Well, the Tooth Fairy (or a substitute) was nice enough to provide me with a few quarters.
The God of the Bible destroyed the planet, turned cities into salt, killed his Only Son, and sent evangelists and fundamentalists on genocidal killing sprees, while making bets with Satan over inflicting pain on Job and the outcomes of Super Bowls.
We did the same thing! Until his grandma moved out of town, as she was the one with the motivation to go to the bank and get them lol. Fortunately he was 8-9 when that happened so no big deal.
Even if real, I don't elect the town dog catcher based on 'in God's will.' I elect the town dog catcher based on 'can catch dogs well.' [For all elected duties analogous to dog-catching.] That's like telling me Biden is out of his aunt Esther's will. So what?
People like this drive me nuts. He's supposedly a Christian, supposedly cares about those "orphans" being lost at Planned Parenthood, but won't lift a finger to protect the children already here.
I keep suggesting that the GOP should set up boot camps for these unwanted babies, so they can train them from birth to be Navy SEALS like that guy who urinated on the PoWs in Afghanistan.
If the spend 18 years in a boot camp environment, knowing nothing else, by the time they emerge, they'll be like Hitler's dream: "hard as Krupp steel, tough as leather, fast as greyhounds."
American Unsullied. Where, instead of killing a slave baby to graduate, you have to convince a rape victim to give birth and surrender that baby to you. No orphans just an army of killing machines, that should go over well.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Very last line, Schaefer, no religious test shall EVER be required for any office or public trust. The Bible is not, nor ever has been, a founding document of this country, nor has it been a requirement for any member of the government to follow. The Bible may say what you claim it does, it doesn’t really, but it is not how this country works. Go to the link and find any reference to the Bible for guidance. You will not find one.
I'd be willing to bet that not one of these Christian Nationalists have the slightest clue about Article VI, paragraph 3, of the Constitution. Then, too, they know what they believe and cannot be bothered with inconvenient things like FACTS.
ALL Christian nationalists (Taliban) believe sin was brought to this world by Eve in the Garden of Eden when she took fruit. Therefore it is a women's job to suffer. If a 12 year old girl gets raped, she must have sinned, God is punishing her..... or some other bullshit like God loves you so much he's putting you through this misery so that you can get closer to God.
There is NO end to the Christian talibans level of cruelty.
In other words, this evil mean bastard of a god wants us all to suffer here on earth. It easy to see how these folks would love a dictator, so-called "strong man" telling them what to do day in and day out...or else.
On top of have no apparent understanding of the history of how well church-state separation has served this country, he evidently has no grasp of what Christians, acting in the name of Christianity, have done to their fellow humans. Neither this country, nor the wider world faces a single problem that has a religious solution. In fact, if you could remove religion from the equation, a lot of the world's problems would fade away.
Absolutely. If wars and other deadly conflicts are the result of the stories we tell ourselves, removing the religious ones would go a long way to achieve a better world.
As I have written before, there is no evidence in the photograph that the Bible is upside down. The position of the tassel and the writing on the spine suggest that is correctly oriented. And Snopes agrees with me.
Any god that demands worship probably isn't worthy of it. Demanding that everyone in a position of authority worship Jesus is tantamount to claiming that only Christian Theocracies count as nations in their own right.
Last night, I was watching a video made by an OB/GYN discussing the results and ramifications of changes to the abortion access landscape in the last year or so. She's had patients she's had to tell their baby won't make it, and there's nothing to be done. She's had to sit with patients who had to make some of the worst medical decisions of their lives knowing that there are no good answers. Unsurprisingly, this doctor isn't happy with the fall of Roe vs. Wade nor the numerous bans enacted around the country. Several times in her video she stopped to ask "where's the compassion for the women?" What she shared about her patients lives and experiences was heartbreaking, and starkly reflected just how awful banning abortion can be to the women who live under such a ban.
At this point, if you're a woman who can get pregnant living in Texas (or apparently, Alabama) my advice to you is simple: Get out. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, just get out. Go somewhere you might at least survive the birth of your child if and when that happens for you. Yes, I know that for too many women, that's not an option and might never be; for them the best I can say is keep prevention on hand and be sure to use it correctly every single time. No skipping, no shirking, no believing any man who claims he's shooting blanks. Put yourself first, because it's clear the government doesn't give two hoots about your needs or welfare.
The GOP has compassion for no one. They barely care about others just like themselves, and will find any tiny flaw in another to justify their cruelty. This suffering is precisely what the GOP was going for. They were told ad nauseum what life would be like, a great many of them lived through the pre Roe era and saw firsthand what it was like. They rejoiced in it. They got that gleam in their eyes thinking about it. This is exactly what they worked towards. They won’t turn back easily. We have to end it.
The three Abrahamic religions were originally spread at the tip of a sword. Now it's at the barrel of a gun, but otherwise it's the same barbaric, bloodthirsty lunacy.
This fanatic is exactly what I mean when I say that as American Christians' numbers dwindle, those who are left will be increasingly more dangerous. This distilling process is currently rendering extremist groups who talk more and more openly about forcing their religion on society through violence. It seems inevitable and imminent that "experiments" in religious violence will be tried in the U.S. just to see how the public will react. If the general reaction is a short-lived "Oh dear, that's awful, but that's not 'true Christianity'" but nothing more than that, then the Christian Nationalists will see that as a green light.
Around the world, there are countless thousands of tombstones, some ancient and nearly buried in the dust and weeds, their eroded inscriptions almost illegible, and some new, clean, and sharp-edged, and all their epitaphs, old and new really should say "OH THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE."
Yes, it can, yes it has, and yes it is happening right here, right now. Apathy and denial are what kill freedom.
Matt, you may want to look back on the founders of this nation and see what they had to say about your god and its lack of relationship to the creation of the United States of America. Yeah, yeah, I know: you want to superimpose your god onto our government, so you can sit in The Catbird Seat. Thing is, there are a LOT of people out there who will get in your face about that, because the US is NOT a Christian nation.
And if we have anything to say about it, it never will be.
"I do not talk like that! The way I communicate is much different! I do not reiterate, repeat, restate the same thing over and over again! I am clear! Concise! To-the-point!"
-- Mojo Jojo, after being told he's being redundant. Again.
"Those are really the only two options for elected officials."
Who told you you get to decide that, you arrogant fundie prick? Keep your childish delusions to yourself and off the back of this secular nation. You want to enforce your religion on others? Suppose Muslims in this country decided to impose their Islamic Sharia Law on YOU? That's why freedom from religion is part of Freedom of Religion. It protects you as well as nonbelievers.
His god is just as real and relevant as the Tooth Fairy and leprechauns.
Well, the Tooth Fairy (or a substitute) was nice enough to provide me with a few quarters.
The God of the Bible destroyed the planet, turned cities into salt, killed his Only Son, and sent evangelists and fundamentalists on genocidal killing sprees, while making bets with Satan over inflicting pain on Job and the outcomes of Super Bowls.
I'll take the Tooth Fairy over God any day.
My kids loved getting the gold Sacagawea dollar from the tooth fairy. Our tooth fairy was generous.
I got my money in 1969, so 25 cents got me a comic book back then.
I always wondered why Casper the Friendly ghost looked so much like Richie Rich.
Richie Rich died under a pile of hoarded gold. They just don't tell you that.
That explains why he never grew up and married Gloria.
He got resurrected a few times.....
He was animated back in the early '80s..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Rich_(1980_TV_series)
...and reanimated in '96.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Rich_(1996_TV_series)
.....and did some guest spots on The Simpsons and Robot Chicken.....
.....and became a real boy in '94.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Rich_(film) and '15...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Rich_(2015_TV_series)
We did the same thing! Until his grandma moved out of town, as she was the one with the motivation to go to the bank and get them lol. Fortunately he was 8-9 when that happened so no big deal.
Lol, I had a bunch of them from somewhere. We used them until we ran out. The disappointment was obvious when they started getting silver ones.
The treasury should market it as the tooth fairy coin. I bet they could circulate a lot more with that than just 'commemorative'.
Leprechauns stole my tooth and traded it for lucky charms.
Well, they ARE magically delicious.
And the more you eat, the more teeth you'll lose! It's a win-win!
I knew a lab tech at Quaker Oats. He used to say the difference between breakfast cereal and candy was the involvement of milk.
You don't want to know how the Tooth Fairy made the coins.
https://www.amazon.com/Santa-Steps-Out-Robert-Devereaux-ebook/dp/B006IGBRW0/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.gTYsqw5ccLVd9_haWPswrIz9Ns6gUkykFNNXworlVlz9dEmvtfJoKR2k8JuE08VWRh8PDDQ7ro1CysoHjdLk02mp5Dcr9qhC2CsbYUDny02Dp80YzF3nGqo1b2blY2IjZlGUyl-_qJWWRVEvwNnZQtXFMZKq5TdphC2TqcrpE0cZ9hiSbzzmnZ307V-HON9r0he9sQuZaEkOOhsGF_eLhki5YESUSubcyGojcPBLEzk.kJLtBLLipOGZRls8i1-kFBkUGHLne3H6yBZ4a5ZpPCM&dib_tag=se&keywords=santa+steps+out&qid=1710189947&s=books&sr=1-1&unfiltered=1
Even if real, I don't elect the town dog catcher based on 'in God's will.' I elect the town dog catcher based on 'can catch dogs well.' [For all elected duties analogous to dog-catching.] That's like telling me Biden is out of his aunt Esther's will. So what?
People like this drive me nuts. He's supposedly a Christian, supposedly cares about those "orphans" being lost at Planned Parenthood, but won't lift a finger to protect the children already here.
The children that are already born require money and effort from him. The fetuses are more conceptual than real and require nothing from him.
The perfect constituent for a Republican.
It's different. Out of the womb orphans are sinners who caused their parents to die or abandon them and must be punished.
It's a foregone conclusion he's adamantly opposed to meaningful gun control and universal healthcare. I doubt he's ever met a war he didn't love.
Firing guns at immigrants doesn't get you out of God's will. Caring for them does.
The war on Christmas.
Of course. How could I forget?
I keep suggesting that the GOP should set up boot camps for these unwanted babies, so they can train them from birth to be Navy SEALS like that guy who urinated on the PoWs in Afghanistan.
If the spend 18 years in a boot camp environment, knowing nothing else, by the time they emerge, they'll be like Hitler's dream: "hard as Krupp steel, tough as leather, fast as greyhounds."
Imagine fields of frozen embryos marching to war!!
"With the cross of Jesus going on before"
And killing them would be a war crime....
American Unsullied. Where, instead of killing a slave baby to graduate, you have to convince a rape victim to give birth and surrender that baby to you. No orphans just an army of killing machines, that should go over well.
And high as kites on speed...
That's pretty much the way the Spartan's did it.
...and then they got their asses handed to them by a bunch of artsy-fartsy homos from Thebes.
The Boys from Brazil.
Bizarre movie...Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier having a fight.
They were too old for that scene.
He cares until it costs him money. That's what it comes down to.
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
Very last line, Schaefer, no religious test shall EVER be required for any office or public trust. The Bible is not, nor ever has been, a founding document of this country, nor has it been a requirement for any member of the government to follow. The Bible may say what you claim it does, it doesn’t really, but it is not how this country works. Go to the link and find any reference to the Bible for guidance. You will not find one.
I'd be willing to bet that not one of these Christian Nationalists have the slightest clue about Article VI, paragraph 3, of the Constitution. Then, too, they know what they believe and cannot be bothered with inconvenient things like FACTS.
Val, Val, Val. The only valid Constitution in their eyes is the one used before 1776. Look at alitosis example.
https://www.birdtools-developers.com/images/simpsons-sharedviews.jpg
“Schaefer defended his amendment by saying suffering was “part of the human condition, since sin entered the world.””
I see you’re not suffering from your policies. Fuck off Schaefer.
He meant WOMEN'S suffering.
ALL Christian nationalists (Taliban) believe sin was brought to this world by Eve in the Garden of Eden when she took fruit. Therefore it is a women's job to suffer. If a 12 year old girl gets raped, she must have sinned, God is punishing her..... or some other bullshit like God loves you so much he's putting you through this misery so that you can get closer to God.
There is NO end to the Christian talibans level of cruelty.
I'm an Epicurean. Pleasure is the opposite of suffering.
I'm a Reformed Pedestrian. I've learned to take walks now and again.
I’m sure he believes women should most of all since Eve is the one who broke the rule….
In other words, this evil mean bastard of a god wants us all to suffer here on earth. It easy to see how these folks would love a dictator, so-called "strong man" telling them what to do day in and day out...or else.
On top of have no apparent understanding of the history of how well church-state separation has served this country, he evidently has no grasp of what Christians, acting in the name of Christianity, have done to their fellow humans. Neither this country, nor the wider world faces a single problem that has a religious solution. In fact, if you could remove religion from the equation, a lot of the world's problems would fade away.
Absolutely. If wars and other deadly conflicts are the result of the stories we tell ourselves, removing the religious ones would go a long way to achieve a better world.
It's lost on these people that the state of the world is, to a large extent, the work product of believers.
It is even worse when they do say that but think it's a good thing.
Il n'y connait rien en histoire, point barre.
Oraxx 😝
He was too busy staring at Little Suzie's new boobs in history class to listen to the teacher.
OR.....
He was in home school, and he got caught passing that note to his buddy, which said, "That lady history teacher sure is hot!"
Typo. ;)
Why do you English speakers have to put the letter "S" with the verb conjugated with the third pronoun and not the second like normal people ? 😁
Indeed
“I reject the “Christian nationalist” label,…”
Oh, but you are, Blanche, you are.
"If it walks like a duck and has down like a duck and quacks like a duck..."
If it steps like a goose...
If it wears the jackboots…
"Rubber Ducky, You're the One..."
10 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPacTLjJ7I
He rejects it yet stands by every word of it. Then why does he reject the label? That makes even less sense than cristers usually make.
He is an honorary white christian nationalist, and it was only for a year, and he didn't ask, it was a gift.
Labels matter. Especially on social media.
I reject the label of "coffee drinker" even though I drink two to three cups of coffee a day.
“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝐺𝑜𝑑,” 𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑. “𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒."
First, that's circular reasoning; it would only apply to leaders who accept the bible as a source of authority (AND interpreted the same way.)
Second, pretty sure the Bidens regularly go to church and worship God while Trump never does. Hypocrite. But what else is new.
But drumpster is soo good at holding a babble upside down.
Yeah, the Bloated Yam violates every Commandment and Deadly Sin, but that's why the Evangelists love him.
They do, too.
But if the Bible is upside down, then those things are holy and good.
Satan would agree....
As I have written before, there is no evidence in the photograph that the Bible is upside down. The position of the tassel and the writing on the spine suggest that is correctly oriented. And Snopes agrees with me.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-hold-bible-upside-down/
It is always dangerous to accuse a lying, misogynistic, lawbreaker of something more trivial. His supporters don't like it.
I never saw a photo with what was written on the spine before. I stand corrected.
And better yet, him holding it like it is a time bomb doesn't mean he ever read it or believes in its content.
Read an article yesterday says Biden goes to church more than any president in the last 70 years.
Any god that demands worship probably isn't worthy of it. Demanding that everyone in a position of authority worship Jesus is tantamount to claiming that only Christian Theocracies count as nations in their own right.
Last night, I was watching a video made by an OB/GYN discussing the results and ramifications of changes to the abortion access landscape in the last year or so. She's had patients she's had to tell their baby won't make it, and there's nothing to be done. She's had to sit with patients who had to make some of the worst medical decisions of their lives knowing that there are no good answers. Unsurprisingly, this doctor isn't happy with the fall of Roe vs. Wade nor the numerous bans enacted around the country. Several times in her video she stopped to ask "where's the compassion for the women?" What she shared about her patients lives and experiences was heartbreaking, and starkly reflected just how awful banning abortion can be to the women who live under such a ban.
At this point, if you're a woman who can get pregnant living in Texas (or apparently, Alabama) my advice to you is simple: Get out. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, just get out. Go somewhere you might at least survive the birth of your child if and when that happens for you. Yes, I know that for too many women, that's not an option and might never be; for them the best I can say is keep prevention on hand and be sure to use it correctly every single time. No skipping, no shirking, no believing any man who claims he's shooting blanks. Put yourself first, because it's clear the government doesn't give two hoots about your needs or welfare.
The GOP has compassion for no one. They barely care about others just like themselves, and will find any tiny flaw in another to justify their cruelty. This suffering is precisely what the GOP was going for. They were told ad nauseum what life would be like, a great many of them lived through the pre Roe era and saw firsthand what it was like. They rejoiced in it. They got that gleam in their eyes thinking about it. This is exactly what they worked towards. They won’t turn back easily. We have to end it.
godly extortion.
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The three Abrahamic religions were originally spread at the tip of a sword. Now it's at the barrel of a gun, but otherwise it's the same barbaric, bloodthirsty lunacy.
This fanatic is exactly what I mean when I say that as American Christians' numbers dwindle, those who are left will be increasingly more dangerous. This distilling process is currently rendering extremist groups who talk more and more openly about forcing their religion on society through violence. It seems inevitable and imminent that "experiments" in religious violence will be tried in the U.S. just to see how the public will react. If the general reaction is a short-lived "Oh dear, that's awful, but that's not 'true Christianity'" but nothing more than that, then the Christian Nationalists will see that as a green light.
Around the world, there are countless thousands of tombstones, some ancient and nearly buried in the dust and weeds, their eroded inscriptions almost illegible, and some new, clean, and sharp-edged, and all their epitaphs, old and new really should say "OH THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE."
Yes, it can, yes it has, and yes it is happening right here, right now. Apathy and denial are what kill freedom.
"...he rejects the Christian Nationalist label"
He's a Nationalist Christian.
Yep. He's a NatC, for sure.
NastC.
Same as "I'm not a racist, but..."
That is not what orphan means, dipshit. How do we keep electing these illiterate goons?
Don’t answer, I know, I know.
𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑑𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 ... 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑠.
-- John Adams
Matt, you may want to look back on the founders of this nation and see what they had to say about your god and its lack of relationship to the creation of the United States of America. Yeah, yeah, I know: you want to superimpose your god onto our government, so you can sit in The Catbird Seat. Thing is, there are a LOT of people out there who will get in your face about that, because the US is NOT a Christian nation.
And if we have anything to say about it, it never will be.
Matt Schaefer:
Fuck off. Fuck all the way off.
That is all.
And then fuck off from there, and then from there, too. In fact, keep fucking off until you come all the way back 'round to here.
And then fuck off from here again.
What christian nationalist really means is christian nazi.
That's redundant.
The Department of Redundancy Department has been alerted, notified, and informed.
"I do not talk like that! The way I communicate is much different! I do not reiterate, repeat, restate the same thing over and over again! I am clear! Concise! To-the-point!"
-- Mojo Jojo, after being told he's being redundant. Again.
"Those are really the only two options for elected officials."
Who told you you get to decide that, you arrogant fundie prick? Keep your childish delusions to yourself and off the back of this secular nation. You want to enforce your religion on others? Suppose Muslims in this country decided to impose their Islamic Sharia Law on YOU? That's why freedom from religion is part of Freedom of Religion. It protects you as well as nonbelievers.
But, but, but they are already doing that according to evilgelicals.