No, I was able to ummm… let go of literal concepts and only focus on metaphorical faith. But the ability of a religion to abuse people without upsetting their own morality was too much for me. If you can’t see the pure evil in men who are willing to authorize buying child sexual abuse liability insurance, and aren’t willing to authorize a program to feed to poor, or end homelessness, or even care about homelessness, how are you even a Christian? The reality is that if Jesus was real, and showed up tomorrow, he’d probably DEEPLY regret starting a religion that turned into this. And once you tap out of the religion you’re parents gave you, it REALLY sticks out that they are all made up gibberish at best, and pure fucking evil scams at worst.

I started to interpret ‘‘love one another’’ as mutually exclusive to ‘‘fuck them kids’’. Also my kid isn’t heteronormative, and she still wanted to do youth activity stuff, the other kids were great to her, also a lot of them aren’t heteronormative either, but she’s old enough and out enough that it’s REALLY obvious to the adults, and she went to one activity and the local leader guy called us with just WILD ass accusations, but it’s a small town, and there’s less than 3 degrees of separation from any random person, so my mom found the kid this accusation was about, and that kid 1. Didn’t remember who my kid was the day after the thing and 2. Had no idea what the leader was saying, and we really realized that our kid can’t be around these fucking psychopaths that think ‘‘liars will be thrust to hell’’ is more a gentle suggestion than a commandment, and ‘‘fuck them kids’’ is an acceptable life motto to stitch onto a pillow.

I gotta tell you, as a guy who was deeply in this muck, they give ZERO shits what the Bible says. I wouldn’t bother with engaging in the theology.

I completely agree

Blaming Biden for the GOP being fascists seems odd to me.

They chase ratings, not the bidding of political campaigns. They also reported on all of Hillary’s legal problems often ignoring the FBI decided not to prosecute her after millions in tax prayer money investigating her. And as many have pointed out, the FBI doesn’t want to let people go free after it spends years and millions of dollars investigating them.

Did you sexually assualt that poor woman?

“I’m no church boy”

That’s a REALLY bad answer.

I really wanna go back to when if a candidate went ‘yeeeeah’ in too weird a voice we all just dropped them out of the running.

It would be a valuable teaching moment.

The system is set up to only have two options. It’s intentional. Also the VP used to be the party that lost. That’s how much it matters to vote after the parties pick a nominee.

I mean… in his place I’d probably make them think I was going to do it to see if it would change their mind.

I really don’t think that’s true. People said the same with Obama, and he really never faced that in voters, the GOP was viciously attacking him and it never stuck. There is a stage big enough, that the most vicious attackers do get lost in the crowd.

I agree no one is ever letting go of power unless they are explicitly required to do so.

It’s not in human nature to limit your own power. I’m voting for Biden, for his appointments and admin, I have nothing against him, but my experience is that no one relinquishes power. Once the office has the power, no one’s going to let it go.

You may think you’re making a fun point, but teenage girls don’t get pregnant just by showing their midriff and the occasional bra strap, typically a teenage boy is equally participating in the pregnancy. We’re pregnant make a lot more sense than She’s pregnant, and I’m just window dressing. Bobbert raised morons who couldn’t or wouldn’t wear a condom, I know a fair amount of guys my age (40s) that don’t have a single kid, it’s not impossible. They weren’t geniuses, they just wore condoms.

We’ve already had judges doing cash for prisoners, cash for kids, corruption. They don’t need all the budget to attract judges, a few prisons gets the job done.

When the Supreme Court had vacancies, W was on the phone with Trump for hours, and provided a short list from the federalist society, They’re getting what they want, no issue with Trump.

Except Trump is also an old fool. It’s not better to say with clear speaking that he wasn’t responsible for all the things he screwed up, that he didn’t BADLY botch covid response, that he didn’t hand out money, that he didn’t support the vaccine he also took credit for making, that Jan 6 didn’t happen, that Charlottesville didn’t happen, that he didn’t call the neo nazis who killed a person ‘fine people’ that he didn’t stoke violence very intentionally. That he didn’t tell Proud Boys ‘‘stand down and stand by’’ that he isn’t calling for a dictatorship if he ever gets elected.

Yes. Biden has a speech impediment, and clearly struggles with that particularly now that he’s getting quite old. But what he said wasn’t insane claims that reality is in fact not reality.

President Carter explained exactly the situation most Americans are now starting to understand decades ago, the interviewer then asked him why the American people weren’t outraged by this. He said

‘‘They don’t know. They don’t want to know.’’

What was that thing Jesus said? Do unto others?.. the greatest commandment is to love one… give all your possessions and follow… something something… the least among you… snaps fingers Hate gay people! That’s what I’m supposed to do! Control women’s medical choices, and make sure gay people have no rights. of course!