An awful lot of people––including probably most Christians throughout history (like Paul)––have thought of annihilation at death as something to be saved from. If you need the stick of hell because your Jesus is not an attractive enough carrot, your soteriology is pathetic.

Going to write a substack on why belief in the supernatural and teleological thinking isn’t the result of indoctrination, it’s intrinsic to human cognition. Atheism often requires cognitive override and/or reflection, so it’s not the “default” position it’s often assumed to be.

I’ve been an English professor at UNC for the past twenty-two years and I can assure you that what Athenian Stranger is saying here is absolutely true. Student literacy has gotten especially bad over the past five years.

@JonnyMicro So if I come to take bread from your house and my kids are starving, you will murder me?. Here is a scenario:.You hear a sound from your kitchen. You walk in with your gun and you see me holding your bread and soda. I raise my hands and say "I am hungry". Will you shoot me?.

the protagonist finally avenging his loved ones and bringing down the forces that stood against him, all while turning into the antagonist himself

I saw an interesting discussion about the myth that women are more emotional than men and it said with how we socialize men, they are just as emotional and more- however they take their emotions as facts not feelings. Feeling confused = the other person isn’t smart. (Cont).