And to get, apparently.
Proud anti-fascist & bird-person
And to get, apparently.
Do you really think subjugation of women improves these people?
There are plenty of Christians who don’t do that; I have no problem with humanist Christians.
I have a huge problem with reactionaries who use their religion to oppress others. You should learn the difference.
That is a great point about pseudopaul. I had forgotten that this letter’s authenticity was questionable.
However there are practically no evangelical groups who would agree with modern scholarship on the subject, so my larger point holds: they believe that Paul instructed women to be subservient and silent.
Also, as far as I can tell, Paul was one of the ones who shifted Jesus’ prophecy about his coming kingdom from that of an imminent apocalypse to a prediction about the rise of the Christian church. While he did believe that the end of the world was near, so do a huge swath of Christians today.
Thanks for the correction, it is appreciated.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
-1 Timothy 2:12
This is why I hate the “these aren’t real Christians” no-true-Scotsman dismissals.
The Bible is a toxic book full of misogyny and racism. Sure it has some good stuff in there, but when the founder of Christianity* is so clear about his thoughts on the subjugation of women then these are Christians following the teachings of their religion.
Christianity is only compatible with the modern world when it is so diluted by humanism that it would be unrecognizable by its founder; that’s why reactionaries are working to change the world instead of updating their morality. They want power over people, and enforcing their backwards ideology is their path forward.
* And Paul was the founder of the religion; Jesus didn’t expect the world to last longer than the lives of his disciples
It also requires those applying for liquor licenses to have a “reputable” character and be expected to operate the business in a “reputable manner.”
Then how did he get one in the first place?
Sword of the Samurai and Covert Action fans have long since given up.
From The Reaction Mind- Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin:
Republicans have learned to disguise their intentions so well, in other words, that the disguise has seeped into and transformed the intention.
Even without directly engaging the progressive argument, conservatives may absorb, by some elusive osmnosis, the deeper categories and idioms of the left, even when those idioms run directly counter to their official stance. After years of opposing the women’s movement, for example, Phyllis Schlafly seemed genuinely incapable of conjuring the prefeminist view of women as deferential wives and mothers. Instead, she celebrated the activist “power of the positive woman.” And then, as if borrowing a page from The Feminine Mystique, she railed against the meaninglessness and lack of fulfillment among American women; the difference was that she blamed these ills on feminism rather than on sexism. When she spoke out against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), she didn’t claim that it introduceda radical new language of rights. Her argument was the opposite. The ERA, she told the Washington Star, “is a takeaway of women’s rights.” It will “take away the right of the wife in an ongoing marriage, the wife in the home.” Schlafly was obviously using the language of rights in a way that was opposed to the aims of the feminist movement; she was using rights talk to put women back into the home, to keep them as wives and mothers. But that is the point: conservatism adapts and adopts, often unconsciously, the language of democratic reform to the cause of hierarchy.
This is the best book I’ve read for understanding conservatism.
The woman, referred to as “Witness 1” in an FBI affidavit, previously recalled how a bit of “comically minimal ego-stroking” on her part led to Taake and other Jan. 6 participants giving up information about their activities during that attack.
“I felt a bit of ‘civic duty,’ I guess, but truthfully, I was mostly just mad and thinking, ‘F— these guys,’” the woman, who spoke anonymously for fear of online reprisal, said. The men wanted to “regurgitate” the lies they heard from prominent Republicans about the 2020 presidential election, she said.
That woman is an American hero.
Good to know it wasn’t “economic anxiety” that lead those fascists to try and overturn a legitimate election.
Just old fashioned, homegrown, corn-fed American racism.
He’s bonafide!
Just picked it up for Steam Deck a few days ago, actually. It works great running natively, but I haven’t run the Windows version.
I don’t see a reason to re-buy it unless you’re having Proton issues with the one that you already have.
What do they even want a war over?
To enforce the social heirarchy that they feel was stolen from them; typical reactionary demands.
There’s a bunch of minorities getting “uppity” that these dipshits want to put in their place.
Exactly.
Everyone knows you drink it.
Tacitus refers to Christians, which doesn’t necessarily mean that Jesus existed if he was an amalgamation of various apocalyptic prophets; there were many mystery cults at the time who had a legendary founder.
I think the chances are pretty good that he did exist, but it’s not a foregone conclusion.
Dunno if I’d call the guy who says he’s a literal god the most humble dude in history.
Of course it’s questionable if he did indeed make that claim (if he even really existed), but the Pope certainly believes that he did.
Hollonbeck admitted to his actions and said he was “afraid for his daughter’s safety and didn’t know who she was with or that she had left without permission,” according to the report.
Oh, well if he didn’t know then it’s perfectly understandable to point a gun at an underpaid taxi driver.
The Very Serious brand of Christianity that I came out of as a kid, the church of Christ, condemned people to hell if they weren’t fully immersed when baptized.
You know, among other things like letting women talk or using instruments or during worship.
What? No! A billionaire helping a fascist? What’s next, a landlord raising rates?
“Calling me a liar is a violation of my free speech! You can’t say that!”