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Christianity > The Red Pill - Opinion Piece

It’s been a while since I’ve looked into The Red Pill’s nonsense. I remember looking at it briefly after a really nasty relationship and just googling stuff out of frustration and coming across it by accident. I rejected it then and I still reject it now. It’s just as hateful and stupid as feminism is. Christianity is better. Christianity emphasizes placing the needs of others above our own. This is totally counter to the red pill ideology. Christianity is clear that a husband should be the head of his household and the primary decision maker of his family. It’s also clear that the woman has a major role as well in the family. The Russians have a saying: The man is the head while the woman is the neck. I find that to be the truth. Both have to work together in unison to be a good body and work. I'm not married and haven't been as of yet but as a Christian, I am to place my wife's needs ahead of my own. I will be trying to do what's best for my wife and she'll ...

My Thoughts on Total Determinism (Divine Determinism) & Free Will in Theology

In theology, total determinism or divine determinism means that everything (macro and micro) is happening as it is and that it could not and would not have happened any other way.  "A" always and only ever leads to "B", which always and only ever leads to "C", which leads all the way to "Z". The world is composed of As, B's & C's that couldn't follow any path other than the one that they are following because they are A's, B's, and C's. In total determinism, ALL the parameters are known. When it comes to this involving God and applying it to God, I have to ask how applying this theology to God could be an absolute problem because the truth is that divine determinism is nothing more than another name for fatalism.  For Calvinist for example, how does their view not make God the author of sin if God determines EVERYTHING from macro to micro? Does God determine you to sin (hamartia in Greek which...