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We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~General Omar Bradley
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A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. ~Proverbs 14:5
Especially if it hurts LGBT people or works toward the goal of seizing their churches or imprisoning their Pastors. (None of which is legal or possible in the United States of America even as it currently exists.)
Fuck you, dude.
It's Pride Month for fuck's sake!
My partner is bisexual, she's Christian, and she has a right to be both of those things...and not only as in Constitutionally in the United States, but as a free person standing before God. That's how God created her. She'd be doing it wrong if she wasn't, ya know, herself.
You can take a lot of things away from a man. Cigarettes, the gym. You can take his freedom, his legs, but not his feelings. Not his feelings. A man loves a woman. Don't matter what kind of man he is, if he loves her, he wants her. He wants her body. He wants her to want his. So you say to him, "you can never make love again. You will never touch her in that way again. This is the last time. The last time. Forever." If that's not cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1.E2 "Visits, Conjugal and otherwise."
Kid's a lesbian and agnostic-atheist, but she's expressed an interest in learning and has been to church, leave her the fuck alone too. You ask me she's a much better person than Joel Webbon.
Like I don't give a damn, get over it and shut the fuck up before people get sick of what's coming out your mouth and make you stop this shit.
Nobody cares about any of this stuff anymore but you.
And more to the point even from a Christian viewpoint your obsession with the acts, beliefs or orientations of Other People is unseemly. Mind your own goddamned business.
The rest of us were here first as were the ancestors who taught us and just because you think you know better does not give you any kind of a "right" to impose your will on the majority.
Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. ~Ezekiel 16:49-50
That's not only how democracy works...that's been American culture since before America was America and that's how things like the Revolution and the Founding even happened. If you don't like it, too bad. Your side lost the argument War.
Maybe try getting your own country?
I hear Antarctica is nice this time of year.
These fucking people's idea of America sucks, not least because they keep trying to destroy this country as it currently exists for the rest of us.
If Jabba The Congressman is upset cuz he thinks somebody else is "destroying America" I think it's cuz he's afraid that somebody else will steal his bit.
We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.
And if we're being honest, when push comes to shove when it comes to their own lives...none of these assholes really believe in any of this bullshit either! The vast majority of women that I've personally known who have had abortions are *Checks Notes* Evangelical "Conservatives" just like Kat Cammack.
She absolutely has the right to freedom of choice or she should, she certainly has the right to preserve her own life, or she should, with no questions asked. You know who the person is that complicated that?? HER.
Think about it, Kat.
The thing is, really in These Fucking People's ideal world, about anything would be legal...but you'd have to listen to a goddamned screed from these fuckin' freaks about how much of a miserable Sinner you were before you did basically anything! They don't really want to change the world...they just want to make it suck because it's an article of Faith with these kind of people that the world we live in is automatically somehow Bad and Fallen.
Not that they really believe in Original Sin or Jesus or anything else, they just want to blow their own narcissism and control and immiserate and manipulate other people.
And of course, if you're a Billionaire...There Is No Sin. Have Fun.
Not only that but they approach perversion and Sin with the same pious devotion their parents and grandparents had for tight-assed Calvinism in the 1960s and 1970's and their parents or they had for weird Pentecostal BS in the 1990's or early 00's.
Mind you, there's plenty of Liberals that are fine with continually enabling this shit. James Carville got mad because a bunch of Progressives won in D primaries on Tuesday. Guess what? People been sick of Republican Lite for a minute, James.
It's not 1992 or even 1996 anymore, and at the end of the day the Democratic Party of that era was still just as hated by the Right and I say that as a 1990's Republican Air Force veteran. The same far-right assholes who are in power now were raggedy-ass militia nuts back then and they hated people like me. More than one incompetently-fused truck bomb found on the fence-line of a military base in the 1990's never made the news. Just sayin.'
Anybody else tired of this crap yet, or is it just me??
That's the whole damn thing, yo, people are tired of this bullshit.
And modern Republicans are nothing but liars who wanna sell out everything America has ever stood for...while trying like fuck to exempt themselves from all the consequences. They believe in nothing so fervently that they won't lie about it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.
Reagan Wept.
And what's worse is they can't even come up with a plausible lie or be bothered to have a goal that makes any sense or even does anything, apparently even the FBI has been (badly) mobilized to cover for Trump's turning the Reflecting Pool into a Pit Of Green Slime.
Think about that, for a second.
And then don't have the balls to wonder why "Don't Tread On Me" is creeping into Democratic discourse.
At the end of the day, you either believe in freedom or you don't.
And you're willing to fight for it, or you're not.
Pick one.
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Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
~Isaiah 1:13-17 (KJV)
[The Mandalorian brings together the entire Mandalorian covert after Carson Teva makes a surprise visit and asks him to help Greef Karga's situation on Nevarro when the New Republic won't lift a finger]
- Mando: Now, many of you don't know Greef Karga. And those that do fought against him when you rescued me from his ambush many cycles ago on the streets of Nevarro. Since then, he's had a change of heart and has risked his life to save mine as well as the Foundling in my charge. [Grogu coos] I stand before you to petition an intervention. To help rescue Nevarro before it's too late. I am in no position to ask any more of you. However... However, the enemy that decimated this very covert were Imperials, not Greef Karga's bounty hunters. Greef Karga is now a High Magistrate and has offered me a tract of land on his independent world. Perhaps it is time for us to live in the light once again on a planet where we are welcome. So our culture may flourish and our children can feel what it is to play in the sunlight.
- Armorer: Does anyone else wish to speak?
- Mando: It's up to them now.
- Paz Vizsla: I do. I was there on Nevarro that night. I fought against Greef Karga and his hunters. I saw my brothers and sisters fall at the hands of the Imperial butchers that hunted us in the sewers. I saw many die to save the life of [gestures to Grogu] this one, tiny Foundling. And now we are asked to sacrifice yet again. The question we should be asking ourselves is, "Why? Why should we lay our lives down yet again?" Because we are Mandalorians! I have had my disagreements with this man, but he risked his life to save my son. And Bo-Katan Kryze did not give up on my child's life even when the rest of us did. These two are asking us to take up arms in the name of a brighter future, and I for one will take up arms to fight by their side. [Mandalorians agree] This is the Way!
- Mandalorians: This is the Way.
- Armorer: This is the Way.
- ~From The Mandalorian S3.E5 "The Pirate."
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco
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