@MeghanMcCain “He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you.” - Trump about your daddy.
How do you live with yourself?
@durrman777@reachjulieroys Headline: A man whips woman with a belt.
Stephen: “I need more information. Was it his own wife? Like, does he own her? I got physically assaulted when I was lower in the hierarchy, so I’m morally okay with others in those positions being assaulted, too.”
They are never going to care about our suffering bc they are okay with our damnation.
We cannot induce empathy from people that have already accepted our Eternal Conscious Torment in Hell.
They aren’t going to stand against Trump if they won’t stand against God.
@AuthorSandy100 @reachjulieroys Are you arguing that accountability for and deplatforming of sexual predators in the pulpit is worldly?
Sounds like the world is far less rotten than the church.
Never heard a single sermon preached against rape, but heard many against “gossip.” And this is why - men in power wanting to keep their abuses and hypocrisy hidden.
First rule of deconstruction: shine the light on the cockroaches.
Never. Stop. Talking.
I grew up in a Reformed Church that wouldn't even allow women to share their own prayer requests. Instead, a man would share it for her. A man not available? A male child will do in a pinch. Anything to avoid platforming the voice of women.
Christian men hate women.
This right here. But of course they will tell us our searching was not earnest, a dismissal that will shield themselves from cognitive dissonance but fail to address the people in front of them who know their own intentions.
Private religious experiences are not obviously more evidentially impressive than private irreligious experiences such as those had by persons who have for some time earnestly sought with humility the voice of the divine but for whom crickets were the sole reply.
What will you do if the winner isn’t your denomination, your creed, your interpretation? How will you feel when your denomination is demonized in the classroom?
Christofascists: always so eager to build a stomping ground, forgetting they might not be the one in the boots. (fin)
One of the main reasons Catholic schools in the US were created was because of public school infighting between Protestants and Catholics. Public Schools were using the King James Bible in the classroom, and the KJV spoke ill of papal ideas. Catholics felt bullied and (cont..)
homosexuality, or general kindness, Christianity is made up of more than 40,000 denominations, and we have a long history of seeing how much they war with each other over the details. So, Oklahoma, which denomination will reign supreme? (cont..)