It’s a huge assumption on your part that they believed it. It was and it remains an instrument of control. They took considerable editorial liberties, too, with the supposed word of god.

That is an equally large presumption. I happen to agree that some were more interested in control but many were believers.

Anyway, even if they believed it that is STILL NOT EVIDENCE

To them it is. Do you not get that they believe they have the words of their divine being in book form? If their faith is correct it would be proof.

I fear that would rapidly decline into a shitshow as not everyone here is rational or educated in the subjects being discussed. I can easily see this being used abusively

The first act of capitalism when it was created was the slave trade. Corporations have always been vehicles the ultra rich use to extract wealth.

Where are you getting these flawed notions from?

It isn’t a mistake. Writing different EULA for each game costs more money than writing an overly aggressive one that covers most cases.

The part about asking what about the company resonates with you is a good interview question provided you hire for the long term. If you hire for a specific project what loyalty are you expecting?

The difference is the people who compiled the Bible at the Council of Nicea believed in it to varying degrees. The guy who wrote the Hobbit knew it was fiction.

Are youasking me to refer a book about the CCP’s treatment of religious communities?

Im not being pedantic. If you think Israel is a theocratic state you have no idea what a theocracy is. If your understanding of philosophy is so underdeveloped what value could your opinion have?

They can offer proof that’s the book that claims there’s an omnipresent being.

Both are making claims and neither can substantiate it. The difference is the more mainstream religious folk tend to recognize this whereas many atheists seem not to.

You need to crack open a book desperately if that’s your current perspective because Im not talking about churches. You absolutely have bigoted atheists, who murder theists. China loves murdering religious folk.

There are tons of atheists who are bigots.

“On 19 June, Beijing Party Secretary Li Ximing reported to the Politburo that the government’s confirmed death toll was 241, including 218 civilians (of which 36 were students), 10 PLA soldiers, and 13 People’s Armed Police, along with 7,000 wounded”

under “Death Toll”

IMO A kid from Palestine put it best in my first IR class “Why did my grandparents have to lose their home and everything in it because of European anti-semitism?”

Israel isn’t a theocratic state. Im not sure why you would even suggest that it was as their PM is not a religious figure.

He’s 22 so the recent work experience being unrelated to running counter terror is relevant

Loyalty is the primary qualification

The wikipedia article on the incident was my source.

That depends on if you know them IRL.

Yeah Engels take on authoritarianism is dated and not really valid given that his ideologies do not result in anything other than authoritarian states IRL.

Most rational people oppose authoritarianism.

According to the official numbers there were ten civilians killed for every state agent of oppression.