Nonces are going to nonce
Also, legalising prostitution makes protecting women from being trafficked harder
AI :(
They're just posting slop unfortunately. Actual humans wanting to have a discussion are welcome here
More Lemmy Evangelists???? I have competition....
Sounds like an easy job in that case, no?
Granted, when I was in bad relationships before, I posted about it online when I wanted permission to end it, too.
I've noticed this on reddit.
There's a lot of misogynists/misandrists/incels online.
A demigod is half human and half god. This isn't the case for Jesus. Jesus is fully human and fully God. The Virgin Birth was also prophecied in Hebrew
The Winter Solstice is on the 21st of December. Christmas is on the 25th of December (actually the 6th of January, if you use the old calendar.)
Christmas trees aren't pagan, they are German and Jesus' birth is celebrated 9 months after His conception, which was placed on the 25th of March to roughly line up with His death, as it was believed that Holy men died on the anniversary of their conception.
https://historyforatheists.com/2024/12/pagan-christmas-again/
We don't know for certain that it wasn't the actual day. It very well could have been.
The earliest writing about Jesus (1 Thessalonians) refers to Jesus as God's son and it was only written 20 years after Jesus was crucified. That's not "long after" in terms of ancient writings, legends typically take longer than living memory to develop.
Also Christianity was persecuted by pagans and was very anti pagan. If the early Christians, presuming some financial motivation, wanted to create a cult and had no issue pandering to Paganism, why not make it polytheistic? Why not worship the emperor of Rome? To compare your argument to swiss cheese would be too charitable.
None of that stuff is Pagan. The Easter egg carries Christian symbolism. Eggs were popular as they were hard boiled on the lead-up to easter due to Lent. The Rabbit was from a German Easter-Hare tradition, likely due to Easter being in Spring.
Sure, you can argue that Easter is being secularised like Christmas and Halloween is. That doesn't make it Pagan.
Essentially, if police come across a brothel and the women (who are coerced) claim they are there consensually, they cannot do much. If it's illegal, then they can actually get them to safety so they can tell them they were forced. If they weren't, they can just drop the charges. This is basically what Northern Ireland has been doing- and the only people who have been convicted were also convicted of perpetuating human trafficking (they weren't a victim)