Yeah, I suppose I shouldn’t have left out that detail. Raping an unbetrothed virgin doesn’t get the same treatment as raping another man’s wife. I’d still say paying a fine and never being able to divorce counts as “discouraging” rape, but… damn.

For the time, maybe. But the few times slavery is mentioned in the NT the focus is on treatment of slaves, not abolition. And even then, for slave owners who didn’t follow Christian teachings, slaves were basically told to suck it up and get back to work (1Peter 2:18). Paul appears to free Onesimus in the book of Philemon (although I can’t tell if his intended meaning is literal), and it’s also worth noting that Christian nations were the first to abolish chattel slavery, but it’d be a stretch to say the Bible directly discourages slavery.

You’re mostly correct about slavery, but rapists got stoned to death. Deuteronomy 22.

The Pharisee paints the tax collector as evil, but the pharisee is the bad guy in this story. Literally the next two verses:

13 But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to raise his eyes toward heaven, but was beating his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other one; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Galaga. Amazon Trail really got me hooked though. Then Earthworm Jim and Mechwarrior 2 turned me into a full-blown addict.

You’re not supposed to obey traffic laws. They’re designed to fund local governments and give police arbitrary power.

The future is now.

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Either Garuda or Mabox. The next time I do an install, I might just mix and match repos and hope I don’t break anything.

You should come on down to W. 6th Street. 🎶 It’s the perfect place if you’re a douchebag. 🎶

Teddit and Libreddit are still working. I guess you don’t need an API key to lurk.