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I am religious and believe in free will

71 (27.7%)

I am religious and do not believe in free will

10 (3.9%)

I am not religious and believe in free will

114 (44.5%)

I am not religious and do not believe in free will

61 (23.8%)

Total Members Voted: 251

[Loud Whispers]

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[Putnam]

...

shitposts LW *platonically*

[TheBiggerFish]

You're not doing it right.
*(platonically) demonstrates the proper way to into (platonically).*

[Rolan7]

You're the expert TBF but I'm still sigging it

[TheDarkStar]

Unrelated:

I ate ice cream today. After the fact, I learned that it had coffee in it despite having a completely unrelated name (it was only listed in the ingredients list). Coffee also happens to be against my religion. This was accidental and everything, but still.

[Rolan7]

...I wouldn't like that either.  Partially I just don't like the taste of coffee, but also I only want to consume caffeine on purpose.  And rarely, which makes a little go a long way.

[Orange Wizard]

Coffee also happens to be against my religion.

Why is that? Guessing it's the caffeine, of course.

[Rose]

Which religion?

[smirk]

I'd guess LDS - Mormonism. IIRC their doctrine prohibits "hot drinks", which includes tea and coffee. Doesn't actually mean caffeine, so soda is still acceptable. But a lot of Mormons consider caffeine to be bad or unhealthy anyway, something something slippery slope, Satan Santa's Siren Song, etc.


^{_{I definitely probably made up that bit about Santa. Forgive me, Santa O_0}}

[Teneb]

I'd guess LDS - Mormonism. IIRC their doctrine prohibits "hot drinks", which includes tea and coffee. Doesn't actually mean caffeine, so soda is still acceptable. But a lot of Mormons consider caffeine to be bad or unhealthy anyway, something something slippery slope, Satan Santa's Siren Song, etc.


^{_{I definitely probably made up that bit about Santa. Forgive me, Santa O_0}}

What if the tea or coffee is cold?

[smirk]

What if the tea or coffee is cold?

DARK HERESY

...dunno much about the intricacies of it; probably just a blanket ban. Prohibitions gonna prohibit.

[Loud Whispers]

Ice tea should be legit, but I think rules lawyering kills the spirit of things

[germanyfrance]

Does the bible condemn sex? Or make it like it's a necessary evil?

[Frumple]

Nope.

It does condemn certain sorts of sex, and warns against a number of attitudes regarding the subject (and relationships in general), but it neither condemns sex itself nor considers it evil in and of itself, necessary or otherwise. Improper sex, yes, the text has problems with that, but otherwise it's all pretty much good.

Details are more complicated (there's some hypocritical as fuck stuff re: sex in those books, particularly in the OT), but that's the gist of it.

Probably worth noting that a number of christian sects (many protestants, as a non-exclusive example) very much do condemn it and/or consider it a necessary evil. Pretty much spitting on the text itself when they do that, but hey, that's what denominations tend to do one way or another, heh.

[Descan]

Considering the text quite liberally (hah) has points where God told the Israelites to kill all men, boys, and women who have "known a man" and take the virgin girls for their own... Uses? I think the Bible doesn't have a problem with sex in and of itself.