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They lost. They won some battles, but lost most of them and finally lost the Crusades. A lot of medieval thinkers said it was because crusaders were bloodthirsty and corrupt and that God made them loose.

I shouldn't have read the comments.

Yeah this text (Numbers 5) is often cited but it's not clear at all. Nowhere in the text the woman is described as pregnant, it's in fact more probably about infertility than miscarriage.

And this was already heavily criticized by Christians in the Middle Ages.

They're professional politicians, they know these things, don't be candid. But even if it wasn't the case, it would still be showing off, but for their colleagues. A way to posture righteousness just before doing evil things. They make people hate Christ while it's Mammon they serve.

Ask non-Christian people what is the Church about. They'll answer that Christianity means hate of homosexuals, submission of women, fight against reproductive rights, rejection of science and rational thought, and I could go on… None of this is biblical. Abortion is not evoked even once. Women are regularly put in position of power compared to their “normal” position in the societies of these times from Deborah who was describe as an head of state to the powerful women of the Acts). Wisdom — the equivalent of “rational thought” then — is highly praised. Homosexuality (when defined as respectful love between consenting adults) is alluded only once, and it's a positive allusion.

But these guys, they'll cherrypick, deform, read uncontextually to make the Bible a book of hate. They'll invent a doctrine of biblical inerrancy to make every verse count as much as all others, while the Bible warn against that, and drown the actual central message in details. They're hypocrites who fight everything Christ said: love, love unconditionally, help the poor, fight peacefully oppression. They are highly regarded by society as they do that, but received their reward in full already.

And meanwhile Christ is more and more rejected because of people like them. That's why I said that they must put Christ's name on their lips, but it's Mammon they're praying.

Not all of them. Some of them (us, I'm Christian myself) do, others listen to Jesus who said:

and when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. (Matthew 6:5)

I pray in public all the time. Nobody ever saw me do it, outside of services in churches or in the privacy of Christians' homes. These guys don't pray, they show off.

They may call him Jesus-Christ, it's still Moloch they're praying.

What do you mean, “store”? The only good mayonnaise is thw home-made one.

Same.

It. Is. Not. Turning. Its growth is slowing.

That's called cherrypicking. The importance of statistics is not linked to the good feelings they provide. Germany and Australia could be net-zero today, that wouldn't change the global problem at all. The worldwide statistics are enough, and they're horrible. A little better, but still very much horrible.

I'm just thankful renewables are somewhat economically competitive at all otherwise that co2 graph you pointed out earlier would be a straight line going vertical

That won't make a big difference. It's not much better than a straight line… and it's without taking into account the other kinds of pollution, as dangerous as CO2, the deforestation, the free fall of biodiversity, the “tipping points” we're trespassing (and that we may wouldn't have trespassed without the industrial lie about “green energy”).

Username checks out. They won't soon enough because they did not. It's already too late. What we need now is to open our eyes and strengthen our communities to survive the collapse that already begun.