Honestly the Evangelicals are the biggest pedos there are.
Are you trying to tell me that the largest sect of protestant Christianity in the US, which was explicitly founded on the belief that chattel slavery was right and "godly", might have trouble with respecting the consent of people vulnerable to coercion? /s
There's also an astonishing amount of dishonesty about the way they operate more generally. They've convinced themselves that they don't need to be ethical, because doing stuff nominally for Jesus is automatically the right thing regardless of the details.
Well I'm gonna look at lots of porn. For Jesus.
Always has been
The next evolutionary step in humanity is ending organized religion.
My religious in-laws as why I dont believe in their god and I have to patiently explain that I view their religion in the same way as I see Greek or Egyptian mythology. Just a silly superstition used to explain things they don't have actual answers to. They really hate that.
I've been figuring out a way to approach these subject with my family when the topic comes up. These Christian fascist that are making these laws are not followers of the Christ. The Christ threw money lenders and business men out of the temple. He didn't cozy up to them, make deals with them. He didn't make megachurches and end up protecting pedos. These so called Christians are really perverted by demons.
Or some shit idk. I'm still workshopping how I can break through to some of the religious folks around me.
I appreciate the attempt, but MAGA is a cult. These "religious" people are rabidly following the most unchristlike person alive today. Logic and reason won't sway them. My advice to my wife is to find the cracks I their faith in this man and slowly tap wedges into them.
They're a blight on this planet
If you yell and cry enough about dignity laws, maybe people won't notice what a sex pest you are
ETA: Not OP, the people who always claim to be so chaste
The P in GOP stands for Projection.
I thought it stood for pedophile.
One in the same in this regard
One and the same, BTW.
Huh, TIL, thanks!
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Patterns is patterns, those motherfuckers aren't hiding
Ah, this isn't talking about the big war on adult content in the UK right now that's across all the headlines. Just for those who wanted to see more on that. This is foreign stuff.
This affects anyone who relies on American payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal), so is very much a global issue.
The group that recently went after Steam is from Australia. This isn't just an American issue.
Another great example of why orginized religion needs to be banned in the modern world.
Evangelists: “Nobody can sexually exploit others but us!”
I called it years ago when my wife first watched The Handmaid’s Tale: I said oh fuck, this is now what the conservatives are going to create. Ever since then I have periodically written online about this, and how we should start getting used to America as Gilead. It started to spread slowly, and I see people make this reference more and more, and I truly hope it’s not too late. Because that’s their goddamn wet dream; to make America into exactly as depicted in those book / shows.
The Handmaid's Tale, was in turn, partly based on how Iran went from an absolute kingdom with a secular urban culture and lifestyle to a male-dominated theocracy.
That the US began largely as a string of colonies run by religious officials, an arrangement those megalomaniacal evangelists are trying to bring back, those pricks literally believing they're on "holy" land and must live up to it.
But they left Europe in part to get away from church government. First amendment and all that. Most of them were religious but they wanted it out of government.
No, they wanted other people's religion out of government
They were not even the same religions as one-another, so that makes no sense. Also, there’s no basis for that idea.
Yeah but they each wanted to be in charge. Authoritarians always do. They settled for neutrality
Well if you call putting it into the constitution “settling” for neutrality, then so be it, have whatever terminology you want. They didn’t want a theocracy, but the fundies of today would like nothing more than that.
No, they definitely wanted a theocracy, but none of them had the numbers for it to be the theocracy they wanted, so thry settled on a solution and made damn sure it wouldn't be anyone elses theocracy by putting it in the constitution.
Thats why it's a 'religiously neutral' state with special privileges for religion, rather than a secular state with free exercise of religion where doing so does not violate laws-an idea proposed and shot down at the time.
Could you cite some sources for this please? Seriously.
No, don't care enough, and studies have shown rigorous citations tend to reduce persuasiveness of an argument in most contexts.
But you can look if you want.
Yeah that’s what I thought. Lol.
Yeah i didn't think you actuwlly wanted to know.
I did, but you refused to provide the info. What are you smoking that makes you not think straight? I ask, you refuse, then you say I didn't want to know. Thats some contortionist logic right there.
Isn't jealousy why they hate iran?
The writer based some of the characters on real people, back when she wrote it in like the 1970s.
Always has been their goal.
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