LeviF

Look, I don't have any real skin in the religion game, but this is one of the things that easily reveals a pagan/atheist as ignorant at best, and a nitwit at worst. Jesus of Nazareth is one of the most well-attested historical figures of the region and time in which he lived, both in Christian and non-Christian sources. There are vanishingly few influential scholars, Christian or otherwise, who would argue that there was no historical Jesus of Nazareth. Bart Ehrman is probably the foremost of the American New Testament critics and characterizes Jesus mythicism as the flip side of the same coin on which snake-handling fundamentalism is printed.

Whether he was a Roman citizen or not, he had the same status in Galilee as he did in Egypt. "The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail." Deuteronomy 28. See, I can do it too.

As far as Jesus being a criminal, obviously crucifixion was reserved for certain types of criminals. But keep in mind the only source documents purportedly written by eyewitnesses to the event imply that the Roman official with the power to command his execution did so only for fear of what the Judean mob might do if he didn't. Remember that within a generation Rome was forced to destroy Jerusalem and humiliate and disperse what was left of the historic peoples there (who had already been dispersed a number of times by the particularly brutal Assyria and Babylon before them).

He wasn't a refugee because neither he (nor his parents) ever left the empire he was born in.

Wouldn't that mean it's a new trope? Modern Stellantis vehicles (aside from RAM from like 2019-2022 for whatever reason) are awful.

lol why do you people fall for this? Let’s say it’s true. The NG isn’t in the highest crime areas, for the sake of argument. You know why the NG gets deployed to the best parts of the city? Because Americans go there. You shove the undesirables back where they belong - out of sight. Run them out of the areas where they can affect people who actually matter. Keep them away from nice cars, nice places, nice people. Contain, control, neutralize.

Depending on what year Taco you end up with look out for gear slipping. Transmissions have been kicking it like they're Jeeps the last few years.

Everything is a tin can now lol

When all the statistics bear out the fact that one segment of the population is particularly lawless, it is logical to focus your enforcement efforts there rather than on those who tend to follow the law. Which is the opposite of what Americans have dealt with for the last sixty years, something closer to this: ”Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism.’”

Correct, but if I'm reading this guy correctly it's really not going to make much difference to him. Pro/con-wise if it's just a daily driver unibody is fine.

Honestly if you can haggle it down a bit (private seller or dealer?) I'd jump on that 2013 assuming you aren't driving crazy amounts of miles/year.

Typically extremely reliable vehicles, have had some issues in the last couple of model years causing them to slip in the various rankings and reviews a bit. If you don't mind being made fun of the newer Ridgelines haven't had many issues. Biggest downside to them is no 4WD but most people don't actually need their 4WD. Their loaded up price point is a bit lower than the Tacoma.

When you look at the “crime in red states” slop that leftists often post for longer than ten seconds you end up realizing that the disparity is almost all due to urban areas with large black populations.