Tithing is expected. There is peer pressure involved, so it can hardly be called voluntary.

So, Trumped up.

Maybe? I don’t know the specific rules, so I just went the quotes text.

But yeah, that would be crazy.

Reads to me as saying that it must contain meat, not that it must only contain meat.

So any sausage with meat as one of its ingredients would count, but anything that doesn’t contain any meat would not.

Which, to me, is ridiculous, because most vegetarian options have a variation on the word “replacement” on the packaging.

This is just the meat industry throwing it’s weight around.

It’s only a door if it has a handle, and there is none.

The thing that looks like a bolt on that rectangle.

Sure, it’s not well designed, but you can just see the rings of the curtain, even though the curtain itself doesn’t hang that far.

None of it is well thought out, but an effort was made nonetheless.

It’s a curtain rod.

It’s AI though, which to some people is probably fine, but I can’t unhear the uncanny valley.

Assuming he doesn’t try to get a third term, people will still die well into his successor’s term.

And I am certain that the republican party will point that out ad nauseum.*

*Depending on the type of person who died. Poor and non-white people excluded.

And how many times did the creators (not the marketing people) say that no CGI was used?

I know it happened in several cases, and I try not to watch those movies.

But others, where they are upfront about it, I think it is fair play.

The key is ethics. Always has been.

The movie doesn’t pretend that the main character has really jumped from a cliff onto a ship.

It isn’t lying.

It wasn’t anyone Dutch who decided that the signs had to be removed.

Miss? She’s not even married? How is it that she is accepted by her fellow fascists?

The Uplift Saga.

Don’t I know it. They were setting 5G towers on fire here at the time.

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I also don’t think the bible should be censored. It’s just that the bible does endorse bad behaviour, such as how to treat slaves (and thus owning slaves). It is not just a piece of fiction that nobody believes in, and it wasn’t written by people who just wanted to entertain their friends. A lot of the bible is about morality.

The difference is in the endorsement of horrible behaviour. So, if the same horrible things were encouraged in an LGBTQ+ book, I would expect it to get the same response as what the bible is getting.

The in-universe reason is that the devil is making people think that the criticism is valid.

Tempting is what they call it, and it allows them to dismiss anyone who appears to be making a good point as consorting with the devil.

https://youtu.be/_QAKz_cxTlQ

Should speak for itself.