Jump to content

Mole

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    2610
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Mole

  1. Since James 2 (faith without works) was brought up, more gold from that chapter: At this point, could we call prayers without actions for this vain repetitions?
  2. If you visit that church’s website, you’ll see (or would have seen last night before they started changing things) that the entire ministerial staff has the same last name; it looks like (rapey) husband, wife, adult child and spouse.
  3. Her understanding of the Sermon on the Mount is pretty wild. Must be in the Message Bible or something.
  4. 1. Whenever something becomes a thing in the public consciousness somewhat suddenly, a healthy skepticism seems prudent. There’s no doubt a political element to exposing this stuff as well as the perceived sudden rise in it. “Both sides” are trying to use this; of course one side of an issue like this is by definition a bit more malicious. I can see being skeptical, thinking that this is the left’s version of CRT, but… 2. Besides the increase in political types that are pretty openly preaching replacement theory, I’ve run across it for years in the crazier wings of religious circles. It’s real and somewhat mainstream, even if it only gets uttered in safe company.
  5. From the Abrams non-concession speech: The entire speech: https://qz.com/1468560/read-stacey-abrams-full-concession-speech/ Equating this with the Trump lies and post election activities is well, just another lie. It’s possible to argue against Stacy Abrams’ position without resorting to dishonesty, but that hasn’t happened here.
  6. I’m a big fan of banned books. Thanks for the reading list for me and my kid!
  7. I was a little surprised by the numbers for children at home until I considered how much they prefer Blippi.
  8. I’m not saying that view is entirely wrong, but it somewhat presumes that Protestants — or more specifically evangelicals — are the same population today as they were x years ago. I suspect that’s not entirely accurate. For example, the rightward shift of the SBC on abortion gets touted as a shift of opinion to the Catholic view. So we see that as Baptist people changing their opinion and thinking like Catholics. That explains some of it, but there’s also been a bit of “sorting” based on this issue. My anecdotal view is that we’re more likely to align ourselves with different faith groups (or non faith groups) based on the culture war issues than on theological issues. The more politically liberal wing of the SBC didn’t simply turn politically right; they left and started a new group. Churches these days split over political issues rather than theology. Of course the more politically conservative churches will shift further to the right; the less politically conservative members are finding new churches that align with their political views.
  9. Since this is a thread about a pathetic man turned bastardized fantasy Hamm/Hitchens debate, that pathetic man is a pretty on-the-nose analog to Old Testament-style judgement against a nation. “God’s people” turn from Him and do what’s right in their own eyes, so we get a leader who is the human form of all of the wickedness “God’s people” are relentlessly pursuing; many many die, we all hate each other, and yet another board turns into parallel competing apologetics conferences.
  10. If it’s a book club, a lot of members sure don’t seem to read the book. Whatever you think about the contents and fandom of the book, group singing and music-making is good for the soul.
  11. This Bauer saga has been a real black eye for baseball. MLB may take it on the chin for being too rough on him, but knocking him out of baseball for two years is probably appropriate.
  12. I guess I’m married to a conservative.
  13. It’s well-written, but pack a lunch; it’s long. Penn State may be a longtime den of institutional degeneracy but I’m an Irv Pankey fan now.
  14. We have a real, in the flesh hero who selflessly sacrificed for your liberty — my liberty — OUR liberty — and all you cynics can do is laugh and make jokes. Shame on all of you. To the brave and honorable heroes posting here, they surely laughed the same way when George Washington invented liberty and America. People that I imagine to have appalling opinions probably masturbate weirdly! I can’t stop thinking about their strange masturbation!
  15. In many towns, Applebees is the only sit-down place open after 9 or 10. If you’re traveling and hungry late, it’s between Applebees and late night fast food. Marginally better than McDonalds is a viable business model.
  16. An informal case study on the classism vs. racism debate: My (white) wife has a name that is typically considered as Black. She is as white as can be, and people who meet her typically treat her pretty respectfully, relatively speaking. At one point, she got a job doing chat tech support. People would chat or text in with their tech problems and she’d solve them. She was one of the top performing tech support people in the company. Customers only interaction with her was a name and text support for their problems. Her female colleagues (so controlling for the sexism) — women who were largely less competent than her but had more racially neutral names — were generally treated respectfully by customers. The customers may have been angry or frustrated, but they remained open and receptive to help. My wife received all sorts of racist comments and general belligerence. Even after solving the problem, she was assumed to be untrustworthy and incompetent. The same person: in person she’s treated respectfully and assumed to be competent and trustworthy; when her whiteness is hidden, she’s assumed to be incompetent even after solving the problem. The only difference is her presumed skin color. I assume this presumption of incompetence and untrustworthiness is pretty typical for Black Americans. Classism may be a part of the equation, but it’s not the major driver. And even that classism is built on a foundation of racism. Polite society has largely driven out the ugliest expressions of racism, but the underlying assumptions that drove those ugly expressions are still widely present.
  17. Key phrase right here. Truthiness as justification feels ok, right?
  18. OG troll shibboleths. That rant was more of a troll culture madlib than anything resembling coherent or thoughtful. Come on conservatives, I so desperately want to be a stodgy conservative pushing back against some of the troubling progressive trends, but the current conservative ethos is so unserious, incoherent, and dishonest, even when you’re right, you only make things worse. Stop with the dramatic emoting and be the rational, thoughtful people you like to pretend to be. Be the rugged man’s men you fantasize about. You’re not a victim, you’re not being canceled, and your news source is also mainstream media, even if it’s not really news. Stop selling yourself short. You’re the party of Lincoln, so stop acting like a bunch of fools. Stop debasing yourselves, stop breaking everything, and have some dignity.
  19. Whatever happened to the chief painting/sculpture?
×
×
  • Create New...