Also, I think its very interesting that it's almost always catholic imagery that gets pegged as white supremacist. Very, very interesting.
I have personally never seen St Michael imagery used as a euphemism etc for the George Floyd killing, but who knows... them misusing the image is their problem and has nothing to do with St. Michael or Catholicism.
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Very true. After all, there are psychopaths. Are you sure you want all humans to act as per their innate thoughts? I'm sure that's what gives us serial killers.
These same people expect the law to keep society from spiralling into anarchy. How amazingly and predictably dumb.
You went looking for obscure passages so much you forgot the first, basic reason the bible gives for things going wrong in the world - the sin of Adam, original sin.
Only john doesn't mention the darkness, and that is consistent as his account of the crucifixion is one of the shortest and his main aim seemed to be corresponding Jesus' death with the old testament prophecies, not the finer details of the day.
Its okay for john to have a different perspective.
I'm going to refute this point by point using genesis. Wait a bit.
The most popular theory of universe formation asserts that the earth formed when gravity pulled the earth together from dust and gasses. Hawking uses a meaningless metaphor. The earth is a sphere *now*. Ironically, The Big Bang was proposed by a Catholic priest.