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Jasmine πŸ‡°πŸ‡·'s avatar

They look like a lovely. Also they have nice hats.

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peregrin's avatar

Oh to be Robyn and have been blissfully unaware of Joanna Gaines and her shiplap and giant wall clocks.

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

I thought the Gainses had splitski with each other? (I have watched their previous show, and it was always a bit of a creepy vibe, their relationship, which i guess was the evangelical part of it coming through, plus her design ideas were a bit... basic, but that's just my opinion)

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LEE's avatar

I’ve shied away from buying Joanna Gaines’s products because I thought she was probably MAGA. If they keep up with these ways, I might need a new pan. πŸ˜€

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CzechJournalists's avatar

i couldn't even tell you when franklin graham took over from billy

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Zap's avatar

They’re sneering at Ben!

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Bupkus231's avatar

Being lectured on what is "mean and intolerant" by Ben Shapiro is pretty much the ultimate hypocrisy - of course, Ben isn't aware enough of his own shit to recognize it.

BTW - what's the deal with that pornstache on Shapiro? Is he trying to look more like a old-timey villain like Snidely Whiplash?

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thephantomcheese's avatar

You forced me to agree with the world's worst interior decorator?

Sarcasm aside, I'm glad Mr. & Mrs. Gaines finally figured out why people like me quit Christianity: hatred for LGBTQ is Christianity's unique selling proposition.

There's an old Christian cliche'- "God said, I believe it, that settles it."

Translated into English, that's pretty much "Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind's made up."

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DeathPanelTruck's avatar

Shorten it to "Goddidit."

"How was the universe created?"

"Goddidit!"

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Fog of Jen's avatar

And anyone who ever believed it was anything else (Hi, Bill Maher! Hi, Glenn Greenwald! Hi, Matt Taibbi! Hi, Matt Yglesias!) was a goddamn fool.

You're generous. I don't think they were fools at all, but actual ratfuckers.

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I Stedman's avatar

I'm sure it has been pointed out before, but 's worth pointing out again.

See, the Biblical prohibitions on sodomy (and the destruction of the cities) is entirely Old Testament. Christianity is New Testament.

The Old Testament calls for people to be stoned to death. The New Testament calls for he who is without sin to cast the first stone.

Did all of you wacko nutbar "Christians" miss the whole bit that Christianity is about refuting the Old Testament? No? Hello? Hello? Bueller? Is this thing on?

Of course, expecting any adherent of any cult to be mildly competent in logic is probably asking too much.

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Lance Thrustwell's avatar

There are the bits from Paul. Not that I care about it, of course, but they're in there. Never understood how much weight they're supposed to be given by a Christian - if it depends on your church, etc.

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Hello Marion's avatar

I have maintained for decades that evangelical churches aren't full of Christians. They're full of Paulists.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

These are the same people who used mentions of slavery in the Bible to justify their enslaving people to make money.

Using religion as a human shield is what they do.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

God the Almighty Father didn't destroy two cities because everyone in both places was butt-fuckin'. They refused to provide food and sanctuary to strangers traveling through their land.

That was like a real no-no in the eyes of God the Almighty Father.

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I Stedman's avatar

See also "ICE" in the "USA". (They don't seem real "united" right now).

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Spleen Victoria's avatar

Huh. You’d think Ben Shapiro would approve on account of that’s a relationship with no wet pussies in it. He’d find common ground!

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Fender Deluxe's avatar

The problem with "love the sinner, hate the sin" is that they think everything someone else does that they don't like is a "sin," whereas I don't think that there's such a thing as a "sin."

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thephantomcheese's avatar

I remember when Christianity considered owning television sets and decks of playing cards "sin". Never forget rules were made to punish people for breaking them. If you make enough rules, someone will break one sooner or later.

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I Stedman's avatar

There is such a thing. There's also a "cos". And, oddly enough, sin(Ɵ)^2+cos(Ɵ)^2 = 1.

(I hope that theta rendered okay...)

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Fender Deluxe's avatar

Hey, don't go off on tangents.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

If they're going to force me to get all judgmental, I can go with two broad categories: Good and Bad.

The Good Category consists of those who adhere to the Golden Rule and do their best to treat others the way they'd like to be treated.

The Bad Category consists of those who don't.

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jane hay's avatar

Good on Chip...I am familiar with them because I used to watch their house-flipping show when I went to the laundromat. And I guess the faux Xtians never read the passage in Ezekiel 16:49-50, which doesn't mention sex at all LOL

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oscarphile's avatar

Well, assholes, you all voted three times for an adulterous, covetous, false-witness-bearing rapist, so how's about you all shut the goddamn fuck up about your christian values, which are wholly arbitrary and situational?

Also, if he can't watch that series because "putting a gay couple on a show is unbiblical DEI," does that mean he'll have to cut the unbiblical cord?

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. I had never heard of Chip and Joanna Gaines until I read The Moral High Ground, where Evan introduced us to this story.

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