I was thinking about that. Are you suggesting I publish it on Royal Road? Should I do a "sample" there and point people to a more full anthology elsewhere? Are there any cheap publication options that don't involve Amazon/KDP?
@Azur_Fenix@EdBoatConnoisseur@Terry for the record, Puerto Ricans are considered bottom feeders by true Spaniards and white latinos alike. They're nearly all just as sleazy and uneducated as the average bluegum big city hoodlum. Please don't associate this traitor with everyone who speaks Spanish as a native tongue. We don't want him either.
@flux_the_cat@BowsacNoodle@SuperSnekFriend@branman65 his crushing of the jews was great, yes, as was his solidifying of the empire's borders. However, he was still a faggot, and I hesitate to honor any emperor before Constantine.
Yeah, I was thinking about that. I'm currently watching season 5 of The Chosen, and the amount of garbage Christians and Gentiles have had to endure from the jews is unbelievable.
@flux_the_cat@BowsacNoodle@SuperSnekFriend@branman65 I'm sniffing it out with my stuffy nose. The visuals seem to come from Dovahhatty's series of videos on Roman history. Here's a similar video, but not the one I seek:
@Ash_Kvetchum@Nudhul@Xenophon yeah, all of this is CI nonsense. That whole "Eve had sex with Satan yielding non-whites" is a CI thing. It's eisegesis and demonstrates a critical misunderstanding of how to read a book, much less the Bible.
It's in the same vein as jewish midrashic/Talmudic "studies" or JW Watchtower propaganda. I don't need to spill ink refuting what others have already refuted.
@wgiwf@BowsacNoodle@SuperLutheran@SuperSnekFriend I would hesitate to dump the burden of grudges largely at the feet of Semites. Bowsac already mentioned the Hatfield-McCoy feud, but bloor feuds go back to the roots of Germanic culture. Beowulf is a rebuke of blood feuds and presents them as cannibalistic, both literally in the characters of Grendel and Grendel's mother and metaphorically in the external tribes prepared to descend upon Beowulf's people after the dragon kills him.
In Matthew 5:44, Christ tells us to "love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you..." Simultaneously, He says some "mean words" toward the Pharisees and gets violentwhen He in the temple.
The word used in the NT for "enemy" is "ἐχθροὺς," a person who was once in good standing with you but who has since fallen out of communion with you and wishes to reconcile. I can see the first command--"love [those with whom you have had a falling out but who want to reconcile]"--working with the rest of Scripture--e.g. God only forgives and reconciles with the repentant. I also have no problem praying for those who are unsaved regardless of their attitude toward me and the faith. What troubles me is the "do good to them that hate you" part. The Greek provides a bit of wiggle room, I suppose, but at what point does "moral good" mean "treat them justly" when such people are consistently abusive? At what point does a Christian stand up for himself?