This is a debate website... so I won't get too sentimental
This is a debate website... so I won't get too sentimental
Merry Christmas!
Santa didnt bring me anything because I am registered as a muslim.

'Happy Christmas' is better.
Merry Christmas indeed implies filthy animals, drunk, fornicating, all of it. It's a toxic term that gained momentum in the anglosphere wrongly.
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
Merry Christmas indeed implies filthy animals, drunk, fornicating
I like being drunk. Some feelings you cant really remove without alcohol or drugs, and I dont have money for drugs, so I have to do alcohol instead. Being drunk is temporary solution, which is a lot better than no solution at all.
"Merry" gained some tabooness during the Victorian Age in England, and I guess this didn't affect America as much.
Dickens popularized the use of "merry" instead of "happy" when talking about Christmas, but then a new age came.
The royal family was known for using polite terms, so "happy" started to become the more dominant version in England.
The Victorian Age was also responsible for making "piss" turn into "pee."
Smoking I dont recommend because its not like alcohol, cigarettes are addiction which must be fueled daily. Its not something you can realistially do once a week. tho if you already want to smoke, better use vape. Lasts much longer than a cigarette, also comes with taste. Personally, I didnt need to smoke because my parents effectively made me second hand smoker for whole childhood.
No. This is far beyind that. Almostnall other languages use equivalents of happy and joyful with 0 alcoholism and degeneracy encouraged.
An exception isostScnadinavian languages. They use something more akin to merry/festive than happy. It is a word in between joyful and festive and implies partying hard and drinking.
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
Yoy can get genuinely dependent on alcohol.
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
Yoy can get genuinely dependent on alcohol.
Its not like cigarettes and drugs. When you smoke cigarettes, you have issues of going just 1 day without a cigarette. And drugs will ruin your dopamine system, so you cant feel happiness anymore without drugs.
Alcohol, you can get drunk with two glasses of wine, and these are even considered healthy and not "too much".
Also, alcohol is cheaper than drugs or cigarettes. At least cheap wine is. Beer I dont recommend because its too low alcohol, and those higher level alcohols such as vodka taste terrible, even if great for getting drunk quickly.
All language is subjective. Merry means party, and party can imply alcohol.
Yes. Alcoholics get dependent on alcohol, get severe headaches, depresion, anger outbursts, high.blood pressure etc if they quit it. Insomnia too, often.
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
I disagree that all language is subjective btw. That is what gaslighters say about "na I didn't really say that I meant that" when they blatantly meant something else.
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
Yes. Alcoholics get dependent on alcohol, get severe headaches, depresion, anger outbursts, high.blood pressure etc if they quit it. Insomnia too, often
None of that is true. It just tells me you dont drink.
Merry Christmas.
I have done research into alcoholism. What I said is true. Your ignorance isnt my issue, nor that of the one that upvoted you.
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
I have done research into alcoholism
thats the problem. Google gives you results which present rare cases as common. thats not research, thats just spreading misinformation.
Average person who drinks alcohol isnt any addicted to it, can go months without it without any problems.
Same is not true for those who smoke and do drugs. Person who smokes has issues to go just 1 day without cigarette. Person who does drugs gets mental breakdown when without them.
Alcohol addiction is rare among drinkers. Cigarette addiction is almost universal among smokers.
Define dependence
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas indeed implies filthy animals, drunk, fornicating, all of it.
You say that like it's a bad thing?
You are as Christian as Kim Jonh-Un is a loving Leftist.
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
You are as Christian as Kim Jonh-Un is a loving Leftist.
You have a sense of humor like Trump is a humble man of integrity.
I wasn't joking, I was making an analogy. KJU is leftist but the loving part is the clue.
You aren't truly a Christian if you support alcoholism, fornication and that vibe at the holiest day other than Easter for Western Christians (Eastern have alternate names and dates for both events, they often have Jan 7th or 6th as their Christmas day and their Easter is known as Pascha and isn't always even on a Sunday (they focus harder on matching up to a consistent date but it varies, not 100% sure about why, 4th-8th).
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
I wasn't joking
Of course you’re not joking, you are too self-righteous for jokes, you are the same as those who looked down on Jesus saying, “Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” (Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:34), you would be accusing Jesus of being an agent of “Beelzebub” and “the prince of demons” (Matthew 9:34 and Matthew 12:24)
Jesus responded to your kind, so I don't have to:
Matthew 23:5-6 Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues.
Matthew 12:34-35
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Matthew 23:33
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Matthew 23:13
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from the people, for you do not enter in yourselves; nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
Matthew 23:15
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel about on sea and land to make one convert; and when you succeed, you make your converts twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
Luke 18:14
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others…for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Did your copypasta cherrypicking feel good while doing it? Did you forget the rest of the Holy Bible?
27 Adultery.[a]“You have heard that it was said of old: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that anyone who looks with lust at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is preferable for you to lose one part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is preferable for you to lose one of your limbs than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205%3A27-30&version=NCB
20 Do not consort with drunkards[a]
or be one of those who gorge themselves with meat.
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will become impoverished,
and stupor will clothe them in rags.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023%3A20-21&version=NCB
A Deep Corruption of Morals
1 Hear the word of the Lord,
people of Israel,
for the Lord has decreed an indictment
against the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or loyalty,
nor any knowledge of God in the land.
2 Instead, people swear oaths and break them;
they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery,
with never-ceasing bloodshed.
3 Therefore, the land is in mourning,
and all who dwell in it languish,
including the wild beasts and the birds of the air;
even the fish of the sea are perishing.
My Quarrel Is with You, O Priests
4 But let no one protest
or make accusations;
my quarrel is with you, O priests.
5 You shall stumble in the daylight,
while the prophets will stumble with you at night,
and I will destroy your mother.
6 My people are perishing
for want of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you as my priests.
And since you have forsaken the law of your God,
I will also reject your children.
7 The more the number of priests increased,
the more they sinned against me,
turning their glory into shame.
8 They feed on the sins of my people;
they are insatiable in their hunger for iniquity.
9 The priests and the people will share the same fate;
I shall punish them for their conduct
and repay them for their deeds.
10 They will eat but never be satisfied;
they will engage in prostitution but never have children,
because they have abandoned the Lord
11 to devote themselves to immorality.
Idolatry and Debauchery
Wine, both old and new,
deprives my people of understanding.
12 They consult a piece of wood for advice,
and their divining rod[a] provides the answers they seek.
For a spirit of promiscuity has led them astray,
and their immorality causes them to forsake their God.
13 They offer sacrifice on the mountaintops
and burn incense on the hills,
beneath oak and poplar and terebinth
because the shade they afford is pleasant.
14 I shall not punish your daughters for becoming prostitutes
or your daughters-in-law for committing adultery.
For your men themselves consort with harlots
and offer sacrifice with temple prostitutes;
a people thus devoid of understanding is doomed.
15 Though you, O Israel, play the whore,
do not allow Judah to incur such guilt.
Do not come to Gilgal
or go up to Beth-aven,
and do not swear, “As the Lord lives!”[b]
16 For Israel is as stubborn as a heifer;
will the Lord now feed them
like lambs in a broad meadow?
17 Ephraim has associated with idols;
let them alone.
18 When their drinking binge has ended,
they indulge in sexual orgies,
preferring lewdness to their glory.
19 The wind has carried them off in its wings,
and their sacrifices will only bring them shame.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea%204&version=NCB
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
I personally stick with Bible's "Do not judge", and "blessed are the merciful".
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away.
I thought Christians were opposed to self harm. Really, quoting those parts of Bible is literally illegal because it promotes self-harm.
He was making a very extreme metaphor for how much we must hate sinning in an adultrous/lustful manner. This was a reply to someone that called me a fake Christian (or even non Christians that claimed this about Christianity) one of the 'brood of vipers'. I was disproving him and that I did.
One of the reasons sola scriptura (which protestants adhere to) is very problematic is they read things and assume that the first literal interpretation is always correct. That isn't how you are meant to read all parts of the Bible, it's only how you're meant to read most of it. In that part, he was certainly being metaphorical and speaking in hyperbole. However what is literal, is you should rather lose and eye and hand than end up in Hell. That is the real key point he was making.
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
Do not judge
This meant don't judge who is 100% in Hell or not (maybe barring extremely airtight cases like Stalin and Hitler but whatever). You are meant to assume you don't know who ends up in Heaven or Hell while they're still alive. That's the actual context and what he was commanding. He probably also meant for the dead but definitely meant it more towards the still-alive. I don't think he included extremely obviously evil people though but I honestly don't want to be too heretical here so I'll leave it at that.
I will just say that it's strange that we have Saints who we say are definitely in Heaven yet we're also not meant to judge as if we know that... Blatant contradiction but that's life.
The US is a definitively secular nation, founded on complete separation of the State and religion. The Left Wing of US realise this but don't realise that pure freedom requires as low tax and free access to guns as possible. The Right Wing of US don't realise that secular pure freedom means the LGBTQ+ and abortion agendas both end up in line with US's liberty-first ethos.
It is left-wing to be pro-life. You are backing poor babies being born at the inconvenience of the already-born. Go figure.
However what is literal, is you should rather lose and eye and hand than end up in Hell
Ok, so if my eye takes me to hell, should I cut it out or not?
This meant don't judge who is 100% in Hell or not
the context was clearly talking about living people, and mainly people who try to judge others by bringing up their faults and punishing them for their faults. these words clearly dont refer to any dead people.
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.