Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Foreign leaders are starting to just smile and nod and ignore Trump. They know he is a fool who can’t be trusted. If a more competent leader is elected next, foreign leaders will be like, this already happened, the US reelected Trump, we don’t trust the American people to keep elected a competent and decent leader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygQshjQHnrM
Throughout time and space, different peoples have had different ideas of which acts are moral and which are not. People take the moral instinct, and come to different conclusions.
Romans tended to think that those with power had the right to use it and to not care about the downtrodden. Charity was done to make you look good, not because helping people in and of itself is a good thing. Charity was focused on helping your kin and allies, not human beings because all humans have value.
Jews thought you should help your neighbor, but not all humans on Earth.
Jesus taught that everyone matters.
Jesus appeared to really think that a rich person could not get into Heaven. Modern Christians find excuses to ignore that. Bible scholar Bart Ehrman said that when Jesus said, with God, all things are possible, he meant God could change rich people’s hearts, convincing them to give away their wealth.
Jesus taught that you don’t need atonement to be forgiven. But his followers thought his death was an act of atonement. So, Jesus was crucified partially for teaching that you don’t need atonement, then his followers codified Jesus’s death as an atonement!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsdXLIplIM
At least for the Western world, Jesus inspired hospitals, charity for the sake of helping the downtrodden, and love for all mankind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeyHtCBcY8k
Some Biblical heroes actually did horrible things, but they are praised in the Bible because they were obedient to God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J-axlkFbdo
A lot of the people who had relations with underaged women through Epstein aren’t psychologically pedophiles where they are attracted to children instead of adults. They are powerful people who think they can do whatever they want and get away with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mnkF2-gfLU
New Epstein Files Star Trump, Musk, Gates, Lutnick and more w/ Brace Belden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQM_y9q1vA
Empathy is good at the right place and time, but too much empathy, or empathy in the wrong situation, is deadly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KiD9kXePvY
Another reason investors deserve their income is that by having a system where corporations work toward the goal of increasing investor return, they have the incentive to be productive. So indirectly, by taking part in such a system, investors produce things with their money.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-do-people-get-paid-to-invest?r=1o36hf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Ethics and morality existed long before Jesus. Much of what Jesus said was said by someone before him. Nevertheless, Jesus and Christianity had a huge impact on Western ethics. The Greeks and Romans cared about people in their in-group. The Jews cared about fellow Israelites, including neighbors who had joined the group. Jesus preached that we should love all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA6FeavzG8c
Everyone was an evil asshole, so don’t demonize particular empires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbyWcSL3VD4