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I'm convinced that it was because of people like Fischer that the Romans kept their lions so well fed.

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Controlling the Word simply increased the chance that your <em>only</em> access to it would be through a Bryan Fischer. That is not an improvement.

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Too little, too late.

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As long as it involves actual flame, yes.

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Insurance in general is a perfectly legitimate financial service. Whether for-profit insurance is a good solution to the issue of healthcare is an entirely different question (my answer would be "hell fucking no").

But how in the hell can you operate a business offering services to the general public with built-in religious discrimination? It's not a club.

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That is some fucked-up shit.

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I read that article this past weekend. Funny, he keeps getting invited to leave fundie churches that he helped found. It's almost as if he's too bat-shit crazy extreme for even the fundies. That whole women-can't-have-authority-postions-over-men is just so 1300.

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...sharing in one another's burdens! Faith-based socialism!

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<i>People need to eat, too. How long would a grocer stay in business if he was required to offer food to everyone who walked in the door regardless of their ability to pay?</i>

Reductio ad absurdum

Ever notice when a wingnut can't make a rational point they have to make up something silly and then argue against their strawman as if that were the actual subject at hand?

This is shut-in crazy grandpa gold.

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For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church did go out of its way to make sure as few people as possible were able to read the Bible.

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It ends much earlier than that, of course: birth.

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How the fuck is that legal?

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I am really looking forward to the excuse he comes up with when he is caught. The good excuses are already taken.

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Fortunately that's covered under FischerCare. Just gouge your own eyes out. Cured!

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Dear Dog, what a depraved person this is.

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You can't ride two horses with only one behind --Broadway Danny Rose

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