sam5673 [none/use name]

Also they are a threat from way over there somehow

Very confused on how Vietnam is a colonial state.

All’s I’m saying is that by setting it in Iran it was manufacturing some consent. What they couldn’t find an example of prudish censorship in England

Aren’t Clash the band that did rock the Kasbah about how the middle east isn’t as enlightened tm as the west

destruction of property is not something you can reasonably expect the homeless to worry about

Don’t transgender people transition from male to female or vice versa. That says nothing about that

I don’t think Christianity actually has anything to say about transgender people explicitly, I would not be surprised if there was a lot of “I’m uncomfortable with it so shall project that belief as religious doctrine”. Prosperity gospel also has very little behind it and rather than being a mainstream belief has a very small group of looked down upon practitioners.

You have to consider the context to determine the meaning of what it says, the part that would stand out as odd to the intended audience is generally the message, for example the sacrifice of Isaac human sacrifice was common and not unexpected but the refusal and command to not practice human sacrifice would have been the surprising twist

I never got the ban on abortion thing if you actually wanted to stop abortion you would be in favour of additional support for mothers, banning it just pushes the practice underground and makes it less safe

I think I said this elsewhere but the Bible was written in the early iron age for an early iron age audience and it simply isn’t materialist (the belief that ideas come from your influences) to not factor in that the cultural and material reality of that context won’t influence how they interact with God and religion.