Your daily reminder that Park Run is a serious race if you're a male, an important, life-saving human right if you're a male wanting to compete in the female category, but "just a fun run" if you're a female.
This is what sexism (and male entitlement) looks like.
If Jesus is who he says he is, we hardly need to be too bothered about this. I mean, it’s not like we need an exit poll. The result is already in… (Revelation 21 - spoiler alert).
That’s why Christians considered it a big deal. If it was relatively well known for people crucified to rise from the dead after 3 days, Christianity wouldn’t have become a thing.
If your worldview requires belittling women, it’s not biblical!
Mary carried Christ.
Esther saved a nation.
Deborah led Israel.
Ruth shaped a lineage.
Mary Magdalene proclaimed the resurrection.
A low view of women isn’t Christian. Scripture proves that.
> Fundamentalists in ANY religion are always the problem
fundamentalist Jews: refuse to cook on the Sabbath
fundamentalist Christians: think dinosaurs don't exist
fundamentalist Sikhs: refuse haircuts
fundamentalist Muslims: want to kill, enslave or convert all of humanity
Back in the days of AOL chat rooms I was in an atheist group and there was a Christian there under the name Sunshine.
I went after her like a dog going for a bloody bone. I couldn't leave her alone. She didn't bother anyone else, in fact, she was really sweet and everyone liked her despite her 'fairy tale beliefs'.
I was constantly peppering her with questions like the one below, and trying to outlogic her.
When something is of no interest to us most of us just leave it alone and ignore it. We don't waste energy on it.
I don't go around looking to pick arguments with scientologists, or buddhists, or any of the rest. It never occurred to me to try to poke holes in their ideas.
All day, every day I see atheists, picking fights and trying to outlodge it Christians on every platform.
1. If this describes you as an atheist, ask yourself why it's only Jesus who bothers you
2. If this describes you as an atheist, consider the idea that you might be drawn to Christians because Jesus is knocking on your door.
YES. WE. KNOW. This is why we don’t want these men in women’s private spaces.
Everyone understands this, right? You all get this. Right? Lipstick doesn’t turn a man into a delicate flower.
This is a photograph of me at eight years old. I remember that jumper clearly. I had dragged my dad into GAP, straight to the boys’ section, and begged for it instead of the girly blouse that had been suggested.
At that age, I refused to wear any colour other than blue. I pleaded to have my hair cut short, properly short, like the boys. My parents would not let it be shorter than a bob. I am sparing you the photograph. It was truly dreadful.
From about the age of three, I was unmistakably a tomboy. I asked for toy soldiers and a football shirt for Christmas (Chelsea- Blue is the colour!). I was the only girl invited to a friend’s football party. I was the only girl who turned up dressed as a prince to a ‘princes and princesses’ party.
I read and wrote obsessively. I gravitated towards The Lord of the Rings, spy novels, all the familiar ‘boy’ stories. In every story, in every game, I imagined myself as a male protagonist. His name was always Theo, the boy version of my own.
If someone had told me then that it was possible to actually BE a boy, that there were drugs I could take to transform myself and my body, I would have seized the opportunity. And deeply regretted it later.
As I moved through my teenage years, I began to realise something crucial. I was perfectly capable of loving all of these things while still being a girl. I had despised the words ‘girl’ and ‘woman’ because I had bundled them together with every restrictive feminine stereotype I had encountered.
Today, I would have almost certainly been described as having ‘gender incongruence’ or ‘dysphoria’. And on that basis, I might have been offered medical interventions that risk infertility and amount to chemical castration. Then when I’d been brainwashed enough, I might have been pushed towards a double mastectomy or cross-sex hormones. The Pathways trial MUST BE STOPPED. #StopTheTrial
It's such a bizarre feature of online discourse to interpret "celebrating someone's death is wrong" as "they want me to celebrate his life and I WON'T, I tell you!" (stamps foot defiantly). Nobody was requiring you to celebrate his life, don't you understand the difference?