Whoosh?! Now that is Wicked weird - canβt wait for the wheels of Pharaohβs chariot to come off - wasnβt That Yul Brynner? The. I can join in on Redemption Song πΆ by Bob Marley !! Legalize It!! Wycliffe Jean / oh right I live in Massachusetts and itβs harvest time And Voting !!! Yeah!!!π
I mean I would take more 1990s Sorboβ¦I did enjoy me some ridiculous Hercules shows. Especially when combined with Xena WP. Before our Kev became (or acknowledged being) a total nutjob.
Iβll take the views of George Carlin, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut and Carl Sagan over yet another Christian prophet making money off scamming people through fear of βthemβ being demons and yet another return of a savior.
Steinbeck, too: 'βI says, βMaybe it ain't a sin. Maybe it's just the way folks is. Maybe we been whippinβ the hell out of ourselves for nothinβ.ββ¦Before I knowed it, I was sayinβ out loud, βThe hell with it! There ainβt no sin and there ainβt no virtue. Thereβs just stuff people do. Itβs all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ainβt nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.ββ' ~ Preacher Jim Casy, "The Grapes of Wrath"
I'm just starting a re-read of Norman Cohn's "Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom" and the initial chapters deals extensively with how early Christians were demonised by the majority (roman / greek) religions, and later how Christians grew big enough to develop their own demons. One Christian scholar explaining that there were so many demons (non-corporal) surrounding regular folks that sometimes the demons would entirely cover people, with no air hole left to breathe through.
So, not a lot of progress in 1300 or so years since then...
Even appearing with a person of deranged views should disqualify Vance from holding any office. These people just can't get it through their heads that we don't want to live according to their strange (and sometimes menacing) notions about religion. There are two basic ideas about what government is for. The first, reasonable, one says gov. should help people live well and safely without bullying them (lib. democracy); the second one runs, "We won, and you're going to believe and do as we tell you--it's for your own good." This latter is obviously tyrannical, yet millions of Americans seem to have fallen in love with it in recent decades.
Differing views dismay and frighten them; if EVERYBODY and anybody can deviate from the ONE TRUE WAY, maybe they aren't so damned right about everything after all. Besides, look at what the Old Testament says about a people turning away from their god- he gets pissed off and smites them, the genocidal old fucker, and his aim isn't so good. The kind of "wickedness" they want to suppress is what irked Him so much that he drowned nearly everybody. Was everyone else, including babies, dogs, cats and wombats so very reprehensible that they deserved the death penalty? What if He is still up there, getting madder and madder?
"The first, reasonable, one says gov. should help people live well and safely without bullying them (lib. democracy)..."
Can't you see that this oppresses Christians? Part of their faith is shoving it on others, if you inhibit that you are destroying their ability to worship.
Someone is going to be unhappy. I am OK with its being them.
Of course. This is only the case, though, from their warped perspective. Example: they think the First Amendment means they get to say whatever they like AND that you have gravely injured their rights if you don't agree with them. But of course that's insane. The critical point is that we really haven't told them they can't think and say what they wish, it's just that we don't agree to believe it ourselves, or accept their orders regarding our personal conduct.
Robyn is spot-on right about Jezebel. Also, she and her husband King Ahab got the bad press in the Bible because they ruled in the northern kingdom, Israel, while the relevant holy books were written by the Jerusalem priesthood in the southern kingdom, Judah, Israel's rival (and the kingdom that survived). The murder of Jezebel (flung from a high window for dogs to eat) and slaughter of her children wasn't the judgement of God. It was a straight power grab and dynastic purge by Jehu, who appears on the Bible's own showing to have been a right bastard himself.
As for Cyrus the Great being God's instrument when he conquered Babylon and allowed the Jews who'd kept their identity and religion to go home and rebuild, his reward for that was pretty shabby. When he campaigned against the wild nomads beyond the Oxus, he got trounced, according to the story, and Queen Tomyris had his severed head dunked in a cauldron of blood, saying fiercely, "Bloodthirsty as thou art, I will give thee thy fill!"
Another one of these demonic women, I guess. But God, who is all-powerful (says so there on the label) had a funny way of showing Cyrus his appreciation, in that case.
I'm rather fond of Tomyris. After her husband the king died, Cyrus figured he could acquire her kingdom by marrying her. She said "fuck that shit" and observed that she rather liked being queen. So Cyrus pulled some sneaky shit that resulted in her son dying. That's when she declared war and killed him, the dirty old man. .
Tomyris was recently named the national heroine of Kazakhstan. Good.
Is ΡΠ·ΡΡiblΡ sΠ½aΠΌΡ so ΠΌaΠΈy likΡ CoΠΌΡadΡ JΠ·zΠ·bΠ·l fall oΡΡ of ΡindoΡ oΠΈΡo ΡxplodiΠΈgΠΊ Π²oΠΌΠ². Is so clΡΠΌsy! GloΡioΡs lΡadΡΡ PΡΡiΠΈ sΠ·ΠΈds Π½is ΡΡgΡΡΡs.
They're self identifying as massive control freaks. "Freedom" isn't exactly their jam, unless it's the freedom to do some form of harm to people they disagree with through their self appointed "religious" mandate. See: Taliban.
You're literally the only news I can handle reading.
I wouldn't want to watch one second of Kirk Cameron and Kevin Sorbo.
crazier than a shit-house rat.
"Christian leader". *snort*
Also too, he would get a Thorazine and a 911 call for a 5150 from this pharmacist. I would need the Zofran.
"Christian leader". *snort*
Also too, he would be getting a Thorazine and a call to 911 to pick up a 5150 from this pharmacist. I would be the one needing the Zofran.
"Some People Deserve to Starve".... next they'll say "it's in the Bible". Fn ignorant TrumpTURD idiots. GFY!!
What's next: "Some Kids Deserve to get Shot at School"?
Whoosh?! Now that is Wicked weird - canβt wait for the wheels of Pharaohβs chariot to come off - wasnβt That Yul Brynner? The. I can join in on Redemption Song πΆ by Bob Marley !! Legalize It!! Wycliffe Jean / oh right I live in Massachusetts and itβs harvest time And Voting !!! Yeah!!!π
I mean I would take more 1990s Sorboβ¦I did enjoy me some ridiculous Hercules shows. Especially when combined with Xena WP. Before our Kev became (or acknowledged being) a total nutjob.
Xena was still the better (and hotter) show. I've been thinking about tracking down episodes and giving it a rewatch.
Iβll take the views of George Carlin, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut and Carl Sagan over yet another Christian prophet making money off scamming people through fear of βthemβ being demons and yet another return of a savior.
Nobody's perfect, but it was shocking to me to go back and listen to Carlin famously tell people he never voted, and they shouldn't either.
Steinbeck, too: 'βI says, βMaybe it ain't a sin. Maybe it's just the way folks is. Maybe we been whippinβ the hell out of ourselves for nothinβ.ββ¦Before I knowed it, I was sayinβ out loud, βThe hell with it! There ainβt no sin and there ainβt no virtue. Thereβs just stuff people do. Itβs all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ainβt nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.ββ' ~ Preacher Jim Casy, "The Grapes of Wrath"
I'm just starting a re-read of Norman Cohn's "Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom" and the initial chapters deals extensively with how early Christians were demonised by the majority (roman / greek) religions, and later how Christians grew big enough to develop their own demons. One Christian scholar explaining that there were so many demons (non-corporal) surrounding regular folks that sometimes the demons would entirely cover people, with no air hole left to breathe through.
So, not a lot of progress in 1300 or so years since then...
I love you kids so much. I don't know what I'd do without you.
Even appearing with a person of deranged views should disqualify Vance from holding any office. These people just can't get it through their heads that we don't want to live according to their strange (and sometimes menacing) notions about religion. There are two basic ideas about what government is for. The first, reasonable, one says gov. should help people live well and safely without bullying them (lib. democracy); the second one runs, "We won, and you're going to believe and do as we tell you--it's for your own good." This latter is obviously tyrannical, yet millions of Americans seem to have fallen in love with it in recent decades.
Differing views dismay and frighten them; if EVERYBODY and anybody can deviate from the ONE TRUE WAY, maybe they aren't so damned right about everything after all. Besides, look at what the Old Testament says about a people turning away from their god- he gets pissed off and smites them, the genocidal old fucker, and his aim isn't so good. The kind of "wickedness" they want to suppress is what irked Him so much that he drowned nearly everybody. Was everyone else, including babies, dogs, cats and wombats so very reprehensible that they deserved the death penalty? What if He is still up there, getting madder and madder?
He could be in a right furious ketchup-tossing fit by now, true. So true.
"The first, reasonable, one says gov. should help people live well and safely without bullying them (lib. democracy)..."
Can't you see that this oppresses Christians? Part of their faith is shoving it on others, if you inhibit that you are destroying their ability to worship.
Someone is going to be unhappy. I am OK with its being them.
Of course. This is only the case, though, from their warped perspective. Example: they think the First Amendment means they get to say whatever they like AND that you have gravely injured their rights if you don't agree with them. But of course that's insane. The critical point is that we really haven't told them they can't think and say what they wish, it's just that we don't agree to believe it ourselves, or accept their orders regarding our personal conduct.
Exactly
Same for βreligionβ. It should be that religion helps YOU to be more connected to your inner good essence, not an unelected government.
Robyn is spot-on right about Jezebel. Also, she and her husband King Ahab got the bad press in the Bible because they ruled in the northern kingdom, Israel, while the relevant holy books were written by the Jerusalem priesthood in the southern kingdom, Judah, Israel's rival (and the kingdom that survived). The murder of Jezebel (flung from a high window for dogs to eat) and slaughter of her children wasn't the judgement of God. It was a straight power grab and dynastic purge by Jehu, who appears on the Bible's own showing to have been a right bastard himself.
As for Cyrus the Great being God's instrument when he conquered Babylon and allowed the Jews who'd kept their identity and religion to go home and rebuild, his reward for that was pretty shabby. When he campaigned against the wild nomads beyond the Oxus, he got trounced, according to the story, and Queen Tomyris had his severed head dunked in a cauldron of blood, saying fiercely, "Bloodthirsty as thou art, I will give thee thy fill!"
Another one of these demonic women, I guess. But God, who is all-powerful (says so there on the label) had a funny way of showing Cyrus his appreciation, in that case.
I'm rather fond of Tomyris. After her husband the king died, Cyrus figured he could acquire her kingdom by marrying her. She said "fuck that shit" and observed that she rather liked being queen. So Cyrus pulled some sneaky shit that resulted in her son dying. That's when she declared war and killed him, the dirty old man. .
Tomyris was recently named the national heroine of Kazakhstan. Good.
Thanks! I didn't know Tomyris was recently named Kazakhstan's national heroine. That is right good to hear.
May trump end up the same way as Cyrus. Or Jezebel by Putin's hand, as defenestration is one of his preferred methods.
Is ΡΠ·ΡΡiblΡ sΠ½aΠΌΡ so ΠΌaΠΈy likΡ CoΠΌΡadΡ JΠ·zΠ·bΠ·l fall oΡΡ of ΡindoΡ oΠΈΡo ΡxplodiΠΈgΠΊ Π²oΠΌΠ². Is so clΡΠΌsy! GloΡioΡs lΡadΡΡ PΡΡiΠΈ sΠ·ΠΈds Π½is ΡΡgΡΡΡs.
I see there is a methodius to your madness.
Brilliant! Da, is shame.
Nonetheless, git Moose and Squirrel.
Da. ΠΡw divisioΠΈ of ΠGB is foΡ to gΡt moosΡ aΠΈd sqΡiΡΡΡl.
Ask Lance if the domestic abuse of a female spouse justified because she has the spirit of Jezebel. I bet he hedges....
Bet he doesn't.
"Lance Wallnau is a 'Seven Mountain Dominionist' and a complete loon."
Redundant sentence, since the 'complete loon' is just assumed after you read that someone is a 'Seven Mountain Dominionist.'
I sense no lie.
He's not a complete loon. Rather he's a skilled marketeer who knows exactly what he is doing.
Snake oil salesman of the highest order. This guy is dangerous.
They're self identifying as massive control freaks. "Freedom" isn't exactly their jam, unless it's the freedom to do some form of harm to people they disagree with through their self appointed "religious" mandate. See: Taliban.
Fact checking! Witchcraft!