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Acts 8:27-28 NRSV [27] So [Phillip] got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship [28] and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

Here's a story about a eunuch returning home from Jerusalem. Eunuchs back then were seen as 'between' male and female. They were able to go between the men's Chambers in the women's Chambers freely, and so they were very useful in courts. Not all Eunuchs were in the courts though.

According to church tradition this very Eunuch founded the Ethiopian Church. And so it is very possible for non-binary people to be followers of Christ.

Of course we can't fall into the pitfall of applying modern sexuality and gender theory on ancient cultures, as they have a very different set of social institutions.

Some theologians of years past have suggested that the passage which is alluded to in Genesis might have a different meaning.

Genesis 2:23 NRSV [23] Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.”

This taken in conjunction with the passage that you quoted, can be interpreted very differently. Woman was taken out of man, meaning that Man was once both male and female at the same time, and yet perfect as all of God's creation was.

Jesus never explicitly condemns Eunuchs or other groups of gender non-conforming people. I would not take this passage to exclude everything else from the life giving blood shed for us on the cross

I'm a Christian! Did you know that the church in Ethiopia was started by a non-binary person? Gender and sexuality used to be very different social constructs in biblical times and modern views on gender and sexuality didn't come around in full force until around 300 years ago.

It's a real shame that the church in general tends to reject the LGBT community. Science has shown over and over again that sexual identity and gender identity are inherent parts of people, and it makes no sense to me how God can hate something that he designed.

"biological male" is if anything bad description of reality. A trans woman who has been on hormone therapy for a couple of years is biologically closer to cisgender women than cisgender men. And even more so if they've had surgeries. But usually people who use that term don't care and lump everyone who was assigned male at birth into that category.

I could attribute this term to ignorance because it sounds reasonable, but it's far too often used to exclude trans women from spaces that other women belong

These planes aren't used often. They're strategic bombers and the most expensive of America's bombers too. Both in per flight hour cost and absolute cost

The B2 spirit is primarily made for the nuclear deterrence and warfare role. They are designed to penetrate air defense systems by being stealthy, A concept that was proved by the f-117 Nighthawk.

But since they have a heavy payload they're also used to drop conventional bombs occasionally. When you have to service a large amount of targets or use really big bombs, A strategic bomber is the go-to solution. They used B2 in this case for what my guess is these reasons

• stealthy means they can get past radar systems and they can shrink any warning time
• The B2 is the only plane rated to carry the gbu-57 bunker busting bomb. The facilities they were trying to destroy were fortified, so most other bombs wouldn't work.

Honestly wearing a black wedding dress would be fucking awesome. I'm having a lesbian wedding anyway, so I could add some spice.

I thought that the Russians liked genocide. They have been pursuing policies of russification for centuries

The pictures literally date back to then. That's so much denial.

Once eggs hatch they become chicks

I can only actually name one politician that was smited

There's this one Turkish politician that got smited right after he said that Allah will judge Israel

https://youtu.be/B17R9vBOwlQ

This one seems pretty arcane to me

That's adorable! Even if she didn't intend for it, she's a mother now. I don't know if she's quite realized it yet.

These people will be on Starlight's side during the Cutie Map. Or they'd go say that Starlight wasn't actually practicing real communism.

Idk. I feel mixed about the content warnings. They could be useful for some people, though it's a little bit overboard. There are certainly worse episodes of My Little pony that's for sure. I think of the Buffalo episode in season 1 (actual settler colonialism and then the lesson is just to share the land)

All the depictions of these things are pretty mild in general. Although that doesn't stop the My Little pony Community from making these incredibly detailed stories and worlds.