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That promo-picture thing is quite possibly the most anime thing I've seen in the last bit of time.

It looks like it might be amazing ;_;

... has anyone read/translated the transcripts?

Though if it does turn out popular, sweet zeus the yaoi that's going to come out of it ;_;

I guess that could be considered fasting from chastity if you squint at it hard enough. Keep up the good works.

Sure. Not everyone has any knowledge whatsoever of the battle at midway, nor is (was?) there any guarantee a series as radically divorced from reality as to have shipgirls will actually adhere to existent history. Not only are you spoiling someone's history test, you're spoiling the narrative structure of the anime series itself. It's definitely spoilers. Everywhere. In hair.

Two hundred+ years of shenanigans is plenty to fill up a high school semester. It's been a pretty eventful few centuries over here. The problem they're having isn't quantity, it's that much of it is pretty nasty and that offends folks' revisionist sensibilities.

Significantly more accurately, they would run for public office.

No actualy I am asking to make sure this is my god, and not some hypothetical devil or some other. Just because something posing as god tells me to do something doesn't mean I have to do it, I need to know it is god

... how would you tell? The judeochristian god is noted in biblical text as commanding some pretty horrible things and... not stopping it. Issac is one thing, but the bits where forces under god's command ripped pregnant women to pieces (hosea 13, nach) and whatnot are... there.

More generally, how can one be sure of anything in the bible itself if you believe there is a being capable of genuinely posing as the divine? That would seem to undermine the basis of... basically everything. Infinite deceiver can infinitely deceive. You open up the possibility that the entire belief system is, in fact, a grand scheme to damn billions. In the case of systems where salvation is contingent on specific beliefs -- like belief in the divinity of Jesus -- simply having attributed the acts in the original text to the wrong person would seem able to doom the souls of the entire religion's following in one stroke...

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Which leads to a question. Is there actually anywhere in the bible where demons or whathaveyou do pose as YWHW? Know there's bits with false gods or whatev', but what about the proposed genuine article? What about other holy texts? Demons posing as (one of the) god(s) is a pretty common thing in discourse and whatnot, but I'm actually having a little trouble recalling cases of it being in actual canon texts and such. Usually it's either of some lesser being or a different critter (false god, opposing god, etc.), from what I can remember...

Uh, actually the likelihood would be considerably smaller. The dems are notably more fractious than the gop, and significantly more willing to step out of lock-step with whatever the party line is to get something they want done. You can kinda' look at voting records to see this actually happening. Yeah, there's still significant consensus, but where with the gop you're pretty likely to be looking at 90+% consensus, with the dems it'll be bare (super)majorities and whatnot.

For all that the parties are alike a number of issues, they're also very bloody different on a number of others, and will very much react differently in similar scenarios.