Like, a pedo? Just like tRump, whose name is all over the Epstein files? The files that Holy Mike Johnson is desperate to keep hidden:
"House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear in Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva who won her race for the Arizona 7th Congressional District this week. Grijalva will be the 218th and final signature needed on a discharge petition to force a floor vote in the House on releasing the Epstein files."
Both. Just being his son’s porn blocker, and expecting his son to block his, says something about his lack of appropriate boundaries regarding sex and children.
Sadly the cult already made it clear they don’t care about the files or pedos. They are the supreme protectors of pedos. But yes, we still need to push on with exposing every last one of them anyway.
Yeah; the snake! Apologies to snakes everywhere. MAGA Mike must be maga scared at this point. The bastards are going to shut the government down over Trumpstein. We should raise holy Hell and make it snap back on them so hard they’ll wish they were in Hell for good.
If I had a son on that basketball team I would be encouraging him to go out for a different sport or at the very least have "the talk" with him about inappropriate touching.
If that son is Internet savvy, it might be prudent to have him do a search engine with the words “youth pastor arrrested for child pornography/child molestation.” Forewarned is forearmed.
“It’s right over there. It’s the Bible.” And then I just walked out.”
She was obviously looking for a specific book by the way he described the wording of her question.
“Hey, I’m looking for, like, a book... it’s got mystery and suspense.”
She would have said something more like “I’m looking for a mystery and suspense book.” But when she said “it’s got” it implies she has a specific book in mind. And then he’s like “The Bible has all this great stuff” and then leave like you imparted great knowledge and a chorus of angels started singing, she followed a beam of light right to the Bible and as she touched it became filled with the Holy Spirit. Like walking away from an explosion you caused without looking back. Dude, it’s not that interesting.
If this happened at all, you all know preachers be lying, it probably ended with her rolling her eyes and going back to the librarian to get a real answer. And now she’s probably not going to trust you with a question again since your answer to everything is “Bible, Bible, god, Jesus.”
Besides, the Bible isn’t a coherent story, it does t follow a story arc, most of it is rambling nonsense and there’s a huge portion that is completely unreadable, being page after page-age of one name after another with begat throw in. That doesn’t even follow a sensical path. There’s no direct line through the begats, John begat Sam, but the next person isn’t Sam, it Wayne, whoever that is. And if you get through that, the stories aren’t even laid out like a book of fables or fairy tales, and many stories don’t even follow the pattern of a story, then there’s lists of naughty no nos spattered throughout. And that’s only if you can decipher the archaic language that misses all the regular rules of English since it’s a translation of a translation of a translation, ad nauseam.
"Besides, the Bible isn’t a coherent story, it does t follow a story arc, most of it is rambling nonsense and there’s a huge portion that is completely unreadable"
Let's not forget the duplication (two incompatible versions of the Genesis and 10 commandment stories), the plagiarism (teh Flud story) , the ahistorical nature of it (no, Jericho didn't have walls for Joshua to knock down) and the incompatibilities with known science (too many to mention).
The worst thing may be how unethical many of the stories in it are (again, too many to mention).
“I was like, I don’t really care, you can fire me. I don’t care. Right? Where’s [school board member] Todd [Aynes]? He’s on the school board. Make sure it doesn’t happen.”
So which is it? Do you not care if you get fired, should Todd protect you? It cannot go both ways. Either be a martyr for your cause or shut up.
He's incredibly stupid if he think the Bible contains what the girl wants to read about, but it's not in there. Realistically if the girl wants to read about mystery and suspense, she should be directed to the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series that carries exactly what the Bible actually doesn't.
His statement, "𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞. 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞.." suggests to me that he knew what he was doing was wrong as he was doing it.
Certainly. Check under "C" in fiction for Agatha Christie. She's a wonderful mystery writer, very engaging and fun to read!
THAT is where a competent librarian might have gone and certainly where Logan McCourtney COULD have gone. But NOOOOOOOOO! He has to hawk his holy book because Great Commission or some other such horse manure.
Well, the FFRF is on his case now, and I hope they've fallen on him hard enough to leave footprints!
Romantic? I don't think so, unless you count Song of Solomon's erotic bits. But there sure is a lot of rape apologia. Suspense? Where? Surely a kid in 𝘈𝘳𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘴 would have a basic grasp of the bible, there certainly wouldn't be anything suspenseful. Only some murders? The body count is in the millions. Redemption and a hero? The "hero" has no redemption arc, and any actual redemption is when someone grovels to ask forgiveness for breaking an arbitrary rule thar makes no sense.
I guess McCourtney hasn't actually read the thing, just like nearly all of his fellow believers.
Thomas Jefferson once cut up the New Testament to lose the supernatural bullshit.
I'd like to see an edition of the bible that contains only the bits that believers want to keep hidden. All the horrific acts of incest, rape, torture, genocide, human sacrifice, cannibalism, etc.
I used up the last of my stock of compassion on Charlie Kirk. No matter how much we gave him, it was never enough. It's all on backorder now, thanks both to the tariffs and to the Canadians boycotting us.
What girl wouldn't want to read about "god's plan" for her?
1 Timothy 2:12: “A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.”
Deuteronomy 22:28-29: “If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.”
This is the shit Bible thumpers ignore, yet, claim the Bible is pristine, containing the actual words of their lord. Good grief, it’s written by a compilation of various authors throughout decades. Their efforts madly attempting to justify the supernatural tales of fantasy created to justify their religious beliefs. Phooey and hooey!
As if she’s never heard of it or have one in her house. She probably even knows the gist of the story enough to know that isn’t what she was looking for.
He won't do that. He can't. His indoctrination has him convinced that he is absolutely in the 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, no.matter what the law says. In fact, he believes that the phantom threat of being fired is (gasp!) 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. He knows what he did was prohibited, since after bragging about it, he tried to enlist the help of the school board to defend him from the "persecution" he is so certain will come his way.
The FFRF sent a letter to the school district to remind their employees to respect the Establishment Clause. They didn't demand that McCourtney be fired. They barely asked for a reprimand.
Yeah, if he’s up there telling everyone in the congregation to do it, he will not consider *cough* repenting *cough*. This was the righteous thing to do. Despite the fact he knows it’s wrong.
I'm wondering if Hemant made a typo, and that should have been, ". . . and admit he 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 be okay with it if an atheist or Muslim or other non-Christian adult told a kid during school hours that the Bible was a shitty book that wasn’t worth picking up."
Youth minister AND middle school basketball coach. Guess what THIS fairly screams.
Like, a pedo? Just like tRump, whose name is all over the Epstein files? The files that Holy Mike Johnson is desperate to keep hidden:
"House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear in Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva who won her race for the Arizona 7th Congressional District this week. Grijalva will be the 218th and final signature needed on a discharge petition to force a floor vote in the House on releasing the Epstein files."
https://meidasnews.com/news/mike-johnson-delays-swearing-in-adelita-grijalva-to-block-final-signature-on-epstein-petition
Mike Johnson=pedo or pedo enabler or both.
Both. Just being his son’s porn blocker, and expecting his son to block his, says something about his lack of appropriate boundaries regarding sex and children.
I wouldn't been surprised if he has another phone without that app.
There may never have been a worse representative of the xtian faith than L’il Mikey Johnson. Hypocrisy and prevarication, ALL DAY LONG.
He’s one of the worst because he’s a “true believer”. I remember screaming about his election to house speaker and I got mostly blank stares.
Coward!
Sadly the cult already made it clear they don’t care about the files or pedos. They are the supreme protectors of pedos. But yes, we still need to push on with exposing every last one of them anyway.
Yeah; the snake! Apologies to snakes everywhere. MAGA Mike must be maga scared at this point. The bastards are going to shut the government down over Trumpstein. We should raise holy Hell and make it snap back on them so hard they’ll wish they were in Hell for good.
Not a drag queen?
It screams: 'Hey, little girl, I've a van parked out behind the church dumpsters. Wanna come see it? I've got lots of mystery books.....'
Certainly my first thought! I predict his arrest will be reported here within a year!! 🥳
Hey little girl is your daddy home?
Oh, oh oh,
I'm on fire!!
Bruce's subject was mid twenties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpXArn3hII
I actually quite love this song ;)
Especially since he doesn't look anything like Fred Jones.
If I had a son on that basketball team I would be encouraging him to go out for a different sport or at the very least have "the talk" with him about inappropriate touching.
Especially by youth pastors.
If that son is Internet savvy, it might be prudent to have him do a search engine with the words “youth pastor arrrested for child pornography/child molestation.” Forewarned is forearmed.
100%
He claims he doesn't care if he gets fired, then turns right around and seeks help to make sure he doesn't get fired.
Fucking groomers.
These fundamentalists think they are entitled to do anything that they think their imaginary God would approve of them doing.
““And she said, “Where do I find it?”
“It’s right over there. It’s the Bible.” And then I just walked out.”
She was obviously looking for a specific book by the way he described the wording of her question.
“Hey, I’m looking for, like, a book... it’s got mystery and suspense.”
She would have said something more like “I’m looking for a mystery and suspense book.” But when she said “it’s got” it implies she has a specific book in mind. And then he’s like “The Bible has all this great stuff” and then leave like you imparted great knowledge and a chorus of angels started singing, she followed a beam of light right to the Bible and as she touched it became filled with the Holy Spirit. Like walking away from an explosion you caused without looking back. Dude, it’s not that interesting.
If this happened at all, you all know preachers be lying, it probably ended with her rolling her eyes and going back to the librarian to get a real answer. And now she’s probably not going to trust you with a question again since your answer to everything is “Bible, Bible, god, Jesus.”
Besides, the Bible isn’t a coherent story, it does t follow a story arc, most of it is rambling nonsense and there’s a huge portion that is completely unreadable, being page after page-age of one name after another with begat throw in. That doesn’t even follow a sensical path. There’s no direct line through the begats, John begat Sam, but the next person isn’t Sam, it Wayne, whoever that is. And if you get through that, the stories aren’t even laid out like a book of fables or fairy tales, and many stories don’t even follow the pattern of a story, then there’s lists of naughty no nos spattered throughout. And that’s only if you can decipher the archaic language that misses all the regular rules of English since it’s a translation of a translation of a translation, ad nauseam.
You risked your job for that. Fucking moron.
"Besides, the Bible isn’t a coherent story, it does t follow a story arc, most of it is rambling nonsense and there’s a huge portion that is completely unreadable"
Let's not forget the duplication (two incompatible versions of the Genesis and 10 commandment stories), the plagiarism (teh Flud story) , the ahistorical nature of it (no, Jericho didn't have walls for Joshua to knock down) and the incompatibilities with known science (too many to mention).
The worst thing may be how unethical many of the stories in it are (again, too many to mention).
When the first two chapters contradict each other, you are not off to a good start.
An all-knowing god asked questions in Eden. Not once but several times. He coudn’t locate Adam in his own Garden.
An all-powerful god is described as walking in the cool of that Garden. YHVH is temperature-sensitive?
A god that demanded they bury their shit cuz it couldn't stand stepping in it. Omni could not remove it?
It's more fun than that for Jericho. There may have been no one there at the time (from the babble account) Joshua destroyed it. Ooops.
“I was like, I don’t really care, you can fire me. I don’t care. Right? Where’s [school board member] Todd [Aynes]? He’s on the school board. Make sure it doesn’t happen.”
So which is it? Do you not care if you get fired, should Todd protect you? It cannot go both ways. Either be a martyr for your cause or shut up.
He's incredibly stupid if he think the Bible contains what the girl wants to read about, but it's not in there. Realistically if the girl wants to read about mystery and suspense, she should be directed to the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series that carries exactly what the Bible actually doesn't.
If he pushed the Koran on her, would he still have a job?
If she is in 8th or 9th grade, she could even try some Agatha Christie.
She is just about the right age to start reading the "His Dark Materials" books, by Philip Pullman.
I'd suggest the Tiffany Aching books in Sir Terry's Discworld series.
Or Where's My Cow? 😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Aching
Burned down Chicago? Mrs. O'Leary mysteries. LOL
Genevieve Cogman: Invisible library series
Jasper Fforde: Thursday Next series
Two great series with a library setting, a female lead character and mystery, suspense, romance and fantasy themes.
His statement, "𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞. 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞.." suggests to me that he knew what he was doing was wrong as he was doing it.
I honestly believe he didn’t realize how he was hanging himself with his own words.
Xtians aren’t too self-aware.
He clearly knew he was breaking educational rules & laws. Typical churchling assholiness.
We desperately need total & permanent Separation of Religion & State.
Assholiness vs assholism?
𝐻𝑒𝑦, 𝐼’𝑚 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟, 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒, 𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘... 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒.
Certainly. Check under "C" in fiction for Agatha Christie. She's a wonderful mystery writer, very engaging and fun to read!
THAT is where a competent librarian might have gone and certainly where Logan McCourtney COULD have gone. But NOOOOOOOOO! He has to hawk his holy book because Great Commission or some other such horse manure.
Well, the FFRF is on his case now, and I hope they've fallen on him hard enough to leave footprints!
Beat you to it by 10 minutes 😁
Thanks DM.
Great emission, you say?
𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐮 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐢𝐦 (𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮)
https://crossexaminedblog.com/2018/12/03/missionary-john-chau-died-for-nothing-why-the-great-commission-didnt-apply-to-him-or-to-you/
“𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐? 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒? 𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔? 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑜.”
Romantic? I don't think so, unless you count Song of Solomon's erotic bits. But there sure is a lot of rape apologia. Suspense? Where? Surely a kid in 𝘈𝘳𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘴 would have a basic grasp of the bible, there certainly wouldn't be anything suspenseful. Only some murders? The body count is in the millions. Redemption and a hero? The "hero" has no redemption arc, and any actual redemption is when someone grovels to ask forgiveness for breaking an arbitrary rule thar makes no sense.
I guess McCourtney hasn't actually read the thing, just like nearly all of his fellow believers.
Thomas Jefferson once cut up the New Testament to lose the supernatural bullshit.
I'd like to see an edition of the bible that contains only the bits that believers want to keep hidden. All the horrific acts of incest, rape, torture, genocide, human sacrifice, cannibalism, etc.
That just got rid of the entire thing.
Like while he is like at the junior high, he should like sit in on a like a grammar/speech class.
But then he will not be able to communicate with his congregation anymore.
Like, for sure.
It's not like he knew he was in the wrong, aside from him pointing it out to a school board member directly in front of the congregation........
Clearly he is the victim in this situation. Where is your compassion?
I used up the last of my stock of compassion on Charlie Kirk. No matter how much we gave him, it was never enough. It's all on backorder now, thanks both to the tariffs and to the Canadians boycotting us.
Two things that never grow old:
1. Jokes about Charlie Kirk.
2. Charlie Kirk
Dear me, did I type that? Oops.
In vacation where the sun doesn't shine.
What girl wouldn't want to read about "god's plan" for her?
1 Timothy 2:12: “A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.”
Deuteronomy 22:28-29: “If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.”
This is the shit Bible thumpers ignore, yet, claim the Bible is pristine, containing the actual words of their lord. Good grief, it’s written by a compilation of various authors throughout decades. Their efforts madly attempting to justify the supernatural tales of fantasy created to justify their religious beliefs. Phooey and hooey!
All this is fine, after all, it isn't as though women are actual persons. They are simply chattels, like chickens and cows.
The Taliban have gone back that far, there are some members of the religious right in the US who have severe Taliban envy.
Trump1:1: Grab em by the pussy.
He’s probably secretly hoping he gets in a little (little) trouble. It fuels his pretend persecution feelings. Proves he’s a real believer.
It can also be profitable and a path to fame.
Enabled by people like you who are too brainwashed to differentiate fiction and reality. Like the people who spout zionist propaganda.
Is our cynicism rubbing off onto you?
As if she’s never heard of it or have one in her house. She probably even knows the gist of the story enough to know that isn’t what she was looking for.
Obviously, she didn't read the right babble if she didn't know there was all this in it.
𝐵𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝, 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑘𝑎𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑚 𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑛-𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑎 𝑘𝑖𝑑 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝.
He won't do that. He can't. His indoctrination has him convinced that he is absolutely in the 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, no.matter what the law says. In fact, he believes that the phantom threat of being fired is (gasp!) 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. He knows what he did was prohibited, since after bragging about it, he tried to enlist the help of the school board to defend him from the "persecution" he is so certain will come his way.
The FFRF sent a letter to the school district to remind their employees to respect the Establishment Clause. They didn't demand that McCourtney be fired. They barely asked for a reprimand.
Yeah, if he’s up there telling everyone in the congregation to do it, he will not consider *cough* repenting *cough*. This was the righteous thing to do. Despite the fact he knows it’s wrong.
Indeed. He'll continue his smug, self-satisfied behavior until until he forces the FFRFs hand.
𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛’𝑡?
I'm wondering if Hemant made a typo, and that should have been, ". . . and admit he 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 be okay with it if an atheist or Muslim or other non-Christian adult told a kid during school hours that the Bible was a shitty book that wasn’t worth picking up."