New Communities
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Rules
The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.
1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.
A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.
B. No illegal content.
C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.
D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.
E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.
2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Formatting
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/community@instance.com)
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
FAQ:
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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Never personally meet one that did. I'm sure there are, but the only time somebody rejected evolution on the grounds of religion was a Muslim, and a zealot.
I'm not judging all Muslims because of him, neither all Christians because the worse of them.
I think there's a level of literalism that people talk about. The claims made about homosexuality come off as very literal as they're letters to a congregation. The creation narrative was likely oral tradition written down after many generations, so you can attribute symbolism to it.
You see how easy is to chose what parts you want you follow literally and which ones you don't?
Now let them have a less toxic religion.
You're talking as if the Bible is one book. It isn't. It's 66 books. The intention of the likes of 1 Corinthians or Romans as a literal writing and instruction to the Church is different from Genesis which is written legend, or Isaiah which is prophecy. Or Judges which is a record of how badly everyone behaved. It's like saying that you don't need to treat the details in a Wikipedia article about Donald Trump as fact because they also have an article on the Mad Hatter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which is fiction. "You're picking and choosing what parts of Wikipedia to believe"
Another great example of how to rationalize "this part in taking literally and this ones I don't". You can also say there was a lot of editorializing, that a lot came from secondary sources...
The Wikipedia analog doesn't hold any water. For staters, the Wikipedia doesn't say the mad hatter existed. If the Wikipedia started editorializing history extremely in favor or against trump, that would indeed make me question the validity of articles regarding trump.