NYT as a whole hasn’t really been neutral or “dedicated to journalistic objectivity” for a long time now.

Famous are their countless pieces blaming democrats for losing elections because they’re not republican enough.

They bear a fair share of the blame for how the USA got to where it is today.

Fair enough, but try to answer the question: what does happen to those that don’t believe in Jesus?

And in the apostols carts there’s homophobic rants.

Saulus/Paulus. Yeah it all went downhill pretty quickly.

Enough has been said about the dating apps, so I feel it’s OK to remark on something else:

separated from my wife of 31 years - just earlier this month. Honestly, I’m already feeling bored and lonely

Can you provide some more context here? On the face of it it makes you sound like being dependent on a woman to keep you company. Sorry if I misinterprete that. But shouldn’t you be rather busy with other things now - idk, moving, settling in, changing your life alround, finding new friends, recovering from the separation…

FWIW, my (now) 52yo brother and his wife found each other through a dating site/app almost 10 years ago. They seem to be doing well.

Harsh but true.

But a little besides the point OP is trying to make - which is about Jesus’ teachings themselves, not the cult that grew up around it - as far as we can deduce what Jesus actually did and said of course. Which isn’t much but enough to come to a similar conclusion as OP claims.

Northern Europe. Shots fired in my neighborhood. Cops rolled up a dozen strong, with bulletproof shields, and searched for the shooter for hours.

OTOH: bike stolen. Police said, unless you have the frame number there’s nothing we can do. And even if you had, very little. They did take my report though.

I bought a much bigger/harder lock immediately, and it hasn’t happened since.

Never been burgled.

Fuck this dude with a rusty spade. He’s a monster, so bad that even his extreme old age doesn’t temper my hate.