Every “famous leader” ; if you want to know a good company, look at ones which didn’t have famous leaders or did have leaders notorious for not being famous. DEC, Sun. IBM, after all, though not as cool.

Those seek real games, and real games are too hard and elusive to describe in rules.

Winning what? There are different prizes and different lottery ticket prices.

What really tells you are not committed to winning is listening to someone’s talk on that.

That’s not what their roots are, that’s the branches that became prevalent in every one mentioned (Judaism least of all, but with the state of Israel existing there are attempts to make Jewish religion suck just as badly as others).

Say, gnostic sects of Christianity and Judaism had this sometimes inverted, sometimes different from how you describe it. Natural world was considered wonderful, but bigger than our existence, in some, and the way to divine was to take off your mortal existence, like clothes, and embrace it in full. In Judaism it’s almost mainstream that natural sexuality is good and actually sacred when in marriage, and only outside of marriage is it bad, but not on the degree of murder or theft.

I’m not very knowledgeable on Islam, but I think even Shia Islam is not so cruel on that part, though since Iran is Shia, I guess nobody will believe me. Alawis being massacred right now have a pretty tolerant to life religion, and Druze too, though they have that weird relationship with death similar to Latin American Catholics. Smaller branches like Nizari-Ismaili are very tolerant. It’s just that Islamic mainstream of today is barbaric genocidal Wahhabism or Salafism, and generally Sunni Islam is not nice.

My point was - restrictive rules correlate somehow with strong organization, so such branches win the struggle for power.

Weird kind of Christian in your book or not, it’s true.

It’s not my book, but Christians are supposed to have read that book and know what the Christian faith is.

Otherwise they are a fan group.

BTW, what do your parents think of cremation, are they aware that in Christian faith that makes one’s resurrection in the Apocalypse impossible?

OK, I guess it’s not very useful, I think if I walk to a church and ask people passing through the entrance what their symbol of faith is, I won’t get many good answers. If I provide them with a few real variants, they’ll likely choose those of other Christian confessions. And if I ask those same people on schisms and heresies, they’ll be very intolerant of heretics.

That would be a weird kind of Christians, the classical kind would want “promised land” to be Christian and consider “God’s chosen people” to have been extended to them all.

And there are still Arab Christians, Orthodox and Maronite, mostly on the other side.

So nah, that’s not it. Just racism maybe, but that’s not religion.

You don’t know Hamas’ reasons for making their decisions. Maybe this was planned in any case, and Hamas just had one try at unbalancing Israel so that it would take more time and effort to kill Gaza.

Remember that IRL not all problems have satisfactory solutions. It’s not a video game. Maybe to frighten Israelis one more time was the best they could do anyway.

All the separate components of what Israelis are doing they have done before, it’s the scale which is different. They’ve gotten used to the thought that Gazan combatants won’t come to their towns and kill them, but their army will come to Gaza and kill Gazans. Maybe this was meant to show that they are wrong, and they are murdering people equal to them, no other intention.

And even the emotion of that miserable jerk on the video is such, I think he wants to look like some Ottoman pasha. Israelis have no history (no, history of European\Maghreb\whatever Jews is not their history, no, of course history of some ancient kingdoms is not their history, and no, Ottoman history is not theirs too, all a bit further than needed), no culture (same as my previous parentheses, a culture is something alive, not a reference) and no national coherence (look at Israelis on the web), so they are just LARP’ing Ottomans.

What can this possibly have to do with religion?..

What Obama did should be judged by what he really did, not promised, not described, not was close to do.

You can say whatever you want if it depends on majority which won’t ever support you, and then claim that was your real intention.

This is simpler than average intrigue between friends or at workplace, or even of deciding whose turn it is to go for groceries, and politics are not simpler.

Yes, surely people capable of denying someone popular are soft pussies. It’s the opposite, they impose their will upon the party. Evil, not pussies.

https://biblehub.com/luke/22-36.htm