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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • Not to mention, the whole covenant with Israel was basically prosperity gospel written on the scale of nation states- the promise was that as long as Israel obeyed and followed the Law, then god would bless them above all other nations.

    The trouble was that Israel- as a nation- was extremely…uh… fickle. (see all the exiles and shit that happens because supposedly god is done with their shit.) it’s mostly just an explanation why a supposedly blessed nation woulld be yeeted into exile- and was written near the end of the exilic period (pretty much as they were going home?)




  • he’s the head of the a religion so powerful that it is it’s own nation state, with 1.4 billion followers. They have 78 billion-ish that we know if, in net worth.

    he calls practically any other head of state, they pick up the phone. They may not do what he asks, but they still pick up the phone.

    an organization so powerful that they shaped the colonization and conquest of the New World to include missions, with the goal and aim of genocide natives; or forcing them to convert.

    The pope ain’t powerless, and he’s almost certainly the most powerful religious leader in the world.




  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.worldTuna drama
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    They’re not eating them, (it apparently doesn’t show up in their poo, and the carrot is usually large enough that it’d do something)

    And they’re not bringing them home…. (Their vegan daughter would have been delighted about that. She normally gets a free supply though.)

    Which, I imagine they’re bringing the carrot as a gift to a really confused third neighbor.