I am not eligible for the US women's gymnastics team, but nobody seems to care about that. I'm an overweight 40+ year old man with no gymnastics experience, but the fact that only women are allowed on the team is the reason people should assume I'm not on the team.
TheDoozer
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It wasn't just people making money, it was that the money changers and the temple were working together to fleece the devout who were coming from far away to show their faith.
It's not like if somebody had a for-profit Cafe inside a church, it's more like the televangelist that use other peoples' devotion to get rich, saying you have to pay more and more to get into heaven.
It is a Mad Max reference, but I think it's a reference to a Space Jam scene making a Max Max reference.
Might be from the new Space Jam
Look, I'm no Christian, but I can point to the obvious answer to this:
Slavery is part of the free will of humans. It's humans doing things to other humans, in which God will, in general, not intervene. It all stems from the original sin and humanity as a whole living with the consequences of its (as a whole) actions. It's such an easy, toss-away answer to give for the absolute worst of human evil and a supposed loving God's complacency, but it's there, and it's easy.
I prefer Stephen Fry's example for condemnation:
"Yes, the world is very splendid but it also has in it insects whose whole lifecycle is to burrow into the eyes of children and make them blind. They eat outwards from the eyes. Why? Why did you do that to us? You could easily have made a creation in which that didn’t exist. It is simply not acceptable."
Also:
"I would say: ‘bone cancer in children? What’s that about?’
“Because the God who created this universe, if it was created by God, is quite clearly a maniac, utter maniac. Totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him?! What kind of god would do that?”
That's not a matter of free will. That's a matter of creating a world that is hostile to those who are innocent, even without the iniquity of Man.
Yeah. We already have La Chancla for shoe strikes that aren't kicks, and I'm pretty sure that corrections officer was nobody's abuela.
I'm only happy when it rains.
I'm only happy if it's complicated.
And though I know you can't appreciate it,
I'm only happy when it rains.
You know I love it when the news is bad.
Why it feels so good to feel so sad?
I'm only happy when it rains.
Funny enough, I lived closed to a bloodhound Labrador mix, and it did bark incessantly. And weirdly. It was a really goofy dog.
We're like the 40-year-old still wearing his school jacket and talking about winning state.
A lot of people hate on Sword Art Online, but in the second season...
Tap for spoiler
When Yukio dies, and the last thing she sees is the all the players flying overhead in tribute to her... I was already crying, but that left me ugly crying. It hit real hard, way harder than I expected.
Even with my youngest (5), I would always use the bathroom early and check to see if they had a changing station prior to him potentially pooping himself. The majority of the time there was, but the times there wasn't was often enough to make it worth checking. Only if my wife was with us, though, otherwise it was a roll of the dice.