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If a man tells you that every man is inclined to rape or a woman tells you that women are incapable of rape you should run away as fast as possible.
Pussies don't like dicks because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes. Assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck a asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate. And it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves. Because pussies are a inch and half away from assholes.-21st century philosopher
It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?
Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.
If I were asked to extract a political position from the movie, I'd be baffled. It is neither for nor against the war on terrorism, just dedicated to ridiculing those who wage it and those who oppose it. The White House gets a free pass, since the movie seems to think Team America makes its own policies without political direction.I wasn't offended by the movie's content so much as by its nihilism. At a time when the world is in crisis and the country faces an important election, the response of Parker, Stone and company is to sneer at both sides -- indeed, at anyone who takes the current world situation seriously. They may be right that some of us are puppets, but they're wrong that all of us are fools, and dead wrong that it doesn't matter.
No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Aww, you guys rock. I feel the love... and the pitchforks and torches. Tingly!
Life for the sake of life means nothing.
The Bible is the big book of multiple choice.
The Bible is a Rorschach test for the morally challenged.
Why demand empathy for the white, male, relatively affluent people who got exactly what they wanted? Why not instead point out the need to empathize with black women, who are, as a group, massively impoverished and discriminated against, and who voted against Trump almost uniformly?
...there is no magic shortcut to unity or consensus. Neither empathy nor rational compassion can rescue us from partisanship. Political problems require political solutions.
'I don't do coverups,' says the guy with the world's most obvious combover.
The argument that Falwell and others are making is that if even a man as flawed as David could be favored by God, then Trump for all of his own moral failings could be an acceptable president as well:"God called King David a man after God’s own heart even though he was an adulterer and a murderer,”"You have to choose the leader that would make the best king or president and not necessarily someone who would be a good pastor.But the problem with that is that God didn't call the wicked David. He called the brave and selfless David. Wicked David got the prophet Nathan telling him just how completely he fucked up and what God was going to do about it, and then David repented. And Trump has never been brave or selfless. He's never been David. Both Judaism and Christianity agree that David had free will--his sin was his own. Which is why these Evangelicals have outed themselves so badly here--it is their responsibility to rebuke Trump like Nathan rebuked David. To say they won't, because he'll give them this, that or the other thing is to in essence put their desires above the will of God. And of course there's the minor fact that they're sort of ignoring most of the NT, which has some fairly harsh things to say about using God for your own purposes. After all, Trump has offered the religious right everything they want, if only they serve as his cheerleaders.
What was the 'sauce' for that? I've seen a bit of the Evangelicals criticising each other over Trump. There was an article about in 'The Week' the other day. Although the criticism is interesting because you realise even though you agree with them on this one thing, how you think is poles apart.Here is one from the Graun:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/16/white-evangelical-christians-vote-trumpAnd the one from The Week:https://theweek.com/articles/840273/evangelical-trump-supporters-please-just-honest
Democrats are playing fuckin' checkers while Republicans are playing hit-you-in-the-face-with-a-mallet.