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Christ isn't a demigod in Christianity; He's God incarnate, fully God and fully Human. So we eat God directly. I can't explain how with any precision as I'm not a trained and experienced theologian with the credentials to make the "how" statements, but we do eat God.

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Well done, all of you!

Hot take:

No matter how good or crap you think the traffic laws are in your place are, the best bet is to follow them because if you don't you will likely have to pay a lot of money that you probably don't have to just throw away. Speed limits are limits, meaning maximums, merging should go like a zipper, yielding to traffic already up to speed is safest, driving without substances impairing your body is safest.

Its quite simple but a lot of people think they should be allowed to rebel against the laws and get away with doing whatever they want because the rules shouldn't apply to them specifically.

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Anyone who doesn't believe that Jesus is entirely God isn't a Christian. That's not gatekeeping, its like saying someone can reject the prophet Muhammad and still be a Muslim. It just wouldn't be true.

I'm an Orthodox Christian, and we definitely eat God every Sunday. The Lutherans also believe they eat God but they define it more like we do than the Roman Catholics do. The Anglicans usually agree with the Catholics on how they eat God. Beyond just the groups named, I'm fairly certain no one else truly eats God's flesh.

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Anyone who doesn't believe the earth is flat isn't a flatearther. Anyone who doesn't believe in the flying Spaghetti Monster isn't a pastafarian.

Definitions carry value and determine what something/someone is or isn't

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Damn straight!

I don't think the negative sentiment for unskilled labor positions getting pay increased that equals skilled labor is out of jealousy but out of the skilled laborer now being undervalued. If I got a pay cut equal to an unskilled position while I'm an engineer, I'd be very unhappy that all my time, learning, and productivity in my field would essentially equal to the same value as a job a fourteen year old can perform. If unskilled labor increases in value, then skilled labor should as well. Why would someone bother trying to waste the 10 years to become a licensed surgeon when he could just move pallets in a warehouse for the same money in this scenario? Some labor is skilled and specialized and therefore rare and valuable. Some labor is dangerous and life-threatening by nature and therefore rare and valuable. Different careers/jobs/positions pay differently for a good reason most of the time. Linemen can die in a flash of light any given day and therefore I think they certainly deserve more than I make because of that because I certainly do not want to do that job. If unskilled jobs became so well paid that it equaled skilled jobs, no one would bother wasting the effort to get the credentials to do the skilled jobs and then we'd be out of engineers, doctors, lawyers, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, oilfield workers, etc.

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