The logic of those denominations is not everyone chooses to follow Christ’s path. Christ’s death is seen as forgiving original sin not forgiving all of your sins. Roman Catholicism believes you have to be a good person and do good things for people to enter heaven. You don’t get in by default as then there would be no reason not to be bad.

Yes which is why he can’t be the antichrist. Most of the world hates him. They are supposed to like the antichrist.

Is that a social security number, a tax ID (business only assigned number by the IRS), or a cryptowallet holding Trump coins?

That entirely depends on interpretation. Roman Catholics believe you need to do good to get into heaven. It’s only some denominations who think it is through the grace of God alone and it matters not what you do/did.

It also states we will only be able to buy and sell if we have a specific number. Is that a crypto wallet?

You didn’t start off talking this way. You shifted to it when I challenged you in ways you normally aren’t for example by pointing out the many ways in which China has abandoned leftist ideal by supporting an investor class and exploiting the working classes to enrich the elites. You don’t have a built in reply because you’re used to arguing talking points not having to actually think.

You seemed to actually be capable of thinking so it is sad that you made this choice.

Are you capable of having an informed adult conversation? You seem to be struggling with your ability to respond intelligently. If you really think you have a valid point to make then do that. If you can only respond in pre-drafted talking points you picked up from the internet consider not replying and maybe read a book.

fir fucks sake you think economists are the ones making lusts of what constitutes freedom

Do you not see how much of a non-response you gave? It’s a strawman. At no point have I made any untrue statements. Please try to demonstrate how not being able to decide the direction and philosophy of your government in any meaningful manner makes you free.

I hope you realize how illogical your arguments are here because you aren’t making any coherent point other than demonstrating a lack of real education on these subjects.

No the metrics for freedom aren’t invented by economists but are determined by political scientists. I think you’re demonstrating a common failure in Leftists who are self educated in leftism in that ypu have reactionary responses to situations you aren’t informed on.

What metric are you taking issue with? Self determination is always the biggest one and Chinese citizens do not have this. If the masses wanted to pursue Communism harder and Xi did not (and he does not) they don’t have this option. Not being able to decide the direction of your nation is a significant sign of oppression.

You do not have equivalent rights under the law as gay people because you cannot marry and domestic partner rights are less than married. There is no path to LGB+ marriage. I’m just not as equal in China.

Do we need to address freedom of speech? You have more in most nations than in China.

Look at that 3 major freedoms none of which are economic and all of which China is just bad at. You started everything repeatedly suggesting I bought into propaganda and Im hoping you see how much propaganda you are accepting uncritically here.

I don’t know what country you live in but we clearly do not reside in the same nation or state of mind if you believe what you claim.

Regardless Im not here to defend America. China being substantially less free by every metric than many other nations is an easily verified fact.

Ypu don’t have to be authoritarian to meet people’s basic needs. China chooses authoritarianism because it benefits their investor class nit because it benefits the working class.

I don’t understand why anyone claiming to support liberty or freedom would back China. That’s like joining the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s dept because you want to fight back against gangs.

And many nations do all of those things better than China while retaining greater individual freedoms. We don’t have to become authoritarians to achieve this goal.

Gotcha, that would make sense.

I too took a break until recently.

I still think you need to take a minute to look into how much freer many nations are on a fundamental level than China. That’s not propaganda it’s factual. Not every nation or government values freedom equally.

Are you talking world or oneninetysix which is also blåhaj? Blåhaj has no warning on this for the instance

As an aside if your claims that “defending inherently inequitable and oppressive systems such as capitalism, fascism, genocide, and imperialism are forbidden in this community.” doesn’t seem to appear in the guidelines for what is not approved in that instance. If this is your actual policy you should include that information in your sidebar.

You’re familiar with these claims but do ypu understand what they mean? I don’t think ypu have a clue.

You can compare the rights people have. China is going to be near the bottom of any logical assessment of rights as Chinese people do not have the rightsto free speech, the right to free expression, the right to determine the direction of the Chinese state who h ultimately means there is no freedom.

Im not defending America. Im rejecting the objectively flawed claim that they are as free as other nations when they are not. You currently have greater rights in Norway than you do in China. Hopefully you can see the difference.

Finally if ypu cannot defend capitalism here why are you defending China a nation wth a stock market and investor class? What economic theory are they pursuing when for-profit banks are investing in foreign companies and not ceding control to the workers? China is a capitalist nation wearing the skin of a socialist nation much like America currently wears the skin of a capitalist democracy.

Nope less free across the board. China is a repressive state when it comes to rights. This isn’t an opinion it is a fact. There are countries freer than the USA but the overwhelming majority of nations are freer than China.

Have you ever studied any political philosophy in a formal setting? Im suspecting you have not since you seem to not understand what constitutes “freedom” in this context.

In China you can’t suggest they stop having their current government. That’s a HUGE problem if you are trying to argue how free a society us as it means the masses have no say in their future.

I have protested against the state nany times. I have directly stated to Governor Mitt Romney, who was in office at the time, that I hoped he was a single term governor. I haven’t been arrested for that.

I have protested every military conflict the USA has been involved in since 1991 and Im not in jail.

Stating China is less free is a fact that’s not propaganda.

And China’s a genocidal imperialist totalitarian state if we apply the same standards.

The fact is legally speaking you currently are vastly less free in China. It’s moronic to claim otherwise. This is easily proven by looking at your rights on speech for example.

China is less free than most countries. China has a state that forces inequality because at their core the Chinese Communist Party is hypocritical and seeks to oppress the masses

There’s no red scare stuff here. You can easily look and compare the laws. China currently is by every metric worse on LGBT+ rights.

The “yet” part is because America is becoming authoritarian. China has never not been authoritarian.

They used to have shitty healthcare but the government put efforts to change that because they were embarrassed to be the second wealthiest nation and have such poor outcomes.

Regardless they are absolutely less free than the USA and are undisputedly worse on LGBT+ rights according to their legal codes. There’s no propaganda here. The Chinese government does not grant equal rights.