Of course all lives matter. Saying "black lives matter" is not saying that other lives don't matter. It is just drawing attention to the fact that black lives have been viewed, and treated, as less valuable than white lives.

I lived in both Kenya and Uganda where life (nothing to do with skin tone) had a much lower value. Fortunately (to me at least) I have escaped with mine very many times.

@Petter I am talking about, and BLM is about, black lives as treated in the US. Black lives have been seen as less valuable than white lives from the beginning. First as slaves, then defined as three fifths of a person, then Jim Crow laws/segregation; and it continues with systemic racism and the fact that black men (and even children) are profiled and killed by police at a higher rate than white men.

@Joanne Ah. You mean ABLM (American Black Lives Matter.) I do agree. The US is indeed deeply racist in many areas and aspects.
It is far less so in the majority of other nations, although in most it still persists in diluted form.

Well said.

Red lives matter here on stolen land blood soaked soil polluted rivers destroyed ecosystems by genocidal xian invaders who kidnapped And raped Africans to murder Native Americans.... globally racist religious violence defines borders by the only species that invented misogyny and shamanism

precisely

@Larry68Feminist the greatest genocide ever committed against a people was the systematic murder of the Native American people by those fine white European christians......

@Redneckliberal true Captain Obvious but most liberals think TrumpOLINI is the PROBLEM while voting for the BidenS crime families only makes it all worse inciting riots over every killer cop never lifting a finger @ Standing Rock

@Redneckliberal fascist thug Ruth Bader Ginzburg wrote the majority opinion upholding Vatican Admiralty "law" 1450 denying Seneca Nation the right to buy back stolen lands next to reservation land and quit paying New York taxes....these vicious murderous thieves like Sotomayor and Thomas are called libs by fake news NPR et al

True. I'm waiting to be told "I'll pray for you" just so I can bust out "I'm thinking for you" although that is always a bit of a game ender IMO.

So true. So unsatisfying. But his argument was spot on. Such a waste of genius on an ignorant....sigh...

You can't educate them either.

@Remowill isn't that what I said?

@Mofo1953 This amused me. Once you wipe the slate clean what do you put back in there? Anything that that sticks?
There are some that are so far gone that if you get them to admit it is B.S. they still cling to it, because that is all they know.

@PossiblyNuts what amused you?

Why stop with dismembering the member... The brain is at fault so just drive a bolt into your frontal lobe and be done with it. Nuns can keep your lobotomized self alone and harvest you seed for sinless and lustless procreation by others when the time comes Brave New World style.

If you have $600 or so you can get a copy of LOGOS. It us a bible study program with many different translations. Several of them have a reverse inter linear feature, which gives you word by word the actual original language word (and it’s official dictionary entry) in the text. Very informative as to who is grinding what axe.

@Detritus thank you

I used Google and found this handy site that gave a word by word translation. I liked how it also have links to many versions back to 1550 plus Hebrew and Aramaic versions.

[biblehub.com]

My original inspiration was this Medium post which gives a good run down of all the mistranslations: [medium.com]

However I believe I'd previously read somewhere else that both hell and purgatory where relatively modern creations.

I'm not sure what is in the Old Testament, didn't check into that yet. Of course American Christians will either completely discredit the OT, or hold it to be gospel depending on what you're quoting back at them. They like to have it both ways.

Which football stadium did she fill with 80 thousand fans ?

I engage with such wingnuts because I am curious which particular logical fallacies they trot out and in what order.

I engage with them because it's fun to see how they cope with science.

There’s a joke that relates arguing with fanatics to mud wrestling with a pig. “You can’t win and the pig enjoys it”.

Wow, that sounds like quite the story. Did any of them get banned because I'm imagining conversation got heated and both sides said things that could be construed as violating Twitter user contact agreement. Or were you never told what you did to deserve it?

@prometheus None of "them" got banned. I was told by Twitter that I was banned for violating their Terms of Service. It seems that "they" are allowed to mock me personally but I was not allowed to mock their claims. Go figure!