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Common Dreams reports
In a much-hailed, if modestly problematic, act of righteous revenge, [on Thursday August 4,] an African-American inmate allegedly sucker-punched [...] Dylann Roof--an act that sparked much online praise for the "vigilante hero", a fundraiser for donations to his commissary account, and, finally, the posting of his $100,000 bond by a supporter.
Roof is in protective custody at the Charleston County Detention Center for killing nine African-American churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015. He was in the shower when Dwayne Stafford, a 26-year-old inmate reportedly doing time for either weed violations or strong arm burglary, allegedly got out of his cell, reached Roof, and landed a couple of punches to his face. The sheriff said Roof was attacked "for no reason", which many would argue was less than accurate.
Roof suffered only minor injuries, and his lawyer declined to press charges.
[...] The next day, 18 months after he'd originally been arrested, an anonymous supporter posted [Stafford's] bond, and on Friday he was reportedly freed.
I find that heavy.com typically has the facts quickly on violent crimes.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 11 2016, @04:35AM
What was the point of that piece of aimless claptrap? I've seen all this before; there are a number of Reform Jews on my father's side of the family and I've had discussions with some of them that brought ideas like this up. I swear to Cthulhu if you're going to chide me for being too literalistic, too hardcore, or (ye gods) "too fundamentalist" I'll be stuck in an infinite loop trying to decide whether to laugh at you or spit right in your eye.
In case this needs repeating, say, if you missed it the first time, I'm not an atheist. I simply know an evil spirit when I see one, and if this Yahweh fellow is real, that is what he is: a raging, genocidal, blaspheming demon arrogating the properties of God to itself, things it can never have and will never be. By simple logic, that makes you a devil-worshiper. And it explains so, so, SO much about the entire almost-4-billion-strong population of Abrahamic cultists.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @05:23AM
The Gnostic branch of Christianity came to the same conclusion, that Yahweh was an evil god that was literally imprisoning us in the material plane to keep us from being able to know the real God. Gnostic Christianity is about the only branch of Christianity I can stomach, namely because it isn't built of the blasphemous foundation of violating the first and second commandments.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 11 2016, @07:23PM
Gnosticism is bullshit too; the Gnostic conception of God has precisely the same problems Yahweh does, and perhaps more. Gnostic-God has TWO adversaries to deal with, Satan AND Yahweh, while Abrahamic theism only has the one. And Gnostic-God has an even WORSE record of dealing with the Argument from Divine Hiddenness than Yahweh does.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 11 2016, @01:47PM
What's the point? Well, I'm in several different camps. Is God real? Nahh, don't think so. Yeah I think so. Hope so. Hope not. Well, if God is so damned good, why doesn't he fix the world? AC mentioned the Gnostics. The Jews have their own questioners, who believe that if there is a God, he must hate us.
http://www.mishpacha.org/wrestling.shtml [mishpacha.org]
Back to agnosticism - I'm definitely agnostic about religion. I'm betting that NONE of our teachers has a clue about the afterlife. Heaven ain't going to be what people are expecting, if it's real at all.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 11 2016, @07:13PM
If my experiences and what my girlfriend claims to know about the afterlife (which really is a misnomer according to her) are true, no human religion gets it right, but the less-dogmatic forms of Buddhism are probably least-wrong. All the times I keep telling people like Uzzard he's going to hell? Hell is not a place, or rather, it's any place if your state of mind is hellish. There are no more illusions when you die; you understand *everything* you did, and you can't hide from yourself. People like him are going to find it very unpleasant going for I know not how long, and they will deserve it--because the OTHER thing she's told me is that somehow, something is keeping track of the evil you do, say, and believe, and it all rebounds back on you in a precise one-to-one ratio.
THIS is why I insist on the truth, and speak it fearlessly. Most all of my decisions are made in light of the above information. Does this explain anything about me now?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...