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Noteworthy News
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RE: Noteworthy News
December 13, 2024 at 2:51 am
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Noteworthy News
December 13, 2024 at 4:20 am
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RE: Noteworthy News
December 13, 2024 at 4:41 am
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RE: Noteworthy News
December 13, 2024 at 5:54 am
(December 13, 2024 at 4:41 am)Belacqua Wrote:
(December 13, 2024 at 2:51 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Reading the article, some facts seem relevant:

The judge has served 13 yrs of a 17.5 yr sentence; he was on home confinement before Biden took office; and he would have received a lesser sentence if charged under today's laws and policies.

All those pardoned meet criteria set forth in a WH stmt.

Oh thank goodness you found a way to justify it.

I was afraid that Biden might have set free a well-connected convicted felon who ruined the lives of many young people for cash.

First of all, Cohanan didn’t ‘ruin’ anyone’s life, that just a stupidly false claim. What he did was close down a state juvenile facility and sent convicted juvenile criminals to a for-profit facility in exchange for kickbacks. These kids were going to be locked up, regardless.

Cohanan served the majority of his sentence (again, for fraud, not because he ruined anyone’s life). You need better sources than the New York Post.

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#5195
RE: Noteworthy News
December 13, 2024 at 3:08 pm
Vanity Fair makes up for Time's betrayal.

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RE: Noteworthy News
December 13, 2024 at 3:53 pm
(December 13, 2024 at 3:08 pm)Silver Wrote: Vanity Fair makes up for Time's betrayal.

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Love you, mate, but Time Magazine didn’t betray anyone. Their ‘Person Of The Year’ is simply whoever the editors decide had the biggest impact on the news. It’s not meant to be laudable or praiseworthy. Previous ‘winners’ include Hitler, Stalin (twice) and the Ayatollah Khomeini.

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RE: Noteworthy News
December 13, 2024 at 4:00 pm
(December 13, 2024 at 3:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Love you, mate.
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RE: Noteworthy News
December 13, 2024 at 4:17 pm (This post was last modified: December 13, 2024 at 4:19 pm by awty.)
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RE: Noteworthy News
December 13, 2024 at 4:20 pm (This post was last modified: December 13, 2024 at 4:20 pm by Kitan Etos.)
Shaping the headlines is not the same as shaping the world. Seems to me they need to adjust the wording of their mission statement.
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RE: Noteworthy News
December 13, 2024 at 4:21 pm
(December 13, 2024 at 4:00 pm)Silver Wrote:
(December 13, 2024 at 3:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Love you, mate.
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She’s fine as long as we restrict it to hand stuff.

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