latino kid who walked past me that day smoking a joint got time.

I was 1980 maybe 1981 and we all went to a classmate’s house to watch a computer test. Her dad worked for Bell Labs. They placed an order for groceries that the store delivered.

In 1992 I waited for three days to download a single picture off a telescope and knew this was the future

On caraway seeded rye

There was a Chinese place by me in NYC that had a chicken kidney stir fry that was incredible.

Shit and here I thought PB and honey on caraway seeded rye was weird.

The drawers of his desk not his underwear.

There are a LOT of haters though

No but that isn’t vandalism.