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Spiders from Mars feeling very left out rn

Oh and

There is no president

THERE IS ONLY ZUUL

i cringed for him when he started to go off the rails a bit during the third lecture.

This was awesome, a bit scattered maybe but totally righteous anger and exasperation.

i feel sorry for dude having to read the fucking bible just to debate his audiences

Tbf everyone should read the bible (and the koran)

Especially if it's illustrated imo

Tbf everyone should read the bible (and the koran)

Speaking as someone who is currently required to read the Bible (mostly double-checking quotes) for a freelance project, uh, fuck no they shouldn't.

everyone should be required to read Deeper Thoughts by Jack Handy, the sequel to Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy. It's just as good if not better than the original

Actually, most writers should read Bible stories at some point. I was lucky to read them at the same time as Greek mythology in 7th grade.

oh man that article about the Muslim doctor. kind of a nice ending, though!

i haven't read it yet but i hope the ending is that he is now president of the united states

haha me too :(

btw my mom doesn't live in Dawson, Minnesota or anything and she doesn't wear hijab but a couple of months ago she started carrying her passport with her everywhere she goes "just in case," she told me and it makes me quietly despair

i mean there are a lot of people who have it worse than she does in trump's america, but i feel confident that she had some encounters that made her decide to do that that she's not telling me about and it is just sad

xp: Doubt he'll still be in rural Minnesota in 3 years, TBH.

I still know every time I walk the dogs which houses had Trump signs.

The 'says who?' guy has his troubles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/us/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump.html

But learns from the master:

Like Mr. Trump, he lashes out at critics on Twitter, where he also spends quite a bit of time fighting with anonymous critics, or trolls — calling them “haters” and “idiots,” sometimes within the comment threads of Mr. Trump’s tweets.

In one such exchange last week, a Twitter user named Corvetteman, who has 88 followers and a profile photograph of an orange cat, called Mr. Cohen “a joke.” Mr. Cohen replied: “Reminder...@realDonaldTrump won! Wake up #hater.”

I am also now remembering a while back (post 9/11, pre-Obama) my dad had a neighbor who was nasty to him about being Muslim in a series of escalating incidents (my stepmother does wear hijab). I remember telling him he needed to make a big stink about it and that his other neighbors would have his back. he seemed less confident about that than I was. now I wonder if I was wrong. he's a pediatrician and he had cared for some of those neighbors' kids. at the time I couldn't imagine they'd be okay with him getting harassed on the daily.

Speaking as someone who is currently required to read the Bible (mostly double-checking quotes) for a freelance project, uh, fuck no they shouldn't.

― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 3 July 2017 04:00 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is it the mandatory nature that you're against, or do you consider it, like, a dangerous book?

more that it's really boring

Genesis, Judges, the Chronicles, and the Kings are where it's at imo.

I think it also helps to read what Biblical scholars have to say (both the religious folk and the agnostics like Bart Ehrman). the latter is really eye-opening and he writes in a very easy to follow format for laymen.

the Bible is great

I suppose I could imagine reading an annotate edition, like "The Annotate Alice" or something. We're talking the Old Testament, right? I'd totally read that or the Koran, thought just a lifetime of Jew stuff, however casual, as exposed me to most of the former, I suspect.

I just read the dirty parts.

Well, yeah. I bet the copy fell right open to them.

The Bible contains both great literature and "pernicious nonsense" (I think that's a Penn Jillette quote, someone I'm generally not apt to quote)

it's more for me that I got my fill of it the 4 years I spent in a Fundie church and their stupid interpretation of it ruined the parts I liked even though I knew the Methodists (where I grew up) had a far more forgiving look at things.

but understanding what Fundies think about it, or Baptists, or any of the fire and brimstone crowd does allow you some deeper insight into why these people are so impossible to appease on everything.

When I started buying music in my teens, I was amazed at how many lyrics are straight lifts from or homages to Old and New Testament verse.

"Turn, Turn, Turn"!

"harvester of sorrow - language of the dead!" or wait was that lovecraft

"what you got i want to give it put it in you". no?

Metallica did have "Creeping Death" tho that was more the Bible by way of C.C. Demille

i.e. how most people know the Bible.

bible by way of cc deville

Didn't Jesus say "every rose has its thorn?" I think so.

it was close enough to get bill and ted into heaven iirc

I think I first heard the line that goes "wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever" in Portishead. Then I read saw the same lines in Innocents Abroad, and thought it interesting that Mark Twain was into Portishead. It comes from the Book of Jude.

the Bible is what it is, people have used it for good and for evil. it's not a collection of magical words that turn normal people into assholes. it's been a cultural channel for thousands of years for all kinds of people spanning power structures from slave to king. if a Bible-literate atheist were to be politically active they would be far more effective in debating/illustrating the nuance than wholly rejecting it. seceding it wholly to fundies is the stupidest move possible but i know dems are all about them idiotic culture wars rn.

it's an arbitrary selection from thousands of Xtian writings.

personally I wish everybody's read the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which is of course nonsense but p hilarious:

Most Delightfully Evil Thing Young Jesus Does in "The Infancy Gospel of Thomas" - a POLL

and god said unto moses 'it is what it is'

and Jesus said to the adoring crowd: "give a fan a fish and he will be fed for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll be fed for a lifetime. This of course will not do, privatize fish IMO".

thou shalt not kill - and here's why

So, this Charlie Gard thing. He's going full fundie, right?

the prospect of trump helming a terri schiavo reboot is not a promising one, right enough

Unlike Schiavo, there's a natural limit, the 15 neonates with RRM2B-related encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion have all died in months.

Glad the NHS is misspending scarce funds (keeping the kid on life support) to spare these parents of the circus of hope US Fundies would put them through.

I open the Trump thread and get 35 straight posts about the Bible? Fellas, he doesn't read.

http://www.academiccomposition.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/pot-kettle.jpg

preferring the Old Testament is fine but it's kind of a played-out opinion that ppl love to trot out for whatever reason. The New Testament is a fantastic read. The Gospel of John is a total headfuck to read right after the Synoptic Gospels. And the Pauline epistles are unrelenting.

The Old Testament gave me huge anxiety as a child

Like legit trepidation and fear.