Bonifratz

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think anybody claimed that?

[–] [email protected] 207 points 1 day ago (26 children)

Trump suggested that restraint would be unfair since his Democratic critics are “getting personal all night long.”

This shows why it was paramount that the Democrats left the "high road". Trump has no clue how to react when someone finally hits back at the bully.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Funny how they don't even pretend there's any logic to it. If you can view it in the app, then the content has been reviewed after all...? Clearly just a way to enforce app usage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Was my last movie too. I really enjoyed it, and even though some would say that it's slow/not much happens, it left a stronger impression on me than any other film I recently watched.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That was the second-to-last I watched. :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know this applies to the French and to Germans, but does the rule hold for Ukrainians?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I think strategically it's smart not to focus on concrete plans too much. People vote according to their feelings more than according to actual policy, and Harris is doing very well right now on the feeling front.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome to the Fediverse! I've been here since the 3rd party app shutdown and haven't used Reddit ever since. Niche communities are still lacking here, but it gets better as more people join. Also Lemmy servers and apps have gotten more stable over the past year. So I hope you'll enjoy it here!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You're gonna have to explain that one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, I very much agree that such explanations are helpful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes, of course.

Both of these things need defining before anybody can answer your question.

"Censoring", the way I understand the word, means that there's some kind of institution charged with overseeing and removing parts of a text. So I wonder at which point in the development of the Bible you believe this has occurred.

I've argued in a different comment that it's no secret that certain texts were picked and chosen by the early church as part of its canon, but that (in my opinion) is a very different thing than censoring. To give an analogy: If I was an editor and had to choose the "100 greatest novels of the 20th century" for a book, I would not be "censoring" those I didn't choose. Therefore I'm asking you what exactly you mean by censoring, and if you can give examples of censorship happening in the development of the Biblical texts.

Secondly, "original Bible" is not at all easy to define. The (Christian) Bible is a collection of texts of diverse genres, by a multitude of authors, in three languages, spanning at least seven or eight centuries in their development. None of the original manuscripts have survived. Instead, for every part of the Bible, there exist different copies which sometimes differ slightly, sometimes starkly. This is the reason textual criticism of the Bible exists as a field of scholarship. Most notably, the (older) Septuagint version of the Book of Jeremiah is about one eighth shorter than the (later) version of the Masoretic text.

All of this means that if you're going to talk about the "original Bible", you have to tell us what you mean by that. Do you mean

  • the original manuscripts of each individual book or passage, all of which are lost?
  • the oldest surviving copies of each passage, respectively?
  • the Septuagint (and if yes, which version of it)?
  • the Masoretic text (and if yes, which version of it)?
  • the current scholarly consensus on the most faithful manuscripts, as collected e. g. in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and the Novum Testamentum Graece 28?
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