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Privacy advocates have been on about how big data and large datasets can be be used against the population for decades. Now key data released by the immigration department may provide the key to bringing barbaric crimes out into the open. Data released by the Government shows thousands of child brides allowed by immigration. Accounts by some of the victims detail how they were used to gain access to America even though they were underage. While some senators have sworn to close the loopholes used to bring child brides into the US we can only expect more of this type of activity to come to light in the future as the public engages in analysis of data released by governments.
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belief, n:
Something you do not believe.
(Score: 3, Funny) by requerdanos on Sunday January 13 2019, @03:23PM (7 children)
(I put in some important words you left out)
Here's one. Leviticus 18:19, "Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere..."
Now, what happened that the part about "No, it doesn't matter if she's 'just a half sister' or didn't grow up in the same house as you." had to be separately and specifically documented?
Back to the "taking this stuff as literal" department, Leviticus 19:19 plainly commands its audience, "Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.”
But I have never heard the Bible Belters you speak of mount any kind of campaign against COTTON-POLYESTER BLEND! Are you sure you have your facts right?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Sunday January 13 2019, @03:54PM (2 children)
What happened with those folks is that they wanted to be Christians, but weren't so keen on ideas like "Thou shalt not kill", "Love thy neighbor as thyself", "Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven", "It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven", and especially "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men." When these ideas were taking shape back in the early 19th century, the other part they definitely wanted to ignore were the Old Testament rules about not mistreating their slaves.
So they invented a new Christianity that made the important part of their new religion all about maintaining the social order, a fairly rigid hierarchy where community leaders (preachers, businessmen, and politicians) control white men, who control white women as fathers or husbands, who control their children, and then all white people cooperate to control non-white people either by killing them (if they're Native) or coming as close as possible to enslaving them (if they're black). White people who don't fit into this hierarchy like Jews, gay people and those not doing their part to control non-white people must also be eliminated in this mindset. Maintaining the rules about virginity and rape served the purpose of controlling white women and children, so they were ruthlessly enforced. Whereas the rules about food, fabrics, etc are supposed to apply to everybody, including community leaders, and don't help enforce the hierarchy, so they are ignored.
Since most of this stuff has been illegal for a while, and nowadays a lynching can put you in jail when it didn't used to, the focus has been placed even more on preventing sex between anyone who isn't a hetero married couple. Make no mistake, they'd do all the other stuff if they could, but they can't, so they're focused on their daughter's virginity because it's the one thing they can still legally have some say over.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Sunday January 13 2019, @06:13PM (1 child)
So... Obscure and/or extreme cultists, denying inconvenient-to-them parts of the Christian Bible, instead of those grouped into a belt who respect instead of deny same?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @01:43AM
sounds like islam
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @04:32PM
Easy, just say it's not "woven"!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Whoever on Sunday January 13 2019, @07:54PM (2 children)
There is lots more in Leviticus that the bible-thumpers ignore. Bacon anyone?
It's almost like the Evangelicals are a bunch of hypocrites who love to pick and choose from Leviticus to support their own phobias. Oh wait, they are.
(Score: 4, Touché) by requerdanos on Sunday January 13 2019, @11:01PM (1 child)
Of course, one of the things they tend to ignore, as you are doing here, is that those hundreds of laws are addressed specifically to a group of God's chosen people that he called out of Egypt, and repeatedly, they are addressed to that specific group for the specific purpose of showing that they were a special group with distinct behavior.
The disciple Peter in Acts chapter 10 tries to make, with God, the same argument about bacon that you are making here, only to be answered in a vision (verse 15) “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” So the Christ-followers are probably on pretty good biblical ground when they eat bacon.
If you are a self-described Christian and you are picking and choosing laws in Leviticus, it doesn't mean you need to pick all of Leviticus. It means you missed things like "you are not under the law, but under grace." (Rom 6:14) and the like.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Monday January 14 2019, @01:00AM
What about the part that tells you what to do if a man has a wet dream?