It’s true. I’m a bartender. When I serve a drink in a to-go cup I sometimes get people bitching “oh, that’s all I get?” and then I passive aggressively demonstrate to them that it’s the same as it would be in a pint glass but it’s just shorter and wider.

And as the innocent man who is either still in that horrific prison or dead proves, they’ll apply the label to anyone they please and it will work with their base.

The God of the Old Testament is an absolute monster, so I automatically like the guy who opposed him more.

I really like the Gnostic belief that this God is the “demiurge”… a lesser, malevolent, ignorant and false god who created the material world as a flawed imitation of the divine realm. He traps human souls in matter, while the true, transcendent God remains distant and unknowable. Some gnostics see the serpent as the good guy for encouraging Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of knowledge and free humanity from the ignorance of Yaldabaoth, the blind fool god, very much like Morpheus in The Matrix (which adapts all kinds of ideas from Gnosticism).

Seriously. Regardless of platform, when you have to do something advanced you just Google it and follow the instructions or ask AI.