Idiot who tried to evangelize on North Sentinel island and well, the inhabitants are know to be extremely hostile to outsiders, sufficiently so, that the island is quarantined.
I got to say it: this lying sack of shit is an embarrassment not just to our government, but to the millions of American citizens who would hear what he said about conception and evolution and would either convulse with laughter or facepalm themselves red. I read Azinger's words and all I can sense is mad desperation, a desperation borne possibly of his awareness that his brand of Christianity is losing traction in the US and is being replaced by reason and secularism and garden-variety common sense ... except obviously in the state of West Virginia, where that misguided bill passed by a wide margin
[He shakes his head and groans] Honestly, it's too early in the day for me to be reaching for the Glenlivet
Beat me to it. I started headdesking around college students with this level of ignorance when I was a bio grad student and teaching assistant in the mid-80s. (The term "headdesk" hadn't been invented yet..)
His official bio says the following about his education: B.S., Masters of Pastoral Theology. The B.S. is clearly not Bachelors of SCIENCE. Or English. Amd pastoral theology? He misreads the Torah!
The people who attack evolution never seem to grasp the fact they have an obligation to prove their own point, and that simply attacking Darwin doesn't do that. They simply assume they win by default if evolution can be discredited. Creationists have been flailing away at poor old Darwin for over a century and half, and have yet to land a punch. Meanwhile, science just keeps reinforcing natural selection. It disgusts me that we're still having this discussion. Religion is about belief. Science is about facts and what is testable.
Their own logic is argument from authority, so they assume science is argument from authority too. They don't get that scientists will happily discuss all the ways Darwin was wrong...while still wholeheartedly recognizing evolution.
If logic were their strong point, they probably wouldn't be attacking evolution using religion; attempting to use a nonsensical argument to 'logically' prove a point would be pretty much the height of cognitive dissonance.
Then again, there do always seem to be these outliers that pop up, don't there?
They’re the incels on dating sites asking if the clit is tight. Or saying periods come out our butts, and we pee and sex through the same hole. I read something from a woman who worked for some national politician (rep or senator, not sure which) who thought we can just hold our periods and didn’t understand that we need to do something to absorb the blood right away. He thought it was just an excuse for women to get more bathroom breaks. But the sheer number of men who don’t get that we can’t just hold our periods like we hold our pee, or even that our diet causes us to have a period. Like, it affects our periods but we don’t bleed because we aren’t supposed to eat meat like our ancestors, the women who foraged for nuts and berries, not the big manly men who hunted. The ignorance of some folks is breathtaking and the fact that they want to spread it to others is sickening.
I posted on a group about men’s misbehavior a meme about an obstetrician who was lamenting how ignorant even their patients are regarding the connection between sex and pregnancy, noting that they have 14 year old patients. The spread of this type of misinformation and ignorance does not protect children from pregnancy or harm, it only makes them more likely targets for abuse and victimization.
Oh come on, those mood swings are stimulating! And having to get up in the middle of the night because you're soaked with sweat and you need to change is good if you're having bad dreams, right? And hot flashes are a treat, don't forget those.
And the most fun I had was going on birth control for 18 months at age 55 (the women here will understand) and gaining 20 pounds!
People in general often lack empathy for experiences they can't translate into something personal. But hell, just *basic education* - no empathy required - should have been enough to get those idiots beyond the callousness you're talking about.
"West Virginia is currently ranked 47th in the nation when it comes to education."
I don't need magic powers to predict they will soon be 50th.
The future of theses children is dire, not only they will have a subpar uneducation, but they will have troubles to have a valuable diploma and find a good paying job later.
Keep in mind: The ranking for NM being 50th is just based on Education and not the state's overall ranking. That 'honor' goes to Louisiana. They've been ranked 50th Overall for years.
I really don't think these Republicans care about the children being appropriately educated. I'm convinced that their main priority is completely self-serving and their intent is to raise a generation of kids who'll become predominantly ultra right wing voters to counter the naturally increasing progressivism they see in each new generation. They know that their political power and influence is doomed otherwise. The most effective way to manipulate and control someone is to lie to them, gaslight them, and keep them willfully ignorant. Add onto that, the fact that most of these Republicans actually believe their own lies, and you end up with an incredibly toxic group of people who are relentless in pursuing their agenda at the expense of others' wellbeing. It's the same mindset and tactics narcissistic abusers use.
And listen to the prolific amount of projection that right wingers engage in: All of the accusations of indoctrination of children, censorship, persecution, and claims that Democrats are a danger to kids and have some grand scheme to brainwash them against their will to embrace liberal values like tolerance, equality, diversity, science, etc. They're revealing exactly what their own motivations and goals are by projecting them onto the opposition. Everyone needs to pay attention and take it seriously.
I'm really heartbroken for these poor kids. I know exactly what it's to be lied to and manipulated as a child by the adults you're supposed to trust and who you assume have your best interests at heart. It f**ks you up for life and one is very fortunate to ever completely break free from it. Now I watch this happening on such a grand scale and I can't help but take it personally.
“Any Jew who believes the first five books of the Bible would, by definition, believe that life begins at conception“
I won’t say that no Jewish people believe in the first five books of the Bible, but the first five books of the Bible are not the same as the book the Jewish religion is based on. It was taken from the Talmud, but it has been bastardized by and for Christians. Don’t tell other people what they believe or think, idiot.
But Republican lawmakers are experts on everything. Women, Gender Identity, sexual orientation, evolution, gestation, and the practice of medicine in general. Don't you know it's a requirement to have an M.D. or Ph.D. in biology/science to run for office as a Republican?
Life begins at conception, huh? Does that mean Adam and Eve were never alive, since they were manufactured instead of being conceived? A sperm cell and an egg cell aren't alive? I think you need to go back to school to learn the basics of biology and Christian theology.
Can you imagine being one of this guy's constituents who actually understands how completely out of touch with reality he is, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it?
The bible clearly states that life begins with the first breath.
Genesis 2:7 (KJV)
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙."
Ezekiel 37:6 (KJV)
"And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒; and ye shall know that I am the Lord."
Behold. The Imminent Demise of Evolution: The Longest Running Falsehood in Creationism. The article that lists a whole slew of made up, unfounded lies about evolution being a dying trend dating all the way back to the mid-1800s' and still being told by modern day creation idiots like this clown in Office.
Yeah. Just saw a critique yesterday of a video with another creationist yapping about the "dying theory of evolution". It's the whole thing about the Big Lie and ignorance all over again. (These people also have no idea what a theory is.)
Sometimes, I get the strangest ideas. Like today, today's idea was writing horrifically awful fanfiction on Baby Olivia and seeing how long it takes to circulate among the religious right. You know, some story about how Olivia's mother was stoned to death just hours after her birth for being raped and not screaming loudly enough, and how now Olivia should belong to her mother's rapist, who hasn't been found, so her mother's brother owns her. Later on, Olivia gets sold to a man who beats her and uses her, and then gets pregnant herself, and dies hours after the birth of her child because...you guessed it, she got raped and didn't scream loudly enough.
TLDR: There are some 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 we don't follow Old Testament/Jewish law traditions anymore, and I'm really sick of lawmakers behaving as though Jewish traditional law was the absolute peak of human legal code. It wasn't in a number of ways, and one would think after several thousand years, we'd have learned to do better.
There's passive ignorance, where you just never heard some information, there's negligent ignorance, where you could get the information but you just can't be bothered, and then there's active ignorance, where you work hard to avoid the information, deliberately misrepresent it, and tell lies about the information, its source, and the people who actually know and understand it. Your ignorance is based on fear, and your fear is based on ignorance. You also work hard to spread your disinformation to as many people as you can, since you only feel safe from the information if you're surrounded by folks who are ignorant in the same way that you are.
Mr. Azinger has a black belt in active ignorance, and the chance of any of the information that strikes terror in his heart ever getting into his mind is close to zero.
Civilization drags a stone called religion chained to its ankle.
Look folks, if you have to lie, manipulate and make excuses for your position, then you know damned good and well your position is wrong.
This guy is trying desperately to hide his cognitive dissonance, so he knows he’s lying, he knows he’s wrong. The problem is not that he has cognitive dissonance, the problem is that he needs it to keep his power. That is what this is all about. His greedy entitlement and villainous power hungering overpowers the cognitive dissonance.
My Southern Baptist elementary school in the 80's gave us more accurate information about heterosexual sex. They did it with a dose of shame and a senior citizen yelling at us to never do this until your financially and emotionally ready to be a parent, but what they taught was accurate, if limited in scope.
It's absurd just how mad and utterly detached from reality fundamentalist Christians have gotten in 40 years.
The Venn diagram of Azinger and his people, as opposed to those who prefer reality, are two circles, separated by a couple light-years. One simply has NOTHING to do with the other.
We never got any useful information about sex in school- especially not in elementary school. When I was in high school, which unfortunately was in the Baby Bush years, the only "sex education" we got was a bunch of pictures of STD symptoms to try to scare us all celibate. There was a bit about the stages of pregnancy in bio classes, but very little about starting one, equally little about completing one, and nothing at all about ending one.
This was in public school in New Jersey. The influence of prudish religious nitwits over education reaches far. I was lucky, though; I got a much more comprehensive sex education at home, because my parents were smart enough to realize that horny teenagers are a force of nature, and that ignorance is not a prophylactic.
I was in high school in the mid60s and we also got better info on fertilization and fetal development than this stupid video. In 8th grade we had “health” class with our phys ed teacher. She actually taught that men have one more rib than women.
You know who taught our sex-ed class? The school driver’s training instructor!! Granted, he actually gave us correct info but you could tell he was embarrassed.
How silly my country is. We stupidly have biology teachers teach about sex-ed.
Quoique my boardschool was not bad in this department. Girls sex-ed was teached by a representative of a brand of sanitary pads. But unlike gqp morons, they saw the errors of their way and send boys and girls, from 14 to 16, to a kind of interactive show about pregnancy, STDs and the likes.
Yeah, we had the pad discussion and an embarrassing video on puberty in 6th grade. I wasn’t embarrassed , it’s just the film they showed was so poor. I’d already had the big discussion with my parents, so it wasn’t anything new to me.
I didn't get a *talk* about pregnancy. But my mother made sure I knew she was 17, my father was 19, they did what they were 'supposed' to do and got married and made each other miserable for 3-4 years.
Lawmakers don't write laws anymore, lobbyist do. Unfortunately for thinking Americans, the lobbyists for the Maga-right are well organized and working from the same playbook. There is no doubt this law was written by someone like the Heritage Foundation and we'll see many more with the same wording get introduced in the coming months.
Lobbyists are also the ones who most often read and analyze other lawmakers' bills for their own pet lawmakers, too.
Which is somewhat unavoidable at the fed level - 1,000+ page bills, staff of maybe 10 all with many other job duties beyond reading a bill, yeah you're going to rely on interested 3rd parties to highlight to you the important bits (as they see it). However, at the state level, for shorter bills, I don't know how much this is an issue.
Wanna bet they limit those pictures to 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 development? I mean... have they even 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 what human embryos look like? Showing some of the early pictures would probably make a few people want to have an abortion 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦.
Yikes, my memory has failed me. I looked over Johnny's Wikipedia entry, and his scorning the idea of religious freedom is not mentioned. It did happen, though (it's actually in the link that NoGodz20 provided...third to last paragraph).
I started dreaming of this several years ago. Right about the time we had to start fighting for our right to marry. Just a week or so ago jesuswhorefrankie said I have no right to9 marry. Now my best dreams are of popes burned at stakes pounded into the steps of saint pete's basilica/pizzeria. Hate begets hate frankieboy!!!.
Unfortunately, they've pushed me to the point that I do have fantasies about well placed lightning strikes, telekinetically induced strokes and heart attacks, and single-car fatal DUIs.
"But the Missouri Republican Party has announced that it is taking steps to remove McClanahan from the ballot in response to reports that McClanahan has been active in the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)." I thought republicans were against CANCEL CULTURE
Late to the party today (where does the time go?). Well, I saw a flash of light today so I got a bit scared. I’m too old to raise any more children, so I called my local abortion emporium. As it turned out, it was just a light bulb that burned out, so whew! Dodged a bullet.
Evolution theory isn’t dying, it’s just those musty old brains gasping their last.
Will there also be a video showing how that sperm got from the man into the woman?
Yeah, it's called "Sorority Row Vixens."
It won a "Woody" at the porno movie awards.
'Tis passing strange, there is no page for that at the Internet Adult Film Database. 🤔
🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGaCprxoHMU
God did it. /s
In the missionary position, to boot.
Through a hole in the sheet, I'm sure.
If you're using a boot, it's mot missionary. : )
If you're wearing boots, it's S&M in the missionary position. 😉
Hey, don't knock the missionary position.
It's tried and true.
Not when you are called John Allen Chau.
I seem to have missed a name here...
Idiot who tried to evangelize on North Sentinel island and well, the inhabitants are know to be extremely hostile to outsiders, sufficiently so, that the island is quarantined.
But soooooo vanilla and heterosexual Christian.
Yes, but you don't have to be vanilla or Christian to enjoy that position.
How about a Jewish guy bopping a black girl in the missionary position?
A good time definitely had by both...
No vocalizing. And the woman has to stay still.
Sex in the trunk? That's even more uncomfortable than the backseat of a Volkswagen.
First open the backseat door to engage the dome light, then camera and ACTION!
"Dear Abby, dear Abby
Well I never thought
That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught
We were sitting in the back seat just shooting the breeze
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees
Signed just married"
-John Prine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJVFY_LX9Ik
I got to say it: this lying sack of shit is an embarrassment not just to our government, but to the millions of American citizens who would hear what he said about conception and evolution and would either convulse with laughter or facepalm themselves red. I read Azinger's words and all I can sense is mad desperation, a desperation borne possibly of his awareness that his brand of Christianity is losing traction in the US and is being replaced by reason and secularism and garden-variety common sense ... except obviously in the state of West Virginia, where that misguided bill passed by a wide margin
[He shakes his head and groans] Honestly, it's too early in the day for me to be reaching for the Glenlivet
We have long left facepalms behind and are right into headdesk territory.
We may have moved beyond headdesk and on to running full tilt into a brick wall.
No thank you, I've already had too many concussions.
I'm not sure the wall is brick. I think it's foot-thick steel.
Beat me to it. I started headdesking around college students with this level of ignorance when I was a bio grad student and teaching assistant in the mid-80s. (The term "headdesk" hadn't been invented yet..)
Dunno. Never too early these days.
Glenlivet....the good stuff.
True ... but there's also MacAllan. The REALLY good stuff! 😋
Yes, it is.
My reaction to what he said was ROTLMAO.
His official bio says the following about his education: B.S., Masters of Pastoral Theology. The B.S. is clearly not Bachelors of SCIENCE. Or English. Amd pastoral theology? He misreads the Torah!
The people who attack evolution never seem to grasp the fact they have an obligation to prove their own point, and that simply attacking Darwin doesn't do that. They simply assume they win by default if evolution can be discredited. Creationists have been flailing away at poor old Darwin for over a century and half, and have yet to land a punch. Meanwhile, science just keeps reinforcing natural selection. It disgusts me that we're still having this discussion. Religion is about belief. Science is about facts and what is testable.
Their own logic is argument from authority, so they assume science is argument from authority too. They don't get that scientists will happily discuss all the ways Darwin was wrong...while still wholeheartedly recognizing evolution.
If logic were their strong point, they probably wouldn't be attacking evolution using religion; attempting to use a nonsensical argument to 'logically' prove a point would be pretty much the height of cognitive dissonance.
Then again, there do always seem to be these outliers that pop up, don't there?
Honestly, could these men know LESS about reproduction in human animals?
Remember in 2012 when they talked about how women's bodies could just "get rid" of that impregnated egg if she was raped?
"A woman's body has a way to shut that whole thing down".
No, you moron, we don't. That's why there have been 64,000 forced births resulting from rape in abortion ban states since 2022.
White women need to start voting like their lives depend on it, because for some of us, it is true.
They’re the incels on dating sites asking if the clit is tight. Or saying periods come out our butts, and we pee and sex through the same hole. I read something from a woman who worked for some national politician (rep or senator, not sure which) who thought we can just hold our periods and didn’t understand that we need to do something to absorb the blood right away. He thought it was just an excuse for women to get more bathroom breaks. But the sheer number of men who don’t get that we can’t just hold our periods like we hold our pee, or even that our diet causes us to have a period. Like, it affects our periods but we don’t bleed because we aren’t supposed to eat meat like our ancestors, the women who foraged for nuts and berries, not the big manly men who hunted. The ignorance of some folks is breathtaking and the fact that they want to spread it to others is sickening.
I posted on a group about men’s misbehavior a meme about an obstetrician who was lamenting how ignorant even their patients are regarding the connection between sex and pregnancy, noting that they have 14 year old patients. The spread of this type of misinformation and ignorance does not protect children from pregnancy or harm, it only makes them more likely targets for abuse and victimization.
I'll admit I don't know much about female specific anatomy*, but I do know most women would gladly stop their periods if they could.
*I've had no need, or I would have fucking looked it up.
The only benefit to going through the hell of menopause is no more menstrual cycles.
Amen sista
Yep. And I still don't believe it was worth it.
Oh come on, those mood swings are stimulating! And having to get up in the middle of the night because you're soaked with sweat and you need to change is good if you're having bad dreams, right? And hot flashes are a treat, don't forget those.
And the most fun I had was going on birth control for 18 months at age 55 (the women here will understand) and gaining 20 pounds!
I can hear your sarcastical voice there.
Sigh. I'm sorry.
People in general often lack empathy for experiences they can't translate into something personal. But hell, just *basic education* - no empathy required - should have been enough to get those idiots beyond the callousness you're talking about.
That is one of the defects of the conservative brain and why they are so tribal.
Or the utter clown who wondered why women couldn't swallow little cameras to see what their uteri were up to...
In all the stupidity, I had forgotten that gem.
I am sure there is some who don't know in which hole to stick* it.
* My orthographic corrector has humor, he replaced "stick" by "dick" 🤣
Now dick it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Try to detect it
It's not too late
To dick it
Dick it good
Dick it WELL!
Sheeesh, whatever happened to good grammar?
;-)
Dick. It's good!
Filthy minded autocorrect.
Fitting, I guess.
"West Virginia is currently ranked 47th in the nation when it comes to education."
I don't need magic powers to predict they will soon be 50th.
The future of theses children is dire, not only they will have a subpar uneducation, but they will have troubles to have a valuable diploma and find a good paying job later.
Mississippi will never give up being 50th.
Didn't they buy the rights to being 50th? Sure feels like it.
Mississippi has proudly held that title for centuries.
New Mexico is dead last. Mississippi is 41st.
*does doubletake*
So now we're having an argument about the color of the dog who produced the shit that's on the bottom of our shoes?
Big and Red.
Clifford?
Let's just say he's a canine of interest in the investigation.
One?
Neither caramel or chocolate.
That's weird.
Must have something to do with the historic mistreatment of New Mexico's large Native American community.
Keep in mind: The ranking for NM being 50th is just based on Education and not the state's overall ranking. That 'honor' goes to Louisiana. They've been ranked 50th Overall for years.
Louisiana makes more sense.
Thank you, Huey Long, Leander Perez, Eddie Edwards, and David Duke.
The difference between the states holding the worst spots is minuscule.
Somewhere in the rankings is a vast chasm.
> "vast chasm"
That would most likely be the Sark Chasm.
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Ra la la. 51th then, happy now ?
Well, Luxembourg is next to go
And who knows, maybe Monaco...
-- Tom Lehrer.
🎵We'll try to stay serene and calm...when Alabama gets the bomb🎵
Greatest political satirist ever...
He's 95 now. When he goes, I shall weep unashamedly.
I really don't think these Republicans care about the children being appropriately educated. I'm convinced that their main priority is completely self-serving and their intent is to raise a generation of kids who'll become predominantly ultra right wing voters to counter the naturally increasing progressivism they see in each new generation. They know that their political power and influence is doomed otherwise. The most effective way to manipulate and control someone is to lie to them, gaslight them, and keep them willfully ignorant. Add onto that, the fact that most of these Republicans actually believe their own lies, and you end up with an incredibly toxic group of people who are relentless in pursuing their agenda at the expense of others' wellbeing. It's the same mindset and tactics narcissistic abusers use.
And listen to the prolific amount of projection that right wingers engage in: All of the accusations of indoctrination of children, censorship, persecution, and claims that Democrats are a danger to kids and have some grand scheme to brainwash them against their will to embrace liberal values like tolerance, equality, diversity, science, etc. They're revealing exactly what their own motivations and goals are by projecting them onto the opposition. Everyone needs to pay attention and take it seriously.
I'm really heartbroken for these poor kids. I know exactly what it's to be lied to and manipulated as a child by the adults you're supposed to trust and who you assume have your best interests at heart. It f**ks you up for life and one is very fortunate to ever completely break free from it. Now I watch this happening on such a grand scale and I can't help but take it personally.
The Republicans' War On Education is intentional.
The dumber they can make the public, the easier they'll swallow whatever bullshit the Repubs feed them, the more likely they'll vote Republican.
And thus their megalomaniacal grip on power is preserved.
Plus, ignorant people make better wage slaves.
Especially those conditioned to never question their “betters”.
FWIW, there seem to be about 15 states in the bottom 5 when it comes to education. Schroedinger’s Morons.
With Ryan Walters in Oklahoma? I think he can drive them further, especially since he seems thrilled with the murder of non-conformist students.
“Any Jew who believes the first five books of the Bible would, by definition, believe that life begins at conception“
I won’t say that no Jewish people believe in the first five books of the Bible, but the first five books of the Bible are not the same as the book the Jewish religion is based on. It was taken from the Talmud, but it has been bastardized by and for Christians. Don’t tell other people what they believe or think, idiot.
Christian Torahsplainin' to Jews. You knew it was eventually going to happen...and you knew it would be a right-wing evangelical who did it.
And I knew they’d be completely wrong.
What, do you believe there ever was a possibility they could be correct. About anything?
When they say overtly they want a theocracy
See majorly traitor green case.
It's like the old lawyer joke about lying: how do you know when they're wrong? Their mouths are open.
But Republican lawmakers are experts on everything. Women, Gender Identity, sexual orientation, evolution, gestation, and the practice of medicine in general. Don't you know it's a requirement to have an M.D. or Ph.D. in biology/science to run for office as a Republican?
/s in case any newbie needs it.
Mr Azinger:
Life begins at conception, huh? Does that mean Adam and Eve were never alive, since they were manufactured instead of being conceived? A sperm cell and an egg cell aren't alive? I think you need to go back to school to learn the basics of biology and Christian theology.
Can you imagine being one of this guy's constituents who actually understands how completely out of touch with reality he is, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it?
The bible clearly states that life begins with the first breath.
Genesis 2:7 (KJV)
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙."
Ezekiel 37:6 (KJV)
"And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒; and ye shall know that I am the Lord."
Saying he need to coming back to school is assuming he went a first time.
I'm just dead on the inside.
T'as besoin d'une bière ?
No, I'm good, but thanks for asking.
My kid LOVED "All My Friends are Dead" when he was 8-9. It's still on his bookshelf, years later.
That's a stiff proposition....
Light at the end of the tunnel: Some West Virginians tell a joke about the hillbilly who died smiling.
"What'd he die of?" the man's relatives asked the medical examiner. "He was struck by lightning," the medical examiner declared.
"Then why was he smiling?" the kinfolks wanted to know.
"Well," the ME said, "he thought he was gettin' his picture took."
"Meet my sister, also my wife...."
How biblical.
The evangelists don't talk about that much, though.
Because of their inbreeding, I guess.
Yeah, the Bible's full of God's unholy violence....
Are Lot's daughters' children sibling or cousins ? Discuss.
That would be like discussing whether my brother is brother or cousin once removed. (Tremenning in Norwegian). He is both.
Behold. The Imminent Demise of Evolution: The Longest Running Falsehood in Creationism. The article that lists a whole slew of made up, unfounded lies about evolution being a dying trend dating all the way back to the mid-1800s' and still being told by modern day creation idiots like this clown in Office.
https://thewordofme.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/the-imminent-demise-of-evolution-the-longest-running-falsehood-in-creationism/
Yeah. Just saw a critique yesterday of a video with another creationist yapping about the "dying theory of evolution". It's the whole thing about the Big Lie and ignorance all over again. (These people also have no idea what a theory is.)
Oh excellent, exactly the sort of thing I was looking for above. Thanks!
Sometimes, I get the strangest ideas. Like today, today's idea was writing horrifically awful fanfiction on Baby Olivia and seeing how long it takes to circulate among the religious right. You know, some story about how Olivia's mother was stoned to death just hours after her birth for being raped and not screaming loudly enough, and how now Olivia should belong to her mother's rapist, who hasn't been found, so her mother's brother owns her. Later on, Olivia gets sold to a man who beats her and uses her, and then gets pregnant herself, and dies hours after the birth of her child because...you guessed it, she got raped and didn't scream loudly enough.
TLDR: There are some 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 we don't follow Old Testament/Jewish law traditions anymore, and I'm really sick of lawmakers behaving as though Jewish traditional law was the absolute peak of human legal code. It wasn't in a number of ways, and one would think after several thousand years, we'd have learned to do better.
There's passive ignorance, where you just never heard some information, there's negligent ignorance, where you could get the information but you just can't be bothered, and then there's active ignorance, where you work hard to avoid the information, deliberately misrepresent it, and tell lies about the information, its source, and the people who actually know and understand it. Your ignorance is based on fear, and your fear is based on ignorance. You also work hard to spread your disinformation to as many people as you can, since you only feel safe from the information if you're surrounded by folks who are ignorant in the same way that you are.
Mr. Azinger has a black belt in active ignorance, and the chance of any of the information that strikes terror in his heart ever getting into his mind is close to zero.
Civilization drags a stone called religion chained to its ankle.
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Look folks, if you have to lie, manipulate and make excuses for your position, then you know damned good and well your position is wrong.
This guy is trying desperately to hide his cognitive dissonance, so he knows he’s lying, he knows he’s wrong. The problem is not that he has cognitive dissonance, the problem is that he needs it to keep his power. That is what this is all about. His greedy entitlement and villainous power hungering overpowers the cognitive dissonance.
My Southern Baptist elementary school in the 80's gave us more accurate information about heterosexual sex. They did it with a dose of shame and a senior citizen yelling at us to never do this until your financially and emotionally ready to be a parent, but what they taught was accurate, if limited in scope.
It's absurd just how mad and utterly detached from reality fundamentalist Christians have gotten in 40 years.
The Venn diagram of Azinger and his people, as opposed to those who prefer reality, are two circles, separated by a couple light-years. One simply has NOTHING to do with the other.
A couple lightyears is generous. I would say a few dozens of parsecs.
We never got any useful information about sex in school- especially not in elementary school. When I was in high school, which unfortunately was in the Baby Bush years, the only "sex education" we got was a bunch of pictures of STD symptoms to try to scare us all celibate. There was a bit about the stages of pregnancy in bio classes, but very little about starting one, equally little about completing one, and nothing at all about ending one.
This was in public school in New Jersey. The influence of prudish religious nitwits over education reaches far. I was lucky, though; I got a much more comprehensive sex education at home, because my parents were smart enough to realize that horny teenagers are a force of nature, and that ignorance is not a prophylactic.
I was in high school in the mid60s and we also got better info on fertilization and fetal development than this stupid video. In 8th grade we had “health” class with our phys ed teacher. She actually taught that men have one more rib than women.
You know who taught our sex-ed class? The school driver’s training instructor!! Granted, he actually gave us correct info but you could tell he was embarrassed.
How silly my country is. We stupidly have biology teachers teach about sex-ed.
Quoique my boardschool was not bad in this department. Girls sex-ed was teached by a representative of a brand of sanitary pads. But unlike gqp morons, they saw the errors of their way and send boys and girls, from 14 to 16, to a kind of interactive show about pregnancy, STDs and the likes.
Yeah, we had the pad discussion and an embarrassing video on puberty in 6th grade. I wasn’t embarrassed , it’s just the film they showed was so poor. I’d already had the big discussion with my parents, so it wasn’t anything new to me.
I didn't get a *talk* about pregnancy. But my mother made sure I knew she was 17, my father was 19, they did what they were 'supposed' to do and got married and made each other miserable for 3-4 years.
Duh! I mean one less rib.
Iowa House just passed a similar bill, same bullshit movie and all.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/02/28/house-passes-bill-requiring-schools-show-fetal-development-videos-to-students/
Lawmakers don't write laws anymore, lobbyist do. Unfortunately for thinking Americans, the lobbyists for the Maga-right are well organized and working from the same playbook. There is no doubt this law was written by someone like the Heritage Foundation and we'll see many more with the same wording get introduced in the coming months.
Project Blitz is continuing.
Let's go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQPdYttl7U
Lobbyists are also the ones who most often read and analyze other lawmakers' bills for their own pet lawmakers, too.
Which is somewhat unavoidable at the fed level - 1,000+ page bills, staff of maybe 10 all with many other job duties beyond reading a bill, yeah you're going to rely on interested 3rd parties to highlight to you the important bits (as they see it). However, at the state level, for shorter bills, I don't know how much this is an issue.
Wanna bet they limit those pictures to 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 development? I mean... have they even 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 what human embryos look like? Showing some of the early pictures would probably make a few people want to have an abortion 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦.
Want to bet if they are shown a picture of an early development pig fetus they would be unable to tell the difference ?
Both states don't seem to need geneticists or doctors.
OT
A possible future FA article?
"Rev. Martin Luther King was "not a Christian at all," claims old white hate pastor"
https://https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rev-martin-luther-king-was-not-a-christian-at-all-claims-old-white-hate-pastor/ar-BB1j8ocT
Virulently racist, pro-slavery, virulently anti-LGBTQ and a supremely ignorant liar.
IOW, a typical evilgelical.
Yup.
Johnny Mac has also come out against religious freedom (seriously, not a joke. Check out his Wikipedia entry).
No surprise. KKKlowns like him long for the days of the Inquisition(s).
Well, it's always good to be inquisitive about things, so I don't fault him for supporting it *smiles*
Yikes, my memory has failed me. I looked over Johnny's Wikipedia entry, and his scorning the idea of religious freedom is not mentioned. It did happen, though (it's actually in the link that NoGodz20 provided...third to last paragraph).
How about this guy?
𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 “𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/hate-preacher-says-gays-should-be-killed-by-electric-chair-because-its-a-little-more-painful/
Y'know, I've gone a whole lifetime so far without fantasizing about public execution. Juuuust sayin'.
I started dreaming of this several years ago. Right about the time we had to start fighting for our right to marry. Just a week or so ago jesuswhorefrankie said I have no right to9 marry. Now my best dreams are of popes burned at stakes pounded into the steps of saint pete's basilica/pizzeria. Hate begets hate frankieboy!!!.
Unfortunately, they've pushed me to the point that I do have fantasies about well placed lightning strikes, telekinetically induced strokes and heart attacks, and single-car fatal DUIs.
Saw and read that, too. Another IFB Christalibani.
Tell ya what, Larson. What's say we flip the script and say the same thing about Christians. Starting with you. How's it taste, asshole?
𝐍𝐞𝐰 IFB. I got spanked awhile ago over that mistake.
I see IFB and the distinction goes right out the window.
IFB didn't actually *call* for our deaths. They figured AIDS was taking care of that. At least that was my experience growing up in such a church.
I'm thinking of the long, bloody, hateful history of Baptists.
https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/429672459_1626698444783178_4085280459103830796_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3635dc&_nc_ohc=ty9hojh9mRAAX_wC7bb&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&oh=00_AfBxDh35t63U-SqU4LzVRdDh0pK14T4zXIRTHU7xR_DAfA&oe=65E726E4
Preachers should always lead by example.
Then he should come to Floriduh. Our Old Sparky was famous for setting people on fire.
> "𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 “𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥”"
Hey, two can play that game...
"Hate atheist Die Anyway says Christians should be killed by electric chair because its a little more painful."
Now what?
btw, just saw news item that UF has laid off all DEI staff due to DeSantis/Rethug law.
"But the Missouri Republican Party has announced that it is taking steps to remove McClanahan from the ballot in response to reports that McClanahan has been active in the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)." I thought republicans were against CANCEL CULTURE
I did a search engine with the words "missouri's long relationship with racism." Hit after hit.
Bing shows 6.34 MILLION hits
https://www.bing.com/search?form=MOZLBR&pc=MOZI&q=missouri%27s+long+relationship+with+racism
TIME TO GET RESTRAINING ORDERS AGAINST KKKRISTERS. CAPS INTENTIONAL.
Late to the party today (where does the time go?). Well, I saw a flash of light today so I got a bit scared. I’m too old to raise any more children, so I called my local abortion emporium. As it turned out, it was just a light bulb that burned out, so whew! Dodged a bullet.
Evolution theory isn’t dying, it’s just those musty old brains gasping their last.
Indescent bulbs got brighter sd they neared burnout. They went out in a flash.
Flash! Ah-aaaah!