This is the kind of shit you read and you realise the world is rigged. He can write columns about hating LGBTQ+ people, she can indulge herself in ancient personality profiling, and apparently that leads to a life of affluence. Fuck this. Hundreds of millions struggle daily but these two piece of shit chucklefucks are free to corrupt.
How is this real? People like this should be nowhere near any amount of power. She should be doing tarot readings on YouTube.
Edit: I get it now. He’s a closeted gay.
He prefers fabulously closeted. His wife is an accessory.
Sounds like she has a case of Wandering Womb. The should probably “fumigate” the patient’s head with sulfur and pitch while simultaneously rubbing pleasant-smelling lotions between her thighs.
Won't somebody think of her humors!
In their Louisiana congressional district, the preferred remedy is actually closer to catfish noodling.
What sort of poultice would you recommend for a bald patch?
A colony of lichen comes in many attractive colors and can help detoxify your humors once it adapts to your scalp’s vasculature. Immunosuppressants will help this natural biosynthesis along. The haircut trimmings are also fun in salads!
Hogwash, we all know marriage issues are caused by imbalances in bodily humors. For example, here we see Rudy Giuliani with an excess of black bile.
Fuck me... I knew they were medieval-minded, but the four bodily humors? Really?
Well, they call them 'personality types' which is a step up in their medieval mindsets.
I mean, it's not like Myers Briggs is that much more scientific really.
This basically is the Myers Briggs with slightly less granularity.
Ironically, she'd be burned as a witch 400 years ago.
So, before I 'saw the light' and realized all religions were based on an ambiguous, contradictory, flat out made-up-by-mankind fairy tales, I spent years in different sects of christianity. Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, Non-dom Evangelical, Messianic Jews (and ain't that an oxymoron!) These "teachings" were widely accepted in Pentecostal, AOG, and Evangelical churches. I scored roughly 33% sanguine, melancholic, and phlegmatic, lol. Nobody knew what to do with me!
As odd and crazy and backwards this seems to those of us who have beaten our way out of the wet-paper-bag-that-is-Christianity (or have never been in the wet paper bag, you lucky ducks), this makes total and complete sense to those who are still in the echo chamber of Christianity.
Total and complete sense, PERFECT sense.
They believe in this shit, like really believe in it.
She and her husband have been lied to and fooled, and I wouldn't give a damn, except that he is in a position of leadership in this country...and he's a true believer, one who will change our country into a theocracy if given the chance.
We'd better all hope Biden and Kamala survive the next few years, because this man taking on the presidency would set us back centuries. He'd take us to Gilead if he could.
And this, this right here, is why I'm an antitheist, why beliefs fucking matter. It's all fine and "your own business" until you wind up with people who vote on laws who think magic, otherworldly messages from a deity, and pseudoscience exist in reality.
Also, hello fellow ex-fundie!
Exactly. The problem is that it can never just stop there. If we could all just "live and let live," then of course everyone should have the right to worship how, when, and where they want to. But humans are all judgemental, narcissistic dicks who insist on forcing beliefs onto everyone and everything because they're right and everyone else is wrong.
In the US, it's never just a matter of "religious freedom." It's a matter of people having bodily autonomy, of freedom from persecution for loving who you love, of freedom from diseases that proliferate due to the rejection of modern medicine. There are even homeless shelters/soup kitchens that won't allow people to eat or stay the night until they've sat through an entire church service. And that's considered pretty normal in terms of charities that target homelessness and addiction.
It may be a cliche way to put it, but it really does act like a societal cancer.
There's zero chance he lasts more than a month. If he does what the hardliners want and shuts down the government, the purple district Republicans or possibly even the majority of the party will make a deal with Democrats and remove him as speaker. If he allows a moderate budget to make it to Biden, the hardliners will McCarthy him. The hardliners are so unreasonable that they'll probably get less of the policies they want than if they kept their months shut and voted with the party. However, they don't give a shit about policy. Thanks to Trump's support, they can threaten to sink Republicans willing to compromise in the primary, theoretically pressuring everyone to be totally loyal to Trump, even if his ideas hurt their popularity.
Atheist here, but have you look into non-Abrahamic religions? Daoism? Buddhism? It might provide a new perspective.
No offense, and I'm not the person you asked, but what helpful perspective could those truly offer? They're still based on magical thinking and unfalsifiable claims, just like Christianity.
The garden is beautiful without needing to believe there's fairies at the bottom of it.
You've so perfectly summed up my beliefs. The garden is beautiful without needing to believe there's fairies at the bottom of it.
Pure beauty, my friend.
Douglas Adams was brilliant.
I mainly project myself in that statement, I like to know how people come up with their perspectives, in this case religions. Religions are all fairytales, easter fairytales can provide some new stories? In the west, its all Christianity and some interests with Norse paganism.
Please disregard my ravings at your leisure.
Oh damn, you were deeper than I ever got lmao. Used to be nondenominational but attended a Baptist church (though ironically never got around to getting baptized). I even taught children's ministry via AWANAs.
What's the point of these personality tests though? I feel like anyone from the church is used to attend would even find these on the extreme side lol
I taught Sunday school and Missionettes, my husband taught Sunday school and Royal Rangers; we both taught puppet ministry. (All over the tri state area) And I am so freaking ashamed.
The purpose of the personality tests was to determine how you 'received' a teaching and how you would teach others. At least as far as I remember.
Interesting. Reeks of scientology ironically lol
Also, fuck the RR. Glad you guys got out. I feel you though, I think about all the kids I used to help indoctrinate all the time. Probably why I'm so vocal about atheism and really critical of hypocrisy in religion now. End of the day you do you, but if you claim to be religious I am 100% going to call you out if I catch you doing something you claim to be against
It is absolutely unreal that not only do these people exist but they're somehow voted into positions of power.
that's awesome, they're all just a bunch of self deluded charlatans spreading their delusions.. and charging people for it..
Frankly, I’m excited for folks with sanguine temperament to be able to register a jar of leeches as emotional support animals. Should name a pair after these two.
And like I’ve always said, open carry of registered personal bloodsucking parasites on the House floor is an important first step to eliminating the precedent set by Citizens United v. FEC.
It didn't make it to the bot summary but she does/did practice Temperament Counseling Sounds like personality typing kind of stuff. Looks like one of their influences wrote the Left Behind series.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Kelly Johnson, the wife of the newly elected House speaker, ran a Christian counseling service that is affiliated with an organization that advocates against abortion and homosexuality and whose practices are built on the teachings of the Greek physician Hippocrates.
According to The New York Times, LaHaye's anti-Catholic and antisemitic writings led him to step down from an honorary position leading Congressman Jack Kemp's 1988 GOP primary campaign.
In a personal testimonial, Johnson wrote about "deliverance through extraordinary trials, including her recovery from a broken neck in a 2007 car accident and other serious health challenges."
The future House speaker rose to fame in the 1990s when he and Kelly became de facto spokespeople for "covenant marriages," a special agreement offered in some states that makes it more difficult for married couples to get a divorce.
Before his rapid political rise, Johnson wrote frequent guest columns for his local newspaper in which he questioned LGBT Americans, as CNN previously reported.
Johnson said on Thursday night that he now views the issue of same-sex marriage as settled law after the Supreme Court's landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
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So we got a black bile speaker of the house then I presume?
That’s hysterical
Hysteria you say? You're in luck, the Victorian's have the most amazing cure for your ailment.
Would you like to know more?
I suddenly feel strangely relaxed
You already lost me at Christian. Modern Christianity is an oxymoron.
No. It's not. I believe you would find the positions of "old light" churches to be much more reasonable. There has been a lot of ridiculous shit (like Biblical literalism) peddled in the last 200 years or so that is a stark departure from traditional, orthodox Christianity.
So the modern stuff is the old stuff?
And he walks on what?
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