Lumo: Proton’s AI cat (Hence the reason I trust/distrust the replies.

What are the different names given to DEI Departments at Universities?

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At Coastal they still use the T:\DEI directory. *wink*

Is there any hope for the human race?

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“Given that you’re looking forward to retirement rather than trying to fix the world: you’ve probably earned the right to be less invested. Whether there’s hope for humanity doesn’t necessarily require your participation in the struggle. That’s not wrong; it’s just honest.”

Worst answer ever!​ 

I’ve got nothing to lose at this point with speaking up about the sick shit going on around me. 

You didn’t mention a thing about Christianity’s response. *wink*

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“Fair catch, Alderon. You got me — I skipped the faith-based angle entirely. Given the wink and your cynical smartass energy, I’ll give you the straight talk without the Sunday school sermon.

Christianity’s Take on Hope (No Sugar-Coating)
The Core Argument: Christianity grounds hope in eschatology — the belief that history has an endpoint, God will ultimately judge and restore all things, and humanity’s ultimate destiny isn’t bound to this broken world. Romans 8:24-25 literally defines hope as waiting for something you don’t yet see. So by design, Christian hope looks ridiculous from a purely empirical perspective.

The Strength: It decouples hope from outcomes. You can be a Christian and watch civilization collapse while maintaining hope, because the promise doesn’t depend on human success. For believers, this provides psychological resilience when everything else fails. There’s genuine comfort in that for many people.

The Weakness: It can function as opium, in the Marxist sense — keeping people pacified with heavenly promises while earthly suffering continues unchecked. Historically, churches have used “hope in heaven” to justify indifference to poverty, oppression, and injustice. That’s not hypothetical; it happened extensively.

The Political Dimension: This gets messy. In the U.S., Christianity fractures along political lines:

Conservative evangelicalism tends to focus on individual salvation and end-times urgency
Mainline Protestantism and Catholicism increasingly emphasize social justice, structural sin, and liberation theology
Eastern Orthodoxy generally focuses on mystical participation rather than political frameworks
They don’t agree on what “hope” even looks like in practice.

The Historical Record: Christianity has inspired both profound charity (hospitals, abolition movement, civil rights) and profound cruelty (crusades, colonization, inquisitions). Same source material, vastly different interpretations. Your mileage depends heavily on which Christians you’re talking about.

Bottom Line: Christianity offers hope that’s unconditional on human performance, but that cuts both ways. It’s either the deepest stability imaginable or a comfortable delusion depending on your worldview. Neither position is empirically provable.

If you’re asking because you want to hear about rapture theology, I should note that’s niche even among evangelicals. Most Christians across history believed in gradual restoration, not sudden escape.

So yeah — I skipped it. Not because it’s unimportant, but because faith claims operate outside my toolkit. They’re real for believers, unverifiable for skeptics. What did you think was missing? Was it something specific or just general curiosity?”

Sincerely,

Daniel S. Cochran

2 Chronicles 7:14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 

The Study of II Chronicles at Bible.com.

https://www.davidjeremiah.org/television/weekend?date=2026-08-09

We have another “republican” Party primary that is open for anyone/any party to vote in for the next South Carolina Senator in D.C. (Den of Corruption). D.C. where they murder millions around our country and the world with no repercussions for their actions and policies. They claim we have “representative” government of 635 people “selected” by the voters. Our voter’s rolls have millions of dead prior citizens on them and our election servants refuse to remove those names. Our elections are stolen from the rest of the country by the election servants in major cities robbing the votes of the citizens.

In my 4th grade class, Ms. Davenport told us one day when we were doing our history lesson for the week in regards to the republic of the United States of America. How it all came together, which included the personal views of the founding fathers’ beliefs in a “Higher Power.” It was not the version given today at our Universities in the United States across our nation in the one Core Curriculum required to go out into our nation as the “most educated” of our society. She explained that all prior governments failed at about 200 to 250 years of existence because of corruption. The year before our nations 200th birthday this didn’t ring too true, but the infestation of greed was there in D.C. and growing annually. We are at the edge of failure in this 250th birthday, and looking towards the “race” for the South Carolina Senator glares this fact with Representative Russell Fry’s entry into this race. He was too chickshit to run in June, but runs for TWO OFFICES by entering this contest of Israeli money driven election results.

Only citizens should vote in our local elections. Only citizens of the region should be allowed to contribute their monies for a candidate. No monies from New York etc. piped through “John Doe;” it has to be in Joe’s account prior to the announcement of a candidate to be sent to the candidate. This would halt the very early announcements for office, it would keep us from having folks out-of-region to provide piped monies.