One of the cornerstones of the religion they profess to follow is that followers will be beset by false prophets who try to lead the faithful into wickedness. It's the origin of the idiom "wolf in sheep's clothing". Followers of Jesus are then advised that they'll be able to tell who's who the same way you can tell that rotten fruit means a fig tree is blighted: you will know them by their fruits. In other words, if you listen to the warning and take even the slightest notice of what Jesus tells you is the right way to live, you won't be led astray by people who pretend to be spiritual authorities but preach things Jesus said are bad things for any human to do, such as proclaming their own righteousness, claiming to be more Godly than you, and openly seeking riches and power. Whether you believe in Christianity or not, what it comes down to is that these people are "following God" in a way they are, word for word, told not to. By God.
It's like if you tried to start up a Anarcho-Capitalist club and then immediately set up a hierarchical power structure and began extracting dues from the members to fund a project that disproportionately benefits the poorer members. It's like if you taught a class on healthy eating and then began extolling the benefits of swallowing batteries.
Yeah I read as far as I needed to, as in, I read all of it because the part I quoted was at the end. And for doing so, I should be praised and thanked, because it wasn’t a good read.
as much as I liked Pike and his crew in season two, SNW leans too heavily and knowingly on the franchise’s campier canon for my taste (I know I’m in a minority with that opinion
Pro tip:maybe don’t try to ride roughshod over people whose entire ideological basis is the phrase “you can’t tell me what to do”. Do conservatives not even understand themselves anymore?
What LLM wrote this repetitious and borderline incoherent article? Or does the author really think circular logic repeated ad nauseam causes their point to become valid through some kind of rhetorical cytogenesis?
So do you still just get 50 Yuan for each one of these, or are they paying any better these days? You’d think they would at least tell you to occasionally post about something else.