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Context for the title, in case you’re wondering: https://archive.is/UL7jK

34 points

Kinda surprised Americans don’t worship Constantine.

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25 points

If they cared about history before 1776 they would.

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12 points

The world was created only about 3000 years ago. There was no world before AMERICA

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2 points

Isn’t that the name of the Keanu Reeves movie about the guy who killed himself and now he’s damned for all time and works for the Church, and the Archangel Gabriel was there, but he was played by a woman who kinda looks like the “perfect” chick from Fifth Element?

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Comparing Tilda Swinton to Mila Jovavich is an interesting choice.

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2 points

Blame the autistic facial blindness that I have

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3 points

“angels” are not male or female

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24 points

What would Jesus do

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22 points

Jesus turns water into wine. The human body is 70% water. Earth is like 60% water. Jesus was an alcoholic.

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5 points

Does that mean Jesus could cause people to become intoxicated? Assuming he can control how much of the water gets turned into wine so he doesn’t just immediately kill the person he could pull off some fun pranks.

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9 points

I mean…thats how I took it when I went to catholic school.

Also in catholic school, they never did answer the question of why we drank jesus’s blood, and ate his body. Why is that ok? And how did we STILL have so much left to go around so many centuries after his death?

These answers went unanswered to me in 2nd grade. I did get to hang out in the principals office though.

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1 point

I think it means he could cause you to dissolve into a puddle of booze.

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16 points

TIL Jesus was probably 70% wine instead of 70% water

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7 points

…huh. Is that why he kept so well?

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3 points

I used to be the same but then I sobered up somewhat and now I’m only 10% wine. (depending on the day… usually 0%! Sometimes 90%…)

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I know this is going to be a wildly unpopular opinion: regulations like these are written in blood. There was apparently no real effort to make the church properly habitable. People would be just as outraged (or more) if this headline was describing 18 charred bodies found in a burned down church that was REPEATEDLY told to do things the right way.

If this was anything other than performative or a malicious attempt to secure lawsuits and/or headlines, the church would have been updated, they would have secured an appropriate facility, or these people would be in the congregation’s homes.

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46 points

The only thing worse then inadequate housing is no fucking housing in the winter

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-16 points

Couldn’t make it past one paragraph, article or comment 👍.

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5 points

Sorry, i get where your coming from, but if they were actually interested in helping or protecting the homeless, they would have stepped in to assist in an emergency. But their intention is to make the homeless problem “disappear”

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32 points

You’re right, but people won’t want to hear it. The people on the other side are right, too - it isn’t better to freeze to death than it is to die from smoke inhalation. But you just don’t violate fire code in public buildings, or people die. Anyone could list dozens of examples of this happening with tragic results after a basic web search.

The correct response to this situation would have been for the city government to assist the pastor in meeting the fire code, especially since he is providing a valuable public service by housing the people that nobody else wants to help.

Instead of a peaceful solution that probably would have been cheap to the taxpayer and could have been a PR bonus for the city, they chose to smack him with the letter of the law. Because people freezing to death in the streets isn’t their fault, but people burning to death after the city overlooked a fire code violation would be. All they care about is their liability.

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The problem is that this fire code wasn’t written in blood, it was written in cash. The specific code they were violating was that commercial zones cannot house people on the first floor. That’s it. There’s no actual safety issue there.

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4 points

Just so we’re clear, that’s the ground floor?

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49 points

regulations like these are written in blood

Absolutely 100% completely. But in this case it I’m not sure the church is actually violating codes, but rather the city is using the claim as a smokescreen to punish them for helping homeless people.

This article quotes the city.

Bryan’s planning and zoning administrator gave the church 10 days to stop housing people, saying it was in a zone that does not permit residential use on the first floor.

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129 points

Country that has never once given a shit about fire codes suddenly discovers an excuse to arbitrarily emiserate dozens of people.

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This is a lot like how our government is all concerned about National Security™ when it comes to pretty much anything else, but a bipartisan bill, supported by both of the last 2 presidents, and upheld unanimously by our current dysfunctional Supreme Court, with National Security™ as the excuse, and we still have Tiktok.

Laws are only there so the ruling class can keep us in line and them in power, and they will never be enforced homogenously.

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-7 points

Amazing how hard Dems worked to turn TikTok into another far right media platform.

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3 points

You seem easily distracted

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5 points

Exactly what do you thinks fines do! If you’re rich, fines don’t matter… if you’re poor, go to jail for not being able to pay a fine.

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We only ever got rid of debtor’s prison in name.

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3 points

People will say “I don’t need God in my life to be a good person” out one side of their mouth, while out the other say, “People need laws and the state to be a good person.” I’m an atheist just like them, I just go one god further.

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4 points

Probably should give a shit about fire codes everywhere else too tbqh

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7 points

I’d love to talk shit about the current administration too, but I’ve been in buildings where fire inspectors would cut off the power cords of any space heaters they found because they violated code.

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8 points

The people who hire the fire inspectors don’t actually care, but the fire inspectors do. Probably because they’ve smelled far more charred human flesh than anyone should.

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1 point

I’ve never seen a fire inspector in any building I’ve worked in. Twenty five years on the job and it’s never happened.

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7 points

I believe you, but your anecdote isn’t really evidence of anything.

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3 points

I’ve been working about ~15 years and every job I’ve ever had I’ve seen a fire inspector about 6 times

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3 points

And I’ve personally witnessed the fire marshal annually inspect my last 3 jobs. I may not have been present for the inspections at other jobs.

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22 points

Trump is the great Deceiver, like Lucifer he casts a light in darkness, and just like Lucifer all who follow that light expecting to find freedom will only find damnation.

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3 points

Completely true. Now we just need to convince everyone else

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