What is Evangelism?

It's not cynical at all. It's pragmatic.

I had a weekend with nephew. Our state is opened up (finally) refusing to enforce mask mandates, yet nobody told the kiddos. The kid and his sister live in a news bubble, where they think it's okay to hang around friends like that or go to a bowling alley. I told him to stop wearing it. He tells me it's "armor". Nice, did your mom tell you that? Because I will beat her for basically screwing with her kids' heads. It doesn't protect against bacteria. And more importantly... I went to said bowling alley, and nobody but those two and my mom wore it. College students? Laughing, having fun, and bowling without incident. So I asked him as we headed out, "So... everyone was getting sick, right?" He didn't even understand. I told him to look around when he got inside. I don't think he noticed anything.

Cynical would be his mother, who maybe wears it part of the time, but likes to shame her kids. She probably even knows it's a hoax, but doesn't bother to teach her kids how to notice a scam when they see it.

All roads lead to Putin: Trump pressured Saudis to cut oil production in 2020 to raise global prices
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/8/2084774/-All-roads-lead-to-Putin-Trump-pressured-Saudis-to-cut-oil-production-in-2020-to-raise-global-prices

Yes, yes, anything to keep from blaming the actual culprit.

Here are the facts:
1. We have plenty of oil and natural gas in the United States. Enough to export to most of Europe and enough for ourselves. Texas, Alaska, and several other states all have natural existing deposits.
2. Trump also advocated turning shale deposits into oil, resulting in a more renewable source of oil.
3. Libtards screamed "fracking!" at every single natural earthquake or tornado. They also obstructed the building of a pipeline which would have given us even more oil from Alaska, and given plenty of people jobs. These "environmentally concerned" people protesting the pipeline? Uhhhh hmmmmm, about that...
https://standingrockfactchecker.org/anti-pipeline-protesters-literally-trash-environment/
(They left behind about 480,000 pounds of trash after their ******* protest)
4. Biden, upon taking office, obstructs our entire economic system using COVID as an excuse.
5. He also cuts the pipeline, allows the oil systems to be hacked, and tries to push the idea of electric cars on the public. In other words, he deliberately holds back American production of oil so that trucks have a harder time getting from point A to B. All to bull-headedly foist this crappy idea on us.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ten-reasons-electric-cars-still-suck-we-unplug-the-ev-hype/
https://anewspost.com/electric-cars-useless-in-cold-weather/
This in turn causes inflated grocery prices, this causes inflated gas prices, and this causes poverty not just in the US but in the world.

But yeah, sure, blame Trump who isn't even sitting in office now. That seems plausible.

Trump has become a revered God to some people.

Jesus isn't racist enough.

Here ya go.

Looks like Putin rates pretty high on the authoritarian groupie list as well.

I wonder how well that sentiment will be going down with his Syrian 'volunteers'.

Trouble is, America's Sharia Law is the one stigmatized by the christians. Fortunately, it hasn't fully taken over Democracy!

Most people who use the term don't understand what it is anyway or how if would work.

It is simple, the edicts of government and ones person life are decided by a select religion.

Not really, for starters what is viewed as Shariah law was never meant to be permanent in the first place. The Koran has no legal framework, it was all interpretation by various 'gifted scholars' who said that it was just that and subsequent generations should reinterpret it.

When you look at interpretation in the West it's another story.

I was only addressing the general meaning of Sharia Law and applying it to Christianity - which some.sects have the same basic understanding with its flocks, only not stated as The Law. But, you can and will interpret my statement any way you desire regardless of my simple meaning.

Over here there was a big stink about an attempt to introduce some shariah to certain communities.

It attracted all the usual tabloid hysteria about laws being imposed but the truth was far more nuanced. British law would remain supreme but if both parties wished they could have their cases deferred to a Islamic court.

This was completely consenting inside one community and if either part objected they always had recourse to British law.

Considering that certain Jewish groups are allowed to have similar judicial processes it seems quite reasonable.

Interesting, thanks for that insight. I do remember some cases, when dealing with children, the judge would turn the case over to a priest to decide/deal with the punishment phase. Regardless, when the child reaches adulthood, most crimes are expunged from their records anyways.

This is because the law was based on Judaism and Christianity, which accepted the need for forgiving sins.

I say was, because increasingly it is based on secular notions, which punishes fairly innocent people, and releasees dangerous criminals because it had no moral compass.

What about when the adult reaches childhood? Should the same principle apply?

God I hope so : )

When grown adults do some of the things children get away with, they are arrested.

Praise the lord and pass the tater tot casserole... (cynical)

Are you speaking from experience? Your religion sure dumbed you down.