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  1. 9 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    You and Hillary both. How psyched are you that your church repealed its longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy? I think that’s awesome. Hear any talk about that?

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-methodists-lgbtq-clergy-ban-repeal-vote/

    Largely indifferent, but happy we are treating historically marginalized groups with respect. I don’t care who I’m getting my message from if you give me a good message and don’t make it about yourself. 

  2. 32 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Nobody else is discussing this, sounds false

    I never said I hadn’t heard of it and never denied its existence.  I am literally never around it and I’m around people of faith all day every day. 

    38 minutes ago, MidTexHorn said:

    Rex confuses mainline Protestant denominations with American evangelicalism. It ain’t the same thing. At all. And guess which  version of Christianity dominates US politics thanks to the modern Republican Party’s selling of its soul back in the 80s. 

    I don’t confuse the two, but it was never clarified. Methodism is ‘evangelical’ in doctrine. If Ana’s poll is correct there is a massive difference and I really would like to know how they differentiate. I’m UMC. I go to HPUMC. I presume a church like Watermark would be considered ‘evangelical’. Let me know if that is the case. 

  3. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    Ohio Revised Code 3761.12 makes it a felony to commit a crime with two or more people while wearing white caps, masks or other disguise

    Oooooh man that's some good turning a shield into a sword and finding an old law meant to target klansmen and now using it to shut down peaceful assembly. To use that law in that way is an implicit equivocation of what these university protesters are doing to what the KKK was doing.

    It's diluting what the KKK was and did and STILL FUCKING IS to threaten and target college students with this law

    Shut the fuck up dude

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  4. 14 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

    I’ve never personally heard it, it must not happen.

    Your reading comprehension sucks camel dicks. 

  5. 30 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Yeah so am I but I know it is a very real thing.  Again, the dolts in the congregation may not know their church's thoughts on it, but their pastors do.

    As a Methodist, how often do you discuss "faith without works is dead" and the countervailing philosophies?  Do you have any idea which denominations subscribe to it and which explicitly deny it?

    Never. Of course. 

  6. 1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

    We're not talking about "Christian" support for Israel.  Quite the opposite, actually.  We're talking about fundagelical CINOs and their support for Israel.

    In a lot of ways, though, this is a theological issue like Arminianism or Calvinism, the trinity, etc.  A bunch of the dolts don't understand any of it, but their pastor tells em they're for Israel, so they are.

    And you are dead wrong if you believe that this is an uncommon, fringe belief.  You should familiarize yourself with premillenialism, dispensationalism, and Christian Zionism.  They are not mainstream Protestant beliefs, but then again, what is anymore?

    I’m Methodist. Heard of all this shit - never seen it live, and I know tons of people, mostly of faith and diverse denominations at that. This is in no way mainstream. I’ve literally heard nobody discuss any of this. 

    When Gaza is discussed in church, prayers are offered for the conflict and everyone involved. 

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  7. 19 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Rex is really on an impressive run of talking out of his ass in the last few days.

    Rex, you know, you could try just googling this shit. There's been a ton of reporting and commentary on this literally for decades.  Here's just one recent article

     

    That is a load of horseshit. First, the article doesn’t tie “end times” directly to too many of these pastors mouths.  Second, I’ve literally never heard any pastor (of probably 6 I’ve seen since 10/7/2023) mention the rapture in association with Israel. I’ve never heard anyone discuss it amongst friends. I don’t know one person that believes we are living in end times. This isn’t mainstream. 

  8. 16 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    There is a sizable segment of fundamentalist Christianity whose support of Israel is based entirely on their eschatology, their doctrine of the last things.

    And, according to that eschatology, the existence of Israel, a Jewish state, is essential to the second coming of the Messiah.  And, those same sects do not believe that Jews are saved or have any particular interest in Jews other than the continued existence of the state of Israel, for the foregoing reason.

    The post you criticize was limited to White Supremacists and Christian Nationalists, it did not purport to explain anything about Christians more broadly.

    Sizable segment?  I’d like to meet ONE of these people before their compound is stormed. Also, the “sects [that] do not believe that Jews are saved”, I’d like to meet one of these people. You guys are WAY overplaying that reason Christian support for Israel. 

    I don’t recall Dixon’s post being limited to nationalists. It appears it was. The last paragraph indicated it was mainstream Christianity. His post cannot be applied broadly to evangelicals. Not even close. 

  9. 2 hours ago, Captainant said:

    Just to clarify, what is the "red meat", who is the "opposition", and who are the "extremists" that you mean? Israel appears to be ramping up to fully invade and take land by aggression. 

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/live-updates-israel-urges-civilians-leave-eastern-rafah-cease-fire-hop-rcna150801

    That isn't something my tax dollars should be going to. They should be going to wars of national defense, like in Ukraine, rather than wars of aggression that has killed tens of thousands of civilians while killing a few thousand terrorists. 

    Totally different argument. The protestors have totally wasted their time. 

  10. 39 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Come on. I assume you're a Christian, so you should know this.

    Where's the loophole for non-believing Jews in scripture? Jesus and his disciples themselves were Jewish and said you had to 1) believe Jesus was the son of god and 2) you had to do good works:

    John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

    John 4:16 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

    Romans 10:9 Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

    Matthew 7:21-27 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

    John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

    Do you just not believe in hell or the Rapture? Because, from my experience, most Evangelicals do, and most White Nationalists also happen to be Evangelicals.

     

    lol did you just cite all those Bible verses focusing on one small part of Dixon’s post?  I have issues with all of it, including the notion that Christians even think about Jews going to hell, and why we typically support Israel, and that the rapture has anything to do with it. It’s a laughable post. 

  11. On 5/1/2024 at 2:09 PM, DixonHur said:

    I think you're conflating White Nationalists with Chirstian Nationalists (who for the most part are white), which is understandable since the Venn Diagram of the two groups is almost a perfect circle. 

    But I think you're wrong about the Judeo-Christian kumbaya aspect.  Christian (white) Nationalists don't give a shit about the Jews as a people.  They need Israel to be a Jewish homeland for the rapture to occur.

    I mean the entire dogma is that Christianity is supreme and everyone else, including the Jews are going to Hell.

    Man that’s the biggest fucking wild ass stretch I’ve ever seen. You’re wrong on like every little aspect of this. 

  12. On 3/20/2024 at 10:11 PM, Rex Kramer said:

    I’d run for office on the dual issue platform to lower taxes and to euthanize pits. The people above are too stupid to reside in my constituency. 

    @royivdoesnt like my platform. Presumably he supports pits, high taxes, or dumb posters on Facebook and Instagram. 

  13. Just now, bolverk said:

    As I said in my first post on this topic:

    Edit: There might be some loophole for racial harassment since he targeted his speech toward a specific individual. I don't know, however, if his speech crossed that threshold because I don't know where that line lies.

    There may have been a discrimination loophole for free speech in the OU frat case, too, since it was a fraternity-sponsored event where an African American student could reasonably assume they'd be discriminated against on racial grounds from joining that fraternity. Maybe that would be sufficient grounds for getting around First Amendment concerns. I don't know.

    What I do know is that I'm generally against government curtailment of constitutionally guaranteed free speech. There's a line you've got to cross first, and I'm not sure the Ole Miss fuckhead crossed it. I would, however, like to see him face non-governmental consequences.

    He’ll face consequences. He already has. The other 2, I know for a fact one went to graduate UT and cannot hold work. He’s unhirable.  

    I have zero issue with an entity deciding this guy creates a dangerous environment and can’t be there. If a government employee for the state of MS had some something similar, they’d be terminated. I cannot appreciate the difference. Yeah, the kid can say whatever he wants, but he’s got to pay the consequences. 

  14. 7 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    that one dog in the video above is huuuge! the rest do look like pit mixes (as best you can tell from far away), but that thing looks like a mastiff or something. absolutely terrifying! looks like they were trying to eat that guy's dog, i think he's shielding a smallish white dog in his arms. 

    and is someone yelling 'pussy!' at the cop at the end? yeah, fuck you buddy. for once lethal force looks justified. good lord 😳 

    It’s a Cane Corso. There used to be some jackass here, Slade, that was a staunch pit defender. He’d always post the composite pic of 20 dog breeds that looked like pits but only 2 were APB and Staffordshires. One, oddly, was a fucking beagle. One was a Cane Corso and he’d also start his lectures off with “My Cane Corso…”

    I heard the guy yell pussy. What a jackass. That guy was as good as dead had the cop not been there. These dogs should all be eradicated, and their owners prosecuted for any damage they cause. 

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  15. 6 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    He has a hell of a case if he was kicked out of school. From the river to the sea and other antisemitic comments are just as offensive. Why single him out from all the other racist shit that is going on?

    I mean I guess he does. Just because there’s a double standard for racism doesn’t mean this guy has “a hell of a case”. 

  16. 6 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    I am serious, but I didn't realize that a couple of them were expelled from school. A very quick search led me to a wiki entry on it, where their expulsion is called into question on constitutional grounds, and several experts agree with my layman's opinion. I may or may not be right, but my initial thoughts about the Ole Miss frat rat are not as ridiculous as you make it out to be.

    University of Oklahoma president David Boren ordered the expulsion of the two students who led the chant, Michael Levi Pettit[12] and Parker Rice.[12] Through two letters addressed to them, Boren justified their expulsions on the grounds that they "played a leadership role" in creating "an extremely hostile learning environment".[13][14][7] The action taken by the university was based on school's Student Rights & Responsibilities Code.[15][16][17] Rice and Pettit, both Dallas natives, enrolled in the Austin and Dallas branches of the University of Texas, respectively.

    The LA Times reported that Boren appeared to be alluding to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bans racial discrimination at universities receiving federal money.[17] However, the expulsions may have been a violation of the students' first amendment rights.[17] First Amendment law specialist and UCLA Law professor Eugene Volokh asserted that President Boren's actions were unconstitutional.[18] Oklahoma State University media law associate professor Joey Senat stated that the chant was offensive but is still protected free speech.[19] Glenn Reynolds, a professor of law at the University of Tennessee, expressed the opinion that as a former U.S. senator, Boren should have known that the university was breaking the law in expelling the two students.[20] A Washington Post article reported that a Sigma Chi fraternity successfully challenged similar action taken against them by George Mason University in 1992.[21]

     

     

    Whatever. Their lives at OU were over.  Boren probably knew they weren’t going to litigate his ruling, which surely violated handbook policy and as stated Title VI of the CRA. Boren had a reasonable, successful approach. 

  17. 1 minute ago, Bevo said:

    For some it is better that they keep their mask on. I can imagine there were some rude awakenings after some masquerade balls.

    Yep. And the majority of regular mask wearers don’t need to wear them, even in congested places like airports and planes. 

  18. 1 hour ago, bolverk said:

    As far as I'm aware, he was only kicked out of his frat, not the school. I don't think a university (government entity) has the right to kick him out based on the content of his speech alone.

    Edit: There might be some loophole for racial harassment since he targeted his speech toward a specific individual. I don't know, however, if his speech crossed that threshold because I don't know where that line lies.

    OU guys were kicked out, and this guy has been kicked out. Of course the university can kick him out for any poor behavior. You cannot be serious. 

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  19. 3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Of course if you were a billionaire you’d avoid paying your fair share of money back to the country that allowed you to amass such wealth, and you’d subvert democracy in your favor. Quite the flex. 

    First of all it was a joke. Second, I said multiple times any criticism of him outside the limited scope of the tweet was fine. Third, I later wished I hadn’t made any comment at all. Fourth, I laughed at your meme. Fifth, I like Mexico. 

  20. 41 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    Speaking of eating baby:

     

     

     

    I am going to give this one more shot. Please be kind or just scroll on. 

    Basic info:
    Male, neutered, around 5 yrs old, friendly, high activity needs walks daily and loves hiking, is up to date on shots. 
    Prefer a home with no other animals (not aggressive but territorial) and absolutely no kids/babies (teens would be fine)

    Leo is not acclimating to a baby in the home at all, we've given it almost a year, it is not working out and he needs a new home. 

    Details/full transparency:

    Leo is still currently living in our home. It is a dangerous situation for myself and most importantly my son. Back in October, Leo went after me one morning. I think he was just startled with my quick movement around the baby, but my husband had to pull him away from me and restrain him until he calmed down. Had my husband not been home I don't know what I would have done. 

    Since that incident we have drove all over, called dozens of rescues and shelters, made several posts with absolutely no luck in finding a place for Leo to go. He cannot stay here. 

    Since october, Leo has growled and showed territorial behaviors around my son 3 additional times and has mouthed at my legs and hands a few times as well when baby was crying. 

    Now that my son is very mobile, gets into everything and constantly tries to pet Leo through the baby gate- my concerns for my sons safety has tripled. (Just last night, oaklee tried to pet him and he growled at him again) I cannot rest, our home is no longer our safe space. We have been very patient and diligent in trying to place Leo with a family situation that will work for him. 

    Almost every shelter/rescue I have spoken to (behavioralist as well) have suggested just putting Leo down because homing him will be incredibly difficult. -which it has proven to absolutely be. 

    I am exhausted. My husband is exhausted. Leo is miserable. I would really love to see him be the happy thriving pup he was before we brought baby home. (And before you go there- I was infertile for 15 years of my relationship with my husband, our child is a miracle and was not planned on when we brought Leo home.) 

    If you are interested or know anyone who would be please reach out to me. I have one last page of rescues given to me by animal control 3 hours away from home to make calls to, if none of these are able to take him and no one comes through I may have to make the devastating decision to put him down. I do not want to do that, please, someone come through for him.image.thumb.png.cf15bd9992451310c9ae0ba5cfa87336.png

     

    It’s totally reckless leaving that dog in the world one second after he made the first aggressive move at the baby. She’s trying to unleash him on the world. 

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  21. 58 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

    I have no idea, but I know that Rex Kramer was clearly Porterhouse(airplane avatar) and denies it, so not really gonna believe anything else he says.

    I’m not PH. I’m not really interested if anyone believes me about that guy. I just would like to totally steer clear of him but he makes it literally impossible. He should put me on Ignore too. 

  22. 2 hours ago, Pods said:

    The entire reason the No Labels Party exists is to siphon off moderate voters to aid Trump and Co. 

    I honestly thought it’d siphon significantly from both. I’m quite certain he was a Trump supporter in ‘16 and ‘20; there’s just no direct record of it. 

     

    2 hours ago, Captainant said:

     

     

    Harrison Ford That Belongs In A Museum GIF

    My man, choosing to keep a Hitler in your home is a fuckin CHOICE. If he thinks there's some cultural significance, donate it to a fucking museum and don't glorify one of the most evil men in modern history 

    Yeah I’d like a do-over on this whole discussion. The more I consider it the more I think it’s just weird. I should’ve never commented. 

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