In what way is installing from the play store fundamentally different? Just because it was preloaded on your phone? What if F droid was preloaded on your phone instead? Is it still sideloading? Google’s logic breaks down pretty quickly when you think about it

What would you get instead? I think if Google actually follows through with this, I’ll switch to LineageOS, which is still Android. Obviously, iOS is much worse on this front.

Every major Chinese achievement from their mass transit system to their big corporations to their economic growth to them pulling ahead technologically to so many more, all come with big asterisks attached that make them much more questionable.

Could you give one or two as examples?

Sorry I’m late, but I don’t think Matthew 25:41 suggests Jesus believed in eternal punishment. It’s a very specific theology that we know very well today, so it’s easy to read it into the text. But that verse says that the fire is eternal, not necessarily the suffering.

It’s pretty likely that Jesus believed in the idea of the “second death”(not eternal).

“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matt 10:28)

Its more likely that Jesus’s understanding of hell is far from the modern Christian theology.

Now about human hierarchy:

Off the top of my head, we have:

• Jesus commanding the rich man to sell everything he has and give the money to the poor
• “the last will be first and the first will be last”
• Luke 6:20-25
• talking with and standing up for sex workers

I’m sure I can find more when I have some time.

That any person who disobeyed the ruler should be tortured.

If this is about hell, I don’t think Jesus believed in hell, at least not as we know it. He also did definitely teach about erasing the social hierarchy, at least among humans. So he was a theocrat, sure, but he wasn’t only a theocrat.