The latest one being "won't somebody think of the children?"
The real reason they won't explain exactly what they think is "harmful to children"? Solely the fact that it's The Satanic Temple, and to admit such would be to admit that violating the Establishment Clause is their goal. In their minds, the fact that it is sponsored by Satanists makes it harmful to children by default. If they are aware of the hypocrisy, they don't care.
As further proven by their intransigence on the issue of abolishing child marriage in those states where it's still legal in the year 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺-𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳.
I don’t know that an abortion is the best choice, but it is and should be a choice. And I agree that a 12-year-old or even most 16-year-olds have any business getting married, much less to an adult who raped them. I wouldn’t oppose a marriage age of 25. I believe it should be the age of majority (and I’m not sure I agree that an 18-year-old is an adult)
It's not that they're out to violate the establishment clause, they're clarifying the establishment clause. As was consplained* to me by my christian, racist, misogynist, conservative (I know, redundant) coworker, "The freedom of religion is not the freedom from religion, but what religion you choose to follow." aka, you're free to choose what christian church you want to attend.
I just saw comments in an article elsewhere that said freedom of religion shouldn't exist because our rights come from god and he wouldn't give us the right to worship false gods.
And yet, here we are, with the obvious ability to do just that, if we choose to! The best arguments for the fallibility or nonexistence of gods always seem to come from, or be embodied by, the people who most zealously believe in them.
It's a weird and simplistic form of the whole free will debate. It's like everything is deterministic, except one single choice: "Do you accept jesus christ as lord and savior?" Either you choose jesus or sin.
That the only reason they're free to follow their religion is because they're free to 𝘯𝘰𝘵 follow every other just never seems to occur to these nincompoops.
Their view is that since 'Murica was founded as a christian nation of christians, by christians, and for christians, only one religion counts. Of course, that's BS backed up by pseudohistory, but, hey, the only thing that matters is the story, not reality.
"Won't somebody think of the children?" is only ever used to take rights away from out groups. People who actually think of the children have better things to do, like feed children, educate children, shelter children, and heal children.
We have the recorded history of the Christian religion. If anything has repeatedly shown itself to be harmful to minors...indeed, to ALL human beings...it's Christianity. That harm continues to the present day.
I think this statement by Gov. Reynolds, "This satanic event, which specifically targets children, is harmful to minors and so it was denied." will prove legally problematic should the Satanic Temple choose to sue on religious freedom grounds. Reynolds makes it clear that her, and by extension the state's, objection to the event was based on the religion of the group sponsoring it.
For the sake of the free exercise rights of the Satantic Temple and all other minority religions and of non-believers, I hope the Satanic Temple sues the governor and the state of Iowa. Any infringement of the equal rights granted to all of us by the U.S. Constitution needs to be fought vigorously and the violators need to be forced into compliance with the law.
If Reynolds and her ilk weren't so ham-fisted about it all, I might 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 respect the chutzpah of the little Catch-22 she's clearly set up: If the event isn't explicitly family-friendly, then it's "harmful to children" and can be cancelled. If the event 𝘪𝘴 explicitly family-friendly, then it's "𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 children" and can be cancelled.
Except... it doesn't seem like she thought that far ahead, strategically; rather, she just saw the word "Satan" and went with her first knee-jerk reaction of "𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦, 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭!" just like every other Nat-C does when the Satanists ask for a seat at the table.
These are the Seven Fundamental Tenets of the Satanic Temple. Every single one of them is "harmful to children" in the Maga Christian world. They are not interested in raising people who believe in fairness, equality or knowledge. They are interested in raising zombies, ready to deny reality and fall into line.
The people who made this decision care far more about their sense of Christian privilege than they do any potential harm that might befall children. I suspect they don't have a problem with children being indoctrinated with Christianity from infancy. They would claim to be in possession of absolute truth, while doing all they can to silence anyone who might call that claim into question.
While damaging them for life with their horrific tales of suffering, torture, rape, and pillaging. Not to mention that absolute horror, the Rapture. The fear and panic of being Left Behind that I endured as a child still haunts me to this day...and it still pisses me off that every once in a while, some mundane circumstance can trigger this momentary panic.
I remember being scared to death by run-of-the-mill bible stories, like Abraham being asked to sacrifice Isaac. What that actual ****???? I came home from school so freaked out my mom thought I was sick. When she asked what was wrong, I asked her if she'd kill me if god told her to. She was livid at the nuns for filling our heads with that crap, but let's face it, it's the christians' 'holy' book.
Funny my ex-charismatic awkward catholic dork boy thoughts involved being excited by the upheaval of the rapture and being a righteous warrior...uggh. Better than being a tongue-speaking loser.
Well, if not for their potential as ablative armor against mild criticism, what are children good for?! They're not allowed to send the little buggers off to work in the mines, anymore!
See, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 the mistake... you gotta get rid of public education 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵, and 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 send 'em off to the factories and the slaughterhouses before they start growing peach fuzz- otherwise, the uppity little tykes might get delusions about deserving a better life, or something!
"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
-- Christopher Hitchens, from "Hitchens vs Blair" (2011), page 9 (Random House)
Also from Hitch:
"A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It's not moral to lie to children. It's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only believe nonsense, they can be saved. It's immoral."
For lo, tis better to terrify thy children with the Lord thy God's hellfire, than to offer them to the fires of TST coloring stations that mention not the name of Christ, nor honor the Lord thy God with all their heart, with all their souls, and with all their might.
Iowa went with Trump in November. Gov. Reynolds and any in Iowa who voted for Trump are about to find out the enormous harm that's headed their way. And children will suffer the most.
Not only did they endanger themselves and their families, they endangered the families of all those who DIDN'T vote for Trump
The "DOGE' committee would like to gut Medicaid, the govt. program that helps nearly half the children in the U.S. So who exactly is harming children Gov. Reynolds?
The only thing at this event that would be harmful to minors is the Christians’ reactions to Satanists. Same with the drag queen story times and anything else they don’t like. It’s always their cruelty and vitriol that makes these things dangerous, but somehow the folks getting punished are the people trying to bring joy to people.
Christian privilege at best, Christian supremacy at reality.
Well, Satanic rituals do come in small pieces and are a choking hazard. And what is worse is if you step on a a satanic ritual at night with your bare feet, the pain is unbelievable. I would rather step on a land mine.,.... wait, maybe I am confusing satanic rituals with Legos.
OT my mother had an issue with her insulin medication which caused her insulin to get out of control. She passed out in her kitchen and fell. She broke her back and is now in the hospital. So far all I know is that she is not paralyzed but she is unable to move without a great deal of pain.
Hopefully, she will send updates when she talks to her doctors, but I expect to have to reach out to her to get info.
That happened to my mother in law a couple months ago. The doctors don't know exactly what happened, but she passed out in the hallway at night, fell and broke her neck. She's doing much better now.
And THIS is why I worry about my pre-diabetic husband. I keep telling him about what will happen if he doesn't give up the candy addiction, but he doesn't seem to take me seriously.
Now how can any of those tenets be misconstrued as causing harm to children or anyone else, Governor? Have you even bothered to read them? If you have and still think them harmful, is there a word for what's wrong with you?
Harmful to minors is Indoctrinating children from a very Young age to believe superstition, to accept that imaginary friends will solve imaginary Problems in magical ways, while demonstrably workable solutions To real problems will be ignored because they are neither workable nor real to that kind of mindset.
And to believe that the sick, the poor, and the elderly somehow deserve their misfortune and thus are not entitled to help, even if it comes from another source.
You know what’s immoral, Gov Reynolds? Lying. Lying about TST, lying about your reasons for excluding them and lying about religious freedom which means freedom from religion as well. Cloaking your immorality in a moral tone doesn’t work with rational people. You might as well be wearing plastic wrap because we can see right through it.
As someone mentioned elsewhere, the kkkristers are inordinately proud of their shittiness to other people. They almost seemed to believe it's a mark of holiness.
Sometimes I wonder if they even care whether or not we believe it, as long as their base does. Unfortunately, the crazies are everywhere, and their name is Legion, for they are many.
𝐼𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡, 𝐼𝑜𝑤𝑎 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒, 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒.
The latest one being "won't somebody think of the children?"
The real reason they won't explain exactly what they think is "harmful to children"? Solely the fact that it's The Satanic Temple, and to admit such would be to admit that violating the Establishment Clause is their goal. In their minds, the fact that it is sponsored by Satanists makes it harmful to children by default. If they are aware of the hypocrisy, they don't care.
Being harmful to children apparently hasn't stopped them from letting the Catholic church use the facilities.
They also don't think the RCC is harmful. Remember, religion reverses everything.
Grooming for god.
Well, once Gilead-USA is established, the Dominionists and reichwing Catholics will fall upon each other to eliminate whichever one they can.
Whichever one can lay claim first to the "Sons of Jacob" moniker.
Republicans always aid and abet kiddie diddling.
As further proven by their intransigence on the issue of abolishing child marriage in those states where it's still legal in the year 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺-𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳.
Better a child bride than a bastard child. /s
No, an abortion is the best choice in this scenario, and marrying the abuser is absolutely unacceptable. It shouldn't be a choice at all
I don’t know that an abortion is the best choice, but it is and should be a choice. And I agree that a 12-year-old or even most 16-year-olds have any business getting married, much less to an adult who raped them. I wouldn’t oppose a marriage age of 25. I believe it should be the age of majority (and I’m not sure I agree that an 18-year-old is an adult)
I'm with you, making children whose pelvis hasn't even widened, or cervix hardened, bear a child should be illegal, as it could kill her.
Well those old dudes really love their kids, literally.🤮
Excellent point!
It's not that they're out to violate the establishment clause, they're clarifying the establishment clause. As was consplained* to me by my christian, racist, misogynist, conservative (I know, redundant) coworker, "The freedom of religion is not the freedom from religion, but what religion you choose to follow." aka, you're free to choose what christian church you want to attend.
* Conservatives tell me things.
I just saw comments in an article elsewhere that said freedom of religion shouldn't exist because our rights come from god and he wouldn't give us the right to worship false gods.
And yet, here we are, with the obvious ability to do just that, if we choose to! The best arguments for the fallibility or nonexistence of gods always seem to come from, or be embodied by, the people who most zealously believe in them.
I suppose the idea is god gave us free will so that when we use it, we burn in Hell.
Yeah, that whole “free will” argument is nothing but a whole load of godshit.
It's a weird and simplistic form of the whole free will debate. It's like everything is deterministic, except one single choice: "Do you accept jesus christ as lord and savior?" Either you choose jesus or sin.
Primal scream time again.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH ! ! !
MAKE-BELIEVE GODS, DEITIES, SPIRITS, WHAT-HAVE-YOU CANNOT GRANT RIGHTS BECAUSE THESE MAKE-BELIEVE ENTITIES DON'T EXIST!!!!!
Exactly. Satan doesn't exist, so how could the display be harmful to anyone? Funny no one ever asks for proof of satan...
IKR? *heavy sigh*
christians made him up, long after the original players.
Me, too!!!
That's some fucked up "logic" those same idiots say gay people are defective.
That the only reason they're free to follow their religion is because they're free to 𝘯𝘰𝘵 follow every other just never seems to occur to these nincompoops.
Their view is that since 'Murica was founded as a christian nation of christians, by christians, and for christians, only one religion counts. Of course, that's BS backed up by pseudohistory, but, hey, the only thing that matters is the story, not reality.
I've been told the same thing repeatedly. They get flustered when I point out that they claim atheism is a religion. Caught in your own trap, eh?
Reminds of the scene in Dead Poet's Society where they go outside to walk around however they want, and one student chooses not to walk at all.
"Won't somebody think of the children?" is only ever used to take rights away from out groups. People who actually think of the children have better things to do, like feed children, educate children, shelter children, and heal children.
Meaning non-Christians.
Because Christians have proven they’re NOT for children.
TST harmful to minors?
We have the recorded history of the Christian religion. If anything has repeatedly shown itself to be harmful to minors...indeed, to ALL human beings...it's Christianity. That harm continues to the present day.
All the Abrahamic religions IMHO.
The fundamentalists for sure.
And they’re going to continue it into the far future.
I think this statement by Gov. Reynolds, "This satanic event, which specifically targets children, is harmful to minors and so it was denied." will prove legally problematic should the Satanic Temple choose to sue on religious freedom grounds. Reynolds makes it clear that her, and by extension the state's, objection to the event was based on the religion of the group sponsoring it.
For the sake of the free exercise rights of the Satantic Temple and all other minority religions and of non-believers, I hope the Satanic Temple sues the governor and the state of Iowa. Any infringement of the equal rights granted to all of us by the U.S. Constitution needs to be fought vigorously and the violators need to be forced into compliance with the law.
Their goal is to wear everyone down and into submission.
If Reynolds and her ilk weren't so ham-fisted about it all, I might 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 respect the chutzpah of the little Catch-22 she's clearly set up: If the event isn't explicitly family-friendly, then it's "harmful to children" and can be cancelled. If the event 𝘪𝘴 explicitly family-friendly, then it's "𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 children" and can be cancelled.
Except... it doesn't seem like she thought that far ahead, strategically; rather, she just saw the word "Satan" and went with her first knee-jerk reaction of "𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦, 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭!" just like every other Nat-C does when the Satanists ask for a seat at the table.
Precisely. All they had to do was use the 'S' word and that was enough to induce satanic panic.
I hope the Temple sues the shit out of them.
I'm down with that!
And there's a lot of shit in Iowa.
Me too.
What is harmful to children? The Satanic Temple includes such harmful teachings as:
𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛.
Compassion and empathy are just other words for "woke" to the Maga Christians.
𝑂𝑛𝑒’𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒’𝑠 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒.
They believe the state owns the body of every woman.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑. 𝑇𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒'𝑠 𝑜𝑤𝑛.
No snowflake like a Maga Christian snowflake.
𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑓𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑. 𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑓𝑠.
Clearly anti-Christian.
𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒. 𝐼𝑓 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒, 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑑𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑.
Clearly anti-Trump
𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑑𝑜𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑.
"Merica!!!!"
These are the Seven Fundamental Tenets of the Satanic Temple. Every single one of them is "harmful to children" in the Maga Christian world. They are not interested in raising people who believe in fairness, equality or knowledge. They are interested in raising zombies, ready to deny reality and fall into line.
And shut their yaps.
It’s not “Merika”, it’s Murika!
It’s ‘Murica. :)
Yankee!
Thankee. :D
The people who made this decision care far more about their sense of Christian privilege than they do any potential harm that might befall children. I suspect they don't have a problem with children being indoctrinated with Christianity from infancy. They would claim to be in possession of absolute truth, while doing all they can to silence anyone who might call that claim into question.
Exactly right, oraxx. Christians need to stop their cowardly practice of using children as human shields for their bigotry.
While damaging them for life with their horrific tales of suffering, torture, rape, and pillaging. Not to mention that absolute horror, the Rapture. The fear and panic of being Left Behind that I endured as a child still haunts me to this day...and it still pisses me off that every once in a while, some mundane circumstance can trigger this momentary panic.
I remember being scared to death by run-of-the-mill bible stories, like Abraham being asked to sacrifice Isaac. What that actual ****???? I came home from school so freaked out my mom thought I was sick. When she asked what was wrong, I asked her if she'd kill me if god told her to. She was livid at the nuns for filling our heads with that crap, but let's face it, it's the christians' 'holy' book.
Funny my ex-charismatic awkward catholic dork boy thoughts involved being excited by the upheaval of the rapture and being a righteous warrior...uggh. Better than being a tongue-speaking loser.
When in doubt, pretend to protect the children.
And wimmin.
Well, if not for their potential as ablative armor against mild criticism, what are children good for?! They're not allowed to send the little buggers off to work in the mines, anymore!
Not mines, but meat packing plants. Tomato, tomahto. Just ask Governor Hucksterbee
See, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 the mistake... you gotta get rid of public education 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵, and 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 send 'em off to the factories and the slaughterhouses before they start growing peach fuzz- otherwise, the uppity little tykes might get delusions about deserving a better life, or something!
The one thing they've done wrong is teach the lower classes to read and write. Now they are fixing that mistake.
There’s a possibility that children making ornaments could run with scissors.
Or, far more dangerous- perish the thought!- they might develop 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴.
Hopefully straight into a Republican politician.
Now there's a thought I can get behind! Scissors for everyone!
"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
-- Christopher Hitchens, from "Hitchens vs Blair" (2011), page 9 (Random House)
Also from Hitch:
"A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It's not moral to lie to children. It's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only believe nonsense, they can be saved. It's immoral."
For lo, tis better to terrify thy children with the Lord thy God's hellfire, than to offer them to the fires of TST coloring stations that mention not the name of Christ, nor honor the Lord thy God with all their heart, with all their souls, and with all their might.
Iowa went with Trump in November. Gov. Reynolds and any in Iowa who voted for Trump are about to find out the enormous harm that's headed their way. And children will suffer the most.
Not only did they endanger themselves and their families, they endangered the families of all those who DIDN'T vote for Trump
It's okay, Fox News will make sure they know to blame trans kids and brown people.
It's funny but every time I ask a Trumpster how many trans people they have met, they don't answer.
Does Grindr count?
Maybe that's why they don't answer. ;-)
Well, the problem was it was really dark, and we didn't really talk. So doesn't it count as "meeting" if I don't even know their names?
As long as the balls don't touch.
The "DOGE' committee would like to gut Medicaid, the govt. program that helps nearly half the children in the U.S. So who exactly is harming children Gov. Reynolds?
See my reply to NOGODZ on this thread.
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐎𝐆𝐄 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐝
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-doge-billionaires-plan-to
The only thing at this event that would be harmful to minors is the Christians’ reactions to Satanists. Same with the drag queen story times and anything else they don’t like. It’s always their cruelty and vitriol that makes these things dangerous, but somehow the folks getting punished are the people trying to bring joy to people.
Christian privilege at best, Christian supremacy at reality.
Sue their asses. Not that that will stop them since it won't be their money they pay with.
Well, Satanic rituals do come in small pieces and are a choking hazard. And what is worse is if you step on a a satanic ritual at night with your bare feet, the pain is unbelievable. I would rather step on a land mine.,.... wait, maybe I am confusing satanic rituals with Legos.
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🎼Everything is awesooooome...🎼
I see your toy and raise you one nun.
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OT my mother had an issue with her insulin medication which caused her insulin to get out of control. She passed out in her kitchen and fell. She broke her back and is now in the hospital. So far all I know is that she is not paralyzed but she is unable to move without a great deal of pain.
Hopefully, she will send updates when she talks to her doctors, but I expect to have to reach out to her to get info.
Did you step on a crack?
(Best wishes!)
I swear I didn’t!!!
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Sorry to hear that.
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That happened to my mother in law a couple months ago. The doctors don't know exactly what happened, but she passed out in the hallway at night, fell and broke her neck. She's doing much better now.
Well, that sucks.
And THIS is why I worry about my pre-diabetic husband. I keep telling him about what will happen if he doesn't give up the candy addiction, but he doesn't seem to take me seriously.
He could end up on Mounjaro like me.
🫂
In banning TST, they ban the following...
thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets
Now how can any of those tenets be misconstrued as causing harm to children or anyone else, Governor? Have you even bothered to read them? If you have and still think them harmful, is there a word for what's wrong with you?
The "harm" is that if children followed 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 tenets, they wouldn't grow up to become Republicans.
Or evangelicals.
No, they CAN'T be bothered. They just see "Satan" and knee-jerk: EVIL!!!
Besides, digging into it and learning the truth would just harsh their bigotry.
Harmful to minors?
Harmful to minors is Indoctrinating children from a very Young age to believe superstition, to accept that imaginary friends will solve imaginary Problems in magical ways, while demonstrably workable solutions To real problems will be ignored because they are neither workable nor real to that kind of mindset.
And to believe that clergy critters can be trusted.
And to believe that the sick, the poor, and the elderly somehow deserve their misfortune and thus are not entitled to help, even if it comes from another source.
You know what’s immoral, Gov Reynolds? Lying. Lying about TST, lying about your reasons for excluding them and lying about religious freedom which means freedom from religion as well. Cloaking your immorality in a moral tone doesn’t work with rational people. You might as well be wearing plastic wrap because we can see right through it.
Lying is their greatest tool. KKKristers will believe anything some preacher tells them. Calling them automatons is a huge compliment.
As someone mentioned elsewhere, the kkkristers are inordinately proud of their shittiness to other people. They almost seemed to believe it's a mark of holiness.
Apparently, grooming children for god is the only safe grooming.
More like the only APPROVED grooming.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
We know what they're thinking of the children.
All those nubile young children...oh, of course, you meant thinking of their SAFETY, right?
I suspect that's the message we're supposed to believe.
However...
Sometimes I wonder if they even care whether or not we believe it, as long as their base does. Unfortunately, the crazies are everywhere, and their name is Legion, for they are many.
Virtue signaling is important. They just have to say the words. They don't don't have to intend to follow through.