Then he’s just an audience proxy, reflecting our own patheticness. :)

I’m not saying everyone has to like 1984, I’m not saying there is one concrete experience of it. I’m merely pointing out that unlikable protaganists are a choice, and there can be a strong narrative experience when that choice is made.

Yeah, i love using canned and frozen veggies. Way easier to stock up when theres a sale, and its still plenty healthy.

Idk, I likes that part. Ultimately Winston is flawed and weak and yet he thinks he’s making a grand defiant gesture, only to find out the party knew it all. All his secrets and triumphs where plainly and obviously known.

Effectively he builds himself up as a dramatic hero in his mind, and in narrative. The reader gets swept along, but when he falls, when he is crushed, we remember all the gross parts of his personality. We see him as the broken, pathetic man he becomes at the end lf the novel. I enjoyed how the experience of reading the text, and the experience of remembering the text tell two very different stories.

Dude was a cult leader who broke up families and disrupted people attending religious ceremonies. The bible is effectively cult propaganda and it still reveals that.

If you love someone and they go out in a snowstorm, then decide they were wrong and its too cold. Would you let them back into your house, or would you keep the door locked and let them freeze to death.

This is like the parable of the bridessmaids. God presents itself as vindictive and petty. We are told, endlessly that god has perfect love, but that is not what the bible shows us in the deeds of god or jesus, or the parables constructed to represent them.

They’re being pretty misleading IMO. The word “hell” doesnt appear anywhere in the original text, no. But neither does the word “heaven”.

And yet the concepts of heaven and hell, as Christians understand them, do exist in the text. There is the threat of eternal punishment after death. There is the promise of eternal reward after death.

That the english word we use doesnt exactly appear in the Hebrew, Greek or aramaic texts is quite frankly not worth mentioning.

Isn’t it wierd that ultimately Christianity is all about finding that one perfect human sacrifice to stop god being pissed at us.

If there’s one thing his base are good at it is ignoring the truth. I seriously doubt they would believe the content of the Epstein files to be true, even if Donald Trump directly said they were.

Makes sense. Thats probably what people were saying when the gospels were being spread, so it got added in tl them as an acknowledgement / rebuttal.

Are you saying vegetables, meat and rice are more expensive per serving than pre-packaged food where you live?

I don’t think that’s true. But poorer people tend to have less time available to cook.

Idk. Christians have been doing fucked up things since before the US existed.

Nah, famously jesus was pro paying taxes.

Mate, Satan isnt real. Take a walk, get some fresh air.

If this website is negatively impacting your quality of life you should stop using it.

Only because they believe isreal existing is required for the end of the world.

Christianity is a doomsday cult.

You absolutely can, I did so this week.

A fundamental law of the universe is Brits will take the piss out of anyone for any reason. It is a sign of affection, and also a sign of intense dislike.

Nah, these are always the best for some reason.

Officially 100% god and 100% human. If that’s confusing, that’s the point.

You also need to be able to believe 3 distonct beings are one being.