God helps, i’m convinced of that too. But there’s no shame in seeking help from a professional too, there’a no stronger force to change one’s life than when the spiritual and the psychological work together.

And Russia begun to invade Ukraine in 2014.

It’s absolutely not.

Union dues aren’t an income.

I’m a French guy who doesn’t like wine, that’s my whole personality.

In Swedish it’s also different. Mor is mother, far is father; mormor is the maternal grandma, farmor is the paternal grandma, morfar is the paternal grandpa and farfar the paternal grandpa. I love this system, it’s almost the only thing I remember from my study of Swedish 😅.

Military Policemen, I think.

Of course science evolves, but that shouldn’t be a reason for a vulgarization book to teach something else than the scientific consensus of the time.

I didn’t read Sapiens, but if this book claim that homo sapiens is responsible for the disappearing of Neanderthals, you can close it. This idea was disproven by research long ago: when sapiens arrived in Europe, Neanderthals were already on the verge of disappearing.

I understand the reaction. The Bible is sold by a lot of churches as “the word of God”, and if it’s the case, God is a lying asshole. But nowhere in the Bible it is written that the Bible is the word of God; according to the Bible the word of God is Jesus-Christ so… it may not be the right approach according to the Bible itself.

I love the Bible, I read it (almost) every day, I use it as a guide in my material and spiritual lives, I studied the story of its interpretation in the university, I even thought about making that my speciality. Yet I don’t understand how someone could believe in biblical inerrancy. It’s very clearly a human work, written by error-prone normal humans. I believe that God spoke to its redactors, but it’s still a human work. And ours is (according to me) to listen to the voice of God through the human form; and that’s why we have the Church, as it’s not something one can do alone.

I do not really know. I was not raised in a practicing family, and my country is very secular.

Philosophically, I’m agnostic. I’m not convinced either by arguments for or against the existence of God. I think a being which could exist outside time and space is not approachable by our reason.

But I can’t stay neutral, the question is too important. And I feel the presence of God in my life. This feeling came first, and when I tried to understand it, I went to the culturally nearest place of worship, and it was Protestantism, and I felt at home. I read the Bible, not as a theology manual, but as the story of people who try to understand the presence of God; sometimes they’re right, sometimes they’re wrong, but their quest is mine, and theirs inspires mine.

Japan is a country that frequently practices the death penalty.

No, I love them unconditionally. But the level of affection I show change according to certain parameters, one of them being how much they are affectionate themselves. Affection is not the only way to show love, though.

I agree with your message, which seems to confirm mine. How yours makes mine a strawman?

Only religion? The State is 1000x worse in this regard, and it doesn’t need religion.

I presume it’s this one.

But you can download and print it yourself.

I agree. I yell on my children on occasion, but it’s a thing I regret every time, yelling is not okay.

According to the length and complexity of the document, I use either Markdown, groff+mom or LaTeX. But to be honest, I don’t have a lot of occasions to use LaTeX anymore…

Meanwhile, only 13% of Russians go to church, mosque, etc. regularly. Religion is not their reason to go there.

I saw a guy dressed as a moose carrying another guy who looked stoned get almost run over by a ship.